Mastodawn

@JulianOliver ... Journalism needs competent journalists. And, way better leadership at the helm. People respond to GOOD OBJECTIVE Journalism. If Buzzfeed wants to turn this around - hire journalists. fire current leadership. And,understand what journalism is supposed to be. Just my opinion.

soup2nuts Mar 14

Julian Oliver Mar 14

Buzzfeed's shares go from $15 to 70 cents, now approaching bankruptcy, seemingly as a result of going all-in on 'AI' generated content.

This emerging pattern does not speak to a wicked problem. Rather, it should be no surprise that people don't want to read machine-generated content that outwardly pretends to come from a person. Because it is innately &intrinsically deceptive, which people do not like, so ending trust that will be very hard to win back. If at all

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

#ai

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Futurism

soup2nuts Mar 14

Nick @ The Linux Experiment Mar 14

It's time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news show!

We talk about some open source projects adding AI generated code, with the good and the bad it brings, SUSE potentially being sold (again), and a new interesting API that might be a boon to all de-googled Android ROMs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzFglOqtvZA

Kwin, Lutris & AMD drivers add AI generated code, SUSE could be sold, new hope for degoogled ROMs

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@thelinuxEXP 🐧 👍

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...

You can use long-presses on your regular keyboard to access alternative glyphs—just like on your phone, e.g. press and hold down [$] and a popup appears that let's you choose between €, £, ¥, ¢, ₹. Also new is that you can download and install alternative sound themes and that we reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows on screens using more fractional scale factors, and much more!

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/this-week-in-plasma-press-and-hold-for-alternative-characters/

#desktop #FreeSoftware #openSource

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soup2nuts Mar 14

@kde 🐧 very clever stuff 🐧

soup2nuts Mar 14

Project Gutenberg Mar 14

Happy π Day! And Albert Einstein was born #OTD 147 years ago!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

Isaac Newton used infinite series to compute π to 15 digits, later writing "I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_note-Newton-60

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630

#books #mathematicsDay