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Really like how sentencing is 4 days before the Republican National Convention.

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Microsoft ad showing someone praising CoPilot AI and how it helped them to turn on “Dark Mode” in Windows 11.

I feel this says more about the awful UI, than the cleverness of the AI.

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@dgar Our tools are so poorly designed hallucinating AI is our best bet!

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If I had a nickel for every person who told me - mistakenly, known-at-the-time-full-of-shit - "Google Analytics are fine".

Yeah.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/google-accused-of-secretly-tracking-drivers-with-disabilities/

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Gee. What got a big push in education approx 20 years ago? I wonder.

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Grilled apricots. They will be finished with ricotta cheese seasoned with lime zest, salt, and pepper.

Apricots on the heat.

funnymonkey, to random
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Use Windows! Law enforcement everywhere thanks you!

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-steps-with-recall-aa03f8a0-a78b-4b3e-b0a1-2eb8ac48701c

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Today's OMFGWTAF comes to you from Emory, via @jasonkoebler at @404mediaco

https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

Just a reminder that Canvas is often a silent partner in "are you kidding me?" moments in education.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/technology/dartmouth-cheating-charges.html

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This NPR piece about OpenAI's theft of Scarlett Johansson's voice/identity does a good job providing the context of Altman's knowledge Johansson's work in Her. That's missing from a lot of other pieces on this.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

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Put it in the cloud, they said.

The cloud is managed by professionals. It's safer, they said.

The cloud: we're deleting your account, and all your data.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/

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This isn't innovation. This is a data grab, paired with paternalistic language about how this is really in my be st interest.

To be really clear: I DON'T WANT AN ALGORITHM BETWEEN ME AND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. I CAN DO THIS MYSELF.

To see both this "feature" and this self-serving justification coming from Mozilla is depressing. It's becoming impossible to choose a browser that doesn't require choosing based on the least amount of compromises.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

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Surveillance tech, super helpful for cops and thieves.

Never been any abuse of surveillance tech, though, so nothing to worry about.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/05/14/police-car-surveillance-tech-uncovers-phones-pet-trackers-and-library-books/

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if im reading this correctly, the entire internet is now on that little platform at the end of the first portal game, where glados decides shes done with you and slowly lowers you into an incinerator.

except the incenerator is a gaggle of llms that will get trained.

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@Viss I have definitely changed how I use the internet, and how I interact online.

Some of this is related to getting old; some is related to the work I've been doing for a couple decades now, and some is definitely tied to the erosion of the internet from bad search, crap content, journalism chasing clickbait, seo choices driving content structure and topics, and the llm mess.

Tl;Dr - its just not as fun.

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This story is from a year ago, and it highlights how abuses get normalized in industries that collect and maintain data.

The fact that this is Tesla under Musk shows how untrustworthy a steward he is, but these problems go way beyond Musk.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

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So, yeah. Facebook has been using that EXACT line and argument going back years, over multiple abuses.

https://www.funnymonkey.com/2024/05/advertisers-should-not-send-sensitive-information-about-people-through-our-business-tools-puhleeze/

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I love how the tech industry's definition of "privacy protecting" practice often means creating another third party that gets access to reams of personal data.

But we can trust them. Because privacy protecting.

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Walmart: destroying Main Street is so old news. Now it's time to do our share and suck joy out of the internet!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152172/walmart-disney-plus-hulu-targeted-ads

h/t @JennCutter

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Dog.

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    funnymonkey,
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    @chris @jwildeboer Thanks for sharing this! Very interesting.

    Both Hover and Njala looked interesting from the people who responded when I asked.

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    Test post!

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    Hello, good people!

    Looking for recommendations for an ethical domain registrar - strong record of support for net neutrality, supports encryption, doesn't have racist/sexist skeletons in their closet, don't have new owners jacking up prices on domain registrations and renewals.

    Anybody have a registrar they love?

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    @revk US, but my current registrar is not US based.

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    @chris I'm currently at Gandi, and I'm not getting a great vibe from the new owners. I'll let you know what I find.

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    The fascist cult tendencies baked into Silicon Valley should really stop us all in our tracks.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

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    Reassuring to see the foxes managing contruction of the henhouse. This always ends well.

    https://archive.is/eZnr9

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    Thought my wife was joking when she said she wanted to see a Monkees tribute band in Switzerland.

    Then I saw her face, now I’m in Geneva.

    funnymonkey,
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    @dgar This is some of your finest work.

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