Mastodawn

#GoogleIO revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.

1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.

2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.

Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?

Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.

@rodhilton @Gte well let me tell you, people don’t actually want directness, they think it’s rude.

Google is permitting them to carry on this charade, which is the real sin.

@jason @rodhilton @Gte It's really quite obnoxious that weird tendency to want indirectness at all cost.