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Also, I'm not going to delete my account because I don't want criminals to be able to take over the username and use it for nefarious means.
But this is it. You will never see me here again!
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The US FTC adopts its final "click-to-cancel" rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023 (@emroth08 / The Verge)
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I’m sorry Kroger is doing what now
Families are struggling to put food on the table. I sent a letter to @Kroger about their decision to roll out surge pricing using facial recognition technology. Facial recognition technology is often discriminatory and shouldn't be used in grocery stores to price gouge residents.
This has nothing to do with hitting Hezbollah (there are no Hezbollah soldiers there). This is a controlled demolition, aka a deliberate destruction of entire civilian areas.
This is not true. The problem with many polls is that they ask people to choose between only two candidates, and then they report the percentage of that. But if you include third parties, it's a different story.
But even that is misleading because it still forces a choice.
The data above is from the latest poll... which proclaimed that it's 50/50 ... it's not.
realclearpolling.com/polls/p…
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A bunch of people seem to think fossil fuels are immune to tornados: this oil refinery was hit a few months ago and the owner has since shut it down permanently, rather than trying to repair it.
Tornados don’t care whether your energy infrastructure is green.
kjrh.com/news/local-news/tor…
Tornados are assholes.
This is what one of Duke Energy's solar farms looks like after getting hit by an EF-2 tornado during Hurricane #Milton. At peak production, the Lake Placid Solar Power Plant makes enough electricity to power more than 12,000 homes.
What's it's really like to drive an electric truck (lorry): youtube.com/watch?v=I4b-cybc…
One thing I noticed almost immediately is how 'Americanized' this sounds. I don't mean the voice, but how it flows and this over the top excitement.
It's impressive, but I felt exhausted after just 2 minutes of it.
Did anyone say AI can generate a podcast about the upcoming Newsrewired? newsrewired.com/2024/10/16/d… #newsrw
Thomas Baekdal retweeted
Did anyone say AI can generate a podcast about the upcoming Newsrewired? newsrewired.com/2024/10/16/d… #newsrw
Heh... well.. duh! ;)
James Bond film maker reports profit fall in year without blockbuster release dlvr.it/TFNnBD
How low must this go before news publishers finally make the decision to change the way we produce news? The way news is being produced today is clearly not the right way.
One thing AI companies claim is that they are not reproducing copyrighted works, so it's fair use. This is false. If you bake a cake, you are also not reproducing the ingredients, but you still have to pay for them.
So if we are to require AI companies to pay for using our articles, we as publishers also need to adopt a principle of paying for using content from others. We can't just create a system where some has to pay and others don't.
The other alternative is that we clearly define what fair use means... which publishers here in Denmark tried to do with these rules (but they constantly ignore it): danskemedier.dk/wp-content/u…
