Pluralistic: Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?) (19 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/#shiny-and-chrome

AI - Our Shiny New Robot King | Sophie from Mars - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkSdWDRTRZ0

After fourteen years, Facebook has finally figured out how to target ads at me: show me shiny occult merchandise (holographic tarot cards, colorful enamel goetic medallions). I will not buy them, because I can't mentally or emotionally justify spending 0 on something I can't eat, but I'm very tempted.

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20200621095203/https://medium.com/p/no-more-shiny-tomorrows-futurism-needs-to-get-real-5ecb3e2fa0c9 originally posted Sun Jun 21 09:52:03 EDT 2020

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20170912115118/http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/09/a-bright-and-shiny-hell.html originally posted Tue Sep 12 11:51:18 EDT 2017/

Lazyweb: what property of metal makes it so effective as a material for faraday cages? It can't be density or else concrete would block signals; it can't be conductivity or else the sea would block signals. Is it all the free electrons (i.e., the same reason metal is shiny)?

Band name of the day: shiny metal robots

A bright and shiny hell - Charlie's Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/09/a-bright-and-shiny-hell.html