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@davidgerard Out of all the horrible comedies Matt Lucas has been a part of, I think this Marc Andreessen character has to be one of his worst creations.

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Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/25/verizons-new-ai-chatbot-customer-disservice/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeDLdr-jgs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

tell your nearest big ai-critical account to make sure to call them "products" instead of "tools" or "technologies" please

@samir @impactology slower and better

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Google's AI overviews are annoying and useless to anyone who has defined their own purpose for the product as being a *web* search.

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Taken from Sam Landman on FB but not sure if he is the artist. Graphic saying AI is for losers, reject fascism think for yourself. I can make Art that’s ugly and bad all by myself thank you very much

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Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/24/anthropic-wins-broad-fair-use-for-training-but-not-on-pirated-books/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwoScPzTWiA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

ICYI the full Eric Schmidt - Charlie Rose interview from 2006 is here
https://archive.org/details/Charlie-Rose-2006-04-13

Google's AI overviews are annoying and useless to anyone who has defined their own purpose for the product as being a *web* search.

I talk about it in this dispatch. The way they let us project our own purposes on their products while they chip away at their own purpose in the background.

https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/114545687558922035

"I'm feeling lucky" wasn't a silly joke. It was the plan all along.

https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/114547326190548834

It shouldn't be a surprise that they see themselves as an *answer* search, not a *web* search. The web was a resource for them.

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If someone communicates their boundaries that's them trying to keep you in their life, not push you away. Don't be a dick

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delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!!

You can get it for $12 USD here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

The Secret Rules of the Terminal, by Julia Evans - The cover illustration depicts three people doing arcane terminal magic in a temple with a smoking censer in the background. Each of the three people has curly brown hair and light brown skin. They are all wearing dresses, billowing cloaks, and utility belts with keyboard symbols on them. The one on the left holds a palette of paints and a brush. The one on the right has a staff with a $ symbol on it and a starfish at the top. The one in the centre has a sword and is reading from a book whose cover says “>_” and “./”, which rests on a lectern with a smiling snake wrapped around it.

@quitthebiz me too!

Veeeery tempting, Slack. But I've been around long enough to remember "functionalities" being a lazy internal catch-all for "the shit we need to cram in to the product before the imaginary sales deadline"

Screenshot of email from Slack:

"New security features for your plan
We are updating our free and paid plans to make your team's workdays more pleasant and productive. All plans now come with enhanced security, and paid plans include powerful AI functionalities."

@txo_elurmaluta added an edit!

@txo_elurmaluta oh just the fact that there are no actual search results above the fold haha. I was being annoyingly vague

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how is this not hostile to the open web?

edit: *because there are no search results above the fold

screenshot of google search on an iphone. Search term is "above the fold" and top result is an AI overview which ends about 75% down the screen. The next part is big text "Above the fold" with a half cut-off image underneath it. Search results are not in sight

how is this not hostile to the open web?

edit: *because there are no search results above the fold

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