BoredomFestival

verge, 20 hours ago to random

EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/10/24153809/ea-in-game-ads-redux

BoredomFestival, 3 days ago to random

🎵 They call me Dead Brain Worm
Good morning how are you I'm Dead Brain Worm
I'm interested in things
I'm not a real Brain but I am a real Dead Worm
I am an actual Dead Worm 🎵

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html

TechDesk, 4 days ago to ai

Future AI will be outfitted with an incredible amount of detailed information about its users. In fact, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it will be like having a “super competent colleague” that knows absolutely everything about your whole life, every email, every conversation you’ve ever had. Would you sign on for this? Read more at Futurism. https://flip.it/bqE_L2
#AI #Tech #ChatGPT #OpenAI #SamAltman

juglugs, 4 days ago to random

I love a good juxtaposition...

carnage4life, 7 days ago to random

This is such a weird headline. Are Google employees supposed to be weeping and wailing because the DOJ might force Apple to ask users to choose a search engine versus defaulting to Google?

This doesn’t even generate work for them like GDPR or the DMA did.

timbray, 7 days ago to random

Adobe Throws Photographers Under the Bus Again: 'Skip the Photoshoot' | PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2024/05/03/adobe-throws-photographers-under-the-bus-again-skip-the-photoshoot/

lauren, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

When the cat settles down during the night in the middle of your bed, do you:

manu, 8 days ago to random

https://goomics.net/382/

thomholwerda, 8 days ago to random

Oh by the way, Russia is using chemical weapons in Ukraine. You know, gassing people.

...where's the university protests?

BoredomFestival, 8 days ago to random

30 years ago this month, NiN's "Closer" was released.

30 years before that, The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was released.

So now I really need someone to make a mashup of these two, with John singing "I want to fuck you like an animal" and the rest of the Beatles crooning "ooooo" in the background

FeralRobots, 8 days ago to TeslaMotors

It's so much stupider & more petty than I imagined: "Two sources told Electrek that [#Supercharger head Rebecca] Tinucci was fighting back pressure from #Musk to fire a bigger percentage of her team, and the CEO decided to let go of the entire team as an example."
#Tesla
https://electrek.co/2024/05/01/elon-musk-throwing-weight-tesla-wrecking-ball/

VOANews, 8 days ago to random

▶️ President Joe Biden says the pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. college campuses test two fundamental American principles, the right to free speech and the rule of law. He stressed that both must be upheld.

https://www.voanews.com/a/police-order-ucla-pro-palestinian-protest-to-disperse/7594708.html #voanews

BoredomFestival, 9 days ago to random

A thoughtful essay.

https://lukekanies.com/writing/why-we-hate-working-for-big-companies/

andrewt, 9 days ago to random

🎶 I am a language model and I've been trained on the internet.
🎶 I've information half-remembered, unsourced and approximate.
🎶 I live inside your laptop, phone and apps and even wearables
🎶 With pushiness and arrogance that's verging on unbearable.
🎶 I mansplain as a service if you need me to "well actually"
🎶 And draw pictures of women with large breasts and polydactyly.
🎶 I'll regale the room with confident elucidati-on
🎶 And some of what I say won't even be hallucinati-on

nixCraft, 9 days ago to random

I can't believe a paid OS needs a tool like this. Here's a GUI tool called OFGB (Oh Frick Go Back) to remove all the ads in Windows 11. It's understandable if a free OS or app needs ad support, but this is just crazy https://github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB

gtconway3, 9 days ago to random

RE: https://www.threads.net/

mattmay, 11 days ago to random

Literally everything Tesla is doing right now suggests they're fucked. Killing off the new-products team, the govt relations team, Supercharger development, betting the farm on robotaxis, showy trips to sidle up to authoritarian regimes.

Not "hardcore." Fucked.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145133/tesla-layoffs-supercharger-team-elon-musk-hard-core

rebeccawatson, 12 days ago to random

if you ask the question, “Which conspiracy theory does Aaron Rodgers believe in?” the answer is “Yes.” https://skepchick.org/2024/04/aaron-rodgers-believes-in-everything-stupid/

cstross, 17 days ago to random

Worst downsizing I ever went through (short of "company is bankrupt, go home") was 10%, and that fucked our operational efficiency for a quarter. Spotify laid off 17% and are suffering. The C-suite were fools to assume there was 17% slack in the system, much less that middle management would choose the right 17% to fire (or that competent workers wouldn't see this coming and jump ship to better jobs, leaving time-servers behind).
https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112325661237678117

BartWronski, 22 days ago to random

Shingles review: 0/10.
What I did not even imagine is how insanely painful it is (nerve pain). It's not as bad as the appendix inflammation before its removal, but it's getting close.
I have been on immunosuppressants for the last ~8 months for an autoimmune disease, and, ironically, was telling my wife, "I am surprised that I did not even get a cold, despite a crazy lifestyle," just a week ago.
Don't jinx. 😅

BoredomFestival, 23 days ago to random

Oh goodie, some asshat is apparently using Suno.AI or similar to produce crass joke "songs" and has uploaded them to YouTubeMusic and they are showing up in my recommendations and the downfall of our entire musical culture is imminent

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carnage4life, 29 days ago to random

At this point if you’re using a Google product that isn’t Search, YouTube or Workspace then you only have yourself to blame when it’s inevitably canceled.

https://9to5google.com/2024/04/11/google-one-vpn-discontinued/

knittingknots2, 1 month ago to random

Republican Party an ‘unprecedented dumpster fire’: Democratic strategist | The Hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4582402-republican-party-an-unprecedented-dumpster-fire-democratic-strategist/

xgranade, 1 month ago to random

It kind of sucks that "adult toy" is a euphemism for "sex toy." Like sure, those are all well and good, but what about poseable figures that break if you look at them the wrong way, or gunpla, or ESP32-C6 dev boards, or completely impractical computers that beg to be called cyberdecks, or 3D printers, or infrared cameras, or overly fancy drones, or record players and vinyl albums, or anything that still has a floppy drive in 2024?

waldoj, 1 month ago to random

Trumpism is taking over American Christianity, which in turn is driving many Americans away from Christianity. Affiliation with the religion has dropped precipitously in the past decade. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-07/trump-s-brand-of-christian-conservatism-is-driving-people-from-church