I make things of metal and code. I do road trips.
My main website is sensitive research (my queer scifi novel [The Delivery]is there), Rambler automobiles, Rambler Lore.
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Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence (karawynn.substack.com)
Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.
Hearing voices (lemmy.world)
Well well , they dont get appreciated enough ! (lemmy.world)
A funder for 'Sound of Freedom,' a QAnon-adjacent film about child sex trafficking, has been charged with accessory to child kidnapping (www.insider.com)
Here’s the Intelligence Assessment of Donald Trump that the Government Can’t Write (www.politico.com)
A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul (www.nytimes.com)
(Gifted article, no paywall)...
Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet (www.bbc.com)
The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU’s climate change service Copernicus....
Can flies recognize that I'm holding a flyswatter?
Has this ever happened to you? There’s a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he’s back, taunting you....
Why are actors smoking in movies and tv shows?
Even if they are using fake cigarettes that smoke can’t be healthy to inhale, right?
Radioactive material storage?
I inherited my grandfather’s WWII compass, and had it sitting around for a long time on a shelf. I recently got a Geiger counter, and find that it’s radioactive. Around 10 microsieverts/hr. Apparently they used radium paint to make them glow in the dark. I can’t just throw it away, but I don’t want it potentially causing...
Is it possible to eat in such a way that you'll never have to fart?
If not, then what about rarely instead of never?
‘Underground’ raves popping up beneath freeway bridges in San Diego (www-cbs8-com.cdn.ampproject.org)
Hot Take: Flat Earthers should be banished to orbit.
Madeline: Science denial really grinds my metaphorical gears, and Flat Earthers are some of the most egregious about it. So manhandle them into strait jackets and shove them in the damn rocket already.
x last night (lemmy.world)
I posted this earlier today in the tech lemmy instance, but, they have no sense of humor and deleted it. I’m trying here.
As work begins on the largest US dam removal project, tribes look to a future of growth (abcnews.go.com)
The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border — a process that won’t conclude until the end of next year with the help of heavy machinery and explosives.
Lamb shawarma is awesome! (lemmy.world)
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I doubt that, but ok. (lemmy.world)
The DEAD MEDIA Project: A Modest Proposal and a Public Appeal (www.deadmedia.org)