ways that google incomprehensibly sucks now: doesn't even generate coherent summaries of wikipedia pages. Generating surface-level coherent text is one of the things LLMs are surprisingly good at!
I've always had good password security. In college I had my debit card number memorized for making 2002-era online purchases. I have used a very secure password manager for over a decade. My reward? A life of retrieving six-digit codes from my email and phone. Every day I suffer
just worked out than in the 1975 election you could have immigrated to new zealand two years prior, gotten permanent residency, ended up in jail, and still been eligible to vote. even in a Māori electorate if you so chose
is talking shit going to unsell the books? this is stupid even from a vulgar financial point of view. you think she's killing the golden goose of cranking out translations of ancient greek poetry once every 5-6 years?
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last wk.Not sure I’d shit on something that helped me sell half a million copies of my book, personally
We all know that bibme is now part of chegg. But did you know that busuu is a chegg service?
funny to remember that people, especially americans, used to make fun of the UK for having CCTV cameras everywhere and now approximately 99.9% of american homeowners have installed their own
it's all diminishing #ItsAllDiminishing
Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · 2w agoWell, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
i remember years ago when there was a controversy over naming an astronomical object "ultima thule", because pre-nazi racists called the aryan urheimat "thule", i got in trouble for suggesting that maybe we shouldn't pre-emptively cede every bit of tangentially problematic language to nazis
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acrobat offering to create an AI summary for a "long document" at 9 pages is deeply insulting on several levels
flickr's interesting because you can end up randomly stumbling onto photos from, say, 2008 that were actually taken on a decent camera and haven't suffered from being reuploaded 15 times. so despite not looking like it they are definitely from 2008 (check belt buckles) www.flickr.com/photos/12741...
this has always been my response to "you can't judge people from the past by the ethics of today". firstly yes i can, just watch me, secondly perhaps if people expect that to happen then maybe their morality will be a little more forward-looking
Old Man in the Woods@plantsometrees.bsky.social · 3w agoLet's speak truthfully about the dead. The more we do, the greater the drive to make one's story a good one.
few things I respect less than people trying to be epic about smoking cigarettes. grow up
I love hooning to the meetup on a rental bike and being insanely sweaty for the first 15 minutes of it, and I'm not joking
this thermostat nonsense is so funny because it's the exact same thing as masking during covid. the most privileged, selfish, dregs of humanity upset because someone asks them to mildly inconvenience themselves for the good of all.
the funniest/stupidest part of this: the CERN accelerators shut down for several months every year. it's called the year-end technical stop (YETS). there are also shorter shutdowns during the year. somehow they didn't notice the effects of those
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · last mo.some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”
god does anyone remember that british... journalist? who compulsively lied about anodyne stuff. like i think someone dug up several tweets of him saying he was trying mcdonalds for the first time
noticed my hand sometimes tingles when i brush it against the espresso machine and finally remembered to check it with a multimeter. 60 VAC between the chassis and ground. dont think that should be there
The word loanword is a calque of the German noun Lehnwort. In contrast, the term calque is a loanword, from the French noun calque ("tracing, imitation, close copy").[14]
slowly feeling the pull of buying a fancy bike. no... i dont need to... i bike for exercise and will just get less exercise per km with a fancier bike...
so here's the thing: you can't just "fix the errors in the AI" when it's as weirdly fucked up as the first thing they posted. idk why they posted that, i can only guess someone received a low res version of an image and tried to upscale it
central european women love to have a tattoo of a sun and crescent moon on their forearm