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• The worst tech you can buy in 2023

  Boing Boing, Dec 12, 2023

  Brian Merchant hails the worst tech of 2023, an anti-gift guide for the holiday season that "sits atop an intersection of so many discouraging trendlines that I can't help but get depressed by them." The authority-friendly Amazon Ring doorbell, which looks out but sees within, is a solid pick—as is well-hacked ethnicity-testing site 23andMe, also authority-friendly. — Read the rest

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• 'Don't see the grounds': Senate Republicans wary as House moves toward formal Biden impeachment inquiry

  Politico, Dec 12, 2023

• The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive Parent

  The Cut, Dec 12, 2023

  Some moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard.

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• Zone out watching and configuring hyperdimensional cubes

  Boing Boing, Dec 12, 2023

  ncube is a single-serving site with a hypercube in it, smoothly prolapsing in the three dimensions that your screen can display. There's a panel with sliders that let you set the number of dimensions the cube has and warp it into other shapes. — Read the rest

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• The 17 best TV performances of 2023

  AV Club, Dec 12, 2023

  What a victorious year it’s been for TV—and we’re not just talking about the WGA and SAG winning their contract negotiations. The past 12 months have also boasted some truly great series, as evidenced in our best shows of the year list, that were brought to life by some truly great performers. From breakout turns in I’… Read more...

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• "This site will self-destruct" finally self-destructs after no-one signs guestbook for 24 hours

  Boing Boing, Dec 12, 2023

  In 2020, David linked to a site that promised to automatically self-destruct if ever it went 24 hours without someone adding a message to its guestbook. The creator, FemmeAndroid, posted last week that the time had come [twitter.com]. "Well, the website is down. — Read the rest

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• CEO and others fired in corporate "bloodbath" after Sports Illustrated publishes drivelous AI-generated content

  Boing Boing, Dec 12, 2023

  Last month, Sports Illustrated removed various articles after the authors were exposed as AI-generated personas and whose text was seemingly AI-generated itself—it was hard to be certain, because the material turned out to be sourced to a content farm whose excuses and assertions Sports Illustrated could only weakly repeat. — Read the rest

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• Yamaha betting that we've hit the "5-disc CD changer" stage of the retro audio technology cycle

  Boing Boing, Dec 12, 2023

  What I like about Yamaha's blocky yet handsome new CD-C603 5-disc CD changer is that it looks just like it was made 30 years ago, but could now also contain—hypothetically—enough storage to hold millions of songs in lossless formats, and all sorts of other technological gadgetry besides, within its gargantuan chassis. — Read the rest

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