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In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’
Yes, lets name the tool in the article so everybody can participate in the abuse
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In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’
Yes, lets name the tool in the article so everybody can participate in the abuse
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What's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true?
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Another government related one. The UK government were until 2015 still paying compensation to families that made their wealth in the slave trade, for it's abolition. Another way to read this is that some wealthy families accepted tax payers money as compensation for their ancestors no longer being able to profit from the abuse of humans.
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Starbucks accused of rigging payments in app for nearly $900 million gain over 5 years by consumer watchdog group
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I know too many people that think Starbucks is the only place that makes good coffee and refuse to go anywhere else. No, you like strong roasts, lots of sugar, and plenty of advertising, most of which you can get anywhere else if you just ask.
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US Pedestrian deaths rose a troubling 77% between 2010 and 2021.
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A large factor is probably the increase of phone use. I've driven into a lot of shit looking at my phone.
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UK watchdog slams the brakes on Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma
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More like 1-2 thousand. Our politicians are surprisingly cheap to bribe
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Common Voice - Donate your voice to teach machines how people speak | Mozilla
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Because the genetics that build the vocal tract could be different, which in simple terms could mean a change in pitch. There are also more cultural differences such as speech cadence, accent, and inflection.
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Brits living abroad for more than 15 years get vote - BBC News
But why? The cut-off was already very generous at 15 years. How can you live outside of a country for that long and still want to have your views represented?
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A new Type of Mastodon Signup that gives people a sense of Agency
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Is it really? Can someone not just like the potter series and either disagree with or ignore the politics of the author?
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Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition Arrives Next Month, Includes Phantom Liberty Expansion
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It does safeguard to some extent. The goty editions will typically have all patches that didn't exist on the launch version. This is usually an issue for offline play/preservation where the platform that would provide you with updates no longer exist.
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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying
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I think enforcing some universal API for this would be a decent compromise. This would allow browsers to handle the UI which means the user can set a global preference or set it per site. At the very least the UI would be uniform so you wouldn't have to fight dark patterns trying to disable them.
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Gen Z and millennials are more into gig work than ever, BofA says — but it’s not coming close to making ends meet
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bofa deez nuts
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Making showering a little less hard
Thinking that it's cheating sounds like you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself. Well done for finding a way to get past that. You should try thinking more about the outcome than the activity. Say you didn't have the energy to use soap, you're still going to be cleaner than before you went in. Making each activity as frictionless as possible (maybe though 'cheating') helps build it into a habit and once the task has been habitualised you'll be doing it without thinking.
Well done again for problem solving your issue.
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The problem with psychiatry is that it's expected to have quick fixes like other schools of medicine. Often the conditions are chronic and the treatment is long term at best which makes it slow and expensive. Drugs can help in the short term but they're often not able to be replaced by correct treatment due to funding.
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What were some good things humans achieved in 2023?
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Is this a joke about every day being a 0-day?
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GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour
There's a concept that should be familiar to a business owner called value based pricing where you charge based upon a (usually service) product's perceived value rather than the cost of producing it. Make a game worth giving time and money to then you'll have success. Fill it with pointless content to pad out the hours and it is neither worth the time nor the money
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Random 5-25-2011
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What is your best story when you were in a foreign country?
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Fun stories like this remind me why my country (UK) just never feels connected to Europe. We've got this amazing continent on our doorstep but the poor state of our language education prevents many from feeling comfortable to explore it. I would love to share a story like this.
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How would you go about a low maintenance personal website today?
Really depends what you want to create but there's nothing wrong with just writing html and css. They're as portable as you can get.
If you're planning to do a lot of editing/posting then a static site genarator would be the next best thing as again you just end up with html and css which can be hosted anywhere. The generator can run on your system. Most are powered by markdown files so the content can (with little work) be migrated to another generator.
Beyond this you're starting to get in to cms or other complex systems which i think is out of the scope of your question.
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'Last of Us' Season 2 Casts Kaitlyn Dever as Abby
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Care to elaborate?
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What is the weirdest/strangest thing you find comfort in?
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I see your distant highway traffic and raise you the sound of a distant railway, especially at night