Things that make foreigners dislike the US:

the feudal conditions of many workers that make out-of-control, ridiculous tipping practices like these a good idea, not a survival necessity, to the workers themselves, but annoy like hell anybody who's seen other systems

"#OpenAI and #Google can collect their own damn data. I hope they have to pay a very high price for it, and I hope they're constantly cursing the mess that they made themselves."

https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md

"I don't think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans."

https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md

#chatGPT #artificialIntelligence

"#Reddit also stopped providing public data archives, and now they sell their archives at a price that only #OpenAI will pay"

https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md

#chatGPT

and just one day after writing how the job market is screwed:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/jobs-and-dating-are-screwed-in-the

I found another proof that it is:

"The mystery of the cover letter - Why do recruiters still ask for them?"

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/09/05/the-mystery-of-the-cover-letter

#onthisday:

printer timebombs

perpetual #debt in #Kenya

#ageism, since 2010

high frequency trading, always stupid

6 tons of stuff per year to not be in #poverty

and much more in today's Almanac of #serendipity

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-20/

Sorry, I should have said:

First pagers, now walkie-talkies AND home #SolarPower :

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanons-official-news-agency-reports-home-solar-energy-113809042

First pagers, now walkie-talkies???

Morals and ethics aside, I'm not going to buy anything from #Israel, not even pearls or grapefruits, simply on the ground that they may explode on me someday:

https://www.wired.com/story/walkie-talkie-explosions-hezbollah/

Exploding *PAGERS*, you say?

That's so old news.

Walkie-talkies is where it's at, today.

What next? Toasters?

Unbelievable, really:

https://www.wired.com/story/walkie-talkie-explosions-hezbollah/

The MANY names of colors

#AI devastation in developing countries

#driverless cars that will never happen

#women who cannot be angry

and much more, in today's #serendipity Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-18/

This guy is nuts, but the good kind of nuts:

"Excluding national government laboratories, the home time lab of THIS SINGLE MAN now has the most accurate clock in the world":

http://leapsecond.com/

Kudos to every effot to bring a decent Web back:

"The thing is, HTML never went anywhere. It’s still here, albeit buried and abstracted under further layers of inaccessible, hostile, or complicated cruft. We need to make it the default again, where the dynamic overlays are additive, not essential."

https://rubenerd.com/the-promise-of-html-and-css/

PAGERS???

I can't believe what I'm seeing. Pagers, the tiny boxes from the 1990s that buzz and show a phone number when the owner of that number wants to talk with you?

THOSE pagers?

(yes, I'm weird. But right now what really freaks me out is that pagers were used so much, not the attack itself)

#lebanon

Introducing Teen CIGARETTES

Built-In Protections for Teens,

Peace of Mind for #Parents

Find the difference

#instagram

"#Cashless restaurants are racist. And delay #driverless cars too. Yes, they do"

by me (2020):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/02/cashless-restaurants-are-racist.-and-delay-driverless-cars-too/

Unknown effects of #wikipedia

#millennials considering #slavery to get out of #debt

other #workingPoor

blind #brexit

#farming like #StarWars

and much more in today's Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-17/

Why don't ALL #electricVehicles worldwide already use SWAPPABLE batteries to decrease recharging time AND the need for ubiquitous charging points is beyond me, really:

https://www.reddit.com/r/toolgifs/comments/1db3i99/swapping_battery_on_an_electric_taxi/

#copyright myths

#freesoftware suicidal errors

#opendata research

#SiliconValley running on Saudi

American #holocaust #ignorance

and much more #serendipity here:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-16/

#Russia Uses #Microsoft to Suppress Dissent...

In 2010:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html