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#privacy #datenschutz #apps

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I don't know how I got added to the AI snake oil working group, but by golly I'm having fun.

Free tip for AI snake oil merchants: if you're struggling to answer a simple technical query and somebody seemingly helpfully suggests to use your software to resolve it, this is what we call "a trap".

Under no circumstances allow your software to pull down its pants and expose itself in front of everybody. Especially if the helpful person was smiling when they suggested it.

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Similarly, if the person who has been grinning through your twenty minute pitch about how AI is transformational for sales because of its ability to identify and understand potential customers you've never heard of asks "did you use your product to research us?"...

There's no good answer here, because you know who else has a big smile on their face? Sharks. And there's about to be blood in the water.

"...because that's really not relevant to this company or our model."

Oops. There it is.

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I didn't think I'd ever see the Simpsons "you can actually pinpoint the exact moment his heart breaks in two" meme in real life until Mr Snake Oil asked our annual legal spend.

We gave him a suitably large figure. His little eyes lit up. Finally - real imaginary savings to be made!

We then gently pointed out we were a law firm. When we engage legal professionals it's because *we can't fucking do it ourselves* and the regulators would be mightily pissed off if we tried. And we pass the fee on.

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And for the love of God under no circumstances say "let's use our AI to create a business plan for implementing AI".

A) it's incredibly presumptuous
B) you've forgotten there are at least two finance people on the call who have shot everything down so far and deeply resent being told AI can do their job better than they can
C) holy fuck but can it not do this job better than they can
D) the two finance people have somehow made your net benefit a negative number. How the fuck did that happen?

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"This assumes an improvement of 1%."
"That's far too low. What would it be if it were 5%?"
"Oh, great! That would really deliver a benefit!"
<excited keyboard tapping noises>
<everybody sees the number change>
<awkward silence>

"Well that three thousand pounds of extra income is certainly going to be transformational..."

Reader, I had to turn my camera off so I could laugh properly. Be cruel not to.

Elon Musk a perdu la moitié de sa fortune depuis qu'il a rejoint l'équipe de Trump.
Il a également perdu le respect et l’appréciation des gens à son égard.
Aujourd'hui, la situation de musk est très mauvaise et personne n'achète ses voitures
Les tarifs douaniers nuisent beaucoup à ses entreprises.

Trump l'abandonne : j'aime Musk, mais je n'ai pas besoin de lui
Masque comme ses voitures, je les aime mais je n'en ai pas besoin !!

In 2008, 14-year-old Taylor Wilson accomplished something extraordinary in his garage - he built a working nuclear fusion reactor. While billion-dollar labs struggled with fusion technology, this teenager created a small but functioning fusion device using vacuum pumps and determination.
The reactor wasn't a power plant, but rather an inertial electrostatic confinement device that successfully produced plasma and neutrons. This made Wilson the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion.
His achievement caught the attention of the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Energy. They supported his later work developing radiation detection technology, which earned him top honors at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
The original fusion reactor was later relocated to the University of Nevada, Reno, where it continued to advance scientific research. Taylor's early breakthrough helped launch his career as a nuclear scientist and inventor.
Sources: Kids Discover, TED Talks, Wikipedia
#NuclearFusion #YoungInventors #ScienceInAction
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Nanook

 — (Shoreline, WA, USA)
My cats are usually pretty mellow, BUT they are indoor cats because my last died from feline leukemia virus and I didn't want to risk a repeat, so after seven years indoors my Siamese kitty escaped, and she was out for a week but finally came close enough for me to grab her but she was enjoying her time outside killing things and did not want to come in so a normal docile cat turned into a ball of flying claws resembling the old cartoons. I dropped her on my foot, resulting in a laceration, followed by an infection, a week in the hospital and five weeks at home on IV antibiotics, so yea.

🇨🇳🇺🇸🧵 Comment la Chine a mis fin à la guerre tarifaire avec l’Amérique… avec un calme mortel ! 👇

1.
Pas de conférences, pas de menaces, pas de spectacle.
Une seule déclaration de Pékin :
Nous augmentons les tarifs douaniers sur les produits américains à 125 %.
C'est la dernière modification.
Quoi qu elle fasse l’Amérique, ne répondra plus.

Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism


Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism #fediverse #mastodon
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Attorney representing a student protestor detained by federal immigration agents


Amir Makled sat down with All Things Considered host Juana Summers to describe his experience, and what it could mean for other attorneys who are going against the wishes of the Trump administration.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Il faut parfois savoir laisser derrière nous les gens qui ne peuvent grandir.

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#zen #silence #meditation #relations

#Adobe tried to launch a #SocialMedia presence on #BlueSky. It didn't go very well.

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Something or other non-joke Touhou 20 announced. First demo 5/5, so we've got a month. Full release within the year as always. Reimu's been hitting the mines it seems. These gem collection mechanics look so damn silly.

Catturd ™@catturd2
My patience is wearing thin when it comes to arresting government thieves, Jeffrey Epstein’s rape island pedos, the thieves who have stolen trillions that doge has exposed, the traitors who setup Trump, the network who tried to assassinate Trump, the child traffickers, the traitors who stole the election in 2020,
The Covid demons who lied about everything and killed millions. Our swatters, the hundreds of Congress members who are getting rich through insider trading. And on and on and on … I trust Trump and team - but we must have accountability- if this doesn’t happen with hundreds, possibly thousands of arrests of these traitors- nothing changes.

RFK Jr. gives food companies two years to remove harmful artificial dyes naturalnews.com/2025-04-10-rfk…

Why not now?

Hahahahahaha

They can't even collect the #tariffs at the ports!

Hahahahahahah #USpol #Trump

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Normal human beings are not capable of understanding the level of evil we are dealing with...

This is why the Satanic cabal no longer even tries to hide their intentions, instead choosing to openly broadcast what they are doing to the masses, thereby ritually mocking their victims...

It is time to wake up and fight back...
Or step out of the way. -Gary Williams

#massawakening
#pureblood

I’ve been accused of being Republican, and I want to set the record straight.

I criticize Democrats far more often than I criticize Republicans. But there is a reason. As you may know, most politics are local. In my local state and region, the following is true:

  • Every politician is corrupt
  • Every politician is a Democrat

There are no Republicans here on the left coast; only Democrats spanning from full-on communist to somewhat-moderate (meaning they still like taxing the middle class into poverty, but might have an objection to one or two spending projects)

So, in my defense, the simple reason that I don’t criticize Republican politicians as often is that I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen one.

My state has been ruined by overtaxation, overregulation, and overspending of government, and there’s only one party available to take the blame. It is very very difficult not to assume causation.

This is a foreign organization that promotes labeling gender confused minors "trans" and permanently mutilating them. Most would have grown up to be functional gay adults if left alone. And this organization claims gays and lesbians not wanting to fuck trans people, i.e. the opposite sex, are "transphobic". My fucking tax dollars went to this genuinely homophobic bullshit. Livid.