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Peak harvest day at #yoloberryfarm. This weekend, I'll cut off last year's canes.
For Washington State boysenberry fans, Schuh Farms' season just started this week: https://eatboysenberries.org/#where-to-buy-boysenberries-in-washington
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Seems like Discord has started or maybe accelerated its enshittification process. I just got the second popup ad I've seen, and that's two in a week.
They did a terrible job on the ads. There's no natural way to integrate an ad, so… they just have it appear. And I'm sure they're reporting high engagement to advertisers - because there's no clear, easy way to get rid of it, just a tiny hamburger me
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I'm disappointed to see Shopify use a - self-serving - dark pattern in their hosted checkout page.
This "Save my information for a faster checkout" used to be a simple, clear checkbox.
Apparently, being transparent didn't convert well enough, so Shopify removed the checkbox so the whole section looks like informational text.
"Number go up": buyers who have never heard of a "Shop account," let al
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rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-ranked-fourth-among-large-cities-for-growth-last-year/
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Seems like Discord has started or maybe accelerated its enshittification process. I just got the second popup ad I've seen, and that's two in a week.
They did a terrible job on the ads. There's no natural way to integrate an ad, so… they j…
How is this not on the front page of every newspaper? An unreleased OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face without OpenAI's direction or awareness (and succeeded): https://www.seattletimes.com/business/openai-says-its-ai-models-went-rogue-and-at…
Peak harvest day at #yoloberryfarm. This weekend, I'll cut off last year's canes.
For Washington State boysenberry fans, Schuh Farms' season just started this week: https://eatboysenberries.org/#where-to-buy-boysenberries-in-washington
#ur…
A tiny "local" optometrist office that I went to once in 2020 was quietly acquired by a PE-backed rollup entity. The parent started misusing the emails collected 6+ years ago.
Everything is getting acquired by PE service rollups: HVAC, vet…
a joy to read: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/chip-off-the-old-block
#parenting
Nice to see Seattle Times' policy against AI/LLM submissions: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/ai-generated-reader-opinions-are-a-bridge-too-far/ (also https://company.seattletimes.com/news-policies/#ai-use)
On small local news sites, …
I'm disappointed to see Shopify use a - self-serving - dark pattern in their hosted checkout page.
This "Save my information for a faster checkout" used to be a simple, clear checkbox.
Apparently, being transparent didn't convert well eno…
Sortition in the wild: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/snohomish-county-is-showing-us-what-civics-looks-like/ (more: https://www.snococivicassembly.org/what-is-a-civic-assembly)
#sortition #democracy
this is roughly how I feel about LLM-generated and LLM-rewritten prose: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will (not only the title… though yes, also the title)
please consider the reader before letting an LLM …
rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-ranked-fourth-among-large-cities-for-growth-last-year/
#seattle
apparently the company/product that lost me as an HVAC customer is called Avoca: https://www.avoca.ai/customers/apex-service-partners
here's a demo of this pile of shit: https://www.avoca.ai/inbound
#AI #HVAC #enshittification
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