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Because nothing screams "fine dining" like the golden arches 🤖🍔, McDonald's is now replacing its #fry #cooks with chatbots. Get ready for your Big Mac to come with a side of existential dread, as #AI takes over the drive-thru and leaves human employees flipping burgers in the unemployment line. 🍟💼
wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-giv #McDonalds #FastFood #Future #Tech #HackerNews #ngated

WSJ · McDonald’s Gives Its Restaurants an AI MakeoverThe fast-food giant’s new initiative uses artificial intelligence to target order accuracy and help restaurants detect equipment issues before they fail

One of the most frustrating developments of the last decade or so is the fast-food-isation of ethnic restaurants. In the 1990s you could get a kebab, or a curry, about as cheap as a bullshit burger, and it was healthy food, made to a fairly traditional recipe. Now it costs more, and every second kebab shop or curry house is some kind of eastern McDonalds, with metric fudgetons of sugar added to all the sauces, dressings, breads, etc.

A new book for friends of #archeology and #deepHistory: Discarded. Imagine a future when Earth creatures could find the #technofossils of our time. What will they find? What remains the most of our "civilisation"? An exciting change of perspective on our more long-lasting ‘achievements’. theguardian.com/science/2025/f

The Guardian · ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bonesBy Damian Carrington