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GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright
So they're admitting that their entire business model requires them to break the law. Sounds like they shouldn't exist.
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X walks back its misgendering policy after right-wing complaints
I like to deadname X and always call it Twitter.
Yes, I already know that I'm a sad, sad excuse for a lifeform.
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octopus stinkhorn
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All fungi are edible. Some are only edible once.
-Terry Pratchett
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Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast.
Spreading election lies (and that's what these deepfakes are), needs to be a felony, not protected by the 1st amendment.
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Is there a word for the phenomena where everyone benefits from design decisions made to help vulnerable populations?
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When closed captioning for TVs was being rolled out by government mandate in the US, there was widespread anger over having the cost of a TV increase by $0.25 for everyone for a feature that would only help a few. I was sickened by the callousness.
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I'd like something like multi-reddits. I want to be able to define specific groups of communities to show together, instead of having to either have a mish-mash of everything, or having to view each community on its own.
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What's a movie you don't really watch but your damn proud to have on your shelf?
Grave of the Fireflies by Studio Ghibli. I love Ghibli movies, and this one was very moving, but if you've seen it you know why I won't watch it again. Very powerful.
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It's fine until you run out of disk space
You really need to index your tables. This has all the hallways of a Cartesian cross product.
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What's your favorite anime? Only tell us by quoting it and seeing if we can guess
Get in the robot, Shinji
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North Korea cracks down on homes converted into Airbnb-style lodgings
People are vacationing in North Korea?
Oh, it's for North Koreans who vacation in other parts of North Korea. Because they can't vacation in South Korea.
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Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed
It's totally Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Lab-Made Meat? Florida Lawmakers Don’t Like the Sound of It.
I really want to be able to buy lab grown meat. I want it to be cheaper to grow meat in a lab than raise a cow/chicken and then slaughter it. It is ethically the right thing, as it reduces suffering.
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What are you Watching? (August 2023)
Currently watching Farscape. Such a bonkers show. About to finish second season.
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Why don't computers have "computer-numbers" equivalent to phone numbers
That would be a privacy nightmare.
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Take a look at ![email protected]. An open source version of minecraft.
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Richest 1% own more than 40% of country's wealth: Report
Mildly infuriating? This is revolution level infuriating.
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Psilocybin increases emotional empathy in depressed individuals, study finds
How can we get it added to the water in the white house?
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HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers
So the bricking is because there are chips in the ink cartridges. And why are there chips in the cartridges? Because HP wants to charge exorbitant rates for ink.
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Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon
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If you're interested in donating, go to https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/?form=donate
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Space Odyssey series question
The books build on each other. It would be best to read them in order.