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@1br0wn @fj I reckon journalists will all want to be on Signal now…
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@mmasnick.bsky.social But her e-mails!
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@dangillmor Our bearings of newsworthiness are also in shambles.
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@ntnsndr And yet most people who *finally flee the nazi bar* flock to… BlueSky and Threads. They've obviously learned nothing, and this is very disheartening.
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@Techaltar Branding has never been their strong point. Not since “Microsoft” itself in 1975, which was genius.
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“unlike the expansion that tech gave to the enlightened before, the institutions of today, such as media, science, and education, are being slowly destroyed by technology. And there seems to be no way out of this world, especially as egomaniacal entrepreneurs like Musk and others fork over […]
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@dangillmor If anyone's interested, the official full transcript of this stunningly lucid speech can be found here: https://www.senat.fr/seances/s202503/s20250304/s20250304003.html#int278
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@HxxxKxxx @jeffjarvis Even ‘predictor’ is too deferential. ‘Probabilist text generator,’ or simply ‘text generator’ would make it clear that it is just combining words, not thoughts or analysis of any kind.
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@nileane @tante I feel so let down by Apple, without a word of justification. This is a total capitulation by the only big tech company which occasionally distinguished itself from the pack. Why is there no #MAGAFAM hashtag in heavy use at this point?
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@dangillmor In Europe (and I assume the rest of the world?), they haven't yet gone all the way: it's now “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).” #MAGoogle