Mark Hill

2 weeks ago | inverse.com | Mark Hill

There’s an image that routinely goes around the internet, usually after some obnoxious chud suggests that teachers should be replaced with AI, that says, “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” It’s a practical piece of advice attributed to IBM training material from 1979, but one has to wonder if its writer was inspired by a generation of science fiction that warned of consequences far worse than lawsuits if computers were put...

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mark Hill

3 hours agoYou don’t need to know JavaScript to write powerful browser bookmarklets anymore. I’m a writer, not a programmer, so until recently a lot of the hype around ChatGPT’s abitilies as a coding tool went over my head. But then I realized generative AI’s programming powers can be helpful for more than just …

2 weeks ago | thebeaverton.com | Mark Hill

NEW YORK CITY – Alexander Ovechkin has scored his 895th career goal, surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s record and making him first all-time among NHL superstars with terrible personal politics. Ovechkin, a man who’s repeatedly expressed strong public support for a murderous authoritarian while also being really good at hockey, dedicated his remarkable feat to all the Russian soldiers working hard to murder innocent Ukrainians.

3 weeks ago | thebeaverton.com | Mark Hill

TORONTO – According to sources embedded in your fantasy hockey pool, the player who goes by a crude double entendre is on the verge of issuing you such a humiliating defeat that you’ll lose all interest in ever playing again.

3 weeks ago | inverse.com | Mark Hill

This may shock Inverse’s younger readers, but there was once a time when directors were allowed to adapt comic book properties not owned by Marvel and DC. This lost era produced a couple of hits, a few cult classics, and a whole lot of duds, but only one movie was bold enough to slather Ice-T in prosthetics and cast him alongside Malcolm McDowell. Tank Girl could be described as a campy Mad Max, although that description is left somewhat wanting by the time Lori Petty bangs a kangaroo-man.