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Humane previews AI-powered wearable

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The screenless device, which does not require a nearby cell phone to work, uses a combination of voice and gestures for input and can display information by projecting it onto nearby objects.

Fictional Brands Archive

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A Brief Compendium of Vintage Opium Underworlds

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Erika Sanada

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British gov't aims to kill off Companies House’s Bobby Tables problem

thestack.technology

Unfortunately, the current Companies House name rules – while covering copy-cats and offensive language – do not cover attempts to poison data inputs.

This is a problem, because dozens of websites, databases and other processors pull in details from Companies House – and not all of them are good at sanitising their data inputs, which can be poisoned simply with a name.

The DOOM Effect

sharewareheroes.com

Free chapter from the eBook Shareware Heroes. Plus the website is amazing.

Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good For You?

theatlantic.com

Could the idea that ice cream is metabolically protective be true? It would be pretty bonkers. Still, there are at least a few points in its favor. For one, ice cream’s glycemic index, a measure of how rapidly a food boosts blood sugar, is lower than that of brown rice. “There’s this perception that ice cream is unhealthy, but it’s got fat, it’s got protein, it’s got vitamins. It’s better for you than bread,” Mozaffarian said. “Given how horrible the American diet is, it’s very possible that if somebody eats ice cream and eats less starch … it could actually protect against diabetes.”

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

maggieappleton.com

Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages

izzy.co

Like I said, it [the group chat] is a sacred construct. A lifeline to your best friends, an outlet for the thoughts and questions and breadcrumbs of internet humor that you just can’t send to anyone else. A constant companion, antagonist, distraction, delight.

So of course, I decided to replace mine with AI.