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I have deleted Grammarly from my Mac.
Skeptics have argued that A.I. can never be truly creative, because it lacks the kind of worldly experiences humans have. But several recent studies have suggested that, in blind tests, many readers prefer A.I.-generated writing to human-authored works.
This is a masterful paragraph of rhetoric, so much so that I can’t decide which sleight-of-hand fallacies it best represents.
Non Sequitur, Red Herring, Motte-and-Bailey, Ignoratio Elenchi, Category Error, Moving the Goalposts, Straw Man, Definist Fallacy, False Equivalence?
They straight-up lied. Or worse, had no idea what made the app great.
*Apple should be forced…
This is as good. Finally.
App should be forced to pay for your subscription for a year after buying and destroying Dark Sky:
apps.apple.com/us/app/acme-...
Republican Approval for Iran Stikes REPUBLICAN APPROVAL FOR IRAN STRIKES APPROVE DISAPPROVE MAGA-ALIGNED REPUBLICANS 90% 5% NON-MAGA-ALIGNED REPUBLICANS 54% 36% OVERALL 77% 15% NBC NEWS POLL I FEB. 27 - MAR. 3 | 1,000 REGISTERED VOTERS I MOE =3.1%
Even 54% is high but actually 90% is too low because the question is essentially “Given that you still support Trump after starting a war in Iran, do you as a supporter support the war?”
Issuing a correction on a previous post of mine regarding qualifications to be president. You do not, under any circumstances, need to let “just anyone” run the country.
I would think this could be a descaling event, except for who controls GenAI.
Centralization of tech seems based on three things:
1) Development skill
2) Capacity for scale
3) Network effect
If AI fractionally reduces #1 it reduces the need for #2 - full protecting only cases requiring #3.
This is a mistake AI-maximalists make, same as any “democratizing” tech. Most people want things to work, they do not want to build the things.
But AI will expand universe of “people who code” by whatever percentage and that will change things.
www.joanwestenberg.com/ai-twitters-...
A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.
A win for VOA journalists:
A system working as designed.
Great writing:
"In reality, many things stood in the way, including but not limited to the laws of thermodynamics."
"But their first meeting with the Boring Company was a disaster. 'These were not serious people,' said one participant."
“Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 minutes.” - Elon Musk, July 2017
Great story from February of Musk's cult of incompetence:
washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...
For reference, new projects to extract crude in Venezuela are only profitable if the global price is somewhere around $80/barrel.
oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
I read the whole interview: a crisis communications team spent three days working every answer nearly to death.
Universal design makes access easier for everyone.
A profligate, partisan ploy: paying a princely price for a performative probe, then pocketing the proof to protect powerful people.
bsky.app/profile/keun...
S.M.A.R.T. Goals.
Wy are people carrying rat poison in checked baggage?
The novel legal defense theory at work: "No one has ever been sued for this, we should be safe."
In a statement to The Verge, Alex Gay, vice president of product and corporate marketing at Grammarly parent company Superhuman, commented: “The Expert Review agent doesn’t claim endorsement or direct participation from those experts; it provides suggestions inspired by works of experts and points users toward influential voices whose scholarship they can then explore more deeply.”
This is going to be an interesting set of lawsuits:
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
You don’t have to participate in AI’s massive hype inflation, writes critical informatics scholar Britt S. Paris. You have a right to refuse the ‘inevitable’.
242 Days till U.S. midterms.
The New Yorker Kristi Noem will be remembered as the most incompetent Secretary in the 23-year history of the D.H.S. now
I don’t think the incompetence actually is going to be what Kristi Noem is remembered for.
It will be the killings, the lawlessness, and the grift, if I had to guess.
Cats evolved as a species 10,000 years ago and it took us till the 1970s to agree they had emotions.
GenAI is all of three years old but yes of course it has sentience.
“One” beer.