Designers, we have a โ€œFigmaismโ€ problem (3min): great reminder that Figma is just a tool, your Figma skills are good enough, time to focus on other skills for your career if you want to grow: presenting design, mentoring, providing feedback, improving hiring process, taking ownership on initiatives, understanding business value, etc. (by Artiom Dashinsky )
blog.prototypr.io/designers-we

โ€œThese are ultimately surveillance systems that are being marketed to those who have power over us generally: our employers, governments, border control, etc., to make determinations and predictions that will shape our access to resources and opportunities.โ€

techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/sign

People are getting paid for #publishing #AI-written #books, in an #author's name, when in fact the author did not, and knew nothing about this happening.

Then, when the author tries to do something about it to stop this obvious #abuse, they are told no.

I've basically replaced Reddit with RSS feeds, but I'm still looking for more feeds to subscribe to. Anyone have good feeds to follow? I'm looking for #music #movies #science #tech #games

For everyone else: you can add the following to your html in the meta tag section:

<meta name="CCBot" content="nofollow">

Itโ€™s a bit easier than editing a robots.text file for most people.

If youโ€™re worried your Wordpress site content will be scraped by ai, thereโ€™s a Wordpress plugin to block common crawl robots. wordpress.org/plugins/block-co

I went to sign some books at Woodstock's The Golden Notebook bookshop today and they gave me this book as a thank you. Two hours later her death was announced.

Ok everyone, explain firefish social to me. I can see itโ€™s popular lol.

I love this episode on how we react to accents. And what happens to us socially when accents change.

pca.st/episode/d94da2b8-ffb9-4

This isnโ€™t the first startup with controversy around efficacy, privacy or safety issues.

Natural Cycles โ€“ failed to mention the very narrow use case expected where results matched hormonal birth control and had a class lawsuit levied against them in Sweden.

Except some of the methods used for testing aren't accurate for women's hormones.

And posting delivery doesn't match their window for testing to get accurate results.

And that's separate from if you can get accurate results from a tiny amount of blood.

Or even if you can say what "normal" is in hormones since there is variation across ethnicities.

TL;DR, a bunch of startups are capitalising on a growing trend on social media to blame all health ills on hormones, and are promising at home tests based on finger pricks that can be assayed by post

This is truth.
I think #AI could possibly be used to expose grift on every level imaginable.

My biggest problem with #capitalism is that it forces everyone to make earning money their primary objective.

Not to provide valuable services for society.
Not to make sure that people don't suffer.
Not to preserve our environment.

All these things are just optional side effects to the main objective of making money, and will be easily discarded if doing the opposite turns out to be more lucrative.

AI is scraping Reddit for training data, so to protect itself, Reddit is increasing the API costs. This means third-party reddit apps are collateral damage.

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