skry

skry, 10 months ago to ai

I’m surprised it took this long to hit the news, because fake-human porn was always going to be the first thing to come out of image generators.

And so of course there’s the much more problematic generated CSAM. We need to make this illegal too, otherwise we’ll have to let employers, police, prosecutors, and juries all make judgment calls about which images are real children, which might already be impossible.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65932372

#AI #Moderation #CSAM #law

skry, 5 months ago to random

66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023 https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews2023/

skry, 1 month ago to random

Yeet this guy and everybody who rode in with him. Sociopathic thug ravings. Textbook-caliber fascism.

‘“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen’ (1/6)

skry, 3 months ago to random

“#Measles is a highly contagious disease, which is spread by coughs and sneezes and can be serious at any age.

…high fever and a rash, which normally clears up within 10 days - but complications can include pneumonia, meningitis, blindness and seizures.

There was a nearly 45-fold increase in measles cases in Europe last year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Some 42,200 people were infected in 2023, compared to 941 during the whole of 2022.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68237808

skry, 13 days ago to random

I imagine that with the tail end of the post WW2 generation retiring, the leading edge of the baby boom will be selling housing. Because of demographics we should have excess housing in just a few years. Right? Prices drop, people move up, entry housing appears again, and new housing is built on existing lots with older homes. Hoping we won’t have to pay people to take them as Italy is doing. https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/112510400384472436

skry, 11 months ago to random

I made an account on lemmy.world and logged in so I could subscribe to some news communities. Now I have a nice news feed in a browser tab.

Create an account, verify email address, log in on the web.

As with Mastodon, you need only one account to access the whole world.

There is supposed to be a way to subscribe via Mastodon without registering, but it didn’t work for me.

skry, 1 month ago to random

It’s okay to work for a big tech company, they said, we can change it from the inside. https://wapo.st/3WdPCIG

skry, 7 months ago to random

SARS-CoV-2 attacks the mitochondria in cells, depleting their energy.

"researchers found that the virus blocks specific genes that use oxygen to create ATP, forcing the body to deplete finite energy reserves in the body. Without an energy source, cells throughout the body begin to starve, with the cells powering the brain and the heart suffering the most.”

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2023/10/researchers-show-sars-cov-2-infection-affects-energy-stores-in-the-body-causing-organ-failure/

#LongCovid #Covid19

skry, 2 months ago to random

I was searching for something completely different and unrelated on one of our increasingly deteriorating search engines when I found this bizarre corner of the digiverse. https://dotesports.com/minecraft/news/top-10-minecraft-prison-servers-to-join-in-2024

skry, 1 year ago to random

I guess I need to extract myself from Gmail. (Should do anyway for obvious reasons.) It now won’t deliver email I send to myself from a domain I own. And it doesn’t even make it into the spam box. And there aren’t any controls for this AFAICT. 🤬

skry, 8 months ago to apple

How about auto-hyphenate for mobile text editors?

Not sure how = and * got buried so deep in the iOS keyboard, either, but we have room for frequent symbols now on the surface of most devices, so wouldn’t that be great.

Always-visible Return key…begging already.

#apple #ios #usability #ux

skry, 6 months ago to random

Fetal alcohol syndrome can likely be caused by men drinking heavily before conception.

https://theconversation.com/for-decades-mothers-have-borne-the-brunt-of-scrutiny-for-alcohol-use-during-pregnancy-new-research-points-to-dads-drinking-as-a-significant-factor-in-fetal-alcohol-syndrome-216601

skry, 1 year ago to random

How long do we have before LLM search engines use query data to write articles on those topics?

skry, 4 months ago to random

My theory is that the edges of trees are actually invisible to us, so they are touching (on both ends, obvs), but not in a way we can see. What they are not doing is fighting each other for the light. They are optimizing and cooperating. https://toot.lgbt/@book/111749320285900616

skry, 2 months ago to california

Big win for #Ohlone tribe in #California #LandBack effort.

“The site — a three-block area Berkeley designated as a landmark in 2000 — will be home to Native medicines and foods, an oasis for pollinators and wildlife, and a place for youth to learn about their heritage, including ancient dances and ceremonies. (1/3)

skry, 5 months ago to random

I made my own membrillo for the first time. I’m now an addict. I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve planted a quince tree.

https://www.daringgourmet.com/wprm_print/48792

skry, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

#BloomScrolling

skry, 7 months ago to Israel

World Central Kitchen is serving 31,000 meals per day in #Israel to displaced and evacuated persons.

In #Gaza they have now served over 473,000 hot meals, 37,000 food kits, and 16,500 vegetable baskets. In order to feed families of varying sizes, 42 pound and 35 pound food kits are being distributed, and are intended to feed families for several days. In total, the food kits have provided approximately 1.2 million meals.

Learn more and donate at https://wck.org

skry, 7 months ago to random

https://www.elk.zone has a nice, calm web UI for Mastodon. You can just sign in there and try it anytime.

@feditips

skry, 13 days ago to random

High property taxes support schools. Lotteries support schools. Federal gov supports school food. And yet we have “lunch debts” for poor families and expect the child labor and lemonade stands market to pay them off. SMH.

Good on him, but WTF is going on in these states. https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/112510017626432122

skry, 5 months ago to random

Amazon mystery supplements turn out to have Viagra in them. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/12/fda-would-like-to-stop-finding-viagra-in-supplements-sold-on-amazon/

skry, 5 months ago to ai

Racists, sexists, antivaxxers, etc. are unhappy with “woke" chatbot answers and want to make #AI reflect their biases. If successful, Musk et al could make a powerful disinformation engine.

This battle is time-crucial and starkly illustrates humanity’s potentially fatal flaw: many people are irrational, so we cannot agree on a baseline reality. By weaponizing and electing disinfo and antiscience, the delusional can destroy civilization.

https://wapo.st/3TCI3dk

#GiftArticle #ClimateEmergency

skry, 2 months ago to Bloomscrolling

My rhubarb seems to be doing something special. Not sure what yet. I am an optimist so this goes to #bloomscrolling, but it could be aliens.

A distance shot of the same plant showing its new large ruffly heart-shaped leaves. Only the stems are safe to eat. They are intensely sour until cooked with sugar.

skry, 1 month ago to tesla

It makes you wonder if there’s anyone left at #Tesla who knows how to make cars or who wants to work for Elon at this point. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150274/tesla-layoffs-employee-fourth-week-elon-musk-ev-demand

Meanwhile GOP tries to hurt EV industry https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150041/ev-epa-clean-air-emissions-lawsuit-republicans-tax-credit

If Tesla and Twitter both fail, investors will have to eat SpaceX I guess.

skry, 18 days ago to random

I hope this hubristic power play is the beginning of the end for Elon and Tesla. https://electrek.co/2024/05/20/elon-musk-confirms-threat-give-me-25-of-tesla-or-no-ai-robotics/