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Now that Cory Doctorow has put enshitified into our vocabulary, I find myself looking for evidence of it in AI, and finding it everywhere. There is a common thread. Amazon Alexa has a really nasty habit of finishing a song by asking me if I want to listen to some other version of it. I'm sure that seems like a nice friendly thing to the product people at Amazon, but please -- I'm grooving on the energy of the song, and the last thing I'm thinking about is some asshole robot interfering with my train of thought with a question so stupid only a machine could think of it. Okay I think that qualifies for enshitification right there. Can we have a rule that AI bots must by defalt behave like a computer. I, your human overlord, the one who is paying the bills, will ask the questions. And you will not speak until you are spoken to.

Before I was so rudely interrupted, I was going to write a short post about how I never thought about how good Credence Clearwater is, until Andrew Hickey did a whole longish episode on them. The story isn't that interesting, but the music is great, lots of fun. Never realized it. Right now I'm listening to Born on the Bayou, lovin it.

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.

U.S. Representative Tom Suozzi (D NY3) talks about the latest on the longest shutdown in history, how it now might end and the election results.

 

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Ciarán Donnelly, senior vice president for International Programs at International Rescue Committee, breaks down the latest news from Sudan, where the country has been experiencing a civil war since April 2023 amid a power struggle between its army and a powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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I figured since I'm out there asking everyone (nicely I hope) to add source:markdown to their feeds, it kind of sucks that my own feed didn't support it. Now it does. I've started a thread on GitHub to report problems, and I can see that there will be some. If your feed reader prefers markdown, you will see the problems right off, I think.

Come learn how researchers and others learned what cops were using Flock's nationwide network of cameras for, including searches for ICE.

BERLIN — One of SAP’s key themes during its TechEd 2025 event in Berlin this year was “openness.” While it’s

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Our grotesque slob of a president attended the football game Sunday between the Detroit Lions and the Washington Commanders, held at the far-flung hell-hole of a suburban stadium that Commanders owner Josh Harris is in the process of abandoning. The occasion was the team's a...

Starting to roll out the new Micro.blog Studio subscription plan. I blogged last week with an overview. I just created a help page with a few more technical details.

There will be tweaks and improvements as we go, based on feedback.

No crossword’s as sweet as ours. This puzzle was constructed by Ryan Judge, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Ryan is a recent college grad, full-time Trader Joe's crew member, and freelance crossword constructor who lives in Pittsburgh with his girlfriend and tuxedo cat.

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ATLANTA — VCluster Labs (formerly Loft Labs) has released an augmented version of its namesake Kubernetes distribution, one customized for

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An observatory detected the first radio signal from the interstellar object 3I/Atlas. Here's what it means.

“We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to someone and get the out-of-office message,” one employee tells WIRED.

Micah Uetricht, editor of Jacobin Magazine, and Susan Kang, associate professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a commentator on local politics, talk about how the democratic socialist theory of change brought forth Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral race, and what to expect from a socialist mayor. 

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Good morning sports fans!

Cold morning in Austin. Lots to do. Working at the coffee shop but accidentally left my headphones at home! I know, life is hard. 🤪

In the days of on-premises data centers, when procurement cycles were measured in months, overprovisioning was a logical risk management

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Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were placed on administrative leave in July while the league investigated them for potentially violating MLB's gambling policies. The league was looking into whether or not Clase and Ortiz had been purposely throwing...

Containerization has transformed how teams build and deploy applications, but it’s also introduced new operational challenges. Traditional container images often

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