Comment So long Tom (Score 2) 42
Thanks for all the smut!
Comment 100 IQ (Score 5, Insightful) 196
At university I interned for a therapist who specialized in identifying if people were legally qualified for government benefits for being too stupid. My job was to administer IQ tests. After training, I had to practice on people I knew before testing clients.
My then girlfriend's sister tested at almost exactly 100 IQ (104). She wasn't too dumb, but she certainly wasn't bright. Only upon later did I realize that she was smarter than over HALF of the population. Truly frightening.
All of this is to say: I do not think ChatGPT is making people more stupid. People already are stupid, and if anything the stupidity is infecting ChatGPT. Stupid people using it are also making it more stupid, not the other way around.
Submission + - Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. (yahoo.com) 2
fjo3 writes: A team of researchers in California drew notoriety last year with an aborted experiment on a retired aircraft carrier that sought to test a machine for creating clouds.
But behind the scenes, they were planning a much larger and potentially riskier study of salt water-spraying equipment that could eventually be used to dim the sun’s rays — a multimillion-dollar project aimed at producing clouds over a stretch of ocean larger than Puerto Rico.
But behind the scenes, they were planning a much larger and potentially riskier study of salt water-spraying equipment that could eventually be used to dim the sun’s rays — a multimillion-dollar project aimed at producing clouds over a stretch of ocean larger than Puerto Rico.
Submission + - Britain: 'Shut Up,' the Government Explained. (nationalreview.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
An elite team of police officers is to monitor social media for anti-migrant sentiment amid fears of summer riots.
Detectives will be drawn from forces across the country to take part in a new investigations unit that will flag up early signs of potential civil unrest.
The division, assembled by the Home Office, will aim to “maximise social media intelligence” gathering after police forces were criticised over their response to last year’s riots.
It comes amid growing concern that Britain is facing another summer of disorder, as protests outside asylum hotels spread.
On Saturday, crowds gathered in towns and cities including Norwich, Leeds and Bournemouth to demand action, with more protests planned for Sunday.
Submission + - Canada: Let's allow the US to spy on all our citizens and backdoor everything (eff.org)
sandbagger writes: The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.
Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust is clear: it’s a roadmap to aligning Canadian surveillance with U.S. demands.
Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust is clear: it’s a roadmap to aligning Canadian surveillance with U.S. demands.
Submission + - Scientist Just Learned Our Ancestors Ate Toddlers (dnyuz.com) 1
fjo3 writes: Roughly 850,000 years ago, someone looked at a toddler and saw dinner. That’s the conclusion researchers have drawn after analyzing a child’s neck bone found in the Gran Dolina cave system in northern Spain. The bone, belonging to a 2- to 5-year-old Homo antecessor, shows precise cut marks—signs of decapitation and defleshing. In other words, this poor kid got butchered and eaten.
Comment How it's made (Score 5, Interesting) 215
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is an excellent and mostly to the point demonstration of just how simple it is to generate AI slop that would not sound at all out of place on a top 40 radio station.
Submission + - FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out (wired.com)
fjo3 writes: Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.
Comment I have no social media (Score 1) 154
How will they interpret that?
Comment Been playing a Godot game (Score 1) 25
Dome Keeper. It's great! Didn't realize it was an open source engine. Dogwalk was fine for a tech demo, but Dome Keeper is a real, and incredibly fun, game, with multiplayer coming soon. Free demo - check it out. (I am just a fan, not a dev)
Submission + - Barbie launches first doll with type 1 diabetes (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: ‘Representation matters’: Barbie launches first doll with type 1 diabetes
Doll with insulin pump and glucose monitor is latest in range designed ‘to enable more children to see themselves’
Mattel has now launched its first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes, the latest addition to a range it says has been designed “to enable more children to see themselves reflected and encourage doll play that extends beyond a child’s lived experience”.
Doll with insulin pump and glucose monitor is latest in range designed ‘to enable more children to see themselves’
Mattel has now launched its first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes, the latest addition to a range it says has been designed “to enable more children to see themselves reflected and encourage doll play that extends beyond a child’s lived experience”.
Submission + - Nintendo Bans Switch 2 After Owner Installs Used Games On It
An anonymous reader writes: From LevelUp: "One Reddit user, who goes by dmanthey, found this out the hard way. According to his post, he was banned after playing four used Switch 1 games that he had purchased through Facebook Marketplace. He explained that he simply inserted the cartridges into his Switch 2 and waited while the console installed the required updates. However, when he turned it back on the next day, he was greeted by a message saying his access to Nintendo’s online services had been restricted because his system was now banned. ...
Fortunately for dmanthey, the story did not end there. He reached out to Nintendo’s customer service team, who asked him to find the Facebook listing and provide photos of the cartridges he had purchased. After a few conversations with support, he was able to prove his case and have the ban lifted, regaining access to his console’s full features."
Fortunately for dmanthey, the story did not end there. He reached out to Nintendo’s customer service team, who asked him to find the Facebook listing and provide photos of the cartridges he had purchased. After a few conversations with support, he was able to prove his case and have the ban lifted, regaining access to his console’s full features."
Submission + - Microsoft: You Can't Make an $80B AI Omelet Without Breaking 15K Employee Eggs
theodp writes: "After Microsoft this week unveiled a $4 billion, five-year global initiative to help millions of people adapt to the rise of artificial intelligence," GeekWire reports, "the first question for Brad Smith, the company’s vice chair and president, wasn’t about the new program. It was about the company’s own layoffs. What does he say to laid-off Microsoft employees who blame AI for taking their jobs?"
"Addressing the recent Microsoft cuts, he said, 'The notion that AI productivity boosts have somehow already led to this, I don’t think that’s the story in this instance.' In the follow-up interview, he acknowledged that rising capital spending have created pressure to rein in operating costs, which in the tech sector are 'more about the number of employees than anything else,' he said. Microsoft logged an estimated $80 billion in capital investments in its recently completed fiscal year, a record sum driven by the expansion of its infrastructure for training and running advanced AI models."
"He said the reductions were driven by business needs, not employee performance. 'We want the world to know that,' he said, 'so that when they see somebody from Microsoft applying for a job, they know that in all likelihood, they have the opportunity to hire an extraordinarily talented individual.'"
"What would he say to longtime Microsoft employees who lost their jobs and then saw the company commit billions to broader workforce development? Smith acknowledged the difficult juxtaposition but defended the separate moves as necessary. 'Success in life, whether it’s for an individual or a company or any kind of institution, is always about prioritization, and it’s always about investing in the future,' he said. 'This is something that Microsoft should do for the future.'"
"Addressing the recent Microsoft cuts, he said, 'The notion that AI productivity boosts have somehow already led to this, I don’t think that’s the story in this instance.' In the follow-up interview, he acknowledged that rising capital spending have created pressure to rein in operating costs, which in the tech sector are 'more about the number of employees than anything else,' he said. Microsoft logged an estimated $80 billion in capital investments in its recently completed fiscal year, a record sum driven by the expansion of its infrastructure for training and running advanced AI models."
"He said the reductions were driven by business needs, not employee performance. 'We want the world to know that,' he said, 'so that when they see somebody from Microsoft applying for a job, they know that in all likelihood, they have the opportunity to hire an extraordinarily talented individual.'"
"What would he say to longtime Microsoft employees who lost their jobs and then saw the company commit billions to broader workforce development? Smith acknowledged the difficult juxtaposition but defended the separate moves as necessary. 'Success in life, whether it’s for an individual or a company or any kind of institution, is always about prioritization, and it’s always about investing in the future,' he said. 'This is something that Microsoft should do for the future.'"
Comment Re:Remember? (Score 1) 23
No, but I remember the N64 controller having the shittiest joystick imaginable.
I remember when Mario Party 64 was released, and Nintendo sent a fingerless glove to everyone who purchased the game to avoid a lawsuit. A friend of mind injured the palm of his hand from a minigame that required rotating the joystick as fast as possible, and he wasn't the only one!
Submission + - Physical therapist burned alive inside hyperbaric oxygen chamber (nypost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: When the first responders arrived, smoke was already billowing through the building.
They scanned the building and came across the grisly scene in which the hyperbaric chamber was turned into a fiery coffin, with Foxcroft’s scorched body trapped inside, according to officials.
His corpse was recovered from the chamber and he was pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported, according to the fire department.
Hyperbaric chambers, sealed enclosures where air pressure and oxygen levels inside can be controlled, are used for patients’ physical and mental health — aiding with anything from cognition and dementia to physical aging, according to the Havasu Health and Hyperbarics website.
They scanned the building and came across the grisly scene in which the hyperbaric chamber was turned into a fiery coffin, with Foxcroft’s scorched body trapped inside, according to officials.
His corpse was recovered from the chamber and he was pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported, according to the fire department.
Hyperbaric chambers, sealed enclosures where air pressure and oxygen levels inside can be controlled, are used for patients’ physical and mental health — aiding with anything from cognition and dementia to physical aging, according to the Havasu Health and Hyperbarics website.
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