My camera can’t capture the glowing orangey-pinks and violets of these flowering bushes on the sidewalk.

The aforementioned orangey-pink and violet flower bushes

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users:

This is utterly despicable. “Scientists” perform human research on unconsenting persons, and reported that they successfully persuaded some people to change their views by lying to them with AIs.

Did they contact all those people later to explain that they’d been lied to? Or are they still wandering around with their changed opinions, persuading their friends, and voting?

  1. Screenshot your LinkedIn app home screen.

  2. Make a web page with that background.

  3. Add a link at the top to display the QR code of your choice.

  4. Add a link to that on your home screen.

Voila. Now you can make anyone at any tech conference open the QR code of your choosing. “Hey, let’s be buddies!”

California is now 4th-largest economy in world, surpassing Japan

Some Americans constantly talk about how much CA supposedly sucks and is on the edge of collapse. My favorite criticism is that “no one wants to live there because it’s so expensive”, although the fundamentals of capitalism explain that it’s so expensive because so many people want to live there.

Meanwhile, back in reality…

How to bypass Credit Karma's 2FA

Locked out of your Credit Karma account’s 2FA? No problem! Here’s how I can log into mine:

  1. Log in with my username and password.
  2. Try the 2FA challenge once and let it fail.
  3. Navigate to accounts.creditkarma.com

Ta-da! I’m in. I reported this a month ago but they haven’t acknowledged it as an issue yet. If I stumbled across this, you can bet the bad guys are already using it.