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🤖🚀 AI Dev wannabes heating up their MacBooks faster than their #ambitions - Spoiler: 🕺 cloud's got your back, but your "next-gen" project is still just smoke and mirrors. 🎸🔥 Who knew the future was just a gig at the tech bonfire? 🌲🎶
https://www.funkaey.com/blog/AI-Devs-are-the-new-campfire-guitarists #AIDev #TechBonfire #CloudComputing #NextGenProjects #SmokeAndMirrors #HackerNews #ngated

@stonekettle By design. Always by design. #smokeandmirrors

@ZhiZhu
#SmokeAndMirrors

Conman Trump’s first “trade deal” with the UK took tariffs from 10% to… checks notes 10%. Zero change. Just smoke, mirrors, and a press release. The world deserves better than performative policy. #TrumpWatch #TradeFail #SmokeAndMirrors www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/b...

Trump’s first trade ‘deal’ doe...

"As Ellie Mae O’Hagan of the #climatechange thinktank E3G put it to me: “The #energytransition is unstoppable. The anti-net zero #politicalpantomime we’re seeing right now doesn’t change the fundamental #economics.”

The #government’s climate plans are still ambitious and on-track, so why is #Labour making so much anti-green noise? | Richard Power Sayeed | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/labour-climate-plans-anti-green-noise

#climatecrisis
#renewableenergy
#greenenergy
#fossilfuels
#UKpol
#UKpolitics
#smokeandmirrors

#SmokeAndMirrors

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations | US immigration | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immigration-deportations-google

Despite his fiery rhetoric at anti-vax individualist and conspiracy theorist reply guy icon #RFKJr, Senator Cassidy (R-LA*) voted to confirm Kristi Noem (renown as the COVID Queen of South Dakota) as Secretary of Homeland Security just this past week. She was confirmed 59-34, with bipartisan gusto.

Any noises this conservative makes about vaccines are just to protect Big Pharma interests. Don't believe for a minute any of these ghouls have your health at heart.

#smokeandmirrors

* LA not AL

Meta’s business model relies on collecting as much information as possible about people in order to sell snake-oil to gullible and insecure idiots.

#smokeAndMirrors

Ooo flippin Eck
Coming very close here to revealing why a certain streaming company maybe shifted its royalty payment focus from just music to to 'content' and the potential complicity of its 'big brain' CEO.
I suppose if your company is not making a profit after so many years you may as well explore other opportunities for improving your personal wealth.
Shareholders may not agree

#SmokeAndMirrors
#Fraud

Extract from news story about a court case about a scam involving using bots to stream AI generated 'songs' at large scale in order to cream off a large cut of generic royalty payments.

"In tandem with the CEO of an unnamed Al music company, he constructed a scheme whereby the CEO would release thousands of Al-generated songs each month in return for 15% of the takings. In Smith’s own estimation, by February of this year the scheme had netted over $12 million in royalties from over 4 billion streams. "

William DuVall // #WilliamDuVall //

Smoke and Mirrors
[album One Alone, 2019]

//via // #DVLRecordings //

#brandunbrand #music #bandcamp #WilliamDuVall #OneAlone #SmokeAndMirrors

bandcamp: https://williamduvall.bandcamp.com/track/smoke-and-mirrors

Since the #Reform company is in the news, I'll add my regular reminder that it's a limited company with £1m more in debt than assets https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11694875/filing-history/MzM5NDg5MjY0OWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0. The person with control is whoever lent that debt. #SmokeAndMirrors

Next up is "Smoke and Mirrors".

#NeilGaiman #Audiobooks #SmokeAndMirrors

Cover of the audiobook of "Smoke and Mirrors" by Neil Gaiman published by the HarperAudio imprint of HarperCollins.

@itnewsbot
Serves them right for using this POS platform... UTTER garbage and TOTAL B.S. claiming it "aids collaboration"

#SLACK
#SmokeAndMirrors

DfE Press Release: Age limits introduced to protect children in RSHE - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/news/age-limits-introduced-to-protect-children-in-rshe < a notable absence of any quotes from the many teachers apparently seeking detailed guidance, or concerned about the resources being used? #smokeandmirrors

@NMBA @Snowshadow @Jgmeadows
Biggest waste in #Ontario ⬇️
Instead of funding vital services, #DougFord uses our tax dollars on his never-ending ads to tell everyone what a great job he's doing.

#SmokeAndMirrors #millions #onpoli #canada

Screenshot of an ad from the province of Ontario

Mistodon: illusionists and practitioners of legerdemain rejoice, for today is the day for celebration of #smokeandmirrors! There is nothing deceptive about this #ANSIart observance by AdeptApril.

A magician's valise sits on a tabletop along with a magic wand and a top hat, out of which rabbit ears appear to be protruding.

What building? 3.000M in the Zillertal, Austria. Didn’t stop for a Harry Worth moment. #smokeandmirrors

3/4/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks please.

The groundhog was right. It's a beautiful here. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to buy books today. Still, I'll be putting cool stuff out, like these...

#BonnettsBooks #DaytonOhio #BrickAndMortar #UsedBookStore #NeilGaiman #SmokeAndMirrors #SidMeiers #SignedMemoir
@bookstodon