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America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion
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Besides architecture. Cathedrals are dope. But everything else, yeah.
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America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion
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Besides architecture. Cathedrals are dope. But everything else, yeah.
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Poll suggests GOP effort to smear Tim Walz didn’t work at all
It was hard for Republicans to compete with The Onion's devastating exposé alleging that Walz' "aw, shucks" persona is merely a facade concealing his true "gee whiz" tendencies.
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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
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This is hilariously plausible. Someone SCUBA down to Gabe and give him the idea.
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Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards
Still has 96% recent and 96% overall positive reviews and an "overwhelmingly positive" overall rating.
I don't think they're making much of a dent. The article is pretty unclear though on why Chinese gamers are mad, other than that there was a possible "dodgy translation."
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Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek
Based Tesla makes a car that vandalizes itself
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The game is still twelve days away
Who would be attracted to this billionaire sex symbol, who's one of the most successful performers on the planet? Madness, I tell you.
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It's important to relax, Commander.
Taking the edge off.
Missing a 95% chance shot in Xcom and subsequently having your whole party wiped out by aliens
Pick one
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A Cybertruck Buyer Says Tesla is Trying to Sell Him a Cybertruck That Has Been Sitting on the Lot for 4 Months – Adds “The Truck Was Built on January 8th”
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Apparently, January was before they identified some of the production issues that led to recalls and so on. And also that Tesla has done a bad job with the recalls so even the "fixed" ones have misaligned panels and so forth.
Why anyone still has any interest at all in buying this piece of shit eludes me.
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Trump mans the fryer at Pennsylvania McDonald's.
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It was a staged photo op and the restaurant was closed to customers. He didn't decide to do actual work for the first time in his life. It was BS like everything else. Nobody ate that food.
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China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro
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Marjorie Taylor Green posted about how invading Venezuela is a terrible idea.
I hate it when I agree with Marjorie Taylor Green.
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We had a neighborhood cat who would show up at the back door meowing for treats and scritches. I am strongly allergic and would run inside after petting her to wash my hands thoroughly and take two Benadryl.
I would still break out in hives all over my arms every single time. But I couldn't just not pet her! This meme is perfect.
Rest in peace, Bella. You were a very good kitty.
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Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI
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It's a shit ouroboros, Randy!
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Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today
Ah, an adult rhino. A unit I work with on a daily basis and can easily comprehend, unlike arcane measurements of pounds or kilograms.
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Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
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I guess I just have to keep Windows 10 with a custom group policy that disables all updates either forever or until I learn Linux.
Linux gaming is getting to the point that I could consider the switch, but I hear scary stories about Nvidia drivers.
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Donald Trump: ‘I Couldn’t Care Less’ If I Mispronounce Kamala Harris’ Name
To be fair, it probably doesn't matter whether he can say "Kamala" since he'll mainly be saying "President Harris" in the future.
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Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'
The reaction to Clair Obscur has been wild. I had a friend I haven't talked to since high school - when we were both big Final Fantasy fans - reach out to ask if I'd played it. A bunch of guys at work are talking about it who I didn't even know were gamers. I hope we see a lot more of these passionate, creative projects and the infrastructure to support them.
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Screw it, I’m installing Linux
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Every time anyone rejects Microsoft's shitty bloatware/spyware it's a win. I just converted a few months ago. Win11 is going to push more and more people away.
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Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt
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Hmm, it's kind of like he has an established MO for when his businesses are failing due to his own poor decisions and lack of business sense.
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AI model collapse is not what we paid for
In an AI model collapse, AI systems, which are trained on their own outputs, gradually lose accuracy, diversity, and reliability. This occurs because errors compound across successive model generations, leading to distorted data distributions and "irreversible defects" in performance. The final result? A Nature 2024 paper stated, "The model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality."
A remarkably similar thing happened to my aunt who can't get off Facebook. We try feeding her accurate data, but she's become poisoned with her own projection of reality.
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Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can gen Z save it?
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It's actually not easy to ensure that an LLM will cite a correct source, in the same way it's not easy to ensure that it will provide accurate information. It's based on token probability, not deterministic lookups of "this data came from this source." It could entirely make something up, then write "Source:" and then probabilistically write "Wikipedia" because those tokens commonly follow those for "Source."
If you have an AI bot that looks up information in real time, then that would be easy. But for a trained LLM, the training process is highly destructive. Original information is not preserved except in relationships based on probability.