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Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
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PSA: "Made in Switzerland" ist nun als Single verfügbar - 2 Tracks, Original und eine KARAOKE VERSION!!!! 🎉🫕🎶🇨🇭
Auf Apple Music https://music.apple.com/ch/album/made-in-switzerland-single/1817687050
und Spotify

„Made in Switzerland - Single“ von Hazel Brugger, Sandra Studer & Petra Mede bei Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 2 Titel

In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-dials-back-liquid-glass/

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass | TechCrunch
The early version in the first developer beta of iOS 26 and the accompanying updates for Apple's other devices still left room for improvement in terms of usability, accessibility, and legibility.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Flying Mojito Bros:
🎵 Glitter
#FlyingMojitoBros
https://flyingmojitobros.bandcamp.com/album/glitter
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jNsuvcAbrJjUeAY1UugmX
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In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.
https://www.

The Real GenAI Issue

I share a lot of @…’s feelings here. (He doesn’t mention training data sourcing, but that’s on my mind too.)
There’s a layer of ethics and social impact that hangs, as Tim put it, as a stench over all the thinking about whether and how the tech is useful. I am actually willing to discuss the utility questions, but they are secondary.
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/114807889514002925

The return of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes in the theaters was NOT on my bingo card. 😁
✅ 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' Reboot In Works With David Koechner, More
https://deadline.com/2025/06/attack-of-the-killer-tomatoe…

‘Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence’: Cult Classic Reborn With David Koechner, Eric Roberts, Dan Bakkedahl, John Astin & More
EXCLUSIVE: Never, ever think of holding a Z-grade movie franchise down. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is alive again in a fifth movie, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, from filmmaker David Ferino. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is billed as “pitting the eternal power of nature against A.I.’s best and brightest.” […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fly Anakin:
🎵 The Times
#FlyAnakin
https://flyanakin.bandcamp.com/track/the-times
https://open.spotify.com/track/3XQOejcUgQnmnBLrEZnIzO