Wait, you're telling me that there's a network of networks? And some people are using it to build an "information superhighway"?

I would pay up to five pounds per month for that

Heartbreaking:

Someone used ChatGPT to correct me about a fact...
... and they were RIGHT.

I think this is the first time that's ever happened

The problem with "tech" as an industry description is that it lumps together a bunch of things that are doing a lot of harm with things that are mostly fine.

If you tell me that you "work in tech" then I have no damn idea whether you are working on a cosy farming sim or autonomous missile targeting systems.

"This is an official email..."

Oh wow, an official email? Wow wow. I can't believe I got an official email. Amazing.

One under-discussed difference between (what I'll call for shorthand) "the average person who might be reading this" and the population at large is that, whatever you think of AI, *you know what AI 'writing' sounds like.*

So: when someone sends you an undeclared AI-written message, you know what they did.

This leaves us with a gradually increasing number of social minefields to navigate (or at least messages to ignore/dismiss) in a way that is not currently the case for most people.

I'm trying to use Squarespace - didn't choose it obviously, helping a community group with 'fix our website stuff'

And what the fuck?

What the FUCK?

How is this so UTTERLY UNUSABLE and yet so expensive?

It just does. not. function. at a basic level. Making a page and adding some text is like pulling teeth.

It makes Wordpress look like a flying car. I'd rather use Microsoft Frontpage.

Did you ever look at MDM and think "Well that seems like a bad idea, because someone could just..."

Well, guess what?