The committee wants to know why these platforms aren’t radicalizing people enough.

So, we can definitively say it did play in Peoria. (and unsurprisingly so, unless the West Valley had wildly changed in the last … oh, shit. I’m fucking old. It really has been nearly 30 years, so I know nothing about the greater Phoenix area.)

I’ve used ChatGPT for work, just asking it to paraphrase original sources so I’m blinded from the original wording ahead of doing my rewrite. One paragraph at a time, it works great (I check against the source); feed it a full story at once, and holy shit, do you not have anything reliable – my favourite has to be that the Manhattan Project was created for Three Mile Island. At that point, you’re spending more time checking and verifying than you saved by using it in the first place.

My college roommate and I have been at odds about whether bacon should be microwaved since 1997. Now I just taunt him whenever I cook some.

Like, I make it a point to call each time and let him know I’m microwaving bacon. He usually doesn’t hang up on me.

But I’ve never seen it generate so much as half a page before it writes something that requires editing.

Most human writers require editing well before five column inches. Not trying to give a pass to LLMs, but humans don’t produce perfect output, either.

And there’s an old saw: “Everyone needs an editor … especially editors.” That’s why creative work is collaborative.

Not to be flippant, but as a copy editor and page designer for most of my career, we already went through this a decade ago without AI because we were deemed “doesn’t generate content.”

And frankly, I hate the term “content.” We were committing journalism, not posting to OnlyFans (at least, none of the people I worked with).

But my point is, I got all the “it can’t be that bad” and “bootstraps” bullshit that now other creatives are getting hit with. Accuracy was deemed too expensive more than 10 years ago. And trust me, editing is an art. You won’t get the same final copy and heds and layouts from two different copyeds at the same pub. It’s as much intuition as knowing the rules.

We were mocked (not necessarily by those finding themselves in the crosshairs now, but there’s a Venn diagram there that isn’t separate circles) for thinking we brought value to the table alongside the institutional gravitas.

Well, let’s see how trust in the media has gone over the past decade. Look, I’m not saying the desk disappearing is the sole cause of declining trust, as that would be absurd, but it sure as fuck didn’t help.

So, welcome to the club of “why pay you if we don’t have to?” It’s a fun ride. I was a graphic artist before things completely fell apart in print journalism and we became rectangle wranglers, a pair of hands implementing someone else’s decisions.

Y’all got an extra decade, having seen the decimation of print design and were like, “Well, that won’t happen to me.” And here we are, shocked Pikachu face and all.

First they came for …

With how things go these days, who’s to say that’s not exactly what they want as pretext for martial law?

They make bespoke microwave bacon trays with relief and lids. Drain it in a jar while it’s still warm, and then a dab of soap and a quick rinse does the job. I was raised with it cooked that way, and it’s uniform, unlike pan-fried. No microwave cleanup involved.

Great. Here’s something no one asked for, presented as a breathless positive.

“I wish my video experience included concurrent ads right next to it.” – No One Ever

Ah, so political speech is now axe grinding. Got it.

Honestly, the email record eventually shared screams scam. It’s not quite fluent English, has urgency and requests the information not be shared with anyone else. That’s a pretty damning trifecta and should have been a red flag for someone who literally works in an authentication role.

Oh, well that’s a bunch of bullshit. If you’re a “food critic,” you know damn well the difference between rare and medium!

I’ve always microwaved mine.

It’s not a proper steakhouse if they can’t nail medium-plus on the first try. I got spoiled by Ruth’s Chris for birthdays as a teen.

he can only stretch a lie so far.

All evidence to the contrary. Those goalposts may as well be migratory.

Before Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the Trump appointee who so-called presided over the president’s so-called documents case, gaveled Routh down​ for incoherence, the defendant invoked Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, and the “need to be kind to one another.” ​Ah—the Hitler-Putin-kindness ideology. That explains everything.

It’s frustrating that I agree with Cannon on anything.

🎶 Der Sacsha, er ist Deustcher, und Deutch sein, das ist schwer … 🎶

Tell me you don’t know how Qbittorrent works without doing so. It’s not a streaming service. If you’re redownloading on BT each time you want to listen, my god, are you wasting disk space.

In particular, the rule will require online platforms to confirm the ages of users before showing them algorithmically-curated feeds or sending them notifications at night.

Oh, no! Notifications at night! Here’s an idea: Charge your kids’ devices (phone, tablet, laptop, what have you) in the kitchen so they don’t have them in bed. I don’t understand why we need laws to address shitty parenting that don’t begin to touch on shitty parenting.

Other than love in all the wrong places?

I kid, slightly. I go days without using a search engine. I’ve given up on searching for anything on Amazon.