@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-26 04:55:41
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-26 15:31:28
NFL DFS: Optimizer reveals Week 8, 2025 daily fantasy football picks, strategy, advice on DraftKings, FanDuel
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-dfs
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-25 11:56:12
Cowboys 5 options with George Pickens include trading star WR; here's how https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/25/cowboys-options-george-pickens-free-agency/88346904007/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 15:30:16
The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-26 02:39:46
Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20,
progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans,
often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.”
But too few people, even on the left side of the electorate, listened.
After all, those warnings have been sounded for months if not years.
“Trump is following, point for point, the playbook of …
@andycarolan@social.lol2025-11-25 11:13:40
Occasionally, I log into LinkedIn purely to check messages. Sometimes, I find a promoted message or an ad, maybe a connection request. Usually, nothing. Content often feel fake, and it's often difficult to find content that I'm interested in there. Is it even a site for businesses to connect, and people find work any more?
Back when it wasn't owned by Meta, I used to enjoy Instagram. Now it feels like a shop. I still miss scrolling through the feed, discovering content from the people that I followed. Sadly, a lot of creators that I liked are still on there, and nowhere else.
Mastodon is pretty much my only online home now, and I'm very thankful for it!
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-23 19:46:04
Source: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B in December at a $134B valuation (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/23/databricks-obtains-1point8-billio…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-25 23:21:11
Cowboys 1st-rd draft options on offense include replacing $50M starter https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/25/2026-draft-cowboys-1st-rd-options-include-replacing-50m-star…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-26 10:55:34
A Google support page in Hindi says the company plans to roll out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/24/google-change-gmail-addresses/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-25 18:35:52
OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-merges-chat-and-v…
