I'm not worried about LLMs replacing me when search engines, reading the documents I have already provided, or actually talking to the responsible person haven't seemed to have made any difference so far.
"Workspace Experiments feature suggestions don’t represent Google’s views, and should not be attributed to Google."
Things from our company should not be attributed to our company is quite the assertion...
This week's wall-o-shame are Pennymac and Dell, if you're keeping a list of companies to never, ever do business with. Dell's was particularly egregious: A marketing email that claimed to be a transactional email that I could not unsubscribe from, that came exactly three days after their compliance department claimed to have completed a complete deletion of my personal data.
Heck, I'd probably even change my residency to a jurisdiction with stricter regulations if this service existed.
I have no idea if companies like Incogni and DeleteMe actually do anything of value, but if there were a service that just filed actual lawsuits on my behalf for privacy consent violations, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
Just left the hospice home. As my mom has declined, she's wanted the TV on for comfort a lot more. At this point, she's likely in her final days and can't tell what's on anymore, but C-SPAN was playing Jesse Jackson's 1988 Keep Hope Alive speech and that seemed like the right thing to leave it on as I left.
When I can't decide between two equally qualified candidates for office, my new practice is to vote for the one who understands mail merge better.
Johannes Gutenberg: I've invented this printing press.
Printing press: You're out of magenta.
Due to increasing inbox volume, your emails will now be ignored in the order received, instead of ignoring the most recent email first.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people are pissed they can't buy fiddle strings in a burning city. And how many more chime in to share that they are quite confident they could run the fiddle store better.
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