EighteenthNerd

@EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From: theguardian.com/…/rfk-maha-ultra-processed-foods

  A key adviser to Kennedy, Calley Means, could directly benefit from one of the campaign’s stated aims: popularizing “technology like wearables as cool, modern tools for measuring diet impact and taking control of your own health”.

  Calley Means is a senior Kennedy adviser, and was hired as a special government employee to focus on food policy, according to Bloomberg. He founded a company that helps Americans get such wearable devices reimbursed tax-free through health savings accounts.

  Casey Means is Calley’s sister. She also runs a healthcare start-up, although hers sells wearable devices such as continuous glucose monitors. She is Kennedy’s nominee for US surgeon general, and a healthcare entrepreneur whose business sells continuous glucose monitors – one such wearable device. Calley Means’s company also works with Casey’s company.

  Due to Calley Means’s status as a special employee, he has not been forced to divest from his private business interests – a situation that has already resulted in an ethics complaint. Consumer advocates, such as the non-profit group Public Citizen, had warned such hiring practices could cause conflicts of interest. HHS did not respond to a request for comment about Calley Means’s private business interests, or his role in crafting the publicity campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure soon enough we’ll be “wearing” them inside our bodies so we don’t have to be troubled to make sure they’re working. Hasn’t that been the Big Tech dream for decades now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you try switching your VPN to a different country? Mine nearly always fails when my VPN points at my home country. But it nearly always works when I connect to another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s a sign to me that the content creator is willing to take shortcuts and be lazy. In which case I take the shortcut to being too lazy to watch their “content”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is the second most scary thing AI can do.

  The first is realistic portrayal of faked current events.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. I watched YouTube ads. Then when they got to be too much I stopped watching added uBlock Origin and NoScript (even on YouTube I block some scripts).
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When YouTube does anything weird I switch my VPN to a neighboring country that’s less popular. Suddenly YouTube loads everything without problem.