Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
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Gambling can be Deception vs Insight, or Sleight of Hand vs Perception... or raw INT, or Strength (if it's arm wrestling) or Intimidate or- (ttrpg.network)
This comic follows on from the Previous comic which might help provide context....
Good Boy comics (sh.itjust.works)
I like to collect what I call “Good Boy” comics. Anybody know of any that aren’t already in here? The comics should include the phrase “good boy” or at least allude to the idea....
Police make arrests in killing of B.C. [Canada] Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar (www.cbc.ca)
Canadian police have arrested members of an alleged hit squad investigators believe was tasked by the government of India with killing prominent Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. last June, CBC News has learned....
I’m in a park. The grass is being mown by a robot. (lemmy.world)
We thought the rider fell off or something and it was going to crash. Then it turned and kept mowing. Park Roomba!...
Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech?
I went to some palestine protests a while back, and was talking to my brother about the organizing, when revealed something I found pretty shocking, we (the protesters) had acquired a permit to hold the protest. Apparently this is standard policy across the US....
ABC4.com: Students walk out of Utah middle school to protest 'furries' (www.abc4.com)
“A lot of the information that’s been put out there is completely incorrect and inaccurate,” Nebo School District Public Information Officer Seth Sorensen told ABC4.com....
Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging (chainstoreage.com)
California's water storage is at its healthiest levels in over a decade
Who Wrote That? Evaluating Tools to Detect AI-Generated Text (foundation.mozilla.org)
Mozilla research found that detection tools aren’t always as reliable as they say. Further, researchers found that large language models like ChatGPT can be successfully prompted to create more ‘human-sounding’ text...
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed (www.technologyreview.com)
Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has...
"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)
On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.
Oh no, Murray! (sh.itjust.works)
Cross posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/17396779
Trudeau Unveils $1.8 Billion Package for Canada's AI Sector (financialpost.com)
Solving your problems with WAY too much firepower... (ttrpg.network)
Guess nobody’s free to play.
Nickelodeon shows are getting weird (lemmy.world)