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If AI is here to help I sure haven’t seen an example of it

It's a little concerning that when searching "cute fox" on google, you now have to specify "real" if you don't want a page full of AI generated foxes

Tesla fights Autopilot false advertising claim with free speech argument trib.al/X2yCb4p

The restaurant just reopened in March, 14 years later theargus.co.uk/news/23415887.…

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if this ends up being USA vs England know that Philadelphia will combust

Tokyo

saw the new Profile Summary button and clicked it... I'm pretty sure a Pokemon meme page isn't having such deep thoughts??

Omar Khattab crazy that they called it language model when answering machine was right there

But, I couldn't stop there! Now that I had a taste of the ASCII bug, I knew that I needed to make a better tool for making ASCII animation. So, I spent a handful of nights with Copilot spinning up an MVP of my very first app: ascii-motion.app (desktop only for now)

Bed bug /ˈbɛd ˈbəɡ/ n. (2025) - An unintended bed software or hardware failure due to an AWS outage

DisneySea cosplayers are something else

Claude can make blue1brown animations in minutes. Education is about to explode.

2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it. To say goodbye to [email protected] or [email protected] (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old