I bet this was some sort of gen AI mishap: “translate this campaign text to Latin”, because of course Latinos speak Latin, and it’s called Latin America too!

Although this would be twice as hilarious if they hired a translator who just went “🤷 ah well, money is money”

I suppose they meant that it slows down their internet, not the internet

Apple’s OS updates – whether iOS or macOS – haven’t been very good for years now

Meaning that he knows he’s sharing bullshit

You sure he’s getting hoodwinked and not sharing shit he knows is fake on purpose?

Stalin was nominated twice

The program’s path from a CP/M app by MicroPro onward is winding, being shoved into a half-baked office suite, acquired by SoftKey, which became the Learning Company, acquired by Mattel, spun off to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep, and is now the archival property of—well, nobody’s quite sure.

Looking forward to the eventual frivolous takedown notice and/or lawsuit – suits seem to have absolutely zero brains when it comes to this stuff. Or, well, when it comes to anything except making themselves and their buddies on the board richer, really

Hah, huge surprise that this was their reaction. Garbage product made by a garbage company run by garbage people.

maybe they could improve the search results in general

They have no incentive to do that. What they do have an incentive for is showing you a lot of bullshit results that also conveniently happen to use their ad network, so you have to click on multiple pages and see more ads before finding what you were looking for.

More AI you say? Can do!

Certainly not! Or other industries for that matter. It’s a good thing executives everywhere aren’t just concentrating on squeezing the maximum amount of money out of their companies and funneling it to themselves and their buddies on the board.

Sure, let’s “rightsize” the company by firing 20% of our workforce (but not management!) and raise prices 30%, and demand that the remaining employees maintain productivity at the level it used to be before we fucked things up. Oh and no raises for the plebs, we can’t afford it. Maybe a pizza party? One slice per employee though.

Not sure how this one slipped through.

I’d bet my ass this was caused by terrible practices brought on by suits demanding more “efficient” releases.

“Why do we do so much testing before releases? Have we ever had any problems before? We’re wasting so much time that I might not even be able to buy another yacht this year”

I’d rather be informed with a popup than have to remember to periodically check the settings in case they’ve maybe added dark mode. Tying this to “advertising tactics” is, well, ridiculous – they’re informing users about a new feature they might not otherwise learn about, not selling literally anything

Or a raccoon with a crowbar

Yes I was 100% normal until I saw this, this is definitely what got me all nihilistic

Is the answer “we live in a broken world and nothing matters”?

Is… is this a real resume? Did an adult make this on purpose?

The same happened with the Finnish equivalent of the AfD, the Finns Party. Under 25’s are now more conservative than Millennials or iirc even Gen X which is pretty fucking wild

Oh yeah it wasn’t an absolute win, but they did gain a lot more seats and in general even extremist right wing parties are now much more mainstream – look at how eg. “moderate” conservatives are lining up to kiss Meloni’s ring and/or ass, and she’s a literal fucking neofascist from a party that’s descended from the original Fascist Party. And then there’s the clusterfuck we have here in Finland…

All’s not lost, but it ain’t going that great either.

While the EU definitely does have its problems and nothing is perfect, I think that for the most part it’s really been a force for good in this world, although things haven’t been looking too good recently (not just the extreme right winning in the Parliament elections, but the shit eg France is doing to migrant boats etc etc). Also it’s kept the Germans, French and the Brits from killing each other and/or the rest of us which has been terrific.

Let’s see how long it’ll survive what with the current nationalist resurgence and all. Living in the EU now sort of feels like I’d better enjoy things while they last