The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"
Remember link farms for SEO? I wonder how long until AI results are completely unusable...
Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram
Goooooood evening and happy Sunday!
The out of pocket cost of the birth of my son, after “good” insurance, after meeting my deductible (despite a wicked pregnancy, everyone was healthy) was OVER TEN THOUSAND US DOLLARS.
And then I went back to work still bleeding. So I don’t think it’s the phones.
Before Everything Trump Touches Dies, it becomes way, way, way more expensive.
Vladimir should learn. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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I think it's important for people to read the kind of comments a judge has to make to extremely vulnerable people in order to get sanctioned.
My god. They killed a baby. Over diapers.
Kavanaugh Stop World Cup edition cc @akalhan.bsky.social
So much of the damage Trump is doing will affect us for years.
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social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
I thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us
