skry

skry, 17 hours ago to random

Good news everyone, "AI" wants to listen to your Google phone calls: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-wants-ai-to-listen-to-your-phone-calls-detect-scam-callers/

Even better "AI" wants to read all your Google email. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/

#DoNotWant

skry, 18 hours ago to H5N1

“Cats suffer #H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk” https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/

“Anything that the FDA tells our customers to do, they do the opposite” says a man making money: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu

We have vaccines against various diseases precisely because exposing yourself to live virus is just too risky.

What kind of foolishness would cause a parent to risk their kids, knowing that so many different animals had already died of #birdflu recently?

stroughtonsmith, 1 day ago to random

I know people like to think iPadOS 'forked' from iOS when it was renamed a few years back, but it really didn’t. If you install Xcode, both iPhone and iPad simulators run out of the exact same OS root. It's the same set of apps, the same SpringBoard — it just decides which features you get at runtime based on screen size and a feature map. That's not a fork; the name essentially means nothing. A brand new $4,000 iPad runs the same OS as your six year old phone

skry, 3 days ago to Bloomscrolling

#BloomScrolling

Poppy flower after petals fall. Blue and black stamens surround a purple-topped seedpod, faintly reminiscent of a carnival tent.
Pink poppy blossom open, showing the white and yellow center.

lovelylovely, 4 days ago to random

#Hamas #FreePalestine

#Hamas #FreePalestine

elaterite, 4 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to astrophotography

So this is the place in Doyle, Calif, that I first stopped to photograph the aurora. I could easily see the vertical column structures while driving down the highway! I didn't stay long because some residents turned on a bunch of lights & came out with barking dogs &c. I moved to a spot further away. Wish I could have stayed because the railroad people were assembling the train & I may have captured some interesting lights of moving trains.

#Aurora #AstroPhotography #Photography #Darktable

skry, 4 days ago to random

No-fault divorce saves lives, lots of them. In the US, women’s suicide rates went way down after it became possible to leave their abusers.

"states that adopted no-fault divorce experienced a decrease of 8 to 16 percent in wives' suicide rates and a 30 percent decline in domestic violence."

In the bad old days, you had to prove infidelity or sometimes lack of sexual ability in order to get a divorce. Being abused wasn’t sufficient unless some judge decided it was. (1/2)

skry, 5 days ago to random

I’m mad too, but vote for the environment if you want to live. https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/112412298827046469

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

mathowie, 6 days ago to random

In 2003, a friend ran her first 5k and raised money for a great cause, Guide Dogs for the Blind and I gave $20 happily. To this day, Guide Dogs mails me postcards every few months, no matter how many times my address changes. Today I got this text from the nonprofit 21 years after my sole donation.

My point is Customer Relations Management (CRM) software like Salesforce is too good at what it does and must be stopped.

simon, 8 days ago to random

Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet

> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

Source: https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418

skry, 8 days ago to tesla

It makes you wonder if there’s anyone left at #Tesla who knows how to make cars or who wants to work for Elon at this point. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150274/tesla-layoffs-employee-fourth-week-elon-musk-ev-demand

Meanwhile GOP tries to hurt EV industry https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150041/ev-epa-clean-air-emissions-lawsuit-republicans-tax-credit

If Tesla and Twitter both fail, investors will have to eat SpaceX I guess.

skry, 9 days ago to random

“Texas, the first state where the bird flu virus was detected, has not invited the CDC to conduct epidemiological field studies there, even though its health department is open to the research, because, “We haven’t found a dairy farm that is interested in participating,” said Lara Anton, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services.”

// It pains me to say it, but we’re gonna have to stop buying beef and dairy until they care about cows testing clean. https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/112396436511595868

NunavutBirder, 9 days ago to worldwithoutus

So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.

I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin. #Nunavut #Arctic #Stamps #philately #CanadaPost

donni, 9 days ago to random

How do I monetize this creeping sense of despair

maxleibman, 9 days ago to random

Blocking somebody? Baller move. You’re in charge of your account. You decide who has access to you.

Telling someone, “I’m blocking you for that!” immediately before blocking them? Baby move. Your dysfunctional obsession with getting the last word in is showing.

tenderlove, 9 days ago to random

Cat dad

mekkaokereke, 10 days ago to random

This paper is trash. We do this every few years.

The conclusion is correct (graduate degree holding white men believe the most 'taboo' conspiracy theories), but the reasons it suggests why, are sociology-babble garbage. The real reason is:

• Racism is a lie. To believe in racism, you must believe a set of easily debunkable lies.
• Richer, whiter, maler, more educated populations are not less racist, despite attempts to twist stats to say this. They're more racist.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/05/believes-the-most-taboo-conspiracy-theories-it-might-not-be-you-think/

1/N

skry, 12 days ago to california

“Work began Wednesday on removing the third of four dams that nearly destroyed salmon populations on the Klamath River in Oregon and California and caused some of the nation's largest-ever fish kills.”

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2024/05/02/demolition-starts-on-iron-gate-dam-one-of-the-last-klamath-river-dams/73528152007/ #california #salmon #oregon

film_girl, 15 days ago to random

Honestly, support ublock origin and you can win back the Mac browser market. But the current extension model in Safari is such a terrible experience for every person involved, developers and users. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112360846501810807

skry, 16 days ago to random

“The forest made of a single tree known as Pando ("I spread" in Latin) has 47,000 stems (all with the same DNA) sprouting from a shared root system over 100 acres (40 hectares) [0.4 sq km] of Utah.

Here, this lone male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) gradually grew into a massive 6,000 metric tons of life, making it the largest living organism in the world in terms of mass. (1/2)

skry, 16 days ago to apple

OFFS. Please wipe and donate old phones to domestic violence shelters or sell them to https://www.gazelle.com/iphone

Buy used phones when you can. Gazelle takes trade-ins too.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/18/100000-iphones-stolen-instead-of-scrapped/ #apple #iphone #ewaste #dv

skry, 18 days ago to random

RIP Om Fahad and the millions of other women who have been killed by theocracy and patriarchy.

Women’s rights will not be a won battle until women on the front lines are no longer martyred for self-expression or for controlling their own bodies.

https://wapo.st/4drQnUS

skry, 19 days ago to random

Yeet this guy and everybody who rode in with him. Sociopathic thug ravings. Textbook-caliber fascism.

‘“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen’ (1/6)