Monday, March 30, 2026

Stylish ABS challenges are better than bat flips (AI roundup)











Wild. Not only did the Reds win 5 ball/strike challenges in this game (part of 6 consecutive overturned CB Bucknor ball/strike calls) but the data shows they could've challenged *8 more times* successfully.

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— Noel Murray (@noelmu.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 8:20 AM










Two reasons the U.S. is losing the slopaganda war: 1) it makes the most formidable cultural exporter in the world look like a cheap spam operation 2) the most popular AI videos seem to tap into fantasies of American failure, and slop merchants follow the market nymag.com/intelligence...

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— John Herrman (@jwherrman.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 8:24 AM








Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

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— nilay patel (@reckless.bsky.social) March 20, 2026 at 8:04 AM


















Tinder plans to let AIs loose on your camera roll. Instead of building a profile on their own, AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos—everything from gym selfies to pictures of their family, sensitive documents and dick pics—to help construct profiles...

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— 404 Media (@404media.co) March 19, 2026 at 7:50 AM








(I don't use whatever feature that is)