Disney gives OpenAI a billion dollars, sets new world record for ransom payments.
9to5mac.com/2025/12/11/openai-…
Anyway here’s a Mickey Mouse 35mm camera.
Disney characters are coming to OpenAI’s Sora video generation app — this time, with permission. OpenAI and Disney just announced a...Zac Hall (9to5Mac)
Montreal’s main commuter rail and bus system, Exo, is dropping long-term projects and investments amid a financial crunch – and accessibility advocates are pushing back.Erika Morris (CTVNews)
Are we still calling it #Alto?
The first segment of Canada's proposed high-speed rail network will connect Montréal and Ottawa... cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hi… #cdnpoli #cdntranspo #polcan
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lol just as expected
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The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says gave her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
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“We found that Charlie provided accurate answers in only 2 out of the 6 questions we asked it, while the other public web-based conversational artificial intelligence tools answered 5 out of 6 questions accurately.”
The finding stunned Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who asked Hogan at the time “how is it that the government’s tool specialized for the CRA is worse than the average tool that anyone else can access anywhere?”
@zazzoo
I posted about it in Feb 2024. mapledice.ca/posts/2024/02/14/… (shameless plug)
It has a link to the original news
CTV News Vancouver reports Air Canada’s chatbot gave a B.C. man the wrong information. Now, the airline has to pay for the mistake: Air Canada has been ordered to compensate a B.C. man because its chatbot gave him inaccurate information. Good.Maple Dice
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so as Apple chased everyone away from making keyboards for iOS, when Apple breaks their keyboard you don't have a lot of options.
And Swiftkey was acquired by Microsoft lol ...
Do you remember NFTs? I remember NFTs. They exploded onto the scene in 2020 and were *everywhere* in the public discourse. At their peak in 2021, there were something like $25 billion in NFT sales globally. There were NFT Super Bowl ads. Jimmy Fallon had Paris Hilton on his show to awkwardly shill for NFTs.
And then, by 2022, 2023 at the latest, the bubble had burst and NFT market had lost up to 99% of its value.
Blessedly, I never have to think about those fucking Bored Apes ever again.
I remember thinking, when NFTs first appeared, that they were so obviously a scam, but also a vague sense of surprise that such an obvious scam was proliferating while we were still living through the previous blockchain-related scam, cryptocurrency. And since the NFT bubble burst, we moved on absurdly quickly to the next tech scam-bubble, AI.
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I just can't imagine simping for a government controlled fiat currency that they intentionally devalue year after year and being powerless to do anything about it
for being a self described anarchist, you seem to really love government money
Der Live-Clip von Alphaville aus der Show "Silvester-Schlagerbooom" mit "Big in Japan" & "Forever Young" am 31.12.2024Follow Alphaville on:Instagram: alphavi...YouTube
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
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“The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.”
propublica.org/article/ucla-an…
#News #UCLA #College #DOJ #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Palestine #Protest
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
I'm really glad I switched to #Linux.
Being able to understand what the issue is then having the ability to solve it by yourself is a great feeling.
And I'm by no means a tech person!
My computer is finally "mine".
I'm the one in control, not a f***ing corporation making billions by sucking out my private info.
Honestly, it feels like I'm back in the 2000's when computers were fun to use.
#tech
„Manche Leute sollten einfach mal die Fresse halten“, sagt das Känguru.
Irritiert schaue ich auf mein Smartphone.
Das Känguru fährt fort: „Was Frau Schröder gesagt hat, ist doch einfach ableistische Kackscheiße!“
Jetzt interveniere ich: "Entschuldige, aber das hier ist nicht der Account von @marcuwekling ! Das ist doch gar nicht dein Platz."
„Frau Schröder sollte auch keinen Platz mehr in den Medien bekommen, ist aber trotzdem da.“
„Touché“, erwidere ich und scrolle auf Mastodon weiter.
> Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
Just use a private CA or self signed cert and they don't bother you
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Agnieszka Brylak acaba de estrenar su primer libro sobre la risa entre los antiguos nahuas por la editorial Brill.
Pueden descargar el libro en formato PDF en la página de la editorial.
👇🏻
brill.com/display/title/73264?…
¡Felicidades, Agnieszka!
RE: tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-…
I wrote a thing about "AI" (again). Sorry.
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong.tante (Smashing Frames)
“Governments should join the Fediverse!”
IMO, Governments should have websites that work and are regularly updated and should leave social media entirely.
An der Affaire um die verzockte Zahnarzt-Altersvorsorge kann man gut sehen, was eine Aktienrente für die Versicherten früher oder später bedeuten würde.
tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ambulan…
Zahnärzte aus Berlin, Brandenburg und Bremen bangen um ihre Renten: Ihrem Versorgungswerk droht ein Milliardenverlust. Nun fordern sie Hilfe vom Bund und kritisieren Berlins Wirtschaftsverwaltung.Alexander Fröhlich (Der Tagesspiegel)
Should other countries treat Americans the same way America is now treating tourists by taking DNA, fingerprints, mug shots and by going through the past 5 years of their social media?
#poll #america #tourism #travel #news
Climate models & weather models all deal with chance and probability. Most of us (including me) do not understand probability all that well. Can we use checking the #weather, personally, to better understand #ClimateChange?
@WeirdWriter wrote this blistering counterblast to #LLM infiltration into our communities and how it undermines our confidence in our ability to create and do what we love. As well as the joy and care in community rebellion when it can seem hopeless.
sightlessscribbles.com/the-col…
Writers also need support, they'd like to eat and pay rent sometime this month. Especially as the market appears to be hostile to true writing that doesn't enforce the status quo.
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It's that time of year again! 🎄 🎄 🎄
Wait, no not that, we mean: ⌚ ⌚ ⌚
Yes, it's time for a new Gadgetbridge release! 🎉
Version 0.88.0 supports even more gadgets than before, is more stable than ever, handles and displays your data better, and fixes several mild annoyances.
And it does all this while keeping your health data fully private, outside the reach of vendors and big tech. 💪
Get it now at Codeberg, F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid. 📦
Read more here: gadgetbridge.org/blog/release-…
A free and open source Android application for bluetooth devices.gadgetbridge.org
Organizing meetings across timezones takes so much time. Here is a way I am hoping to make it a bit easier.
mgifford.github.io/timezone-he…
It's another open source web app hosted on GitHub.
Shoutout to the legendary Tuta community 🙌
Thank you all for taking the time to partake in our yearly survey!
Your feedback and opinions help us build stronger, more secure and user-focused Tuta Products. 💪❤️
💡📊 Check out the highlights of our User Survey 2025: tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2025
Check out the feedback from this year’s user survey and learn what we’ll focus on in 2026.Tuta
Serious Inbox search is a killer feature missing in Tuta. The current requirement to fully offline the inbox to make it searchable is something I find very difficult.
Any research done on zero-knowledge search, or on maintaining an encrypted search index that's updated by the client with incoming mail?
Client API is another thing I'd love to see.
Yesterday was the third anniversary of Raspberry Pi announcing that they'd hired an ex-cop (specifically a Technical Surveillance Officer) as their "Maker-in-residence", and then pissing off a huge segment of their target market by acting completely oblivious as to why that might be a problem.
I missed my calendar reminder about it, so instead you can celebrate the third anniversary of Buzzfeed writing an article about it:
buzzfeednews.com/article/chris…
“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.Chris Stokel-Walker (BuzzFeed)
Ich bemerke in der Teamrunde, dass eine Paketstation für Rollstuhlfahrer*innen doof ist, weil man an obere Fächer nicht rankommt.
Einwand: "Es gibt auch Rollstühle mit Lift-Funktion"
Ich: "Joah, das ist keine Barrierefreiheit. Dann brauchen wir auch keine Treppen. Es gibt zusammenklappbare Leitern, die können alle mitschleppen."
Seufz. Das ist manchmal echt frustrierend.
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