Rafe Needleman

The gasoline? Don't worry about it. It's the receipt that'll kill you.

Delta Air Lines now uses AI to price flights - The Points Guy Delta is incorporating artificial intelligence into its revenue management systems that dictate airfare.

Will someone please make a service or product that makes me look poor online?
thepointsguy.com/news/delta-a...

Sounds like a bad Mel Brooks movie.

First time I've ever seen the month/year/date format used.

I'm looking for the Black Mirror disclaimer on the page but I can't seem to find it.
www.intouch.family/en

I'll say it again: All music-on-hold loops should have a "wait in silence" option.

I like to stay informed so I really should be watching the address to congress. But I just can’t take watching that treasonous baboon.

What's a word you can't type no matter how many times you have tried? For me, it's "platform." I've been writing about technology for 30 years and it still comes out "platofrm" every single time.

It's the San Francisco Grand Prix!

Good idea, LinkedIn.

If Facebook was proud of eliminating fact-checking in favor of “Community Notes,” and moving content moderator jobs from California to Texas, it would not have made the announcement in the middle of CES when the tech press is scrambling to cover massive amounts of AI and gadget news.

YouTube video by MegaLag Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

The Internet is a great platform for redirecting (stealing) consumers' retail money and goodwill. The Honey plugin takes it up a notch by also scamming revenue from its own advertisers, according to this blockbuster report. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4y...

Anthropic hires its first “AI welfare” researcher Anthropic’s new hire is preparing for a future where advanced AI models may experience suffering.

Job of the future: AI Psychotherapist.
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/a...

This earthquake alert actually popped up 30 seconds before I felt the shaking start. Granted, the shaking I felt here, 200 miles from Humboldt, was very minor, but still... this kind of early alert was just a pipe dream when I was a kid. I hope everyone up in Humboldt is ok.

Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.

I have been looking for a new community to replace Twitter. For a while I thought it'd be Threads, but I don't want to entrust my online persona to yet another smarmy billionaire. I'm glad BlueSky is getting traction. Hope we can make it work. I miss having 40,000 followers though.

I challenge you to name a more unreliable item of common consumer technology than the refrigerator in-door icemaker. (Image credit: ChatGPT)

Tech Etiquette: The Real Reason You Need to be Polite to Alexa Do you need to say “please” and “thank you” to a voice-bot like Alexa, Siri, or Google Home?

When I wrote my "Do you have to be polite to AIs?" story back in 2017, I didn't make the connection to Pascal's Wager. I wish I had. @stevenlevy.bsky.social got it. We should call it Levy's Wager.

Well that was a fun evening. Gogol Bordello movie and music at Great American Music Hall

LinkedIn: Games Play free puzzle games on LinkedIn. Connect with your professional network through shared experiences. Try Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Queens, and Tango today!

www.linkedin.com/games/
You're welcome @reidhoffman.bsky.social

I have a theory/fear that LinkedIn is mining individuals' performance on its new games and will use that data in its networking, advertising, or job matching algos.

And how's it going for ya?