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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The real punishment ought to be an atomic wedgie. For everyone who was a C-level for more than a month at that company in the last 10 years.

  This ought to be the punishment for a lot of unethical business practices. You can't delegate that to a customer's wallet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If we tried this in the UK with someone like, say, the late David Coleman, I'm not entirely sure anyone who remembers him would be able to distinguish - other than, as I said, the knowledge that he's been gone for quite some time now.

  Coleman, was considered a go-to commentator for decades despite being gaffe-prone even at the best of times. He was occasionally oblivious and apparently lacking any self-awareness too. (He did kind of learn to laugh at himself though and was a good, well, sport, about it all.)

  Sounds very AI to me. Come to think of it, he may even have been kept around precisely because of the entertainment value.

  I assume that Al Michaels is not of this bizarre calibre and it wouldn't take long for people to notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they've heard of Lemmy then it's probably the Tankie connection that's putting them off. If.

  Guessing Kbin/Mbin is also either unheard of or tainted by association.

  Or it could just be: "But why male models not Reddit?"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In other news, Fred Bloggs from Bournemouth has been on the phone to the White House telling Joe Biden to stop using toilet paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's called "time to get a new job."

  Before I came in here, I assumed that's what "or else" meant, and I'm still not sure it doesn't mean that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Asking him to auto-cannibalise? I like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a prion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "If you took all the DNA out of a person and laid it end to end, that person would die."

  The distance to Jupiter from Earth is but a mere blip though. Even the galaxy is small compared to what's beyond.

  Thanks to chaos theory, what we do here can have some effect on the far future of the Universe, at least, for those places within causal reach. How meaningful that effect can be remains to be seen.

  But do bear in mind that even, say, a cow farting in a field in France last Tuesday might have as much effect as everything you ever do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's the same handful of obnoxious individuals over and over making it look like it's a majority.

  That said, this thread started about Tories, and about half the population lean that way even if they don't vote for 'em...