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#Sarcasm, #news, and everything in between. Don't let the joke go over your head, Karen! 😜

Need to have more of these thoughts & talks *before* AI solutions take off. #privacy

“People are starting to realize they’ve traded a lot for some of these services,” Briana Brownell, CEO and founder of AI consultancy Pure Strategies, told Global News.

AI and privacy: Experts worry users may have already ‘traded a lot’ for services:

https://globalnews.ca/news/9411392/artificial-intelligence-privacy/

AI and privacy: Experts worry users may have already ‘traded a lot’ for services

With individual data being largely unregulated, AI companies are walking a fine line with the privacy of consumers, according to one expert.

Global News

Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its COVID vaccine, but the vaccine only costs $2.85 to make.

Meanwhile, over the last two years, the company made over $19 billion in profits off the vaccine.

Folks, this is what corporate greed looks like.

January 6th Official Trailer | discovery+

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Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the Bavarian-born theologian who suddenly resigned the papacy after just eight years, died Saturday, the Vatican said.

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Barbara Walters Dead: Queen of Celebrity Interviews Was 93

Emmy-winning newswoman and celebrity interviewer Barbara Walters, the doyenne of television news, died Friday evening at her home in New York, her publicist confirmed to Variety. She was 93.  Walte…

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One of the most famous pictures of the photographer Tom Murphy is a bison at -35 degrees of frost.
I know, it’s just a “Someone Is Wrong On The Internet” piece, but that NYTimes piece about Why Signal Is Bad And Privacy Is Bad needs to be refuted in a compact explainer, so here’s mine: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/29/Privacy-is-OK
Privacy Is OK

ongoing by Tim Bray

I wonder how many people who use the #fediverse primarily as another crossposting / distribution feed know how many of us have a beautiful filter for "RT .@" (except obv without the dot (hello filter frens))

For real, I am interested in connecting with people posting #OnHere and actually engaging; not treating #mastodon like some marketing channel to just dump your #twitter retweets.

I have absolutely no qualms with people sharing stuff from other platforms (and I'm happy to see relevant stuff from elsewhere), but take the time to intentionally quote or screenshot it cause it's a post _for_ the fediverse.

Since when is water seasonal?? 🤷🏻‍♂️
*They used to laugh and call him names. Now they're all dead