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Uncanny Valley AI: Navigating the Human-Robot Divide

Content Hacker

Ever felt that eerie sensation when encountering a robot that looks almost human but not quite? That’s the Uncanny Valley AI effect in action. The Uncanny Valley is a term often used in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. It refers to the unsettling feeling that some people experience when they encounter robots or computer-generated characters that look almost, but not quite, human.

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What Did House Sitting Teach Me about Blogging?

Blogging From Paradise

I have completed 70 plus house sits with my wife since 2014.

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Is Freelance Writing a Sure Thing? Scam Alert

Make a Living Writing

Do you wonder, is freelance writing a sure thing? If so, there’s a newly minted online writing “expert” who’d love to take your money. You may have heard that if something seems to be too good to be true, it probably is. Well, if someone tells you that freelance writing is an activity even a “broke, jobless dummy” can for-sure earn a middle-class income with, because “anyone can write” and “earn a safe, secure income” from home (all quo

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Paranoid thoughts for businesses targeted by the forces of evil

Ben Settle

By forces of evil I refer to gov and corporate bureaucrats with lots of power who take a, shall I say… “interest” in your righteous business. In no particular order: * Have 10+ merchant accounts, minimum and even more if you can find them, and use a gateway service that lets you rotate them so no one merchant account gets all the sales at any given time * Make it a goal to become a platform unto yourself like all the extremely polarizing people you either love to hate or hate t

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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A love letter to people fapping themselves blind to AI

Ben Settle

Recently Karl Denninger wrote a magnificent article titled: “The Latest Bubble, And Why It WILL Pop” About so-called AI. And as Karl often does in his own inimitable way, he dismantled all the hopes and dreams of the AI utopians by explaining very clearly why it’s not what everyone thinks, pretends, and hopes it is… and simply, like all bubbles, is destined to pop.