Clockface12

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by Clockface12 3y ago
AI? They are quoting Wikipedia articles in those little pop-ups.
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by Clockface12 3y ago
Well said. :D
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by Clockface12 4y ago
The older you are when you smoke, the worse it is for you. Smoking in your twenties is far less harmful in terms of its likelihood to cause cancer than smoking in your forties, fifties, or sixties. The damage gets worse with every decade of
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by Clockface12 4y ago
It's professinalized American-style fundraising. It's an accepted part of US culture. The whole system of US politics works like that. People in the rest of the world often don't understand that. https://campaignsa
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by Clockface12 4y ago
Might as well search in Wikimedia Commons directly ... at least you know that you can use whatever you find there (even if attribution may be required in some cases) ...
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Plastic pollution draws federal and global attention(resource-recycling.com)
2 points by Clockface12 5y ago|0 comments
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by Clockface12 5y ago
The title sounds hopeful, and nature's resilience is indeed amazing, but the article also explains how the plastic debris enables coastal dwellers to cross oceans and become invasive species at the other end of the earth, while also co
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How on Earth is Elon Musk’s SpaceX facing bankruptcy?(thenextweb.com)
4 points by Clockface12 5y ago|2 comments
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by Clockface12 5y ago
The endowment is $100 million the other $200 million is foundation assets – including (these are last years June 2020 figures) $71 million cash $95 million short term investments https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index
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New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World to Fully Legalise Drug Checking(vice.com)
2 points by Clockface12 5y ago|0 comments
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by Clockface12 5y ago
Yeah. Absolutely infuriating if you specifically use quotes and you get all sorts of dross not containing what you're looking for. Clearly they have figured out in some way that giving the end user what they want does not maximise inco
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by Clockface12 5y ago
This is like Gresham's law, only for information: bad info driving out good. The same applies to Wikipedia sometimes, which, being free, achieves a degree of visibility and ubiquity (across search engines and voice assistants) it doesn
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by Clockface12 5y ago
The Twitter account in question is https://twitter.com/yassifybot -- pictures generated thru multiple applications of FaceApp "beauty filters". AI photoediting in practice.
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What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything?(nytimes.com)
3 points by Clockface12 5y ago|1 comments
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NASA Plans to Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Within a Decade(vice.com)
3 points by Clockface12 5y ago|1 comments
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by Clockface12 5y ago
The art forgery case discussed in that blog post was covered last month in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/nyregion/raymond-pettibon... The New York Times writer was of course unaw
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Wikipedia Loves (Stolen) Art(wikipediocracy.com)
2 points by Clockface12 5y ago|1 comments
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by Clockface12 5y ago
You're right about people simply acting in a way they think will serve their personal interests, and it's a nice distinction. Thank you. Another aspect of legacy holding companies back.
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by Clockface12 5y ago
Exactly. It's surely significant that Tesla has overtaken all the incumbents and now has the greatest market share in plug-in electric vehicles (i.e. plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles combined): https://www.stati
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by Clockface12 5y ago
"DuckDuckGo says its analysis of popular free Android apps shows more than 96 percent of them contain trackers. Blocking these trackers means Facebook and Google, whose trackers are some of the most prominent, can’t send data back to t
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by Clockface12 5y ago
One of the quoted experts opines that while some of the big established car manufacturers will survive, most “are running an uphill race with a parachute behind them while EV-first firms are sledding downhill.” I think they have a point – e
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Why Are Electric Vehicle Companies Worth So Much Money?(vice.com)
17 points by Clockface12 5y ago|20 comments
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Wikipedia Criticized After Years of Using Wrong Man's Picture for Serial Killer(news.slashdot.org)
3 points by Clockface12 5y ago|0 comments