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Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@IsForAt @ThomasOrTK Just a few years ago people were postulating that Google would potentially shut GCP down. x.com/gergelyorosz/s…

Google Cloud 63% YoY growth!!! As far as I can tell, it has been since 2019 since azure reported growth like that and 2016 q1 for AWS. is @ThomasOrTK getting enough credit for what he's done? getting to almost 20% of Google revenue is something nobody would have said was possible seven years ago. I haven't found any receipts for people calling anything close!

@keegan_tweets I had the ugliest, way too big t shirt from chinooks when I was a kid — only been back once as an adult.

Found a rare, affordable spot in Seattle. The Happy Hour bar at Chinook’s. The menu has never changed. I see at least 3 waitstaff + 1 bartender that have been here since the 90s (they probably make more than me), the decor has never been updated since but the food is great.

@Matt2Frosty Lifetime passes and it’s not even close.

My buddy and I have had an interesting conversation this morning. Curious the masses thoughts! Would you rather: Play Augusta National one time. All the bells and whistles included. or Have lifetime passes to every single round of The Master’s until you pass away

@gbellseattle They only had to give it back for the 5 years that followed the move.

Will “GIVE the Sonics back their history”??!! What the… The Thunder HAVE TO! Those are the terms of the NBA agreement and the city settlement of the KeyArena lease trial I covered in 2008. Let’s be clear: OKC won’t be doing Seattle and the Sonics a favor. #HowSoonTheyForget

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@Jetskigrizzly He might have missed leg day tho

1 man. 84 days. $1B exit. Didn’t even miss a gym day. The future is here

@chamath So high earners get screwed again (and not the actual wealthy)

Prediction: The Billionaire Tax will die and will not get to the ballot. Instead, a negotiated settlement will see the upper end of the income tax in California go up to 16%. This is the only way to resolve for what's happened.

@maxomai It was for a Peter Gunn remake I assume: youtu.be/Emg_6ANjWzo?si…

Why does that Netflix ad look like gen AI ate a bunch of Quentin Tarantino movies and shat out that ad? #SuperBowlLX

@VinnyLingham Does your SpaceX prediction, which is almost certainly right (now), still count in light of xAI merging with them?

@VinnyLingham They call you The Oracle for a reason

How am I doing so far, chat?

@Mochak123 In Affleck’s case he played the “less intelligent” friend in Good Will Hunting which a lot of people transferred to their real life understanding of him.

@niccruzpatane It… it… it’s beautiful

Many say the Roadster would be their dream Tesla, but THIS would be mine. Tesla Semi RV with FSD, Starlink, and solar. One can dream.

@JackPosobiec Had the same experience recently! It's much better without those seemingly ubiquitous house rules around free parking, community chest, etc.

My kid recently got into Monopoly and so we bought a brand new game board and all of the inserts are warning people to stop using the House rules that inflate the money supply and drag the game on forever

@mazeincoding Too much politics on the platform now. Impossible to avoid.

bro where the fuck did tech twitter go

@notoriouskpg The media / sports cross references piece

Bill Simmons is the reason i got into writing when i was like 14 years old, a few years ago i thought his schtick got tired and unplugged from his podcasts but when i listen to The Rewatchables mailbag and he drops “so Anthony Davis is Waingro” i remember why he’s the GOAT

@EsotericCD Lead paint might have been the cause and could explain the disappearance

Serial killers were a 30-yr phenomenon in America, spiking through the '60s and dying out by the '00s: Technology made these people too easy to catch after the advent of DNA evidence. But the impulse could not have simply disappeared, could it have? Merely rechanneled. To where?

@BenBajarin It’s so beautiful.

This monitor from Dell is amazing and I have had one for a few weeks. Easily the best monitor I have ever used and even at 120hz still capable to game on. 52 inch wide 6k!

@conorsen A few things: - The downtown area is fairly unsafe given the lax approach to drug use and the homeless, for this reason it is pretty empty - The county has a recently passed a 3% income tax on high earners, exactly the type that would desire this kind of condo

Looking back I feel like the early-mid 2010’s Portland boom was mostly a function of the rest of the country not realizing that people liked good coffee and beer.

@MichaelDell Yes, yes I do love big screens

BIG news. The world's first 52" 6K Monitor is here. If you love big displays, this is for you! dell.com/en-us/shop/del…