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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.

See also: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/marietta-hotel-fined-women-hundreds-smoking-they-say-other-activities-tripped-sensors/WPFWFT7INFGOLHR4HSQK7YIOKY/

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

This is the one time I'm gonna be that jagweed and say I liked it. I've never once been on TikTok and I never will. But I was happy to see it in logical and streamlined format. I didn't feel the need to click on anything. Nothing got in the way... no oppressive popups, members-only, ads, etc. How sad is it that as much as you guys are complaining, and you have the right to your opinions, I found it to be one of the cleanest web pages I've seen in months.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I don't visit any of those sites either, in part because the formatting makes telling a story so challenging.

    Looking onto a page like this, it's like one story was needlessly chopped up into little bits. Instead of several paragraphs formatted with the purpose of telling a smooth, coherent story, it's cut into chunks whose only parameter is character length. Outside of modern microblog-style social media, that format doesn't happen much. 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.

    Put altogether, it comes off as chunky and without any clear flow. Microblog formatting is not conductive to story-telling. It's not a criticism of the writer (I assume they were doing their best within the limits imposed), but of the formatting that breaks the flow that story-telling relies on.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    IDGAF about the topic the post is discussing, and I don't need an article. I was more than fine with a quick, scannable version of what's happening so I can forget all about it. I don't know what you're all triggered on. It's a low-content low-effort highly-viral anti-AI anti-capitalism rage bait garbage post and it deserves no effort on the part of the writer or reader IMO.

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