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by yawpitch 1y ago
And, as expected, police have now announced it was two British nationals, neither of them obviously Islamic, and no apparent or suspected link to any form of ideological terrorism. Islamophobe, probably.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
I can’t show you a bunch of Jew-“lead” (sic) terror attacks in 1920s-30s Germany because the vast majority of them only existed within the fevered imagination of the actual Nazis and Fascists of the day, much as the vast majority of Islamic
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by yawpitch 1y ago
“Islam probably” is inherently racist, just as “Jews probably” was back in the ‘30s, the last time the era of “don’t be racist” was fucking over. But, yeah, would-be Fascists jumping to “Islam probably” whenever there’s a crime in the UK h
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by yawpitch 1y ago
> And in the world's storied history of inventing mad, cruel, and deeply stupid religions, this new one might be the cruelest, the most dangerous, and the stupidest religion of all. I mean, you might win on stupidest, but there’s
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by yawpitch 1y ago
“Men dressed in black” describes about half the ambulatory Doncastrian population after 3PM on a Friday afternoon, they often travel in small groups to try and at assemble at least one complete set of genitals between them, and the terroris
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by yawpitch 1y ago
It was a train originating in Doncaster and travelling on a Friday night, there’s an equal or greater chance it was a drunk and/or stoned white kid that calls everyone “bruv”.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
If there’s a technological solution that could, somehow, provide a ubiquitous means of walking back from image discovered on the internet through the whole chain of custody to either a specific camera or a specific prompt, then yes there’s
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Well I’ve worked in photography and cinematography, and some of that has involved legal and forensic contexts, and I’d say that for most purposes, pre-AI, there’s not really a gap that is about authentication… there’s a need to know of imag
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Solution looking for a use case, most likely, especially if it requires addition of hardware to existing cameras. There’s already lots of ways of fingerprinting camera + lens combinations and tying them to raw files + metadata, and lots of
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Ahh, but what if the Universe is a simulation that uses Universal homomorophic encryption to simulate itself?
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Important context is that this was his first wife, his childhood sweetheart who was already terminally ill with tuberculosis when they married. He was also working on the Manhattan Project at the time; while there were, no doubt, warm bodie
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by yawpitch 1y ago
If you believe that then I’m certain I know more about all three than you do about any one.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Shockingly, visits from datacenters just inside the EU have more than tripled in the same time frame.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
No. You’ve lost it, past tense.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
… ok, lemme see here. mySelf = Human.new() defer mySelf.recycle while myself.not_yet_dead(): mySelf.improve()
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Those aren’t operating manuals, and two of them basically sum up to “if the troubleshooting guide doesn’t work, wait till tech support is back in the office”. At least in the Vedas there’s a bit of a nod to “have you tried powering it off a
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Ahh, so that’s what breaking the douche barrier looks like.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Or: 77% of U.S. adults have never been seen by a psychologist (2022)
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by yawpitch 1y ago
And they say no man can stop the march of time.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
A concussion. A very bad concussion. A probably not-survivable concussion. If you live, you just might learn that Lord Ganesha can really sock some sense into you. And cents as well, if you’ve really pissed her off. Single most important
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by yawpitch 1y ago
You know, there was a time I’d have agreed with this, but yesterday at nearly 51 I walked up the emergency stairs of the UK’s 2nd tallest building 5 times, passing people well under half my age each time… never could have done that when I w
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Travel. See the world. Meet people where they live. Invest in learning how to be uncomfortable. And never, ever, ever, EVER drop a coin into an elephant’s nostril.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
What’s with all the Indonesian mobile-banking spamming today?
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by yawpitch 1y ago
You’ve got a broken link in your markdown, round about the phrase “lang_start function (defined here)”.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
… thus spake Marc Andreessen, mildly known human, not known for competency as a historian, film critic, or moral philosopher.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Well that’s certainly one way to diss (and disvalue) the evolutionary efforts of the once and future crabs.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
> Our thinking on this has evolved - being able to beat absolutely everyone at chess is now not considered enough to be intelligent. But previously we did consider that a useful bar. Perhaps an actually useful bar to be considered inte
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Yeah, I’d been sixth in line, but then the Gipper croaked.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
What kind of a monster wants noseless images of dogs and cats?
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by yawpitch 1y ago
When I was in highschool and editor of my school newspaper I got an email declaring, with proof about twice as long as this article, that I was fifth in line to be the Antichrist, after Saddam Hussein, George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, an

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