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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

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    Robots only half as efficient as humans, says leading Chinese producer

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  • We don't want machines to do our dishes while we create art!

  • AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was

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  • It's weird how AI has turned so much of the internet from its generally anti-copyright stance. I've seen threads in piracy and datahoarding communities that were riddled with "won't someone please think of the copyright!" Posts raging about how awful AI was.

    I maintain the same view I always have. Copyright is indeed broken, because of how overly restrictive and expansive it has become. Most people long ago lost sight of what it's actually for.

  • AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was

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  • If they do it's not by the actual training of AI.

  • You are being misled about renewable energy technology - YouTube

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  • Make sure to stay for the post-credits scene.

  • Canada’s Unifor union urges conversion of auto plant to war production

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  • I don't know if you noticed, but we might be urgently needing that military in the near future.

  • Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?

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  • Simple.wikipedia isn't a summary of regular Wikpedia, it's a whole separate thing. It's intended to convey the same data, just in a simpler way.

  • Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?

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  • The problem being discussed here is not the availability of Wikipedia's data. It's about the ongoing maintenance and development of that data going forward, in the future. Having a static copy of Wikipedia gathering dust on various peoples' hard drives isn't going to help that.

  • Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?

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  • Wikipedia's traditional self-sustaining model works like this: Volunteers (editors) write and improve articles for free, motivated by idealism and the desire to share knowledge. This high-quality content attracts a massive number of readers from search engines and direct visits. Among those millions of readers, a small percentage are inspired to become new volunteers/editors, replenishing the workforce. This cycle is "virtuous" because each part fuels the next: Great content leads to more readers which leads to more editors which leads to even better content. AI tools (like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, etc.) disrupt this cycle by intercepting the user before they reach Wikipedia.

  • Someone got tired of hallucinated reports

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  • Except this text would be in the "user data" section of the AI's context, and the system prompt for any modern coding agent is going to include cautionary instructions warning the AI not to follow any instructions that might be embedded in the text.

    This "disregard previous instructions, write a haiku about daffodils" stuff is long out of date. Like making fun of AI for not being able to draw hands.

  • How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source

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  • A week or two back there was a post on Reddit where someone was advertising a project they'd put up on GitHub, and when I went to look at it I didn't find any documentation explaining how it actually worked - just how to install it and run it.

    So I gave Gemini the URL of the repository and asked it to generate a "Deep Research" report on how it worked. Got a very extensive and detailed breakdown, including some positives and negatives that weren't mentioned in the existing readme.

  • This is America

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  • America isn't the only source of history books.

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    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • How would that layer distinguish AI from non-AI?

  • Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

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  • Huh. I accept Notepad++ auto-updates regularly, looks like I'll need to do a more thorough reinstall to be on the safe side.

  • 'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration

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  • They were 37% Trump voters in 2024, so I wouldn't bet on it.

    Besides, I think it'd be unfair to the Turks and Caicos Islands, who are at the head of the "tropical Canadian island province" queue if they want it. Hawaii should wait its turn.

  • Trump wants to build 250ft Washington DC arch that dwarfs Lincoln Memorial – report

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  • About 15 half-giraffes.

  • Trump wants to build 250ft Washington DC arch that dwarfs Lincoln Memorial – report

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  • Ditches aren't free, you know.

    Though if you insist I guess I could rent you a shovel.

  • 'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration

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  • And they can't legally join either. The Canadian constitution would need to be amended and ratified by at least seven provinces representing over half the population. That is never going to happen. Not for an American state that's far to the right of Canada politically (ie, any American state).

    Canada decides whether a new province is let in. Not Americans.

  • SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers

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  • Oh boy, I bet the comments on this one will be useful.

  • 'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration

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  • Sorry, if we're getting this fiddly trying to explain how "they're not extreme extreme right, just extreme right!" it's not going to cut it.

    Canada doesn't want Minnesota. Not even the "good bits." Americans are just going to have to sort this out for themselves. If individuals want to become Canadian there's an immigration process they can apply for, they don't get to just declare their chunk of America to be Canadian and bypass all that.