Thomas Germain's saved articles

Indeed, I agree. But it will still be a privacy issue in some form as long as there is some form of identification through computer usage, as well as still be leveraged to other markets. I imagine, cynically, that stripping the “You” part better serves as cover for them while still being able to harvest and sell user… Read more

“the internet needs to be free, and we need targeted ads to keep it that way” Read more

From my understanding it’ll probably gather more information about you, but strip out the “you” part.

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WTF???

Harvesting and leveraging user data is literally their business model.   Read more

He did litter space as promised. Read more

This. I assumed the app was going to play something new for you, than switch on your phone’s camera to look at you the whole time to gauge your reaction to see if you “get it.” Read more

I tried out the AI DJ and thought basically the same thing. Its voice being super smooth was impressive and I was kinda amazed it pronounced tricky band names like Tricot (tree-ko) and Mazare (muh-zah-ray) perfectly, but it seemed a little weird to give what’s just the Spotify algorithm a voice.
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We’re literally months away from DJ Xavier “X” Doobenstorf (AI DJ’s less socially aware but impressively knowledgeable cousin who’s only here for a couple days, just be nice to him, okay?) interjecting in the opening minutes of each song to let you know that this song wasn’t actually inspired by a significant other,… Read more

Suffice to say, the magic is a little broken since it sounds like you were getting the same scripts I was... Which is to say... why the fuck are they not paying someone to read these? Like if we’re getting the same scripts, I have to assume they have the AI dump the reads into sound files so they don’t need to devote… Read more

the fact that for a business to get a verified check it’s $1000 seems like extortion from Musk. Gee it’d be a real shame if someone made a fake Twitter account for your company like they did to that poor Eli Lilly. Be a real shame if that account tweeted something that just wrecked your stock price. But for a measly… Read more

I’ve been anecdotally keeping track of what percentage of my feed are ads and suggests, as if to say what are posts I didn’t subscribe to see, and it’s pretty close to 50% now.  Read more

Bravo. The TikTok red scare is beyond stupid. If the app was a genuine national security risk, then why didn’t the Obama administration ban it? Why not ban it today? And no matter who owns it, the data could be sold to a nation state. Saudi Arabia. Israel. China. Russia. Any nation that wants to get to know what kinds… Read more

Something in my soul feels guilty every time I partake of a Mexican Pizza - as if I’m offending both Mexican and Italian cultures for enjoying that frankenfood. Read more

777 individuals getting married at Taco Bell indicates that AT LEAST one person has been married at a Taco Bell twice and that fills my heart with so much joy. Read more

Use this doll to show us where the Baja Blast hurt you. Read more

“I got myself a Baja Blast ...” Read more

Okay, so this is only tangentially related, but I proposed to my wife at a restaurant that billed itself as “the best Mexican-Indian restaurant in all of Ulaanbaatar”. Read more

Floating above the crowd, they exchanged vows. Sheel said his were written with help from ChatGPT. Read more

Uhm, less than zero, actually. They’ve been found, on multiple occasions, to actively protect child predators within the church from any kind of scrutiny. Read more