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This could be a factor, but there are other things that probably do more to explain the uptick in suicides. 1. There's a new hot war with Iran, a country that has put a large amoun…

Suggestion: For the pop-up text, bold the meaning of the word so it pops out a bit better. Due to the formatting of word definitions, you have to go hunting for it in many cases.

AI companies would do well to realize that civil disobedience is a thing. Take what's currently happening to Flock cameras as an object lesson. People are so fed up with Flock that…

Knowing the way in which bureaucracies work, I suspect there is zero (or likely negative) money available for new humans or old-school systems, but heaps available for anything wit…

1. Trump doesn't care if he costs U.S. taxpayers money. He'd only care if he was personally sued. 2. A foreign party using U.S. courts to sue the U.S. government has always been a …

The original teaser for Star Wars was made before they had John Williams' score: https://youtu.be/XHk5kCIiGoM?si=VxAJcCATzwn6gZPw Watching it may help you appreciate just how impor…

My main point is that people shouldn't just swallow the noble and lofty sounding PR. These guys are the same as everyone else in the sector. Don't ignore the harmful or scummy thin…

They make many bold promises, but their core goal is neatly encapsulated on the website: "Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering…

Blockbusters and tax credits started the trend, but green-screen filming sure accelerated it. Now that so many movies are almost entirely CG, it really doesn't matter where the gre…

"For the experiment, I started by taking a day completely off coffee." ----------- This is an anecdote, not an experiment. What's anecdotal evidence worth? Yes, caffeine consumptio…

What is theory without observation? Science was turbocharged once we recognized the need to make testable theories and then actually conduct tests, always ready to toss a theory, n…

"As such, it seems trivial to suggest that it is in our interest to continue to seed them the most human-centric bias possible. We want them to have a bias that humans are valuable…

To provide a basic level of consumer protection, governments should: 1. Recognize that paying for a game implies ownership . Developers must not employ methods that remove purchase…

Yes, you'll fail to find some things locally and have to order it online. The key is not to go to Amazon first , because then you're guaranteed not to find the local alternatives.

Stop using Amazon and see what happens. I stopped using Amazon early last year (because Canadian). I was forced to find local shops for the stuff I was getting online and, to my su…

This reminds me of the Pangeos megayacht from a few years back. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pangeos-terayacht-turtle/ TL;DR: Pangeos was a concept for a floating free city t…

"But University of Alberta AI ethicist Mohamed Abdalla says the findings reflect the incentives facing commercial AI developers, rather than solely a failure to uphold scientific n…

Only if the authors pay for it. https://authors.acm.org/open-access/acm-open-for-authors-hom...

"But the representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of the movie’s imagined world. We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometime…

This ruling might feel good viscerally, but it also reinforces Googles own scraping as perfectly legal. At its inception, Google probably viewed this lawsuit as win-win. Either the…

If they try this, multiple random people will write bots to republish everything instantly . The cash gusher they expected will turn into a trickle and the white house will look li…

This thing is going to be conundrum for archaeologists if historical records don't survive. - Is it a religious site like a pyramid, church, or stonehenge? Nope. - It sets up all s…

Flock was pitched as the triumph of technology over criminality. It's surveillance network was supposed to end crime. However, when people witness extreme criminality thriving unpu…

The next time you hear people claiming that Canada's dairy tariff's are unjust, unfair, etc.* ... Bear in mind that they only kick in after a quota that's never been reached becaus…

Given that AI exec's have been careful to lavish praise (and cash) on Trump for the last few years, I suspect bailouts will not be off the table.