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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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I'm not dunking on their writers, just how Al and AI look the same in most fonts.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AI Pacino — robo-actor

AI Roker — actually could be a good name for a weather bot

AI Quaeda — fully autonomous terrorist organization

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird AI Yankovic - all about the pentiums

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That’s ASIC album

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

AIDF - fully autonomous terrorist organization

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always looked at this in the other direction. Offer services "powered by Al" and as long as you have some dude named Al involved you don't have to waste time and energy on AI.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Bing Voice Search, now powered by Al:

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your title honestly had me puzzled until I read the rest of the post. On my end it really did look like you were suggesting Al Jazeera rebrand as "Al Jazeera" and I was stumped on what the difference was.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Ha, exactly.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I prefer sans-serif fonts that have lower case l's with a little bend on the bottom. For example the new default font in Office (Aptos) does exactly that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Serif has the curly letters. Sans serif does not have the curly letters (hence the sans)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know what a serif is. And I'm specifically not talking about that. I'm talking about this:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"LLM is not a correct Roman numeral. Please correct or remove (some of) the symbols."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ML, on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Israeli government recently got found out for using AI to help plan the current conflict. There's a story in the world news community about it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's true (I saw/read the posts). I'm just trying to not bring geopolitical stuff into everything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey everyone this guy's a commie!

Points at you then runs away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just thought it was the silliest way to be geopolitical sarcastically.

Of course, Poe's Law will always kick in.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I'm down voting him in response

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And then they go back to doing this:

Seriously, this was the best thing Al Jazeera has ever done. And then they killed it.