Dr. S.A. Applin

Are they advertisting a drug to cure that?

Also,
Bad tech bro. No cookie.

"Train"?!?! And these are equivalent to you?!?!

I fell to my knees in public

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

That isn't what makes us people. We are group oriented, social creatures who need each other, and the "DNA/Code" shortcut doesn't really address all the things that make us human. I'm going with a bit NOPE on that.

I am not going to make friends with the bros with this response:
I can see that people tend to wish to codify (no pun intended. pun intended) everything and make us all seem like we are akin to machines. DNA is our building blocks, and has been called a "code" of sorts, but...

Raymond Loewy was a prolific US designer. Among other things, he designed the Coke bottle, the Studebaker Avanti (the cool one) and the Air Force One, the latter that has now been "upgraded" (e.g. redesigned). Gone is the cool blue swoop from RayRay & Jackie O
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/m...

I can have insights but which thing do you want them about?

Except the tool can't inherently tell context.

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation Users are exhausted fighting AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI-first features.

watching what's happening to Pinterest feels like a glimpse at the immediate future for much of the internet. AI moderation knocking down posts, people unable to talk to human beings, a flood of AI content, and hand drawn posts mislabeled as AI

Unless...Claude *is* the Apocalypse.

Zone of Silence Invented for an MIT thesis, a gizmo defends against cellphone chatter

A low power jammer may be the answer to prevent violating ones personal space. spectrum.ieee.org/zone-of-sile...

Does he mean that more women than men are wearing the glasses? Hey if you're prey, you want to photograph those predators. All these things seem to backfire for the guy. It's like he doesn't ... know... much... about... people.

That's so Zucked up! (See? Perfect insult for a man afraid of women.)

a teddy bear wearing a leprechaun hat and a gold chain is surrounded by pots of gold and a rainbow ALT: a teddy bear wearing a leprechaun hat and a gold chain is surrounded by pots of gold and a rainbow

Wow!

Or do you mean "Maxxxxxxxxxxed" as in, "That's Zucked to the Maxxxxxxxxxx"?

Maybe "maxing out the ick factor" could be called "Zucking," as it "That got zucked," or "That Zucks," Or "That's Zucked up."

Five years ago, I warned about this...and... crickets.
www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/15/1...

Doh! Want more? Read @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net 's 27 page Open Access (free) paper from 2021 on all the #ethics and social issues with these #Meta #AR #glasses before release--and we were right!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is unsurprising as LLMs pump out content along with the rest of us. It's all very Ouroboros.

Doh! Want more? Read @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net 's 27 page Open Access (free) paper from 2021 on all the #ethics and social issues with these #Meta #AR #glasses
(We knew before they did.)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is an illustration of how the rich are colonizing private spaces. They took over the restaurant for their own pizza dinner. People could still order, but had their pizza handed to them through the locked/unlocked door (in the rain).

A Deadly Medieval Path in England Claims a Modern Victim: An Amazon Van

Guess we need more "Broomways" around town.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

“Why does the left hate technology” is not the right question. Instead we should be asking “why do most people hate the capitalist technologies sold as ‘innovations’ and forced onto society by a handful of mega billionaires and their toady sycophants?”

They're doing a lot of cultural production, though. In fact, it's kind of all they're doing--trying to change culture.

You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.

I'm no finance genius, but I think it would be cool if there was a private equity company that would a) buy businesses b) invest in them to make them better and c) profit from having improved those businesses.

Pope Leo: “We perceive in the ashes imposed on us the weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war. This is also reflected in the ashes of international law and justice among peoples, the ashes of entire ecosystems and harmony among peoples, the ashes of critical thinking.”