"Spoiler alert: AI answers are still wrong far too often for you to rely on. But, armed with the research Perplexity used to come up with those answers, you can work out the real answers. "

#perplexity #search #ai

🍜 Perplexity, not Google, is now the best search engine • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/opinion\_column\_perplexity\_vs\_google/

"According to TBS News Dig, Japan sees over 20,000 bath-related deaths every year. In 2011, 3.7 times more people died in their baths in Japan than died in traffic accidents."

#japan #oldData? #heatShock #bath

🍜 Warnings Over “Heat Shock” After Japanese Actress’s Tragic Death https://unseen-japan.com/nakayama-miho-heat-shock/

"Fifty percent of species could be lost by 2080 if humans do not curb greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation"

#climate #extinction #science

🍜 If Humans Die Out, Octopuses Already Have the Chops to Build the Next Civilization, Scientist Claims https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a63184424/octopus-civilization/

"Culture shock is a constructive thing. It’s the growing pains of a broadening perspective. To me, there are two kinds of travel: There’s escape travel, and there’s reality travel. I want to go home a little bit different, a little less afraid, a little more thankful, a little better citizen of the planet."

#rickSteves #travel

🍜 ‘The Interview’: Rick Steves Refuses to Get Cynical About the World - The New York Times https://archive.ph/3NtXk

"Taken together, the donations and other celebratory gestures showcase an industry kissing the ring of an incoming president in hopes of something in return, says Margaret O'Mara, a Silicon Valley historian at the University of Washington."

#trump #usa #puke #disgusting

🍜 Bezos, Zuckerberg and Altman donate to Trump's inauguration fund : NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5227874/trump-bezos-zuckerberg-amazon-facebook-open-ai-meta-inauguration-fund

"As Big Tech continues to deliver empty promises instead of solutions to social ills—while dodging taxes, quashing regulations and fueling a yawning pay inequality gap—the public will continue to grow disenchanted with the industry."

#bigTech #broTech #equality

🍜 Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros / WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/tyranny-tech-bros-silicon-valley-activism/

"It’s hard not to think about that inevitable moment when your children stop looking at you with fascination. When their eyes no longer light up just because you’re there. At"

#parenting #love

🍜 Alex's Blog https://blog.ambrzykowski.com/

"Nokia's factory setting ringtone -- the 1902 Gran Vals by Francisco Tárrega -- was so ubiquitous in the 1990s and 2000s that birds learned to sing it."

#nokia #ringtone #cellphone

🍜 Lord of the ringtones: Nokia celebrates pop-culture status by opening design archive https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/08/nokia-mobile-finnish-brand-ringtones

"To improve the experience for our customers outside of the U.S., and especially in Europe, we recently added a data outpost in Amsterdam. The shorter distance between users and their data means increased speed, and speed is a feature!"

#hey #email

🍜 New in HEY: Faster speeds for customers worldwide — 37signals https://updates.37signals.com/post/new-in-hey-faster-speeds

"Perplexity really understands complex questions."

#perplexity #ai #search

🍜 Perplexity: Pros and Cons – Nitin Khanna https://www.nitinkhanna.com/perplexity-pros-and-cons/

"Liminal Spaces is a wallpaper set created while playing with different shapes, textures, patterns, and perspectives. Each wallpaper is a collage of varying design and pattern cutouts that give some semblance of space and perspective while remaining simultaneously ambiguous."

#wallpaper

🍜 LIMINAL Spaces Wallpaper — Basic Apple Guy https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/liminal-spaces

"In one of the most egregious examples, dozens of farmers from India were described in their visa documents as Bollywood filmmakers."

#poland #visa #eu #corruption

🍜 Poland's cash-for-visas investigation finds evidence against senior members of former government / AP News https://apnews.com/article/poland-visa-payments-ministers-investigation-allegations-32510b5b895d683544d6d963873d88f0

"Vrai AI aims to do the same AI-based detection for counterfeit medicines, which are linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development"

#ai #counterfeit

🍜 New AI tech can spot fake Lacoste products from a photo / Semafor https://www.semafor.com/article/11/26/2024/new-ai-tech-can-spot-fake-lacoste-products-from-a-photo

"the home is the most dangerous place for women and girls."

#women #violence 

🍜 An average of 140 women and girls were killed by a partner or relative per day in 2023, the UN says / AP News https://apnews.com/article/un-killing-women-girls-partners-family-global-c2f26290b8158e1d97b1b16ef76e85a8

"It comes with a certificate of authenticity and installation instructions for owners to replace the banana — if they wish — whenever it rots."

#art #banana #comedian #MaurizioCattelan

🍜 Who’s Laughing Now? Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/arts/design/cattelan-banana-sothebys-auction.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.bk4.ncfJ.gWlsLKu2QPuD&smid=url-share