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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“CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM,” DOJ says after rare arrest (arstechnica.com)
Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? (news.ycombinator.com)
Microsoft wipes out evidence of real ads in Windows 11 Start menu (www.xda-developers.com)
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue?
“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20240520 UPDATE: I just ran winupdate on an ancient win10 surface and after the same 643 error two more times, and running through all the available updates, it’s now reporting I’m up to date. yippee....
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself (lunduke.locals.com)
Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Kasparov On Terrorist Charges (www.chess.com)
For anyone unaware of who Kasparov is, he’s a very famous chess World Champion from Russia who held the title for 15 years.
Judge holds Trump in contempt for violating gag order in hush money trial (www.nbcnews.com)
Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office accused Trump of violating the gag order numerous times since it went into effect....
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New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial (apnews.com)
Chaos and division erupt at Washington Republican convention in Spokane (www.opb.org)
People who thought OJ Simpson was innocent at the time of the trial, did you later change your mind?
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Putin 'may launch all-out bid to seize second city' - as Western officials fear major Russian advance (news.sky.com)
4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)
Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
XXX (sh.itjust.works)
First Human Patient to Receive a Neuralink Brain Implant Used it to Stay Up All Night Playing Civilization 6 (www.ign.com)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker (www.nbcnews.com)
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, three sources with knowledge of the move told NBC News, doing so just as the House voted to avoid a government shutdown....
YouTube now requires creators to disclose when AI-generated content is used in videos (alternativeto.net)
Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text (www.404media.co)
The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.
"Women of Distinction" award named for Ruth Bader Ginsberg goes to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Stallone (www.wonkette.com)
What in the name of all the Earth and its domains and the heavens above is this asshattery?...
A new-ish, well-maintained vehicle with new tires, fresh oil change etc, if it's left dormant & undriven untouched in a residential driveway for 1 year, will it be driveable after 1 yr?
Why are mental hospitals run like prisons?
I was recently involuntarily held in a mental hospital where I went through prison like conditions (strip search, had to wear scrubs, was locked in a room outside certain times a day, stuff like that) and thankfully came out in one piece after 8 days of this crap. I was just wondering why we subject people to these conditions...