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• Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise

  Kevin Perjurer (not their real name) recounts the history of Disney’s “Living Characters Initiative”, a multi-decade attempt to create a more immersive character-driven experience. spoilers This is basically an introductory course on AI as told through the history of Disney’s animatronics. There is a companion video which covers the early decades of robotics and focuses on Walt’s futurism; this longer video focuses on how AI has attempted to pull money out of customer wallets delight park visi...

• GitHub Platform availability dips to 87.25%, averages 1.04 incidents/day

  Hi folks, I’m making another tech-stack recommendation. Previously, on Awful, I noted that below 87.5% availability, whether a service is up is effectively random chance. We’ve reached that point for GitHub’s Platform, which includes components like Actions, Copilot, Pages, and the core API of issues and PRs. I do not have confidence in GitHub’s owners or operators to remedy this situation, so I cannot recommend it professionally nor to neighbors. As a bit of nuance, note that Pages seems to hav...