To illustrate how well AI is going, here’s a prime example of the confidently wrong phenomenon, a.k.a. mansplaining as a service… I asked free Microsoft Copilot Chat: if I rename a shared file in Google Drive, does the name change for just me or everyone? The correct answer is that in fact it does change… Read More: AI’s going really well, eh? »
Because one healthcare horror story per day isn’t enough, I want to tell you the story of how I’ve been trying for over two months to get my uncle’s electric wheelchair repaired. It’s still broken. It still hasn’t even been picked up by the company that is supposed to repair it. First, some background information.… Read More: How hard should it be to get an electric wheelchair… »
A case study in why Healthfirst, Integra Partners, and Edgepark all suck. More broadly, the entire American healthcare system sucks, especially for elderly people, and it’s only going to get worse.
Ride along as I document the many problems, ranging from trivial to substantial, that I’ve run into with 1Password.
I used a unique, privacy-protecting email address at their site. Over a year later a different company that sells the same type of gear spammed that address.
When I complained to First Manufacturing about it, an AI answered.
The scammers are getting better, but it’s not clear what their end goal is.
This email from “Michael Nussbaum”, allegedly a “Managing Partner, Executive Search & Strategic Advisory”, is chock-full of red flags. Either this is a scam, or Nussbaum is incompetent.
Near the start of our son’s graduation yesterday from the Jewish high school he attended for four years, after the graduates marched in, we were asked to stand for The Star Spangled Banner and Hatikvah. My wife, my son, and I remained seated. My daughter and her boyfriend stood for the Star Spangled Banner and… Read More: Standing up by sitting down »
Without expertise, using genAI is a fool’s errand, and the grifters selling us genAI are bound and determined to destroy expertise.
Slate’s new privacy policy is riddled with errors. It’s astounding that they published something so terrible. They should be embarrassed and ashamed.