Usual suspects

NYC’s AI chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law. The city isn’t taking it down | AP News - https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-chatbot-misinformation-6ebc71db5b770b9969c906a7ee4fae21

Madison Cawthorn Says ‘Blackmail Won’t Win’ After Nude Thrusting Video Leaks | HuffPost Latest News - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/madison-cawthorn-leaked-nude-video_n_626d40a7e4b0bc48f57c0a83

We were already there 10 years ago with Google Glass. Despite its failure in the consumer market, it found significant success in enterprise settings in the exact scenarios you’ve listed.

Except, all of these are scenarios in blue collar work. Apple seems hell bent on making this succeed in white collar areas with its emphasis on meetings, which is extremely baffling.

How Is Google Glass Doing in Enterprise and Industrial Settings? - Engineering.com - https://www.engineering.com/how-is-google-glass-doing-in-enterprise-and-industrial-settings/

Physical Vs chemical changes.

It was typically taught that physical changes are differentiated from chemical changes because they could be “undone” or that they had “no chemical reaction.” Which was very confusing, because you can’t uncut paper, and dissolving stuff in water clearly results in different chemicals being produced, yet both were examples of physical changes (actually the latter is sometimes taught as a chemical change). Furthermore, most chemical changes are actually reversible.

It has since been recognised that this classification is BS, and most changes actually exist on a continuum.

Shoshana Zuboff really was ahead of its time. So many people who were privacy conscious and therefore thought they were clever by simply thinking that Google makes money by only selling your data completely missed the scale of manipulation and control big tech has (myself included).

Google/big tech doesn’t sell your data. Google/big tech sells advertisers predictions of your behaviour, a highly refined, processed version of your data. Advertisers cannot purchase your data, only “impressions” or “views.” In an extra sinister twist, Google/big tech then uses it’s resources to manipulate you in ways such that their predictions become true.

This is why their predictions are the best, because after making them, they have a financial incentive to manipulate them into being true. It is why we naturally see more and more polarization, because after Google has sold the prediction that you will engage is a specific type of content (e.g. right ring rabbit holes), it is financially incentivised to make that a reality, and therefore further push you in that direction, to make their prediction true.

How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207022001066

Although by far the eco friendly option, natural (or direct) burials are still quite expensive, at around $2600. Most of this is related to the cost of the plot itself, and most of the savings come from using a cheaper/no casket.

Direct cremation is generally cheaper, being $800 - $3000, with most options averaging around $2000.

How Much Does A Green Burial Cost? - https://choicemutual.com/blog/green-burial-cost/

What is the average cost of a cremation? - US Funerals Online - https://www.us-funerals.com/what-is-the-average-cost-of-a-cremation/

Kyocera.

Also Japanese, and plenty of cheap generic toners available online. They even publish Linux drivers.

Bless Singapore and their innovation in shoving humans bodies into cupboards, from domestic workers in apartments to corpses on airplanes

Already happened. It died because it turns out the AI was funneling all of your browsing data to the servers running the AI instead

GPT-AdBlocker for Chrome promises to block all ads, including ads in videos - gHacks Tech News - https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/19/gpt-adblocker-for-chrome-promises-to-block-all-ads-including-ads-in-videos/

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No, consumption taxes (such as VAT) are generally considered to be regressive, because the rich spend less on consumption relative to their income.

In almost all countries, the top income decile was estimated to have paid a share of their income that is only 60% of what the bottom half pays in consumption taxes.

The inequality impact of consumption taxes: An international comparison - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272723000798

Go nazi declare bankruptcy

Redpilled? Get killed

Go fash lose cash

Lick boot, lose loot

Go right eat shite

All incel, no braincells

Nazi salute, go destitute

ADL? Common L

Ku Klux? Lose bucks

Go apartheid, all downside

Their voting system is somehow the worst of both worlds. It’s FPTP for rural seats, but proportional for inner city seats. So conservatives end up sweeping the rural seats, and also steal seats from inner city seats that would have gone to progressives if they have an FPTP system across the whole country.

If it makes you feel better many green index funds aren’t green at all, and simply manipulate their holdings around audit and reporting times, in a phenomenon known as green window dressing.

Green Window Dressing by Gianpaolo Parise, Mirco Rubin :: SSRN - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4459352

To add even further confusion, in Australia some stores have eggs in the fridge, and some don’t

Check if your state government offers any upgrade incentives. Most of them offer rebates for upgrading appliances, e.g. for upgrades to heat pump water heaters.

Microsoft sofficial “Bing Wallpaper app” does some nasty, malware-like things to Windows

Power metal is more traditional metal but with clean vocals (no growls). Bands include DragonForce, Angra, Helloween, Stratovarius

There’s also progressive metal, where the emphasis is more on the intricate instrumentals, so some banda don’t do growls. It is usually less heavier than traditional metal. Bands include Dream Theatre, Liquid Tension Experiment, Symphony X, Tessaract, Haken, frost*, Porcupine Tree

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