When Microsoft pulled this shit with IE/Windows they lost an antitrust case and were ordered to be broken up. They got away with the breakup on appeal, but the loss haunted them and helped prevent further enshitification for years.
Somebody should remind Google of this.
Cory Doctorow explains it quite well in his podcast. The ‘innovation’ is the replacement of the problem domain model (in earlier machine learning systems) with the brute force. This allows the billionaires/ruling-class/fascists to do away with troublesome experts (needed to create the model, but who may have ‘ethics’ and can say ‘no’) and just throw money at it.
In France: s/if/how
Sorry to tell you this, but if she was anything like our cat was with rabbits - she eat them.
‘Toast on Toast’ read by Steven Toast.
It’s for counting time.
Saying ‘Mississippi’ after each number gives you around one second per count.