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Apologies to anyone who follows me back thinking I’m interesting.

Seen this week:

A Russian spy, a racist, a lunatic, a failed businessman, and a rapist walk into a dive bar.

The bartender says, "You'll have to pay in advance, Mr. Trump."

Oh, I could join a centralised social media network run by the founder of Twitter, subject to his whims and those of his new company and whoever he might sell it to in the future? Cool.

Or, and hear me out, I could… NOT do that.

At the age of 40 my friend reconsidered whether she wanted to help deliver babies anymore, she was having a midwife crisis.

No, you fuck off.

Texas: “If at first you don’t secede, try, try again.”

When I predicted the death of search engines as useful tools, I may have overestimated how competent the people *using* AI were. Case in point: check your homework before handing it in, idiots

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-amazon-products-called-i-cannot-fulfill-that-request/

Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request”

The telltale error messages are a sign of AI-generated pablum all over the Internet.

Ars Technica
Happy new year!