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 > “If Kyiv and West refuse, they will take full responsibility for further bloodshed,” Putin said.

Ah yes, the good old "why are you hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself" bully tactic. 
 Oh I see #Google is enhancing the experience of users again, this time by killing Google Podcasts and forcing people to move on to YouTube Music. :blobcatcoffee: 

No biggie, I'm sure YouTube Music hosted podcasts will continue to use the open RSS format, right? Right?.. :blobcateyes: 
 nostr:npub1yyx7sllvsrr0fauh2rdlqk5rakf3963g9xk4a7j5uhfcs00lr3kq42qa5g I've seen this before and i... 
 @7518be2f 👆 this.

In case of OpenAI, Microsoft and Google, the whole shtick is "convince everyone that LLMs — which only gigantic companies can train and maintain — are somehow awesome and inevitable, scare lawmakers with 'superintelligence explosion' into regulating competition away, corner the market".

It's neither awesome nor inevitable.

@210de87f 
 Looking forward to when we see Google Bard and Microsoft Bing and ChatGPT the way we today see the "Azure NFT (Non-fungible Token) Solution Accelerator":
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/azure-non-fungible-token-solution-accelerator/azure-nft-non-fungible-token-solution-accelerator/

Which we will, hopefully sooner rather than later. 
 I'd like to propose a term I believe might be useful:

"Shitflation" — like "shrinkflation", related not to shrinking of physical product's package size, but to enshittification of digital services. 💩 

It does seem, doesn't it, that we're in a general shitflation cycle these days. 🤔