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reality check: i've been getting a *ton* of 2FA requests over the past few weeks for a bunch of different services. like at least once a day for a handful of things (microsoft, uber, apple, linkedin (??), and a few others). is this just me or is anyone else seeing this?
i think it's gonna be sooner rather than later that people see stuff like this and just shrug. to be clear: i think that's fundamentally horrifying and awful for society, our brains, our culture, and there's basically no upside to that development, but i do think it's coming
NEW: Haley Stevens may have leaned on AI to generate an essay explaining her choice to endorse Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race.
The post includes recognizable AI-isms. A Pangram analysis contends that it was likely 90% AI.
futurism.com/artificial-inte…
again, it's not that i think that's okay. it's just so widespread that we're going to become inured to it, because if we got ourselves in a tizzy over every instance, it's all we'd talk about. sort of an incidental, inadvertent variation of the "flood the zone with shit" strategy
this is that grade-a, top-tier juice you just can't get anywhere else. much as we hate it here we simply can't leave
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good lord, a plane full of people yapping on facetime would be the end of aviation, please make this a federal crime
So. Im on a United flight. It has Starlink. I told my wife it had Starlink. She facetimed me so I could say goodnight to my son (he’s a toddler). It worked perfectly. Like crystal clear. Cabin crew IMMEDIATELY told me I couldnt be on the phone during the flight and asked me to hang up.
I said “It’s via Starlink?” - they said no sorry. I hung up, without question.
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@bendreyfuss lmao i'm poking around my soulcycle profile (lol the denver one closed cuz no one went there, myself included) and literally today is 10 years since my first class ever, your bday class!
if you've ever used ai for literally anything — including reading a google ai summary at the top of the page, which is 100% of us — donate to wikipedia. they need your money more than that trillionaire who owns this hellsite or the deca- and centibillionaires who own the others
The holidays are for relaxing, spending good time with people you love, and over-eating to previously thought unimaginable levels
it's funny seeing this comment in the year of our lord 2025 because 1. no one has said this since 2013 and 2. it's even less relevant now because ai has usurped those jobs anyway and made "learning to code" irrelevant. a thing of beauty, a relic of a distant, equally dumb past
completely irrelevant but mildly amusing fact i just learned: @weatherchannel, for some reason, owns bonk dot com (?????)
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