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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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I'm not dunking on their writers, just how Al and AI look the same in most fonts.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (2 children)

AI Pacino — robo-actor

AI Roker — actually could be a good name for a weather bot

AI Quaeda — fully autonomous terrorist organization

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Weird AI Yankovic - all about the pentiums

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

That’s ASIC album

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

AIDF - fully autonomous terrorist organization

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've always looked at this in the other direction. Offer services "powered by Al" and as long as you have some dude named Al involved you don't have to waste time and energy on AI.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

Bing Voice Search, now powered by Al:

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

You’re not wrong, because it took me a solid ten seconds to figure out what the fuck you meant with the rebranding.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your title honestly had me puzzled until I read the rest of the post. On my end it really did look like you were suggesting Al Jazeera rebrand as "Al Jazeera" and I was stumped on what the difference was.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Ha, exactly.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is why I prefer sans-serif fonts that have lower case l's with a little bend on the bottom. For example the new default font in Office (Aptos) does exactly that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Serif has the curly letters. Sans serif does not have the curly letters (hence the sans)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I know what a serif is. And I'm specifically not talking about that. I'm talking about this:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"LLM is not a correct Roman numeral. Please correct or remove (some of) the symbols."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

ML, on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

And then they go back to doing this:

Seriously, this was the best thing Al Jazeera has ever done. And then they killed it.