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Autocomplete in Overdrive
Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West, 2025/06/03

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"In a marketing masterstroke, AI companies have framed our interaction with LLMs not as autocomplete, but in the guise of a chat window," write Bergstom and West (referenced by Justin Harrison at OTESSA). This is the start of a 'course' (really a series of web pages' by the authors called Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines.

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canadian-alternatives
taffer, Worktree, 2025/06/03

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If you are Canadian and looking to find alternative online services to replace the (usually) American services you are already using, here's a comprehensive list - everything from hosting to cloud to domain registration to payments and password management.

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