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A profile of Nigerian fintech PalmPay, which raised $140M from Transsion and other Chinese firms, says it has 35M registered users, and aims to be "super app" (Aanu Adeoye/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f9b54a77-3565-4c0a-91f1-d78fc63659ae

Nigeria’s PalmPay thrives on ‘ultimate competition’ of cash
Chinese-backed payment app has focused on customers excluded by traditional banks, growing to 35mn users

Steelers meeting with veteran receiver Gabe Davis, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-meeting-with-veteran-receiver-gabe-davis-per-report/…

'Chilling effect': Outrage as FBI announces investigation into Supreme Court's Dobbs leak - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/dobbs-leak-investigation/

Google doing great on Finnish sauna instructions.

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

Sources: Steelers unlikely to trade for TE Smith https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45441995/steelers-unlikely-trade-te-smith-host-wr-davis

Been exploring hard last few years and still loads to go around the Baltics.
It is mainly flat with trees though.

"Sweeney’s right that there’s no unpressing the AI button; companies are going to make these things until the bottom falls out. Epic’s demo is just one more uninspiring bit of buzzwordery to add to the pile."
(Original title: Unreal’s AI Demo Had No Point)
https://aftermath.site/…

Unreal's AI Demo Had No Point - Aftermath
We have Portal at home

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Eagles minicamp: How Peloton helped Jordan Davis overcome conditioning obstacles that plagued him last season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…