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by piltdownman 5d ago
The likes of Sir Walter Scott, Peter Ackroyd, Stephen King, Tim Ferris, Robert Greene, Tucker Max, Catherine Asaro, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Nancy Holder etc... all rely heavily on research assistants in various capacities including p
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by piltdownman 5d ago
Meta go one further and literally spell it out with an equivalent example of advertising for an equivalent event in their own published guidelines on Slide - in this case a 'Civil Rights Exhibition' - as eligible to run in the EU.
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by piltdownman 5d ago
Completely wrong. As per Meta's own guidelines, they simply require increased authenticity and transparency to run social issue ads that seek to influence public opinion through discussion, debate or advocacy for or against important t
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by piltdownman 5d ago
Completely wrong. As per Meta's own guidelines, they simply require increased authenticity and transparency to run social issue ads that seek to influence public opinion through discussion, debate or advocacy for or against important t
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by piltdownman 5d ago
Like they've famously obeyed GDPR? Meta aren't 'forced' to do anything other than treat the fines imposed by their lack of adherence to the laws of the territories they operate in as a BAU cost. Meta's profits run r
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by piltdownman 5d ago
This comes less than a year after Google privately tried to convince the Irish Government to lead a pushback against data protection laws at European Union level, having been warned regarding their processing of users’ location data unlawfu
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Irish data protection watchdog fines Google €403M over GDPR breaches(irishtimes.com)
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by piltdownman 5d ago
Is there a viable solution for YouTube on a Google TV nowadays? They've started doing 60 second ads which are absolutely egregious.
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by piltdownman 8d ago
Lol at 'winning' a GDPR case against Google on a technical point. My first thought was 'Oh Sweet Summer Child' and realising that Max Schrems and NOYB aren't as well known as I originally thought. https:/&#x2F
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by piltdownman 8d ago
Under “conduct requirements” imposed by the CMA in June, UK websites are able to activate an opt-out to stop Google from scraping their content to power search features such as AI overviews - very similar conceptually to the news law passed
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by piltdownman 9d ago
When you find the Technocratic City on a Hill let me know // To counter those phenomena of filthy manipulation we need an educated society At a macro level, the 'educated society' _are_ the manipulators. // So,
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by piltdownman 10d ago
Byuu and McMaster decapped all the SNES ones with amazing write-ups a number of years ago.
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by piltdownman 10d ago
> Whatever you do, you have to do it properly. Of course guardrails that are defeatist and that impact on fundamental rights are unacceptable. Agreed. > Not really: visit the room where the Mona Lisa is and avoid the unwanted rooms. I
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by piltdownman 10d ago
> The people voted wrong so we must censor or put a gate in front of social media. Next year, we'll simply retire voting entirely because we just can't trust people to make the right choice. This is democracy TM. You must be co
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by piltdownman 10d ago
Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Simulator
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by piltdownman 10d ago
Nonwithstanding the human fascination with simulation and simulacra, Airplanes and Air Travel represent a fascinating cultural touchpoint with much insight and depth to plumb depending on what aspects you simulate. For example, think of a h
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by piltdownman 11d ago
Social media has influenced at least one Presidential Election and the Brexit Campaign to the point where educated adults were manipulated into voting against their own interests. If educated adults in possession of their full critical facu
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by piltdownman 12d ago
Who ever wants to manipulate the user using their PII and associated metadata - Retail, Marketers, Political and Security Apparatus... the world is your dystopian oyster in that regard.
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by piltdownman 12d ago
Why not? Plenty people already use a dedicated '2FA' phone for Work under BYOD policies when they don't want to install any 'work' software on their 'personal' phone.
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by piltdownman 16d ago
It's LucidSpark for non-masochists. It's Parabol for power-users. It's possibly the greatest 'roll your own' tool for workshopping and blue-sky planning to hit mass-appeal without feature and subscription bloat. Inc
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by piltdownman 19d ago
What did the Medicis or Guggengheim's do other than be rich and idle at the right time and place in history? The contemporary prompt is a port for patronage, not a point of inflection - with a similarly ludicrous symbiotic relationship
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by piltdownman 19d ago
If fumbling through 'hot cross buns' on the recorder is roughly analogous to recitation of multiplication tables, then Gould playing Shostakovich can certainly be referenced as one would the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Certainly
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by piltdownman 24d ago
The difference being that the role of Engineer wasn't conceived as a layer of friction between consumers and their statutory rights to the point where a U.S. Senate subcommittee probe (Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster
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by piltdownman 24d ago
A lot of which isn't under the purview of Dublin City Council - what you're talking about is the M50 ring, and the purview of the other 3 councils - Fingal (e.g. Swords and Malahide) South Dublin County Council (Tallaght and Clond
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by piltdownman 26d ago
Well, yes. Not a huge breadth of research, but all conclusions support my statements above. Two such relevant and recent studies: Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence and Online Psychotherapy Initiative to Improve Access and Efficiency
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by piltdownman 26d ago
It's an amazing and disingenuous posit that the problem here lies with the Algorithm as opposed to the consequences under which it was introduced - cost-cutting. The barriers to care for patients who are already struggling with serious
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by piltdownman 26d ago
Kimi K3 is an LLM so completely separate to the conversation at hand. The DSA doesn't apply to models, it applies to businesses operating as Platforms with more than 45 million monthly users in the EU. If you were to use Kimi K3 via ki
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by piltdownman 26d ago
Not only do they have clear requirements and guidelines, they're codified into law. The core aims of the law are unambiguous in both aim and implementation, and serve to enforce existing consumer rights. Please feel free to highlight w
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by piltdownman 26d ago
Due to hitting 45 million average monthly users in the EU, ChatGPT is now subject to the same classification as Reddit or Roblox - and thus held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT’s impact on minors, user mental health, and
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by piltdownman 26d ago
Because iPhone/AirPods are a wealth and fashion signifier. IKEA is a flat-pack THX-1138. Fight Club summarised it beautifully two decades ago: “- Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct. Narrator: Uh, yes

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