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Google's AI assistant ad sparks backlash during Olympics coverage

Google faces criticism for AI ad: The Gemini commercial during the Olympics raises concerns over AI replacing meaningful human interactions and creativity.

#GenHour The TL;dr is that all these companies pushing AI at us are misrepresenting what the software actually does and doesn't do. They're trying to monetize enshittification instead of making useful products.

#GenHour I will leave it to others who are more familiar with the enviromental costs to talk about how damaging it is to waste all these resources on software that essentially does nothing worthwhile for us.

Re: city vs. town etc. To steal a phrase from Judy G. Russell, who blogs as The Legal Genealogist: "It depends." If you are doing local history / family history research, the answer depends on the laws of the state / commonwealth you are doing research in.

Re: cemeteries BART (SF Bay Area's equivalent of London's Underground) used to have one of its lines terminate in Colma. The train operators used to say "Your final destination is Colma." as the train approached the end of the line. A friend of mine said: "I know, but do you have to remind us?"

US States & Commonwealths are like English Counties US Counties are like your GRO Registration Districts. Some US cities are spread out over two different counties. Some US cities don't belong to any county at all. It's really too bad there isn't a site like GENUKI for the United States.

Don't forget the cemeteries! In the 1940s most of the cemeteries in San Francisco were moved out of town, mostly to Colma. www.7x7.com/dark-history...

The Dark History of Cemeteries in San Francisco

Before the City of San Francisco voted to stop burials within city limits in 1900, there were at least 30 cemeteries in use or abandoned here—including one right on the spot of what is now Dolores Par...

Meanwhile, in the early 20th Century in South Carolina, it was common to just say someone was from (for example) Kershaw County, rather than specifying which part of the county they were born in.

Wikipedia's explainer on the category page says "Under Virginia law, all cities are legally independent of any county. All other incorporated Virginia municipalities are towns, which are always included within a county." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

I would love to have an equivalent book for Canada and the UK, but I don't know of any.