As if the horror show of slop machines serving as "companions" for incel bros needing a girlfriend or teenagers stuck indoors for hours on end because helicopter parenting and society is weird like that, you can now worry about the text extruders coming for your grandma or your great-uncle. Apparently the solution for the elderly suffering from acute loneliness due to neglect is to get them hooked on some tech company's substitute for genuine human interaction. 🫠
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She Blinded Me With Artificial Intelligence
AI companionship is a topic we’ve been hearing a lot of lately. Whether it’s in the context of incel bros seeking out an AI girlfriend because ...
Look, I know it's a time-honored tradition for corporate CEOs to say things which mean absolutely nothing due to a desperate attempt to avoid conveying any real truths about anything. But this might just take the cake. Behold this unctuous tripe word-vomited out by Recruit Holdings & Indeed CEO Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba in relation to laying off 1,300 employees in its HR technology segment. (Recruit Holdings is also the parent company of Glassdoor.)
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Indeed CEO Describes the Exact Opposite of What He
Look, I know it’s a time-honored tradition for corporate CEOs to say things which mean absolutely nothing due to a desperate attempt to avoid con...
Google Veo 3 Gives Good Demo, Withers Upon Further Scrutiny 😂 It’s the same story, repeated over and over and over again. The models get a little bit more advanced, a little less ridiculous looking. Superficial “at-a-glance” quality goes from terrible to decent over time. Yet the details never come together. It’s slop. It’s banal, uninspired, and—this is key—only possible due to industrial-scale theft and other ethical shenanigans of the tallest order.
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Google Veo 3 Gives Good Demo, Withers Upon Further Scrutiny
It’s the same story, repeated over and over and over and over again. The models get a little bit more advanced, a little less ridiculous looking....
This entire exchange is WILD. 😳 In what may be a mansplaining case study for the ages, the president of Signal Foundation (and notable AI ethics researcher), Meredith Whittaker, was recently on Bluesky reiterating Signal’s promise not to clutter up the beloved secure messaging app with unwanted & insecure AI nonsense; to which she received a series of Reply Guy replies that will truly make you question why we allow men on the Internet:
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Signal President Says No to AI, Area Man Argues with Her Anyway
In what may be a mansplaining case study for the ages, the president of Signal Foundation, Meredith Whittaker—also chief advisor to ethics resear...
Corporate Silo 503 Service Unavailable 😂 Thousands and thousands of Instagram users are reporting their accounts are being banned without any clear reason. Automated moderation actions gone wrong en masse are suspected. A class action lawsuit might be in the works. Call me crazy, but I believe online platforms that people rely on to communicate with each other should be responsive to its users. So…time to join the #Fediverse? 😎
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Corporate Silo 503 Service Unavailable
Call me crazy, but I believe online platforms that people rely on to communicate with each other should be responsive to its users. If it can’t a...
So most YouTubers are going to be running the new macOS on their fancy new Apple Silicon hardware, but if you *really* want to know what it’s like using this OS, try running it on a 2013 Intel iMac! 😅
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Running macOS 26 Tahoe on a 12-year-old iMac
So most YouTubers are going to be running the new macOS on their fancy new Apple Silicon hardware, but if you really want to know what it’s like ...
The macOS Safari way of installing standalone web apps based on *any* web page (also the Vivaldi way, which I use constantly) is undoubtedly the correct way. I’m testing out iPadOS 26 right now, and yes it’s crashing regularly and glitchy in all sorts of ways. But that’s Developer Beta 1 life, baby. The functionality is definitely awesome, and I’m sure it’ll tighten up even more as we approach later public betas.
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Web Apps Galore on iOS & iPadOS 26
This is a really big deal. The macOS Safari way of doing it (and the Vivaldi way, which I use constantly) is undoubtedly the correct way. I’m...
Hand Over the Cash, Apple! The way Apple has been proven in a court of law to view App Store developers with such little regard is an absolute disgrace. If I were an iOS developer, I would be livid. So what do I think about the fact there’s now a class action lawsuit against Apple which would force Apple to reimburse developers for its ill-gotten gains? I’m all for it.
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Hand Over the Cash, Apple!
The way Apple has been proven in a court of law to view App Store developers with such little regard is an absolute disgrace. If I were an iOS deve...
Always a voice in the world of development & publishing worth paying attention to, @npub12kpd...xvml sets his sights on the niche of design & UX where he wonders…um, where the design & UX went. He muses on the fact he can’t recall any of the people he’s come across who post on Medium, because it all looks and feels the same. Same! 😅
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A Place to Call Homepage
Dave Rupert, always a voice in the world of Web site development & publishing worth paying attention to, sets his sights on the niche of design...
Bluesky has done a great job of advertising that because it's “decentralized”, that means it’s billionaire-proof. That’s the marketing pitch. Don’t like what Bluesky is doing? You can take your business elsewhere—without losing your followers and your data. The problem is, that promise has yet to be fulfilled in any way! Which service might a major influencer migrate to? Such a service doesn’t exist, and I see no evidence any such service will spring up any time soon.
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Where Does Bluesky Go from Here? What is the Bluesky of 2036?
Unlike ActivityPub which powers a wide range of software and services beyond Mastodon, Bluesky is without dispute the only major service using ATPr...