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After 16 years, a developer quit Gmail over its AI: 'it thinks I can't write my own email' (moddedbear.com)

Sixteen years in, the unsolicited summaries, auto-drafts and the endless 'Help me write' nags pushed a long-time Gmail user to move his mail to Fastmail on his own domain. The thread turned into a referendum on AI you can't switch off.

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Lumafield CT-scanned a BYD, and an owner in the thread caught the teardown getting a detail wrong (lumafield.com)

Lumafield's 'Scan of the Month' put a BYD's battery, key fob and switchgear under an industrial CT scanner to show how far the company's vertical integration runs. Then a BYD owner read the writeup and corrected it.

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