The description of the bird starts out by saying that it’s very trusting, and will often perch on passers-by. Checks out, I guess!

ICE will continue to prioritize your removal

Well that’s not bleak at all…

Oh, I misunderstood. So you mean federating with their network from other software implementing the AT Protocol? From skimming the docs it looks like it should be possible as long as you implement the correct schemas, but I didn’t dive very deep.

Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider Bluesky social network.

Seems like it

Now, now, I’m sure there’s a kernel of truth in there!

In your defense, it’s actually spelled “albedo”.

It is indeed a global standard!

It is the PLU code used for bananas in grocery stores. The PLU code is the code the cashier punches in before weighing the produce to get the correct price.

Oh yeah, one is way better than the other! But the lack of actual representation is still creating an “us vs. them” mindset that is straight up ruining democracy.

Sure, I might have worded myself a bit clumsily. I meant using them in a conversational way. They’re trying to say “less than 500 steps,” which is very different from “500 is larger than steps per day” in tone.

My point was just that in normal speech and writing you would say “less than 500”, which would be written “< 500” if you insisted on using the mathematical sign.

That’s not how that works, though… It is 100 % what they meant, but not at all how you use greater than/less than signs in text.

It’s why ~40% of Americans didn’t vote in 2024.

Well, I’m sure that the first past the post voting system that created two giant parties pretending to each represent half the population, while in reality only representing slightly different billionaires, has something to do with that as well…

Well, that sucks 😅 Sounds like you should live in an apartment/condo! Still won’t escape the cleaning, though…

Doing something you don’t like for yourself feels quite different from doing it for someone else, though.

Most people who do something they don’t like for a living does that thing purely because it is the thing that makes some shareholder more money. All (or most of) the meaning has been sucked out, and that definitely has something to do with capitalism.

Of course we’ll probably never get to the point where everyone loves every day of their job, but injecting some value (that isn’t purely monetary) back into work would do wonders, IMO.

If you can’t see it, then that is your loss 😉

I love how the book says that no one has observed electricity, yet it has a picture of a lightning bolt on the cover 🤦

While I wholeheartedly agree that universal basic income should be a thing, I still think it’s deeply problematic that unthinking machines replace people specifically in fields of artistic expression.

While AI can produce pretty convincing images in many styles, the actual expression of experience, feelings and general humanity is gone. Even disregarding the hardship of the artists being replaced (or assuming UBI will be a satisfying solution for them), that loss in itself is a good enough reason to be skeptical.

The main reason for the existence of art is to share human experience, and to be able to experience the world from another perspective than your own. This is a hugely important role in society that is very easily overlooked, and one that is completely lost with naïve use of AI.

I think you’re wrong.

The glasses are absolutely smudged, but that is from the image processing on the phone. Low light most smartphones try to reduce noise by smoothing the picture, often excessively.

The text above the woman is not garbled nonsense, it says “<indecipherable> is biGGer”. The upper case G’s makes it look strange, but it is cohesive text.

The shoes look to be another smoothing artifact.

Damn… yeah those samples suggest ~6–8mg of plastic per gram of sample tissue in the brains from 2024 😟 That would be like 10 grams in an entire adult brain if the distribution is even.

“Thankfully” it looks like the brain has the highest concentration of all studied organs 🙃

[email protected] would probably dig this.