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*sighs* I used Google Calculator and this weird pair of symbols appears in the upper left. What the fuck is this. It's drawing little animated sparkles around it so I'm afraid it's going to be some kind of "AI".
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Tech companies seem to have standardized on using the "sparkle" emoji ✨ to indicate where they have performed enshittification

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okay let’s not get out over our skis here there is still the possibility that what they are celebrating is a new, improved, ai-derived version of pi that they will be hard launching tomorrow
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I hate it especially since that's one of my favourite emoji
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they can pray my sparkles from my cold dead hands :aSparklesRainbow:

only they can't

because it's glitter :party_sparkles:

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The sparkle is the light from the burning planet refracted through smoke and mirrors
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There is no closer emoji to a "shiny ass tick." πŸ˜‚
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We have decided to sell your data to more third parties.

πŸ‘‹jazz hands!πŸ‘‹

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It just seems to be a game easter egg.

You press it and it types out pi to a certain number of digits. If you enter them correctly, it'll repeat with one extra digit, etc.

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You might enjoy this AI-powered "calculator".

calcgpt.io/

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it's a game iirc, basically how many digits of pi can you remember
if you know the simon toy it's kinda like that but with the digits of pi instead of colors and it's less random because pi only has one value in euclidean space
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@multisn8 If the user wanted it (or even didn't just actively loathe it) you wouldn't need to be desperately attempting to gather interest.
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@dalias @multisn8 in this ONE CASE, it was a one-day gag and would have otherwise been very missable so i GUESS i can forgive it
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for AI junk you have a point - but in anything you'll get people asking you to add a thing they really want because they didn't see the big red "CLICK HERE FOR THE THING YOU WANT" button. or you just worked hard on something really useful and everyone kept doing things the harder way because they didn't notice you added a better way
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