But what if I wanted to communicate with humans instead of propaganda-bots? Then yes, that Internet is dead, and there’s no real fucking reason to be on most of those sites.
Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, firing flash bangs, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment....
Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home - classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air....
Is it really a solution, though, or is it just GIGO?
For example, GPT-4 is about as biased as the medical literature it was trained on, not less biased than its training input, and thereby more inaccurate than humans:
There you go, assuming the problem is worth the corporation’s time and money to bother solving. The correct answer is to not bother hiring a customer support department and telling people that they’re SOL when stuff goes wrong. The goal is to take in more money than you spend on customer support, so you spend none.
I think they’re pointing out the precision-of-language thing: a-theism is the belief that god does not exist. A-gnosticism is the belief that you are unsure whether any number of gods exist. The least amount of opinion you can have about deities is to be a disinterested agnostic (I think?): “I don’t care if god exists enough to wonder about it.”
(Since you can point to the deceitful-god theory to say that the entire universe formed in this instant with this state, and your memories are just a result of god’s machinations a moment ago, both atheism and agnosticism are non-disprovable. The deceitful-god theory may run counter to the common Christian doctrine of Theodicy and may therefore not be subscribed to by many.)
That’s not really normal. Off the top of my head, in order from most likely to least, here’s a list of things to check. Unfortunately, all of them cost money.
Carbon Monoxide detector. Put the batteries in outdoors before you set it up in your house: some require calibration in clear air first. Follow instructions.
Schedule a MD appointment to discuss this. Or at least monitor your heart rate while you’re asleep to see whether it might be sleep apnea. You might also ask about getting tested for ADHD.
Check for black mold or water leaks, probably requires a plumber, or home inspection, or your own testing hardware.
Can you change your diet to see if it’s anything you’re allergic to, like nuts or rat poison? Do you make your own food?
A Geiger counter works wonders to see if anyone’s stored unprotected fissile material in your home, like that wacko who disassembled smoke detectors.
The cities are liberal, but there’s a lot of rural communities that have never had to deal with people before.
The northeast is known for being kind but not nice. Four New Yorkers will carry your luggage down the subway stairs and never look at you once. The south is known for being nice, but not kind. That’s where the poisoned sweet tea comes from. The west is known for neither, if you have car trouble, the best you can hope for in Portland is being ignored. The Midwest is known for being both nice and kind, where neighbors will shovel you out and wish you a nice day before going on to the next car.
I don’t know if it’s property so much as just being around and having to live around so many different people. Like, if I take the bus, I’ll probably pass a hundred different folks to and from work, and only two are going to annoy me.
But, it’s a lot easier to be insular if I live in a small town with 300 people, and can easily assume all my problems are someone else’s fault. I’ll see three new people a week when the tourists stop at the gas station.
Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ (www.independent.co.uk)
A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. (www.businessinsider.com)
At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down (www.cybersecuritydive.com)
Boeing Swears They Just Only Hire Suicidal People (thehardtimes.net)
Trump slurs words, struggles to gain crowd enthusiasm as he takes to campaign trail (www.salon.com)
California police flatten pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, arrest protesters (www.reuters.com)
Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, firing flash bangs, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment....
Columbia University community 'shattered' after police raid (www.bbc.com)
Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home - classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air....
Anon revisits early youtube (sh.itjust.works)
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital (papers.ssrn.com)
Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems....
Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash (www.theregister.com)
Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside (apnews.com)
Man sets himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse (thehill.com)
"Yeah, but what if we used AI?" (lemmy.world)
Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app (lemmy.world)
Gov. Evers to ask legislature to approve largest increase in state support for UW System in over 20 years (www.wsaw.com)
We're bombing schools now? That's worrying (midwest.social)
I keep fucking forgetting what I'm doing every 30 seconds. It's crippling me
I can’t work on maths problems: by the time I key a calculation into my calculator I’ve forgotten what I was actually calculating....
What's going on with the Midwest politically? (kbin.social)
My reason for posting this question is to get some perspective, since I don’t live further west than Indiana....
Analysis | Does anyone really want ebike motor power to increase? (www.bikeradar.com)
Government proposal to double ebike power has received a mixed reception with brands questioning what it will mean for the UK bike industry