Background to this slightly weird question: I found one of my old an English exams on science fiction and dystopian literature from the 11th grade in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany (ca. 2004) and found a similar question. The idea back then was to discuss the pro- and cons of a BCI (and I objectively did not do to well back...
After 45 years of living I've learned that the future sucks and capitalism ruins everything. So no, I'll pass on the brain ship. If I'm disabled enough to need one, I live in America and there's plenty of gun stores.
Do it coward. Keep kicking that bitch down the relevance hill. I want to see that bird's mutilated carcass at your feet so you can look stupid(er) and blame somebody else some more.
I wish more people would point out how we totally stole the word grackity thinks it makes him sound smart and well read. Also like he's from the '70s lol
The Israeli government insists that Hamas formally sanctioned sexual assault on October 7, 2023. But investigators say the evidence does not stand up to scrutiny. Catherine Philp and Gabrielle Weiniger report on eight months of claim and counter-claim...
The overwhelming majority of all armies of all time have weaponized rape. As I understand it Israel is doing the same damned thing. There are no good guys in this fucking war, only monsters and victims.
Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.
Nearly two in five (37 percent) managers, directors, and executives believe their organization enacted layoffs in the last year because fewer employees than they expected quit during their RTO. And their beliefs are well-founded: One in four (25 percent) VP and C-suite executives and one in five (18 percent) HR pros admit they...
It pollutes the data pool. The rule of gigo (garbage in garbage out) is used to garbage the AI results.
Basically, it puts some imperceptible stuff in the image file's data (somebody else should explain how because I don't know) so that what the AI sees and the human looking at the picture sees are rather different. So you try and train it to draw a photorealistic car and instead it creates a lumpy weird face or something. Then the AI uses that defective nonsense to learn what "photorealistic car" means and reproduce it - badly.
If you feed a bunch of this trash into an AI and tell it that this is how to paint like, say, Rembrandt, and then somebody uses it to try to paint a picture like Rembrandt, they'll end up getting something that looks like it was scrawled by a 10-year-old, or the dogs playing poker went through a teleporter malfunction, or whatever nonsense data was fed into the AI instead.
If you tell an AI that 2+2=🥔, that pi=9, or that the speed of light is Kevin, then nobody can use that AI to do math.
If you trained Chat GPT to explain history by feeding it descriptions of games of Civ6 them nobody could use it to cheat on their history term paper. The AI would go on about how Gandhi attacked Mansa Musa in 1686 with all out nuclear war. It's the same thing here, but with pictures.
I quit Facebook in 2016 and never looked back. Hard to believe how long ago that was already. But if they want to end Lower Decks after season 5, it makes perfect sense and I'm all for it. I mean they have to leave the lower ranks eventually. Not only that, but if you force a show to drag on past its natural lifetime, it's going to suffer for it. Every fucking time.
Good luck with that. Planned obsolescence is a key ingredient in capitalism. I mean what better way to make line go up than to turn a one-time purchase into a repeat purchase? This shareholders and executives will never be able to step on the working class if they can't gouge customers. Won't anyone think of the shareholders?
Israel’s leadership is pushing the allegations that Hamas fighters raped Israeli women during the October 7 attacks for its own political objectives while the government’s ongoing refusal to allow the United Nations to conduct a full investigation into the matter threatens to hinder any evidence, advocates have warned.
Well yeah, that's the point. War crimes always get covered covered up if at all possible. Israel isn't unique there. They're the same monsters every militant power is.
I'm asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don't really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don't naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it's seen as...
I dunno, I mean they do it with LEGO men now, but Simpsons or LEGO yellow skin only belongs on people so jaundiced that it's a miracle they're not dead. Same with the more feminine Lego women. What ever happened to that same stupid smile and just switch the hair piece? I mean if it makes you happy I guess, it ain't hurting nobody. I feel neither represented nor unrepresented by a cartoon yellow face. Maybe it's just because I'm white, I dunno. You do you I guess.
Inevitably. That's the goal of most tech startups; hype themselves up and sell out for as many millions as possible. Meanwhile honest labor, education, and trades workers can't afford houses.
It depends on the method. IIRC, the most cost effective methods cost more than leaving it there. The real problem really is figuring out how to make a profit off it. Without the government forcing it subsidizing it, nobody will do it, even sustainably, in volume enough to matter.
Sorry if this is the wrong community for this. I'm looking for a compilation of Trump's most rambling moments (e.g., "Look, having nuclear"; Gettysburg being beautiful; etc.). Does anyone know of any sites that would have something like this? Thank you!
I'm sure you could find one at MSNBC, CNN, FauxNews, or any other major media outlet. I'll bet if you mashed them all up you might even possibly maybe get something vaguely resembling kinda unbiased coverage.
Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train....
It's especially weird to have all that time dedicated to something nobody cares about. Who goes looking to see if a game or movie was made using Dolby?
Answer: "Seriously? I can't even speak their languages to ask. I treated a bunch of burned, filthy, bleeding people while hoping I didn't get shot! I didn't stop to ask for fucking ID."
Between serving in 'nam and working a labor-intensive job with as much overtime as her could get, my dad could sleep anywhere. Sometimes so hard it took a phone or alarm to wake him up, and he'd be moving and talking before his brain even shifted into gear.
If a useful brain-computer interface was available sometimes in your lifetime (and secure and safe) would you get one?
Background to this slightly weird question: I found one of my old an English exams on science fiction and dystopian literature from the 11th grade in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany (ca. 2004) and found a similar question. The idea back then was to discuss the pro- and cons of a BCI (and I objectively did not do to well back...
Bird flu tests are hard to get. How will we know when to sound the alarm? ( www.nbcnews.com )
Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over OpenAI partnership ( www.cnbc.com )
Israel says Hamas weaponised rape. Does the evidence add up? ( www.thetimes.com )
The Israeli government insists that Hamas formally sanctioned sexual assault on October 7, 2023. But investigators say the evidence does not stand up to scrutiny. Catherine Philp and Gabrielle Weiniger report on eight months of claim and counter-claim...
Russia Releases Female Prison Inmates to Join Ukraine War ( www.nytimes.com )
Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.
Can you read the ancient glyphs ( lemmy.world )
Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says ( arstechnica.com )
Nearly two in five (37 percent) managers, directors, and executives believe their organization enacted layoffs in the last year because fewer employees than they expected quit during their RTO. And their beliefs are well-founded: One in four (25 percent) VP and C-suite executives and one in five (18 percent) HR pros admit they...
A military plane carrying Malawi's vice president and 9 others has gone missing ( www.pbs.org )
Ah yes, organization. ( lemmy.world )
What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week? ( www.creativebloq.com )
Key points:...
Cat liqueur ( i.imgur.com )
Has a bit of kick to it tho
Save Lower Decks ( www.youtube.com )
meowrraria ( img-9gag-fun.9cache.com )
If human skin was sometimes completely patterned (eg. spots, stripes, etc.), what pattern (if any) would you want to have?
EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them ( www.theatlantic.com )
Israel’s obstruction of investigation into 7 October rape allegations risks truth never being found, advocates warn ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )
Israel’s leadership is pushing the allegations that Hamas fighters raped Israeli women during the October 7 attacks for its own political objectives while the government’s ongoing refusal to allow the United Nations to conduct a full investigation into the matter threatens to hinder any evidence, advocates have warned.
This creature might try to drink my bones, but I will always cherish them. ( startrek.website )
Stupid parasite-infested parasite ( lemmy.world )
What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?
[-ish] Ireland, Scotland = Irish, Scottish...
Have you got any weird questions for the opposite gender?
That's it
China's electric farm trucks are very different than ours. I went there to see how ( electrek.co )
When I recently took a trip to China to see the world of electric micromobility, I was greeted with a...
Just sprinkle it on ( lemmy.world )
Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill ( arstechnica.com )
Unusual problems need unusual solutions ( lemmy.world )
What is your favourite poem, and why?
United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens ( www.cbsnews.com )
Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?
I'm asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don't really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don't naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it's seen as...
Humane is said to be seeking a $1 billion buyout after only 10,000 orders of its terrible AI Pin ( www.engadget.com )
How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air? ( www.wired.com )
X is the worst social media app for LGBTQ+ people, says new report ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Is there a website that collects Donald Trump's most incoherent speeches and tweets?
Sorry if this is the wrong community for this. I'm looking for a compilation of Trump's most rambling moments (e.g., "Look, having nuclear"; Gettysburg being beautiful; etc.). Does anyone know of any sites that would have something like this? Thank you!
Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety ( lemmy.zip )
Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train....
Netanyahu angrily rejects move to seek his arrest, lambasts the ICC saying it has compared Israel to "mass murderers" ( www.bbc.com )
Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise ( www.cnn.com )
Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 85% of threads retract in 1st ( arstechnica.com )
Necromancer family reunions must get awkward. ( lemmy.world )
I believe the artist is Svetoslav Petrov but I had trouble tracking down the actual source.
In Moscow, a man who was assaulted and robbed tried to file a police report, but was fined 50,000 RUB and given a military summons because of his multicolored hair. ( sopuli.xyz )
https://t.me/astrapress/55898...
Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo ( www.videogameschronicle.com )
Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
Immigration lawyers say the screening questions go ‘above and beyond what is asked in a normal immigration application’
Warp Drive Breakthrough Could Enable Constant-Velocity Subluminal Travel, Physics Team Says ( thedebrief.org )
If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.
how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres?
I see people sleeping on concrete, in cramped plane seats etc...