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janemccallion.bsky.social

Deputy Editor at ITPro and co-host of the ITPro Podcast. https://www.itpro.com/uk/author/jane-mccallion Opinions are my own, reposts are someone else’s.

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"Carnegie Mellon University researchers ran an experiment by creating a company completely staffed by AI agents; the best performing model completed only 24% of jobs, the worst, 1.7%. "

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four. different. ampersands. !!!! & they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”). 222050 • @folger.edu

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Generative AI is the bane of my life as an editor, but I actually agree – people treat it as infallible and trust outputs unquestioningly. They don't understand how it works at all. And let's not get started on AI detectors...

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In 'Die Hard', everyone actually dies pretty easy except for the main character who doesn't die at all.

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kojima's biggest fan?

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Oh smart jacket how did humanity get so far in dumb mute clothes? How did we philosophize without the output of our socks? Design ships without a shoutout from a shirt? And now, will my overcoat override me?

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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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This sounds like a very niche interest

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leaving a review for your recent drone purchases like

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thank you Facebook ads, I was just looking for a 10-pack of steel nozzles for my Formless Pork Horrors

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As opposed to antisocial cricket?

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I’m getting horror vibes from this cardboard box.

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US troops in Iraq were less equipped than this

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SPOILER: I have some bad news for you.

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This is amazing

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"Yall's fucked, RIP" www.cityam.com/tech-boss-ai...

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Sepultura is the Sugababes of metal. Change my mind.

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Casually adding another book to my list of books that is definitely not already too long.

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Accurate

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✨WHEEZING✨ (please dear goddess stick around for the US entrant 💀)

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the sound and the fury

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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

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I think this feels like an admission that artists works are already in the training and you can't take the ingredient out of the soup once it's cooked in. The first line has been crossed and it probably can't be uncrossed as data things are already here derived from stuff already used

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Saw Lilo and Stitch earlier. There’s so much filler to ‘update’ it in the first act that my husband and I fell asleep. The rest of it was pretty good, kids enjoyed it, but it’s not a patch on the original.

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Put down The Trial months ago at about the midway point to read some book club stuff. Just picked it up again and will not be starting over from the beginning as I’m pretty sure it will make it no less confusing. Anyway, wish me (and Josef K) luck.