#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.

A coworker of mine has three owlets in a nest in a tree near her house and now the entire company is obsessed with them!

We now have a Slack channel dedicated to them and get updates every morning 😂

UPDATE: I’ll be posting the daily owl update from our company Slack channel on here with #DailyOwlUpdate.

#Owls #Cute #Outside #Trees #AltText

Puh, ich würde ganz freiwillig auf die Krone verzichten. Wäre mir auf Dauer doch zu stressig. 🇬🇧💂‍♂️👑

#KingCharles
#Coronation
#Krönung

So BlueSky forces every post to be sent to a proprietary AI service thing, because of course they do.

I told you not to trust this tech bro platform. Why do people just refuse to accept that tech bro software always has a fucking snake in the grass?

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110303972798576262

Fearmongering over public charging stations needs to stop. Here’s why

Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/fearmongering-over-public-charging-stations-needs-to-stop-heres-why/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social