The thing is generative AI is never gonna be able to physically go to the restaurant eat the food and then write about it So much short-sighted thinking in media right now

SCOOP: Neon Machine is in the red. Neon Machine, the company behind Shrapnel, has a slew of unpaid debts, owing millions to external vendors, multiple sources tell Blockworks. blockworks.co/news/neon-ma...

Microsoft found in its own AI research that it encourages less critical thinking. Unfortunately, this isn't poised to stop the mass AI integration into all levels of schooling, including early childhood education, where critical thinking skills should be formed. www.404media.co/email/9d5175...

@kateirwin.bsky.social hired by @blockworks.bsky.social for its The Drop newsletter: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/b...

"Masculine Energy"

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

If you haven’t seen the David Lynch cooking video yet you should

As a reporter who covered the Facebook apology tour circa 2016, and spent HOURS on the phone with FB flak and executives earnestly telling me Zuckerberg was torn up over Russian election interference and was making it a top priority to fix misinfo on FB, this week’s developments are 🙃

On my home white board, April 27, 2020, Dovercourt Park, Toronto.

UPDATE: Great to see Airbnb stepping up and offering temporary free housing for evacuees and first responders through its nonprofit arm, airbnb.org

My heart goes out to everyone in the Los Angeles area who has lost their homes or is watching from nearby as the region burns right now. 😢

All these devastating fires and people sharing their experiences just reminds me that Airbnb and insurance companies really need to overhaul their "ethics."

Please be safe, LA friends.

It's like people in the Tristate area suddenly forgot what the subway and train are Hilarious

I don't think writers and artists were supposed to be constantly reachable online

Hours after I got in touch with AT&T about this crazy bill, the customer said the issue was resolved. www.pcmag.com/news/att-hit...

Sometimes the “smart” home tech turns out to be pretty stupid Like my dishwasher app which I will never use

Idk why this level of bribery is legal

Google's quantum computing division unveiled a new chip, dubbed Willow, that the tech giant says makes it infinitely faster and better than existing supercomputers. www.pcmag.com/news/google-...

Honestly I’m just on here for a good laugh. The dark place used to have those

Peanut butter and pickles is actually not bad

We pay for our current health care system with our lives.

Over on Xitter, people (mostly men) are very mad because a woman got a PhD in English Literature while writing about a niche topic (as most academics do) while being attractive. In case you're wondering how things are going over there.

Apparently in Georgia "bless you," when not in response to a sneeze, means exactly this

It’s a cat’s world, we’re just living in it.

Do you use a VPN? If so, why? Do you use it on Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android? Curious about this 👀

Bitcoin is nearing $100K and yet no one uses it to buy anything

I spent 6 years of university across 2 degrees reading every day. It made me hypercritical of all writing, including my own. The past 4 years have been spent largely trying to undo that harsh self-criticism.

(Thread 1 of 2) Just as Ziff Davis celebrates a nearly 6% increase in digital media business, management plans to hit our members with a 7% increase in health care costs and changes which spouses can and can’t receive healthcare…

Happy Friday! Hacktivists have derailed Andrew Tate's online "courses." They leaked user messages, got emails and usernames, and added a feminist fist emoji, a trans flag emoji, and emojis of Tate with a rainbow flag and a giant ass to the platform's chat: www.pcmag.com/news/hackers...

The only FDA-approved medication for moderate to severe eczema (you can’t use steroid cream forever) is Dupixent. There is no generic. GoodRx says it costs $5.3K a month. That’s over $63K a year w/ no insurance. ZipRecruiter says average US wage after tax is $58,389. Something is broken.

i love typing and viewing

For every 5 journalists who uncritically shill new technology, there is at least 1 doomer, 1 journalist that is falsely accused of being a doomer, and 300 burnt-out journalists who are just very, very tired.

We’ll have a cute lil moment here before things turn to dust

Personally I'm excited to see all the posts that go like, "10 ways helping my wife with the chores increased my synergistic coworking and empowered me to exceed our quarterly KPIs"

My Bluesky is glitching out today. Having to hit "like" about 10 times and it keeps deselecting lol

I love getting messages from people who enjoy my work! My favorite thing, always brightens my week.

This is going to be very funny to revisit after tariffs go into place

AI does not help the education sector. In fact, it does quite the opposite.

The algorithm got embarrassingly biased and bad

If tariffs are implemented this will absolutely happen overnight. A tariff is not going to suddenly stop manufacturers from using foreign sources. Supply chain not going to change overnight. It would be a long painful process for customers instead.

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doing the thing!

1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️

An independent Chrome would be fascinating to see. If it went privacy-focused instead of selling your data to the highest bidder, that would be great. www.pcmag.com/news/doj-chr...

My novel is this can't wait for you to read it!

I make the mistake of going on the cursèd place for 2 seconds and immediately see posts of conservatives claiming "leftist" women are using abortions as a primary form of birth control Like how stupid do you have to be to believe this conspiratorial shit

people are acting like bluesky is bad because it's everyone's job to get berated and trolled and abused online. it absolutely is not. online is for Having A Good Time On The Computer. i am not engaged in ideological combat in the marketplace of ideas.