"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)
Hey search engine! Why does my webcam connect when I plug it directly into my computer but not when I plug it into a hub...that is connected to another hub...that is not connected to anything.
Took me a week. *facepalm*
i load up bluesky. ublock origin has stopped 28 different links from loading that may potentially track me.
i load up mastodon. ublock origin has blocked nothing.
hmm.
Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of these two facts:
1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it.
Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.
The City of Paris is praised for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get nearly enough credit for just being really pragmatic!
Everything they’re doing is common sense.
They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
In many cities, they should really just be considered the basics.