Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
(From a month ago but I just found this. Maybe you didn't know either.)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-officially-raises-minimum-broadband-metric-from-25mbps-to-100mbps

I laughed

Roughly twenty thousand American Indian soldiers fought on either side of the American Civil War and records show that many more Natives sided with the Confederacy. Why? The answers may surprise you.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/11/21/good-luck-to-the-history-teachers-who-tackle-the-narrative-of-native-americans-in-uniform/

In the mid-20th century, colleagues-turned-rivals Maria Telkes and Hoyt Hottel engineered new ways of heating American homes. https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-sun-queen-and-the-skeptic-building-the-worlds-first-solar-houses/

“The fact that GPT is matching historical patterns, rather than predicting new information, means that it is poised to essentially reflect what we already see in our workplaces. And that means replicating any historical biases that might already be embedded in the workplace.” https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-openai-gpt-hiring-racial-discrimination/

A tracking gizmo for $25? Nah. For $10? Sure.
(If you share my sentiments: This particular one appears to be out of stock, but the company has several variations.)
https://amzn.to/3Vmv00r

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa

Feeling wistful about OS/2 this morning. I had reason to look up my 2012 article about my long involvement with the OS. https://medium.com/@estherschindler/os-2-is-25-years-old-2012-47d1224ce5d

The spokesperson added inside the callbox are "delicate components" that "do not respond well to be kicked".
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/09/confusion-over-metal-bars-above-pedestrian-crossing-buttons-in-wellington-explained.html

I refuse to wax eloquent about a power strip.

And yet, here we are. https://amzn.to/3IB24Kv

If you’re still using these dated words, you’re not alone, by BC Dreyer (gift link) https://wapo.st/3TE9fYY

Software archaeologist Neozeed recently published a stable internal preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 to the Internet Archive, along with working virtual machine disk images for VMware and 86Box. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/unreleased-preview-version-of-microsofts-os-2-2-0-posted-to-internet-archive/

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My review of Sisters of Fortune -- a historical romance set on the Titanic. It works! Not OH WOW YOU MUST but worth a weekend read.
https://amzn.to/3PhM1oA

This article has quite a few useful Google Docs tips that I didn't know. None of which makes me like it any better as a word processor. https://freelancebold.com/blog/google-docs-upgrades

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock, in partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, compiled the year’s worst and most baffling responses to public records requests and other attempts to thwart public access to information. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/mar/10/the-foilies-2024/

>>The remote-access computer transponder called the "joymaker" is your most valuable single possession in your new life. If you can imagine a combination of telephone, credit card, alarm clock, pocket bar, reference library, and full-time secretary, you will have sketched some of the functions provided by your joymaker. -- The Age of The Pussyfoot, by Frederik Pohl. Published by Ballantine in 1966

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp