They only want free markets when it benefits them.

But they were okay with the Gulf of Mexico being renamed?

Copyright is conveniently only flexible for multibillion dollar AI firms.

It’s so bad that I almost wonder if the person who posted it is themselves using AI (the angle of the reflected street looks off?).

No picture at all would likely sell more burritos than this:

Trump assuming that the world revolves around the U.S. (and by extension him) is symbolic of the dangerously nationalistic mentality that fuels his far-right base.

Costco is also one of the only Fortune 500 companies to not adjust their policies on DEI in the wake of Trump’s election.

The team achieved 10 times better performance than GNSS systems, with a one nautical mile of positioning accuracy.

Variation up to a full nautical mile doesn’t seem very accurate?

Most laptops come with it by default, with Linux options either not provided or costing more for the convenience.

AI → Actually Indians

Pearl Milling Company is a brand owned by PepsiCo, so I don’t think it’s any more Canadian than the others?

No Name and President’s Choice being the Loblaws store brands would arguably make them more Canadian (though the companies making the white-label products might be American).

An ironic article to write given the Forbes AI voiceover and AI article summary…

Astroturfing will come, but the platform itself can’t as easily be designed to enable it with preferential algorithms and tracking. If an instance injects ads into its frontend, users can easily switch instances or use an alternative frontend or app; if a specific instance is known to host promotional posts, it can be easily defederated or otherwise blocked.

The same cannot be said for blocking ads or tracking on Reddit, particularly for mobile users.

It’s just a bit two-faced and dishonest for Reddit to be marketing itself to users as a platform for genuine discussion while in actuality being a marketing platform for brands.

If more Redditors realized what Reddit has become, they might be more willing to join a platform without the centralized control that enables manipulation.

“For communicators, Reddit’s value is in the real conversations that people are having about your brand today, not where it surfaces tomorrow,” said Adam Collins, Reddit’s chief communications officer.

Reddit defining its platform as a place for consumers to discuss brands speaks volumes about its motives.

They’re definitely more likely to be used by AI than by the average person, but I think that’s in large part because people aren’t generally taught to use them, along with their absence from keyboards.

Since keyboards have two minus sign keys, I have a script running on my computer to automatically replace one of their inputs with an em dash.

Em dashes being associated with AI is a disservice to them; in many cases they’re a far more suitable use of punctuation in interrupting a sentence than parentheses.

In this instance, however, the em dashes between the first and second parts of sentences would be better replaced with semicolons than commas, in my opinion.

The AI industry is actively telling companies that they can become ‘more efficient’ (i.e. fire workers) with AI; that’s more than a mere ‘messaging problem’.

It has a financial interest in companies firing their workers and raising prices to make room for it.

Even a 5% fee is 5% too high; letting Apple tax all sales on iOS merely because they control the operating system is monopolistic.

Republicans are the ones holding up statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.; they wouldn’t mind giving a fascist-run province like Alberta statehood.