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what if—hear me out—instead of building more ai we would build more nonsmoking third places with live underground electronic music bands

I do not want your Gemini,
I do not want any AI.
I do not want it in my Chrome,
I do not want it in my home.
Not in my mail,
Even on sale,
Not in my app,
None of this crap.
I do not want it here or there,
I do not want it anywhere!

(with apologies to the estate of Dr. Seuss 🍳🍖)

People keep warning about how awful the next 4 years are going to be. That sounds optimistic to me.
*Okay, what the heck gives with Wernher von Braun writing a 1953 sci-fi novel about Mars ruled by an "Elon"

ohhhhhhh so it turns out mckinsey didn't just kill google, it also killed the US govt

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you

I actually don’t feel as fine as R.E.M. led me to believe I would
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Today I learned that Apple Air Pods Pro in noise cancelling mode perfectly cancels the clicking of a geiger counter. You would not know it was making a sound. I hope that this is not relevant to /your/ day.