The link goes to "We are introducing a new way to request the removal of non-consensual explicit images on Search." My drivers license and government IDs have me fully clothed, thank you. The deletion requests seem to be on an individual-image basis as well.

This is an "easy payment" system for people who can't afford a laptop or manage financing but still "gotta have it". The rest of the economy is adapting similarly with low-per-unit-cost small-package food, household supplies and personal items. On a total basis it's grotesque overcharge of course, and always has been.

Digital Flaturin - I'm sure it will be a hit.

>Anthropic's terms and conditions dictate that Claude can't be used for any actions related to domestic surveillance.

"We're not doing surveillance, we're...um...protecting our Greatest Nation Ever. Or something."

So (flipping coin) kakistocracy or tinpot dictator. What is it today?

>now AI can come in and synthesize the entire meeting into a transcript and pick out the top-level themes.

This guarantees its failure, not because the tool is inaccurate or useless, but because it threatens the livelihood of so many.

To paraphrase: Bureaucrats conduct meetings both because they appear to be busy when they are meeting and because the minutes and slides, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

...a commercial property broker. "They would say, 'Retail is overbuilt. Retail is struggling. Ecommerce is going to take over brick-and-mortar retail.' And really none of that has ended up to be true,"

Yes it has, Mr. Real Estate Promoter. There are empty malls and storefronts (and office buildings) all over North America...where they haven't been torn down completely. Meanwhile Amazon, UPS, FedEx and the poor USPS crowd the streets and you can barely get to WalMart to slot yourself in among the shopping services.

"...was designed to visually track surface features using a camera pointed at the round."

Usually pointing a camera at the round gets you arrested.

PhotoShop has won the market by being designed for non-coders to get their work done before the heat-death of the universe. GIMP not so much.

It's pretty simple; freeware with a good interface that can do a job efficiently will win (Audacity for audio editing is a good example), often displacing commercial offerings. Make it an insider's game with an endless learning curve and it will be sitting in the weeds forever.

There is a great opportunity now that Adobe is charging rent but I'm not holding my breath on GIMP.

Presuming this is true at all, I'd love to see the actual anchor - my guess it was purpose-built for the job like a CQR plow with a cutting blade and tiny flukes so that doesn't actually stop the ship.

LOC - already starved for funding - will be thoroughly punished for "interfering with free enterprise" while legislators, lobbyists and assorted parasites reap lobbying income from their constituent interests.

This highlights just how formulaic and mindless most media output is. If this kind of gabble can be machine-generated, people will unthinkingly consume it. The era of digital Flaturin is upon us.

Are they going to load it into a Cybertruck and drive it through a car wash?