A Boring Dystopia

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Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors (threadreaderapp.com)

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Guests report getting billed hundreds of dollars for smoking, based on the readings of an "algorithmic" smoke detector. The sensor manufacturer markets its product as a way for hotels to unlock new revenue streams.

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[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The result is scrolling and scrolling to read something that (I feel) could've been put into a few paragraphs in a single blog post.

I was pretty much born into the microblog style (or at least not on the Internet during the popularity of regular blog style), and even then I agree that this sucked to read as a microblog rather than a single, more coherent post. I see someone drop a 🧵 and I immediately sigh internally. I don't mind a thread post if it's literally just someone reporting facts, but trying to tell a story (and like, in a exciting or suspenseful way) in threads that are like 2 sentences long sucks. Sometimes I wish people would just post on a blog/article/long post site and then just post ap link to the full text on their microblog.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Meh.

Once again though, this is a meaningless garbage article designed to rage bait people, it's not something anybody's going to talk about, we've already spent more time arguing about the web page than the content.