office potluck Might have caused an immediate incursion of the Yellow River but the food was all so good I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
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what exactly DOES happen to materials from a major studio that’s closed? where do physical hard drives, documents, etc go? who maintains all this pointless secrecy? if you know or have stories, get in touch: nathan@aftermath.site, nathangrayson.666 (signal), aftermathdotsite@proton.me (proton mail)
🌞 Howl’s Moving Castle 🌙
broke in my new (as of 4 months ago LMAO) shoes today with a super quick run. havent ever had shoes with dips like this before
saw a character tierlist for all of Naruto that put Sakura in the bottom. that alone tells me everything i need. that person isn't capable of sentient thought.
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · last wk.Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @josephcox.bsky.social story here: www.404media.co/ai-company-l...
just spent 15 minutes reading about porphyritic and orbicular textures in igneous rocks. the sheer amount of information in this one display case really reminds me of how i dont actually know anything. this museum fuckin rocks
we ate down. but i also got my ass beat. do i need to take up rucking or something? this shit is so brutal
winston@winstonzhou.com · 2w agoVery stressed to be covering my first marathon but equally determined to have a good time.
Very stressed to be covering my first marathon but equally determined to have a good time.
so so so excited to be headed to chicago though! havent been in years
it has been so many moons since i've taken an uber at the gooch of dawn and i do Not miss this driver roulette headache
Grandma Fondly Recalls Once Working With Homosexual https://theonion.com/grandma-fondly-recalls-once-working-with-homosexual/
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2w agoOver the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
Starting a playthrough of FFVII. This thing is so good, how have I never played this before?
oh interesting. I have to do stuff in order for certain things to happen
I'm not even abstaining out of snobbery like I simply know that TikTok would ruin my life. that would be a wrap on "my brain." I recognized this immediately and never touched the stuff
helen nooroni@helnoor.bsky.social · 3w agoAs a millennial I'm convinced that if I watch a single tiktok I will instantly crumble into a fine dust
sorry to editorialize but log tf off please god
404 Media@404media.co · 3w agoone of the most heated discussions on X is about the ethics of a project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted LLMs, sparking a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare"... time 2 log off
