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New comment by rubyfan in "Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid"

rubyfan — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:01:44 +0000

One could imagine a scenario where this is a political action group response to defying the administration. I have no evidence to support that, just could imagine it because the potential individual return to customers is minuscule.

New comment by rubyfan in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

rubyfan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:59:56 +0000

It's only called Pro so they can charge you a Pro rate.

New comment by rubyfan in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

rubyfan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:59:27 +0000

Is this like how company's sell drugs or lab products and say it's "not for human consumption" or "for research purposes only"?

New comment by rubyfan in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

rubyfan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:28:17 +0000

The distinction is likely a claw back to give themselves just that ability to freely advertise to you after telling you it was ad free. Like what’s the difference advertising a subsidiary like Disney parks to me or a new car? Just that they own the former.

New comment by rubyfan in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

rubyfan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:27:05 +0000

It’s like how Disney Plus “ad free” tier shows you ads for Hulu and Disney Perks. They probably redefine “ad” in their terms of service so their own ads are called something else.

New comment by rubyfan in "Treason in the Futures Markets"

rubyfan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:36:05 +0000

I agree the article could include more data around the frequency and size of these kind of trades around other events and for a longer period.

However as the article notes the time and size of this particular series of trades makes it look suspicious and that’s all one can say with certainty at this point.

New comment by rubyfan in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

rubyfan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:30:37 +0000

Or the settlements goes to the state and no one ever sees a dollar.

New comment by rubyfan in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

rubyfan — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:29:29 +0000

She’s satirizing the irony of a wealthy ceo’s tone deafness while communicating decisions that adversely affect workers while preserving their own lavish lifestyles. Sounds like she was living out the no BS culture.

New comment by rubyfan in "Digg is gone again"

rubyfan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:12:31 +0000

The title doesn’t capture the mood of page. Maybe:

Dead internet theory confirmed, Digg the latest victim

New comment by rubyfan in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

rubyfan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:15:17 +0000

Just because it’s not enforced doesn’t make it legal.

New comment by rubyfan in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

rubyfan — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:36:00 +0000

His M.O. is to accuse his opponent of the very thing he is doing. It’s the party of bad-faith.

New comment by rubyfan in "Layoffs at Block"

rubyfan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:55:08 +0000

New comment by rubyfan in "Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries"

rubyfan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:45:17 +0000

It’s easier to use psyops and cause fear and uncertainty.

New comment by rubyfan in "Nearby Glasses"

rubyfan — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:22:11 +0000

People are sensitive to video. Looks at the reaction from the Ring Super Bowl commercial and Nest Camera video retrieval news from a few weeks ago.

Your phone and watch are spyware mostly just spying on you. Sure they could be used to spy on others but the directness of an always on smart glass camera lens in one’s face is a little more jarring.

New comment by rubyfan in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

rubyfan — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:57:18 +0000

The lack of the later leads to the former.

New comment by rubyfan in "Freedom.gov"

rubyfan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:58:54 +0000

That’s not what that means.

New comment by rubyfan in "Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you"

rubyfan — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:19:31 +0000

ooh this reminds me of the old internet. Altavista, Yahoo, etc. all had lists like this!

It's fun to click about and go down the rabbit hole of things I might not normally see in my daily routine which is now mostly about avoiding the hellscape of the modern internet.

New comment by rubyfan in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

rubyfan — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:07:22 +0000

I think you sum up exactly why they will be found illegal.

New comment by rubyfan in "Stop generating, start thinking"

rubyfan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:04:13 +0000

>* I find it hard to justify the value of investing so much of my time perfecting the art of asking a machine to write what I could do perfectly well in less time than it takes to hone the prompt.*

This sums up my interactions with LLMs

New comment by rubyfan in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

rubyfan — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:50:25 +0000

>Imagine what would happen if the populace figured it's getting collectively shafted in a way others may not.

They already believe that and it’s used to keep us fighting each other.