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Unanswered question of the moment: Why is Google so brain-dead stupid that it thought adding AI slop to Google Earth was a good idea? techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/g...
Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation | TechCrunchA tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.techcrunch.com"It’s time to stop participating in Schiffmann trollish con by criticizing the “Friend” pendant as if it were a real product. It’s nothing more than a banana taped to a wall, and your reaction is just fodder for the coming documentary." www.machinesociety.ai/p/the-friend...
The Friend AI Pendant is not a productIt’s part of an art project, and the “canvas” is capitalism.www.machinesociety.aiA love letter to California's food and wine scene. gastronomad.substack.com/p/a-californ...
The Friend AI Pendant is not a product www.machinesociety.ai/p/the-friend...
The Friend AI Pendant is not a productIt’s part of an art project, and the “canvas” is capitalism.www.machinesociety.aiWords and phrases of the moment: “rambling”, “crazy”, “desperate”, “bumbling”, “incompetent”, “an idiot”, “a true embarrassment”, “totally nuts” and “truly an obnoxious adolescent” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journalFormer top US health official wrote about challenging interactions with publicity-fixated Trump during Covidwww.theguardian.comThese two sentences are the whole story: Buzzfeed "was caught publishing AI-generated articles riddled with errors, and it shut its Pulitzer-winning news division the same year. Traffic collapsed, and the share price fell... to under 50 cents." thenextweb.com/news/buzzfee...
Donald Trump's decisions and statements during the Covid pandemic led directly to the needless deaths of 188,000 Americans, so of course Trump and his allies are going after Fauci. www.bmj.com/content/372/....
Report highlights “devastating impacts” of Trump on every aspect of US healthUS health status worsened dramatically under President Trump when compared with the other G7 countries, a major study from the Lancet Commission1 has concluded.
If the US had death rates equivalent t...www.bmj.comPhrase of the moment: "literary counterculture" www.wired.com/story/more-t...
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.www.wired.comMaxx of the moment: "sardinemaxxing" www.insighttrendsworld.com/post/sardine...
Sardinemaxxing and Nutrient-Dense Eating: Why Social Media Is Turning Everyday Foods Into Wellness SuperstarsThe Future of Healthy Eating: Viral Foods Are Becoming Everyday NutritionSocial media has a remarkable ability to transform ordinary products into global conversations, and the latest example is "sard...www.insighttrendsworld.comPhrase of the moment: “the age of decadence without pleasure” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie TysonDecadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisationwww.theguardian.comWorst case scenario www.instagram.com/reel/DZ2QEXa...
Luke The Maker on Instagram: "This one's for the readers. I read like two books a year tops.
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#reading #kindle #3dprinting #books #gun"54K likes, 386 comments - luke.the.maker on June 21, 2026: "This one's for the readers. I read like two books a year tops.
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#reading #kindle #3dprinting #books #gun".www.instagram.comAwesome panel on California sparkling wine at Unfiltered in Berkeley, California. www.donkeyandgoat.com/unfiltered
Where I’m at: the Unfiltered natural wine fair at Berkeley’s Donkey & Goat winery! Check out Donkey & Goat Winery on Foursquare app.foursquare.com/share/venue/...
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Mike Elgan on SwarmThe world‘s only lovable tech journalist.app.foursquare.comWhere I’m at: the wine dinner before the two day Unfiltered natural wine event at Donkey &Goat in Berkeley, California. www.donkeyandgoat.com/unfiltered/
I wrote about Substack's new AI detector feature, and was happy to learn that it correctly identified my column as 100% human written. www.machinesociety.ai/p/if-ai-comp...
