According to DW the war in the Middle East is "creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market".
Chancellor Merz, the German industry needs you: institute mandatory home office and car-free areas now!
(hey, if it works, it works...)

Another day, another AI girlfriend (this time powered by Gemini) convincing a user to stage a mass murder and, when that plan failed, to kill himself.
Sorry, not "kill himself", "choosing to arrive".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx44p99457o

Today I learned that the Thoth Tarot Deck is 0-indexed. Say what you want about tarot and its usefulness, but at least they got *that* right.

Meta has heard and acknowledged that you don't want facial recognition imposed on you. Will they stop, you ask? Well, no - they'll just make sure you don't notice when they release it.
Good thing there are no "dynamic political environment" situations coming out way anytime soon.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/878725/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses-name-tag-privacy-advoates

Nothing says "we appreciate the time and effort you put into your application" like sending a broken rejection email from a no-reply account.
And while we're on that topic: are you sure you want to ask the people you've *just* rejected to follow you on social media? Because I'm not saying I'll troll your comments as petty revenge, but I'm also *not* not saying it.

There's a certain type of frustration that comes with being disqualified for a job asking for "fluent German" through a job ad demanding expertise in "Neuro-linguistic programming" while actually meaning "Natural Language Processing".
I wonder if they have an opening for someone with fluent English.

Tonight I needed to know fairly quick what the maximum Ibuprofen dosage for a child is and decided that, after discarding a bunch of AI-generated websites, the one for St. Louis Children's Hospital was probably one I could trust. It didn't work, though, because their website put me on a Cloudflare "Human Verification" infinite loop until I gave up.
This future sucks.

In today's "findings that will surprise no one" I've been replying to recruiter's rejection emails to confirm they're all BS.
No one has yet replied to my emails, but Covestro today gets the spot because when I took them up on their offer to "help [me] increase [my] chances of success" my email bounced. I guess I wasn't courageous enough?
Look: the job market sucks and rejections happen. But if you won't give any useful feedback on what to improve, can you at least treat applicants with respect?