I think AI is in a similar place as GMOs were 10 years ago. The technology isn’t inherently problematic but the main companies rolling it out seem to be doing so during a banner drop where the banner screams “I’m evil and I intend to burn this place to the ground.” We shouldn’t trust them because they’re practically telling us not to in the same breath they use to promote their products. I would say most of the main models available to the public fall under this boat.

Just like GMOs this doesn’t mean that there’s not some cool AI research being done, for ex. special models run by researchers to improve diagnostics or look for new antibiotics. It remains to be seen whether the cool stuff will have been worth whatever it is we lose.

I grew up somewhere where it didn’t cool down a lot at night and the only solution was to sleep in front of a fan. Sometimes I could get the fan to blow directly into the sheets and sort of balloon them out which was pleasant.

Where I live now it cools at night so I can open the windows at night and close them up during the day. Sometimes I close the curtains too if it will be extreme. I open the windows and create a cross draft when it cools down.

Those ice/fan pseudo a/c setups don’t work well.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, eh?

I don’t have the specific torrent I used but I was able to torrent and install Rosetta Stone a few years ago including as many language packs as I I cared to install and including the speaking part. The current app version isn’t available outside of subscription afaik. https://archive.org/details/rosetta-stone-windows-mac-os-v-4.5.5-v-3-language-packs-v-3.7.5.2-language-pack-

I know a couple where the guy is quite a lot older and less attractive than the girl and guys will legit regularly confront the girl at the bar or at concerts and stuff being like “why are you with this guy” visibly upset

US midwest — I was taught both versions in school but we focused more on latin american/mexican spanish which more people around us spoke.

Less of a bot problem, more influence over the features added, no ads, no dealing with mergers or shareholders or ceos, anyone can build software to interact with it, code is open source and auditable, if you don’t want to deal with moderators you can self host. A lot of people left reddit because reddit was acting like a bully.

I hope more people join so that niche communities can form but I’m happy to make do with less people for the time being.

The depositions come from a lawsuit the Modern Language Association, American Council of Learned Societies, and American Historical Association brought against the National Endowment for the Humanities and others over its cutting of hundreds of millions of grants. DOGE members Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh were a driving force behind those cuts. The deposition videos, which the MLA uploaded to YouTubeearlier this month, included depositions of Fox, Cavanaugh, and NEH officials Adam Wolfson and Michael McDonald.

The videos went viral when 404 Media and other outlets reported on their contents and clipped certain segments. Those included Fox not being able or unwilling to define DEI.

FIFA peace prize in shambles

Google will probably filter these out of results now so it’s harder to tell. glad it was exposed though

It really was the final symbolic stamp for the overhaul we saw across silicon valley.

Yeah it’s like gmos. The biggest companies in the game are well documented as ill-intentioned profiteers. The technology isn’t inherently bad.

Even though they disagreed on some things everyone quoted sounds like they’re actually applying reason, kinda refreshing

I guess that’l have to be good enough, ZoopZeZoop for world dictator!

Yeah ever since it started hosting serious topics I’ve had the impression microblogging encourages ‘gotcha’ behavior and discourages meaningful discussion.

Less so when it first launched and was mostly used to follow what your favorite band was up to or watch your friend live tweet a south park episode.

Latest one in 2023, promise I’m not giving advice from the 80s:)

Again, not sure it’s active where you are but there’s also a job list on idealist.org which lists a lot of canvasing or union type jobs but also some regular ones.

President said newspapers just misinterpreted and misreported.

NPR cites this quote in their ‘halted shipments’ article:

“Pemex makes decisions in the contractual relationship it has with Cuba,” Sheinbaum said in her morning news briefing. “Suspending is a sovereign decision and is taken when necessary.”

When she clarified today she said she was just describing that there are two independent routes oil makes it to cuba, and neither had been halted.

I think she only mentioned sovereignty to re-assert the state’s right to send humanitarian aid regardless

I’ve had 3 full time desk jobs and found 2 of them on craigslist. Not sure where you’re located but perhaps you have something like craigslist? Lots of spam jobs to sift through but unlike job aggregator sites I usually actually got a reply back and felt like my application was going somewhere other than the void.

How to activate?

They’re kind of a live mixing engineer, it’s really hard to coordinate a piece between more than about 6 others without a conductor to give feedback, cues, and tend to the overall sound (tone, dynamics, rhythm).