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Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale," a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little.
The findings, described in a recent study, suggest that employees who rate this sort of language as insightful are more likely to struggle with analytical thinking and workplace decision-making.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/corporate_jargon_research/
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As much as I lamented the loss of Reader, I also understood why the decision was made. It was almost an honorable thing for it to step aside and make room for others in the market like Feedly.
@NunavutBirder The money has decided that no one can do anything without using AI and they're setting out to enforce this.
(Enclosure of the intellectual commons, more or less and by and large.)
If AI merely didn't work this would be evil and destructive. Given that AI actively makes everything worse it's closely approximating sacrificing the economy (and thus many lives) to demons.
(It talks, and it cannot know good or evil. Of course it's a demon.)
The OpenBSD project, being based in Canada for the past 30 years, is not subject to California law.
Now stop fucking asking. 
Note: Not speaking authoritatively on behalf of the project, yadda yadda.
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All of the dryers we’ve used since moving to Switzerland are of this design. No complaints.
Ours even pump the waste water into the drain.
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