I’ve been rewatching Parks and Recreation recently and I forgot about this absolutely hilarious fake ad from the final season, which imagines a future where America only has 8 companies and one of them is Verizon + Chipotle + Exxon.
Two cases argued recently before the Supreme Court put the future of Section 230 into question: a law that has been fundamental to the development of the internet.
The court could still dismantle the internet as we know it, but, at least for now, it has decided to punt the question. And that’s a good thing, since both of the cases on 230 that have been presented to the court are deeply weird. Maybe this radical court majority is just waiting for a better case to implement its vision.
Is what I just yelled across my whole neighborhood as I spilled an entire glass of liquid on my desk and keyboard. This seems to happen without fail for me every 6 to 9 months.
Anyway, time to visit this page again:
AI-generated Ron Howard very nearly crosses the uncanny valley with this Arrested Development themed episode of Succession, making it one of the best uses of voice generation I’ve seen yet. (It helps that the edit is also pretty spot-on for AD fans.)
Dear HBO: if you’re reading this, please let this transformative work of art stay up on YouTube.
It’s just a little pixelated castle generator. Refresh the website for a new castle. Enjoy. (via Boing Boing.)
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A lot of business leaders have been using crafty language recently, suggesting that AI will supplement — not supplant — human work.
But IBM CEO Arvind Krishna isn’t sugar-coating things. He told Bloomberg that he could “easily see 30% of [non-customer-facing roles] getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period.”
A bunch of folks got emails this morning from Twitter informing them that they’d have to start spending money for the privilege of spending money. The company is now requiring advertisers to buy checkmarks in order to advertise on the service.
If any ISPs are watching this: please don’t start getting any funny ideas.
Who won the race to 5G? Who knows!
Buckle up: the finish line has just changed. (But apparently we’re still trying to beat China.)
