During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, ...
With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
Mark Zuckerberg Wanted to Keep in Touch With Jeffrey Epstein ( jacobin.com )
He has a point
Korean researchers have developed a spray that stops severe bleeding almost instantly by transforming blood into a gel-like substance in under one second. ( advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com )
Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers
I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…
Gaza is not a natural disaster. It is the victim of genocide enabled by global inaction ( www.middleeasteye.net )
Treating the besieged and battered enclave as a 'humanitarian crisis' serves only to shield zionists from accountability
i've created a new mouse for a modern generation
The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. ( theintercept.com )
During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, ...
FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? ( connectedplaces.online )
With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.
The United Kingdom will cut funding to fundamental astronomy and physics research by almost a third. ( www.ox.ac.uk )
Sweet indulgence
TNG s1e1 "Encounter at Farpoint"
Adulting is hard
US has ‘squandered’ its claim to world leadership under Trump, German chancellor Merz suggests ( www.independent.co.uk )
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Rawdogging life ( lemmy.world )
A Few More ASUS Motherboards Now Support Sensor Reporting With Linux 7.0 ( www.phoronix.com )
All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window. ...
The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology ( karlbode.com )
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles ( interestingengineering.com )
‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding ( insideclimatenews.org )
Nostalgia - CatTrigger
Ha! You may think that this shows how old I am ORRRRRRRR maybe I'm a very very young 19-year-old who is interested in classical music. ...
Shared joy is a doubled joy; shared sorrow is a half a sorrow
Oh yes
We're still here fundies
BBC Under Fire for Airing MAGA Climate Denial | A former Trump official was allowed to peddle climate myths on the Today programme. ( www.desmog.com )
Air Transat suspending all flights to U.S. as of this spring ( montrealgazette.com )
Air Transat is cancelling its last two flights into Florida as of this spring, suspending all of its business into the United States.
Austrian Green MEP wears ‘tax the rich’ dress to the Vienna Opera Ball ( www.euronews.com )
Lena Schilling used the Vienna Opera Ball to condemn Austria’s mega wealthy, and call for a return to a ‘fair’ inheritance tax model.