any way of slowing things down or wasting resources is a gain I guess

nepenthe

It's a Markov-chain-based text generator which could be difficult for people to implement on repos depending upon how they're hosting them. Regardless, any sensibly-built crawler will have rate limits. This means that although Nepenthe is an interesting thought exercise, it's only going to do anything to things knocked together by people who haven't thought about it, not the Big Big companies with the real resources who are likely having the biggest impact.

Having listened to this all when it was released I can highly recommend, as well as Evgeny's other podcast, the first in the series: https://choramedia.com/podcast/the-santiago-boys/

A third is supposed to be coming too

dis mf said females

35 Ways Your Timeline Today Is Full Of Joy, Using GIFS

Tina Just Got A New Car!

Time to take it for a spin eh Tina?

David And Simon Just Got Engaged!!

We were all expecting that...

(and on and on and on...)

building a profile assisted by a bot
meeting people mediated by a bot
knowing what to say mediated by a bot
knowing when to pop the question mediated by a bot
learning how to raise your kids mediated by a bot

brave, new, world

guessing this is a money-from-google take, or something about some of the telemetry stuff firefox collects, or the fact they're not really focused on their browser and keep putting their efforts into AI products or other flights of fancy. To be fair they're all good takes; I mainly use Firefox, but they also have some deep issues.

keep bundling content in little services which cost an extra 10 dollarydoos a month and i'll keep telling people to walk the plank and saying ARRRR

the boy is all grown up

i wonder how this app will mainstream right-wing ideology into its userbase