Am I the only one who heard that Skip the Dishes and Instacart were going to team up to offer each others services through both apps and wondered which one of them is about to be bought out? That has to be the goal here, right? How does it make any sense otherwise? Cannibalism is …
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The Following Section Should Probably Be Removed Before You Begin Reading Aloud
A New Brunswick politician has chalked up a dubious world’s first for Canada by reading out AI prompts in an official speech. In a June 9 speech to the legislative assembly, Progressive Conservative Bill Oliver read out the following line from a prepared text: “Here’s a more natural flowing version of that section that reads …
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Google Is Determined To Kill The Good Internet
The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It For years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now it’s rounding into its final form—and changing the internet forever. There’s a lot of truth and a lot to think about here. Google, at least from …
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As AI Whitney Houston Might Say, I Bulorve That Choldreninen Are Our Fuviture
Tell me again about how AI is the future, because it sure as shit ain’t the present. A school in Kentucky sent students home with a bound agenda that included absurd errors clearly made by AI. The periodic table was nonsense. The map of the U.S. lists the state of Illinois as “Vitoiis,” and Kentucky …
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Okie-Dokie, I’ll Go Ahead And Post This For You
I remember the first time I heard about those AI services that could summarize your inbox and send emails for you. “What a stupid idea,” I recall thinking. “I’d spend more time cleaning up after it than I would getting anything else done, and I’m sure it would wind up missing a bunch of important …
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City Of Waterloo Decides That Nazis Can Google Things Like Everyone Else
I still can’t believe that Cambridge, bastion of inclusivity that it is, was first out of the gate on this. My money would have been on Waterloo, which has finally followed suit. The City of Waterloo will stop using X (formerly Twitter) because it sees it as a bad place to be and fewer people …
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The Good Scam Advice Is Bad Now, But Also Still Good. Good Luck Out There
This is historically the sort of thing I would tear a strip off of idiots for getting sucked into, but I’m not sure I can do that anymore. Not because this particular woman is old, old people are vulnerable and making fun of vulnerable people is wrong, though. To hell with that nonsense. I don’t …
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Don’t Let Me Catch You Kids Parking
People trying to do an innocent thing and running headlong into porn instead is nothing new. Replace the words QR code in this story with phone number and you’ve got a tale as old as time. In fact, it’s one that I wouldn’t even have bothered to mention had CTV Kitchener not given us all …
Another Reason To Hate CAPTCHAs: Scammers Are Pretending They’re Broken And Tricking People Into Installing Malware To Fix Them
If you’ve spent oh, let’s say about 20 minutes online in your lifetime, you’ve probably run into one of those “verify you are human” or “I am not a robot” things. Most of the time, it’s a simple enough operation to prove you’re a person and move on with your day. Annoying for people with …
🎶 Honk Honk Honk Honk WaddleLoo: Know Where The Geese Are and Have a Clue. 🎶
Man, I knew the geese were vicious as heck. I had heard lots of stories about geese attacking folks for their croissants near the University of Waterloo campus, and children getting chased by geese outside the Catalyst building where I work, among other stories. I know in the case of the children, their parents started …
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