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• Post #1900083

  OpenAI pays Sama $12.50/h who pays Kenyans just $2/h to watch and label violent scenes of rape, murder, bestiality, and incest for hours a day. “Honestly, it’s like modern-day slavery,” one worker told 60-Minutes. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/

• Post #1900082

  "The fuel tank needed changing every five years" ~ Gordon Murray on the F1. Now for the T.50. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a62884601/2025-gordon-murray-automotive-t50-first-ride/

• Post #1900081

  "Bin pickers" are a favourite target for our curtain twitching neighbourhood Whatsapp group but sometimes people surprise me.

• Post #1900080

  There's a nice story about how generative AI systems could be "sucks slightly less" and not a hoax and hoo boy. Reality distortion field. Tech is not immune from developing and participating in hoaxes. https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113603661215753448

• Post #1900079

  Yes, that's a Rolls Royce. Dakar https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63106991/1981-rolls-royce-dakar-rally-racer-sold/

• Post #1900078

  And yes that's a Dacia Duster. Great car for the money. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/dacia-duster-soul-dakar-hints-new-range-special-editions

• Post #1900077

  There's an original screenshot going around with this joke but the grammar is so traumatising I couldn't repost it. My wife booked us a table at a restaurant called The Manhattan Project and I’m the bad guy for asking if it’s a fusion restaurant? That’s a 10/10 joke!

• Post #1900076

  "Stop using generative AI as a search engine" ~ The Verge also The Verge: "Even using ChatGPT to help with the writing process is risky." So not for information retrieval and not for information generation. What then is genAI for?

• Post #1900075

  “The number of people who think like birds, in little broken thoughts, will be greatly enlarged.” Worries of brainrot from 2024 or 1899? https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/09/the-1800s-had-brainrot-too/