Dishwashers use less water than you will doing the same task. They may not be perfect for every dish, but washing by hand when there is a functional dishwasher is justing pissing away time, effort, and a lot of water.

A relevant xkcd bot is really the only AI I want in my life.

Did you have to send an actual physical photo through the post?

I ask because that was a unique time of tech transformation. I might have had a digital camera then, but being able to email a photo wasn’t yet common enough to be assumed to be possible or convenient for everyone. Just the fact that it was an 800 number and not an email for customer service says a lot. I’m reminded of watching the first Scream movie recently, where cell phones existed, but were rare enough that having one fall out of character’s pocket made them immediately suspicious. A detail that would be totally inconsequential today.

I too liked it better than I thought I would. It felt like a classic Ray Bradbury story.

Late guerilla marketing for The End of Oak Street?

His family name was actually Drumpf. His immigrant grandfather Americanized it on or shortly after arriving in America.

Fun fact, North Dakota (home of the idiot cop and criminally evil prosecutor) has a fewer people than the city of San Francisco in about 150,000 times the acreage. Put another way, there are about 268,000 people per electoral vote in North Dakota compared with about 728,000 people per electoral vote in California and about 670,000 people per electoral vote in Tennessee (home of the grandmother).

Hey now. Hillbillies are a proud Appalachian cultural tradition. The grandmother, being from Tennessee, might have been a hillbilly. And it might not have been an insult for her to self apply that label. The idiot cop and asshole prosecutor were in North Dakota.

Wouldn’t be very good at reading if stupid typos and blinders blunders like this tickled my consciousness. Not every language even cares what order you line those words up too much, go ahead and put the important words at the beginning (or the end if you’re an asshole), conjugations will sort it out.

Edit: Fucking autocorrect almost got be again when I tried to fix the typo. I fucking typed blunders both times, a real word that exists and makes sense in context, unlike fucking blinders! Dumbass “AI” autocorrect!

Fascism is seductive, that’s the biggest problem.

I know I’ve seen this before. This appears to be an AI generated version of a very similar image posted in January of 2023 on Reddit, Facebook, and probably others. I used a combination of Google image search and tineye.com to figure this out. This apparently AI version makes the woman skinnier, removes her sleeves, declutters the background, and adds a black clutch. The history of this meme was tricky to search for because it has blown up in popularity recently (on Instagram, Xitter, Reddit, even YouTube) and Reddit’s history is full of deleted posts.

Links: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1141144596701026/posts/1398367294312087/

https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/10pgezj/deleted_by_user/

https://tineye.com/search/62f2061f28c29668e35ae4b65149fcbfeaf7131d?sort=score&order=desc&page=1

Unless they are trying to sell you beans (or Dean’s), it’s not spam.

Good question. Also, given the way AI tools are creeping into everything, can we really declare that any modern Photoshop are truly free of AI?

Everybody is just trying to look cool. Everybody probably looks like a “poser” to someone else. And in a cruel twist of irony, the inventors and early adopters of some “cool” new thing, look derivative and boring years AFTER everyone else has done it. Kids don’t have a long memory for these kinds of things; they grew up in a world where it was already old news and boring, never having experienced a world without it. This shift in perception can happen sometimes even among people old enough to have been there at the beginning. So yeah, they are just a bunch of posers trying to look cool, but aren’t we all?

That’s not what the articles says or implies at all. The article only refers to another article with a click bait headline. The article article summarizes Canonical stance like this:

• Canonical will add AI to Ubuntu — but only cautiously and when it truly makes sense.
• AI features must be mature, open-source, and run locally when possible.
• Focus AI on accessibility (speech-to-text, TTS) and improvements, not turning Ubuntu into an ‘AI product’.

And to be clear, including a tool or default workflow is MILES away from patronizingly forcing it on to users. It’s just the way that most distros that aren’t Linux From Scratch work.

These are also pretty good at shielding you from biting insects and fascist police state spy cameras.