🔗 Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now | The Verge:

“You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests. Only my own principles can tip the balance from one to the other. I assure you that my views here are, in fact, principled, and I believe my track record as owner of The Post since 2013 backs this up. You are of course free to make your own determination, but I challenge you to find one instance in those 11 years where I have prevailed upon anyone at The Post in favor of my own interests. It hasn’t happened.”

I found this album more or less randomly among last week’s new metal releases and was intrigued by the premise of Tunisian black metal.

Friends, this record is good and I recommend it.

I really liked Dark Matter Manifesto upon first listen, and having now listened to it a few more times, I think it holds up quite well. The vocals remind me a bit of Venom, but the playing is a lot better.

🔗Jeff C. on Mastodon:

Amazon: “I see that you’re shopping for a rice cooker!

Would you like to buy this rice cooker along with a rice cooker and another rice cooker?“

I am 100% convinced that, nearly two decades into the age of algorithmic recommendations, we really have not progressed past “Other people who liked this liked that” and “Here’s a bunch more of what it seems like you like,” both implemented in the dumbest possible ways.

🔗 AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships:

Kat was both “horrified” and “relieved” to learn that she is not alone in this predicament, as confirmed by a Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT that made waves across the internet this week. Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.” Having read his chat logs, she only found that the AI was “talking to him as if he is the next messiah.” The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI. Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the software.