I don’t know about sigma male energy but Arsebook give off “desperate Yahoo past its sell by date desperately chasing after everyone to buy their way into the next new thing” energy.
Surely it’s not just me that sees them as a laughing stock?
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Oh yeah he’s totally a laughing stock. No doubt.
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If I don’t update to Windows 11, I won’t have access to AI features?
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Oh cute! Someone still thinks Google is a search engine!
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This video is all over reddit this morning. I’ve seen it posted in at least a dozen subs. I don’t really care about the two execs having an affair. That’s a story as old as humanity. What made me go WTF over this was the job title of the woman. She’s the company’s CPO, Chief People Officer. Who TF came up with that ridiculous job title. Human Resources is bad enough, but Chief People Officer? Ugh.
Although another aspect of this that I do find pretty funny is that if the two had simply just not reacted, no one would have ever noticed and this story wouldn’t have gone viral.
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I’ve got one. I was at an AI event at the global headquarters of Penneys (a cheap clothing brand immortalised in the self deprecating response “thanks, Penneys” if someone admires your fit) and the place was done up like it was a startup in a loft. Anyway the event was introduced by their “Global VP of Culture”.
I snorted audibly!
Also: imagine the embarrassment of being caught at a Coldplay concert?
They’re like the corporate rock band you go to if you think U2 are too edgy and out there.
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Facebook and X are disasters.
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Um… HELP… Logged into my school email. I can’t tell if microsoft co-pilot is on or off here… Is this on? This is the default I saw when I clicked on the widget…
Here is when I click the button…
WHICH OF THESE IS THE OFF POSITION!!! FFS!!!
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I would expect that when it is “lit up” (red) it’s on. 
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That’s what I think is correct, but it’s not clear. I even asked my Gen Z digital native child and she agreed it’s unclear. I’m sure it’s on purpose, too…
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Standard semantics for that widget is that the toggle to the left = off (in a RTL environment, anyway. I don’t know if that logic still works in Hebrew or Arabic, but that’s not relevant here).
That is, in normal circumstances, the top screenshot should be of Copilot being on, the bottom is of Copilot being off.
That said, the confusion is almost certainly deliberate, and the colour coding even more so, because red is also coded as off (opposed to green), so they’re mixing conventions. Given the contexts of Microsoft and “AI is good for you actually”, I’d give it an even chance whether it’s a) deliberately confusing, b) UX design incompetence, or c) both. (A competent dark pattern would have “Copilot off” be red and scary and alarming, and “Copilot on” be green and calm and gentle and soothingly normal.)
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I’ll third the opinion that the lit up red version is copilot being on. And yeah, that is almost certainly deliberate ambiguity. They want people to turn it on, but they also know that an awful lot of people won’t if they make it crystal clear when it’s on and when it’s off. It would have been trivially easy to make it clear when it was on and when it was off, so the fact that they didn’t makes it all but certain that was an intentional choice.
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The CEO issued a statement:
If you’re in public, no one needs your consent to film you or take your picture. If you don’t want your affair to be made public, then don’t take your affair out into the public.
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No kidding. “How dare the Jumbotron in a stadium filled with 30,000 people zero-in on me at that stadium with my side piece! I’m rich FFS!”
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The “control” is the little circle and the background indicates the state. So the red state with the circle to the right is on.
The mental model they’re going for is a two-position slider switch, the round metal kind like on a fancy hi-fi. But it’s infuriatingly ambiguous. I blame Apple for the predominance of this as a design cue.
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