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Krupo
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Trying to make the world slightly less dystopian. Toronto is home. For me as well as the birds.
Hal PomeranzYou are not an “influencer”. You are an untrained freelance marketing consultant working on spec for corporations who are monetizing your content and paying you a minuscule fraction of what you are bringing in. Good luck with that.
Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶
Soldier of FORTRAN 
Maria Liv ✏️@thedarkener Thank you. When I am faced with a message that makes me feel like I have to do something, I pause and ask myself “what does the creator behind this message want me to feel? And why?”
What do the creators of AI gain from making us feel like we have to use it and act swiftly, or else? Who is profiting from us being scared to be left behind if we don’t use AI?
The inventors of the X-ray machine or the sewing machine didn’t threaten anyone. They just calmly offered it to the public.
Cory DoctorowOptum "fired" thousands of patients, including some who were undergoing cancer treatment, on the basis that they weren't profitable enough to care for:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/private-equity-unitedhealth-take
In the midst of all this, *another* Unitedhealth monopolist, Change Health, got hacked and virtually no one in America could get a prescription filled - worse, the hack exposed the health records of almost everyone in America, the largest health-related breach in US history:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car
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The funniest thing is that you expect the team taking advantage of the taxi to finish better than last only to be told they're eliminated for not following the rules.
Nope, they finished last. Phil gets to tell them they broke the rule but in the end it doesn't matter since they were the last team to arrive.
Walking up Bay Street in Toronto today I saw a man carrying his cat in this carrier. I asked if I could take a picture and he obliged.
Enjoy this pre-#Caturday post
jadedcynic@True_Heresy As always, there's an evergreen xkcd comic for the occasion:
