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Ray O'Neill
Do elder-care robots seem like a failtastic idea to anyone else?
Via The Register: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered extensive trials of intelligent aged care robots. The […]
Dystopia watch: subliminal ads in Bangor
No, that isn’t hyperbole, it’s how PETA describes its own billboard trucks: “Hell on Wheels”—PETA’s hyper-realistic pig transport truck that […]
Sky 9
I just wrote a sentence with four dashes, because Linda McMahon deserves that much scorn
This is far outside my normal range of interests, but I saw it a few days ago and it’s the […]
In which my mistrust of Microsoft resurfaces (not that it ever really went away)
I eventually set my home wifi to “metered connection” in Windows because that was the most effective way I had […]
Sky 8
Dystopia watch: a megacorp’s stealth ads infesting the short-film industry
Google really wants to go all-in on AI and have us accept the resulting river of slop as the new […]
About that threatened Apple tariff
It isn’t immediately clear if Trump’s threat to hit Apple with “a Tariff of at least 25%” if all iGadgets […]
Keeping a wary eye on some potential phone-locking fuckery from Verizon
I got the following text message yesterday: Hi, it’s Verizon Prepaid. We’re updating our Unlocking Policy effective 07/07/2025. 60 days […]
Ray of Infamy 