My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.

I cannot search three words in quotes.

Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.

And now we have this.

At some point a random cybersecurity founder just shows up in the comments and butts in with the most obviously ChatGPT generated argument I've ever seen. Apparently the dude just saw the discussion and was like "hold up, I think my plagiarism toaster could provide some valuable insight here". 2/2

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

Today, global productivity convergence is still a distant goal. We live in a world characterised by persistent and increasing power imbalances, where the rules of the game remain rigged against the Global South.
Yet inequality and uneven development are not inevitable.
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