The first I heard about Trump Mobile was a MSNBC guy snarking on Bluesky about its coverage map not misnaming […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Even Notepad is getting an intergrated slop generator
It isn’t that it’s becoming easier to get tools that let you generate terrible, worthless alleged content via AI; it’s […]
I barely even used Pocket and I’m still annoyed
I hadn’t actually signed up for Pocket; what I saw of it was via Firefox’s new-tab recommendations, and what I […]
The Nate thing: the most heinous crime is lying to investors, apparently
Setting yourself up as an online shopping middleman, adding another layer of awkwarness and profit extraction to as many transactions […]
Ray of Infamy 