Don’t forget the food… And the water, and the water used to grow the food, etc. Creating a clean generation of even mice would be pretty difficult, it’s just everywhere, including most of the tools we’d use to make a cleanroom
The ultimate conspiracy theory… The CIA is manufacturing conspiracy theories so that their actual, admitted, documented conspiracies are dismissed reflexively for sounding insane
Who knew that fragility could become a super-power; the burning issue of climate change held aloft, perhaps barring the way of prime minister Rishi Sunak who’s motorcade would have usually swept past by then.
What a badass. I don’t know how anyone can not respect that kind of stand
More than that - by getting arrested and taken to trial, you get the chance to take a swing at the system. That, along with the armed black panthers encouraging everyone plays by the same rules, is how segregation was ended and civil rights established
Let’s say this guy wins - maybe the court finds he was justified, maybe they find police actions were inappropriate… The tiniest victory here can establish a precedent
It helps with publicity, but it also helps by forcing the state to justify its stance
A 10-year-old boy who was swept into a storm drain while helping his family clean up storm debris is being kept on life support so that his organs can be donated, according to his father....
I hear “the doctors will give up on me more easily” if they even have an argument they can put into words. Which seems ridiculous to me - if they even bother to check, it seems like they’d be more willing to put time and effort into keeping your body intact, giving you a better chance to bounce back despite long odds
All I knew until today was you apply headon directly to your forehead. Why would you do so? If I had to guess, I would’ve said for headaches, but that’s completely an assumption
It’s quite possible, although I’m inclined to blame it on turnover and pressures for deadlines
I’ve come to see software kinda like a plant. If you neglect it, it rots, because all software is contextual and the world moves on. If you keep growing it, it starts to rot from the inside. If you carve out down to something smooth and streamlined, it can last a long time and just need TLC to bounce back
Ultimately, if you want something to be big and to last, you have to prune it, transplant it, and continuously work on it. There’s no direct money to be made there though
And it helps a shit ton to have people around long-term. It can take years to learn a big stack, but having someone go “wait, if we do this we need to rexamine how we delete photos” is how you avoid fuck ups like this
Because they’re using hacktivist groups as a proxy. They just deny all involvement, and probably keep it all isolated from the fancy military grade tools and techniques
Nah, I’m thinking much bigger. I’ve got an AI that can transcribe video, I’m working on one to summarize and put facts into a knowledge graph, I’ve got one that can hold a conversation, and I’ve got a script that scrapes sites and does natural language processing. I just need an agent to tie the pieces together and some control scripts to manage the containerized pieces
The idea is, my assistant will go out, read up on programming topics and build knowledge graphs with references to the source, and I’ll fix my biggest issue - shittified searches crippling my work speed
Then, I’ll send it off to find content. It’ll transcribe/summarize videos and rank them, research topics and come back with reports, and trawl my socials to find new things I might find interesting
I plan to take all that, then let my assistant create video channels to watch and additional content to read if Lemmy is slow. And if my friends and family show interest, I’ll add in hosting and an internal social media and convince them to run additional nodes at home
I’ve been working on it for a while because I saw this coming, I’ve got most of the key pieces already.
And that’s the bubble of Internet I’m building - AI curation of my Internet life, it’ll happily work away the hours deshittifying a bubble of Internet
Reading this almost felt like being given permission. I’ve had a project in the back of my mind for the past year, but it’s kinda pointless and would probably be controversial. For all I talk about software being fundamentally a creative process, I’ve never really considered treating it like art
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
Google is one of the biggest obstacles to privacy. This article will explore how and why to de-Google yourself to reclaim and protect your digital privacy.
And Facebook has some of the best open source work of all time, from the react ecosystem to making php feasible, to LLMs. There’s certainly a ton missing and a lot of it is for their own products, but some of it goes far beyond their own needs
Facebook also did unethical human testing and debatably broke democracy and the social fabric
Just be even handed. Praise the good, denounce the bad, and keep in mind these are monstrously large companies and the people that did the good probably have little to do with the ones that did the bad
Google shouldn’t get a pass because they bought Android and only partially used that ownership to control the ecosystem and push their own products
It blows my mind that fact isn’t more widely shared, especially among technical folk. There’s a reason for the superstitions every senior dev seems to develop one way or another
More than 150 balloons with trash from the North were detected in South Korea. The North had vowed to retaliate against South Korean activists for sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border....
If there’s any chance they’ve heard about a concept, I’ll ask if they’ve heard of it and take them at their word (without comment either way).
And if they’re kinda nodding impatiently, I’ll wrap up the explanation and move on to the deeper level
At first, people will sometimes be defensive or lie about knowing a topic, but after you establish there’s no judgement either way with you I’ve found people become less hesitant about admitting ignorance and will even want to hear your explanation of something to check their knowledge
I also do the flip side - I pride myself on admitting when I don’t know something, so that might play in too
Microplastics found in every human testicle in study (www.theguardian.com)
Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas! (slrpnk.net)
A disabled man is being PROSECUTED for blocking parliament with his MOBILITY SCOOTER (www.thecanary.co)
Disabled activist Neil Goodwin was arrested under the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Act outside parliament...
Google ad on a magazine from 1999 (i.redd.it)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/22055566...
Pills (Take Two) (lemmy.zip)
10-year-old swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says (abcnews.go.com)
A 10-year-old boy who was swept into a storm drain while helping his family clean up storm debris is being kept on life support so that his organs can be donated, according to his father....
ALAT. (lemmy.world)
Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says (fortune.com)
Facts. (lemmy.world)
Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st (arstechnica.com)
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes (www.theverge.com)
Chinese, Iranian, and Russian cyberattacks against water utilities across the U.S. becoming more frequent and more severe, officials say (fortune.com)
- Attacks against water provider’s websites aren’t new, but now attackers are increasingly targeting utilities’ operations...
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress (www.wired.com)
archive.ph/vlcmB
"Mommy, what is (unix_)surrealism?" - A quick guide to becoming a surrealist in the machine age (lemmy.sdf.org)
analognowhere.com/unix_surrealism
California Resto Lets You Pay For Meal With Your Face: Payment Method May Be Available Nationwide Soon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy | Proton (proton.me)
Google is one of the biggest obstacles to privacy. This article will explore how and why to de-Google yourself to reclaim and protect your digital privacy.
A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. (arstechnica.com)
South Korea decries trash balloons dropped by North (www.dw.com)
More than 150 balloons with trash from the North were detected in South Korea. The North had vowed to retaliate against South Korean activists for sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border....
Of course (lemmy.world)
Rancher and 34 cows shockingly killed in lightning strike: ‘It hit them all’ (www.independent.co.uk)