Ed Bilodeau

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@nyhan I agree. I can’t believe all those readers have switched to ebooks, for example. (The article didn’t claim that, just a hypothesis of my own.) Might be worth digging into some.

"When the heyday of mass market paperbacks was has been debated by industry veterans, but it is generally acknowledged to have run from the late 1960s into the mid-’90s"

#books #reading

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html

Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks

After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.

PublishersWeekly.com
PSA: Bitterly cold morning: -23C, feels like -34C with the wind. Expeted high of only -15C. Gods, spring is going to feel so sweet... #ottawa

Growing up, all the orange juice or lemonade in the house came from concentrate. There was the occasional apple juice or far rarer grape juice. The last time I bought frozen juice concentrate was probably back in my 20s when I first moved out on my own, out of habit.

You would think with times being tough concentrate would be seeing a resurgence. I guess people would rather pay 3x for juice (often from concentrate itself) or go without.

#food #canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/minute-maid-discontinuing-frozen-juice-9.7065520

So long, frozen juice from concentrate. The once-popular canned drink leaves shelves this year | CBC News

Attention, lemonade stand vendors: You'll have to squeeze the fresh stuff this summer. Minute Maid is discontinuing its line of frozen juices as consumers turn to healthier beverages, and it was potentially the last company selling the concentrated cans in the Canadian market.

CBC
Late day sun. Old Montreal. January 29, 2017. #montreal

"Interviews I conducted with 50 middle managers over the last 8 months suggest that the perfect storm of a weak job market and pressure to align with an “AI-optimist” mindset demanded by executives means they are responsible for keeping up the illusion of an ultra-successful AI roll out."

#ai

https://www.techpolicy.press/in-weak-job-market-middle-managers-increasingly-forced-to-feign-ai-success/

In Weak Job Market, Middle Managers Increasingly Forced to Feign AI Success

Amid all the hype, companies need human-centered AI that helps workers. Policymakers must protect labor at every level, writes Diana Enriquez.

Tech Policy Press
@penguin86 Very likely. I seem to remember it was a separate app, maybe one that you could access from the File menu.
@weelibrarian Same here, especially since for me the Files tab was usually slow to appear, so I was waiting, waiting, waiting, when finally noticed the new label.
Omens - Album by Elder | Spotify

Elder · album · 2020 · 5 songs

Spotify

"The blind spot is that LLM-referred traffic masks many signals that retailers rely on to identify fraud, such as device fingerprints, digital behavioural telemetry, and session patterns, making the fraudulent behaviours indistinguishable from legitimate consumers."

#ai #risks

https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2026/01/ai-enabled-fraud-surges-as-most-retailers-remain-unprepared-deloitte-warns/

AI-enabled fraud surges as most retailers remain unprepared, Deloitte warns

As retailers embrace AI-driven innovation, fraudsters are using the same technology to launch more complex, scalable attacks

Retail Insider