remember that 10c goes toward funding a fascist regime.

I've heard of those famed supernovae that were visible with the naked eye in the middle ages, and I've always wished I could see one too in my lifetime.

I might just be lucky before I go nova myself.

They don't need AI for that. Teams - and pretty much all Microsoft products - are honeypots designed to collect data.

Well, no so much "honeypots" in the case of products that employees are forced to use at their workplace: they're no honey needed to attract them and get them to give Microsoft data. If you disagree with Microsoft's privacy invasion, you lose your job.

That's the genius of Microsoft's particular brand of invasiveness: instead of convincing individual people their products are good enough to relinquish their privacy for (Facebook), or convincing a large part of the internet to let them sneak in their trackers (Google), Microsoft convinced the bean counters at most companies to install their spyware and ram it down the throats of people who need to make a living. Disgusting...

Anyway, the AI thing is just the turd on top of the shit cake.

What's gonna stop obesity among Americans isn't permanent standard time. It really, REALLY isn't that.

A good start would be making healthy food that isn't 1,000,000 calories per pound, and not made of fat and sugar mixed in unknown chemicals affordable. And taxing the living shit out of junk food. And getting people to stop eating supertanker-sized servings.

Typical AI shill answer (and the word "agentic" in the sentence is a dead giveaway too).

Wrong logic: a person's job should be gone if your "agentic" thing does the job cheaper AND at least as well.

As always, AI shills conveniently forget to factor in the quality of the work produced.

The reality of AI is, while it might be cheaper than real workers, it also enshittifies the entire world. And that's a fact.

Does it work without a Facebook account and 24/7 creepy corporate surveillance?

Oh...

The issue is: how many people did AI displace?

Hmm no: I trust a coal miner to produce better code than an AI vibe coder.

is right: it's going nowhere.

Adapters are your friend. Undo that knot in your pants.

There is a lot of truth in what you say, and the idea that we should all be able to shout from the rooftops and be heard by a global audience is definitely more than just flawed. But I think it ignores the larger issue that has been going on, and that social media has largely undermined. Namely, how do we determine which voices to filter out, and which to elevate? Just limiting us to geographic or real relationship bubbles might be useful filtering mechanisms, but it doesn't address the problem of ever dwindling journalism, and the lack of aggregated news outlets that can be topical and informative without just being a morass of engagement bait and shouting at clouds. Walter Cronkite is long gone, and that type of platform and degree of trust and responsibility probably doesn't fit in our current world and technology. And even if such individuals did exist with a working team behind them to filter and fact check, how are we to find them out of a sea of competing voices of would be influencers, meme farmers, and cat video enthusiast?

I want to hire you as prompt engineer! - Sorry I meant types-question guy.

I did it as a teenager and I'm close to retirement.

There's even a movie about it from that time period.

I live near the arctic circle and this is common knowledge.

Yeah, sure...

Is anybody surprised by this?

I know Yen retracted his statement, but that's not good enough. I don't trust him like I wouldn't trust Elon Musk if he apologized for the Nazi salutes, because doing it once kills your credibility forever - or at least makes it exceedingly hard to prove you're not that person later on.

Proton should have thrown Yen out immediately after that incident if they had wanted to preserve their reputation and they didn't. So I don't trust Proton.

Next up: the measles epidemic might be linked to the anti-vax HHS.