Yes, I only respect journalists who never update their opinions or recommendations given new information. Everyone needs to use psychic foresight to determine the best takes and then never ever change them. Meta was always exactly as bad as it is today. /s
The Kindle app for Android has an option for continuous scroll instead of page turn.
404 Media has done a lot of excellent reporting on this: https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-internet-its-the-zombie-internet/ https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-being-overrun-with-stolen-ai-generated-images-that-people-think-are-real/ https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
In their 90s? Gimme some bread and dancing then!
Final Destination 2: https://youtu.be/-YoCkWiFYH8
And they put the operating rooms on the top floor so nearby pedestrians wouldn’t hear the screaming so loudly.
I thought it meant that all the icons/interfaces for AI seem to have a graphical gradient between colors, usually cool colors like blue/purple/pink. (Like the face in the meme)
Deleted scenes from Eye of Argon?
It tends to break chat bots because those are mostly pre-written prompts sent to ChatGPT along with the query, so this wipes out the pre-written prompt. It’s anarchic because this prompt can get the chat bot to do things contrary to the goals of whoever set it up.
That might be the same story? I don’t remember well enough; I should hunt it down and reread it :D
Reminds me of this Niven story where a human takes some pills that are supposed to teach aliens how to teleport, but since he can’t teleport he just gets an amazing sense of direction and orientation: https://www.larryniven.net/?q=bibliographic-reference/fourth-profession-the
There’s a great YA book about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Reversed_Himself?wprov=sfla1
Patriarchy oppresses us all.
There are plenty of women who live like this now. It’s a cultural thing, not a timeline thing. I had a roommate in college who would wake up before dawn to do her makeup so nobody would see her without it.
(Also high society women certainly didn’t make their own breakfasts… well, ever, but especially not hundreds of years ago)
My favorite thing about this meme is that whenever it gets posted we get to hear these stories. I’m glad it got better for you!
My brother and his wife would give their kids a “special treat” at bedtime: warm milk with protein powder. Worked great.
Yeah, she still seems like a terrible person but probably the least terrible of this whole crew. Certainly less terrible than SBF.