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Datacenters are often ahead on this, I believe.

Russian money and disinformation campaigns. The same as in the US, really.

A greater crowd in attendance, even if they’re there just for the food, lends an air of legitimacy.
It’s all about appearances.

These environmental disasters are the true cost of “cheap” energy.

We have borrowed from the future, and the future is wanting its money back.

Cigarettes are fairly easy and obvious to avoid, disregarding the occasional whiff when you’re out and about.

Food additives less so, especially when in it’s in a lot of different foods and manufacturers may change previously “safe” formulas.

If the evidence comes from ‘official presidential communication’, it can’t be used; is what was said.

AI hallucinates and generates jibberish when you’re asking it to generate text about edge cases and knowledge bases which aren’t commonly talked about.

I’ve had AI give me examples which were could’ve been right but were wrong in the given context. I don’t find it too difficult to believe it could use details from one file format to supplant knowledge for another.

Go ask chat.openai.com

(The current version of) ChatGPT may not be the ai used to generate these articles.

The website that she refers to in her video, and the massively wrong verbiage in the paragraphs proceeding, is definitely not “AI Slop”

That’s may be true for some, but the hourlong podcast ‘discussion’ on the file format was definitely AI generated.

According to the company, CMG Local Solutions’ access to advertising data based on voice and other data is collected by third-party platforms and devices “under the terms and conditions provided by those apps and accepted by their users.”

In the since-deleted blog post, CMG Local Solutions discusses whether Active Listening is legal. “We know what you’re thinking. Is this even legal? The short answer is: yes. It is legal for phones and devices to listen to you. When a new app download or update prompts consumers with a multi-page terms of use agreement somewhere in the fine print, Active Listening is often included,” the company said in the post.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/active-listening-marketers-smartphones-ad-targeting-cox-media-group-1235841007/

Except it is also listening. This was a minor scandal back in September. I believe Cox media has since been dropped by Facebook and Google and such, but it happened.

What’s Happening: In a pitch deck that has surfaced since the initial story broke out, Cox Media Group (CMG), a digital marketing outfit based out of Atlanta, Georgia, was spotted touting “the power of voice” in a pitch. In it, they outlined how they can use AI to collect and analyze voice data from users through more than 470 sources.

https://news.itsfoss.com/ad-company-listening-to-microphone/

Sam:

From a quick search: there haven’t been conclusive studies, but orcas can as old as 30 or 40.

So, given that “dog years” are essentially the life span of a human divided by the life span of a dog, “orca years” would be twice or thrice that of a human.

Angela Collier just released a video about how billionaires really want to be seen as physicists, whilst most of them dropped out of college. “I could’ve become”, “I considered to” and so on.

They really want to be perceived as smart. I don’t get any brownie points for saying “I thought about getting a PhD”, why should they?
Especially when they can hire several professors to teach them personally with their billions of dollars.

It’s a long video, but well worth the watch.

defeating Denise Swanner, whose campaign attacked his sexuality.

Remember when it was all about “the identity politics of the left”?

Same for public transit.

A bit of compensation isn’t a crazy idea, but it doesn’t have to break even with the money it does bring in. It’s not like we have a ton of toll roads either, it’s not an issue to spend billions on another lane or two.

Usually games like Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto are cited in these instances, but as there are no proven links between video games and real world violence, and Among Us would be a wholly new category of game here.

Is Nick still leading that channel?

I kind of lost interest after Frost made his expose

In 2019, two nurses and a pharmacist questioned a Weiner order to apply a fentanyl patch on a 93-year-old woman who was already on opioids and bobbing in and out of consciousness. A nurse texted Weiner to ask whether he was sure. Weiner responded, “Tell them put it on or I will rip their lips off.” Weiner told me this was “an inside joke.”

What an article.

Federal regulators also failed to address alarming trends. An analysis of Medicare drug data shows that, from 2013 to 2020, Weiner’s volume of opioid prescriptions ranked ninth among all cancer doctors who bill the program. When it came to morphine, Weiner consistently ranked among the top five. In 2017, he prescribed more morphine than any other cancer doctor. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not respond to questions.

[…]

If a patient wants CPR or a machine to keep them breathing, they elect to be a “full code.” Weiner, the hospital said, had a pattern of altering, without consent, a patient’s status from full code to a DNR/DNI, do not resuscitate and do not intubate.

[…]

If the residents of Helena had seen those files, they would know how Weiner built a high-volume business that billed as much as possible to public and private insurance, all the while sending numerous patients through a carousel of unnecessary and life-threatening treatments. They would have learned that the hospital had financial incentives to look away.

[…]

When I asked Weiner why the hospital would publicly accuse him of various types of malpractice but withhold its concerns about his end-of-life care, he said it’s because administrators knew what he was doing and even encouraged it.

Why not use your subscription feed?

Id argue that when the government is spending millions to investigate a guy who isn’t even part of the government, it’s a political prosecution

I may not like it, but also kinda fair.

That you know of, or care to know of.

Yes, but also who cares. No need to point out that “technically there’s always a chance” because you can do that for basically anything.