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The real headline for this should have been: Someone used an AI-enabled workflow to criticize me.

Can we stop anthropomorphizing and promoting ludicrous ideas of ai's blackmailing or writing hit pieces on their own initiative already? this just contributes to the toxicity of ai that needs no help from our own misuse of language and messaging.

Would you feel the same if in 2030, all the actions you describe, work most of the time but still produce questionable output requiring time to verify and fact check due to the probabilistic nature of the LLM engine? This is unsolvable with LLMs. I don't want an embedded or agentic AI but do give me the option to pick a model of my choice and accept the risks when I want to. I don't want tainted generated summaries, replies or code in certain critical areas.

I'm hoping that contributors balk and are willing to walk since the ramifications are way beyond just WP Engine within the FOSS community.

and so I no longer watch ScarJo movies because she took Sky from us.

OTOH, Sky sounded more like Rashida Jones.

Also less cursing please! Every streamed original or movie seems to be in some kind of competition for f-bombs and comes across as so forced and unnecessary.

Watch the IPO dollars. That’s what this is all about. Whoever is hitching their wagon to this IPO should be taking a serious look at management and comments made by the CEO which were clearly demonstrating immaturity and a loss of touch with both product and community. Reddit for the base is dead. What that means for the IPO will be interesting. Devaluation is in the process.

Oh there will be financial repercussions. Anyone hitching their wagon to this IPO is looking closely at management. The IPO is likely driving this in the first place but it’s based on very short term and faulty assumptions. Reddit is already on fire with moderators and content producers. The reality of this short sightedness hasn’t had enough time to sink in yet. It will though.

Are you a dev for the app or Reddit employee? The official app is a case study in bad UX design. The only positive reviews in the app store are easily identified as bot or part of paid for campaigns. The recent reviews though tell how more average users view the official app…and it’s not very good.

> Adding a currently playing song to a playlist will stop the music and clear the play queue.

This bugs me to no end. I'm always asking myself if a song is worth the listening interruption that will happen when I add it to a playlist.

Such a stupid low hanging bug.

How many of us did the RSS mashups with Yahoo Pipes?

Those were good days.

source? seems like a rather twisted definition of empathy.

back in the day, they were just called bad people as we wondered why they were still around.

For every product decision, there is some crusty adtech coke addled sleazeball asking if there's a better way to snort up more data.

I'd also take a truly fixed and useable autocorrect solution over a larger Frankenstein camera any gooey applause riddled release event of a decade.

right! you would think that maybe someone would have thought about capitalizing a lone letter i. i don't care if everything else is lowercase, but sheesh give us a capital I algorithm.

GBoard is as bad as all others and only marginally better in some situations.

A couple of minutes ago I tweeted a post that included the word somehow. GBoard changed it to *someone. I went back and highlighted the word, changed it to somehow, verified it was corrected and submitted. In some fraction of Google's wisdom, it recorrected the word back to someone. Argh

Autocorrect is a mess.

As a tootdon user, and somewhat privacy conscious, what are the details? Specifically, what is the tootdon parent doing wrong with posts?

As a Mastodon client, the UX is one of the best for iOS that I've used. Search works as one would expect search to work.

I'd like to know what the "evil corp" is doing to warrant the action described.

when was google ever good at UX?

I haven't looked at the newsfeed or added new posts in over a couple of years. It's only used to access Pages, but I see activity stalling as quality declines. US growth is stalled and I hear nothing but negative sentiment against the Facebook brand from regular users. It's the equivalent of MySpace now, but will always have its diehard users—those who don't like change, or those who just don't get the anti-privacy and adtech poison it's built on.

We should be asking why those who left Facebook still use Instagram which is feeding the same machine.

> Again, if you're saying that increasing our efficiency in sales is a bad thing, you're saying that capitalism is bad. But I've just come to see this data as something that enables product evolution to occur much faster. I see this data as something that's helping the world, mostly, get more of what it wants.

Unfortunately, I've seen too many product decisions catering to the manipulative aspects of adtech. UX often suffers, not improves with ads. Online platforms all seem to follow the same game ad monetization plan these days which results in messes like Frankensteinish apps--see official Twitter app.

As for actual hands on manufactured products or services, I'd like to know how ads improved the UX.

My guess that it's the Facebook employees, advertisers and marketing people who like this.

There's a flawed belief that it's necessary. UX on the other hand suggests otherwise. AdTech is not concerned with UX though and tries to wrap targeting in some kind of pseudo user benefit—spin.

Good products and services sell even without tracking. Advertising is an economic powerhouse though and will always push for anti-UX trends because it fundamentally runs polar opposite to the user experience.

True enough, even though there is nothing but negative sentiment these days toward the Facebook brand.

I suppose there is someone even thinking that Portal will be good for their home.

And another reason for me to avoid FB links. I'm sure blockers will begin stripping that out.

FB just doesn't understand the optics they create.

It is delicious. If it gets more folks to give up a regular burger, all the better.

The place I eat mine from cooks it just right. Yum.

Spot on. I left Twitter (well left an auto bot behind) and took my live posts to Mastodon. It's so much more relaxing with masto.

I think you nailed the USP of Mastodon. Keeping out the marketers, advertisers, vanity metric chasing or fandom makes Mastodon that peaceful scenic beach where your fellow beach goers say hello and share some of their food with you.

I'll take Mastodon fringe over obnoxious Twitter or Facebook anytime.

Ok I see one article here that I still disagree with. Starbucks says they will work on this scenario and what prevents one from bringing their own straw if it's a disability issue? I think a solution here is possible while still protecting the environment and animals.

Actually you should expect the trend to continue. More consumers are demanding vegetarian and vegan options. Restaurants are selling out of new plant-based burgers and are being encouraged by industry magazines to offer vegan options. Demand is speaking pretty clearly in fact. What was once fringe is rapidly scaling. Nice to actually see the world moving forward in a good direction on this.

I really wonder if most critics would feel the same way after spending a week in a slaughter house?

Drastic times require wake up calls. Maybe folks will do some research and learn more about why this company implemented the policy.

If everyone had to slaughter their own meal, I think there would be less criticism...at least more understanding on why consumers are demanding more vegan options. At least watch some videos.

There's the option to stop working for the company too if one feels strongly about it.

Data shows that consumers, especially younger generations are moving forward toward plant-based options. A&W Canada is sold out of the Beyond Burger.

Times are changing.

Your rant is missing lots of facts my friend.

Most vegans by definition are ethically against the abuse of today's scaled animal agriculture farming techniques. This isn't a perfect world, but most people are either unaware or choose to be disconnected from how farm animals are regularly abused. All lives matter, but come on, let's not discredit the routine torture taking place on such animals.

It's not sustainable and is ethically wrong to most people who come face to face with it.

Defending animal agriculture is outdated and simply on the wrong side of history. Any online search can pull up why more people are looking into vegetarianism and why demand is increasing for vegan options.

Anyone can try and defend scaled animal agriculture, but the world is moving speedily beyond that.