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Why does Google insist on making the Chat experience as fractured & painful as possible?
About five years ago, I had chats, texts (Voice), and "spaces" all in one list. They broke Hangouts out from chat, renamed it, killed it, reintegrated it but as a separate tab, then put it into the Gmail app, then made a new app but still with separate tabs for groups & spaces
Why can't we just have a list of the people we want to talk to all in one place? Why is that so difficult?
BREAKING: Israel & Hamas agree to temporary ceasefire:
•4 day ceasefire
•Hamas to release 42 hostages — 30 children & 12 women
•Israel to release 150 Palestinian prisoners (Human rights orgs estimate ~1000 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons)
A good step. We need a permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages, an end to military occupation of Palestine, an end to all illegal settlements, & an end to illegal blockade of Gaza.
That ensures sustainable peace for Jewish & Palestinian civilians
So, yesterday we covered Elon Musk’s ridiculous censorial threat to sue Media Matters “the split second the court opens on Monday.” Of course, as we noted, you can file lawsuits 24/7. And yet, as t…
X has taken its stance. Nazis on the platform are allowed. Pro-Hitler posts are allowed. Holocaust denial is allowed.
If you stay on a platform like that, you can't escape this creeping normalization. Even if you think you can.
"Oh, there goes another Holocaust denier. Just part of being online, I guess."
"Oh, another transphobe calling people dehumanizing slurs. Well that's the Internet for you."
Creeping normalization is like advertising. Even if you think it won't influence you, it will.
Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.
And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).
The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the 2 women on the old board were replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.
Rural #Cincinnati, #Ohio man graffiti's his mansion in protest against neighbors & police
Messages like 'Stop Bullying Me' and 'Falsely Accused' plaster the historic white estate along with the names of township officials
This is a beautiful home, too, even if this is the home of the urban legend Pond Run Road Hook Man (look it up) 7 bed 8 baths. 8,590 sqft. It was for sale until 11/3 for $1.5mil
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2825-Pond-Run-Rd-New-Richmond-OH-45157/316764698_zpid/
Steve Herman
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Glyn Moody
Erik Moeller
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