Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and is now exploring new vistas in social media.
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and is now exploring new vistas in social media.
‘I am so scared of them now’: Burned from overspending, some ‘buy now, pay later’ users warn others away (www.nbcnews.com)
After racking up thousands of dollars in debt, some borrowers are deleting the apps from their phones to avoid getting prodded to spend more....
US government may sue PacifiCorp, a Warren Buffett utility, for nearly $1B in wildfire costs (apnews.com)
The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover nearly $1 billion in costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California, though the company is trying to negotiate a settlement....
Academic journal forced to retract peer-reviewed AI-generated paper after "rat penis" pics go viral (www.sott.net)
AI Breakthrough Predicts and Prevents Plasma Disruptions in Fusion Reactors, Scientists Claims (www.vice.com)
Scientists at Princeton University have developed an AI model that can predict and prevent plasma instabilities, a major hurdle in achieving practical fusion energy....
Poland's new government deprograms its once far-right public media (www.npr.org)
WARSAW, Poland — It’s 7:30 in the evening in Warsaw, and public news broadcaster TVP Info is about to broadcast live to millions of viewers across Poland. Producers in a crowded control room scurry in and out, sometimes stopping to peer through a narrow window into a studio where the host reads from a teleprompter....
Israel Says It Will Not Force Gazans Into Egypt, as It Searches Major Hospital (www.nytimes.com)
Israel said on Friday that it would not try to force Palestinians from southern Gaza into Egypt, seeking to calm Palestinian fears of a mass displacement even as Israeli forces pressed ahead with a military operation inside the largest hospital in the area....
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (techcrunch.com)
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package, scuttling deal they had demanded from Democrats (apnews.com)
Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.smeargle.fans/post/118264...
AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports (futurism.com)
Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.
Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?
Some article websites (I’m looking at msn.com right now, as an example) show the first page or so of article content and then have a “Continue Reading” button, which you must click to see the rest of the article. This seems so ridiculous, from a UX perspective–I know how to scroll down to continue reading, so why hide...
iPhone survives 16,000 foot drop from Alaska Airlines flight where panel ripped off (www.independent.co.uk)
Two cell phones were recovered from the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet that had an inflight explosive episode as it flew across Oregon over the weekend....
Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness?
v v ill w 2 colds back to back wanna die miserable 90% of my last 3 weeks of waking hours, little appetite
Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why (www.cnbc.com)
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New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter (spectrum.ieee.org)
Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. (news.yahoo.com)
Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy....
Ukraine expands conscription, removes medical exemptions for HIV, hepatitis, mental disorders and more (archive.ph)
Now, the words and figures “with the exception of articles 2-c, 4-c, 5-c, 12-c, 13-c, 14-c, 17-c, 21-c and 22-c” have been removed from the Regulation, i.e. everyone will be recognised as fit under the “controversial” articles:...
After Netflix, Disney is cracking down on password sharing (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1289467...
Failed replication of claimed superconductor reported on arxiv (arxiv.org)
Twitter is now X (www.twitter.com)
BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed (wedistribute.org)
Old, but just in case folks don't know about this...
Reddit Admins Deny Subreddit Users the Right to Vote for Further Blackouts (teddit.net)
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
Is Crypto Finally Dead?
Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but......