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JamesGleick, to random
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Regulating AI is a complex problem. But let’s start with this: Counterfeiting humans should be illegal. https://flipboard.social/@CultureDesk/111166916789025736

gwcoffey,
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@JamesGleick I would go further. Pretending to be human should be illegal. Any AI agent I encounter during an interaction with a business or app should be required to identify itself as such at the moment of contact.

North, to random
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Writing code by staring into space for approx. 6 days and then writing everything in an hour.

gwcoffey,
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@North It is an irony that the best way to figure out a tricky bit of code is to stop working on it.

badastro, to random
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OH NOES

MERCURY IS IN RETROGRADE NEXT WEEK!!!

What does this mean for you?

(hint: nothing)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-survive-mercury-in-retrograde/

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gwcoffey,
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@badastro It means my periodic reminder that the Ptolemaic System is trash, Phil. That's something.

gwcoffey,
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@badastro Haha fair. I guess I should say it reminds me of the lengths we had to go to to try to square that innate sense with observed reality before we realized how thoroughly our senses had deceived us. Which now that I think of it is kind of wonderful and kind of sad.

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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The phone you grew up with was a -

Please boost for a wider demographic

gwcoffey,
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@dancinyogi What about one of those push button pulse dialing phones. That was my first.

historyofpunkrock, to random
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43 years ago
The Queens ❤️, London 1980

L-R Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex , Viv Albertine of The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie And The Banshees and Pauline Black of The Selecter

📸 Michael Putland

gwcoffey,
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@historyofpunkrock This picture is amazing. Love the diversity of facial expressions.

daringfireball, to random
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Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/07/24/airpods-as-hear-aids

gwcoffey,
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@daringfireball I use them this way in meetings when they’re in a large conference room. Work great for me.

cabel, to random
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On Slack, Steve said "Only OGs remember the original Apple Vision", so I had to make this dumb GIF

Now I think maybe @Cdespinosa will be the only one on the planet who might get this

video/mp4

gwcoffey,
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@cabel @Cdespinosa Oh my word. This is a deep cut.

daringfireball, to random
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Apple Tries to Explain to U.K. Legislators That You Can’t Add Back Doors to Secure Protocols
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/07/20/apple-uk-e2ee

gwcoffey,
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@daringfireball Apropos of nothing you reminded me of this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

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gwcoffey,
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@Lady @bookstodon “A poem is the next best thing to silence.” – Mackay Brown

MnemosyneSinger, to random

See how easy it is to forgive debt?

gwcoffey,
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@MnemosyneSinger This is making me cry in a restaurant.

JamesGleick, to random
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Why do papers like the New York Times (in this case) feel it’s necessary to use this tortured language when reporting on weather disasters? The baseline for coverage of extreme flooding, storms, heat, and wild fires is that they are part of one story: the ongoing catastrophic global warming that is transforming our planet.

Are they worrying about hurting the feelings of climate-change deniers? We ought to be past that now.

gwcoffey,
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@JamesGleick Especially strange given that public policy is in some sense a game of aggregates. If you’re going to do this for climate why not everything? Why not welfare, guns, abortion, defense and on and on.

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    gwcoffey,
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    @noellemitchell You can take an old iPhone in to the Apple Store and get a battery replacement. Absolutely no need to replace the whole phone. Pricing here:

    https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-replacement

    daringfireball, to random
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    MrBeast Trolls Elon Musk on Threads
    https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/07/07/mrbeast-trolls-musk

    gwcoffey,
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    @daringfireball At least for me that link doesn’t work without an account. (Fwiw the same is true for instagram for me but other people swear they can browse public posts without an account so I’m not sure what the parameters are.)

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