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GraniteM

@ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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  • time for learn

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  • Presumably at some point a human being was involved in the decision making process to try and use this image to convey... some kind of message to other human beings, and at least one human being in that process couldn't be bothered to give the AI slop more than the most cursory glance.

    Unless of course one could design a fully-automated system of generating pseudo-scientific clickbait factoid garbage accompanied by AI-generated illustrations, entirely dedicated to producing as much vaguely plausible-seeming garbage as possible, 24 hours a day, just spewing out the opposite of useful knowledge at an unfathomable rate.

    But what kind of monster would deploy that weapon on humanity?

  • Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds | Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year

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  • Hey, there's still that mushroom-based coffee substitute!

    I'm sorry for making light of a serious situation. I would also rather die than drink that cursed substance.

  • Skeleton takes 1d6 emotional damage

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  • Actually, an animated person made of just their skin and organs would be significantly more horrifying than an animated skeleton.

  • The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

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  • Commentary tracks are the underappreciated treasures of physical media. Lord of the Rings gets a lot of deserved praise, but The Matrix has a philosophers commentary track which is awesome, and the 1989 Batman has Tim Burton geeking out over his own movie in a delightful fashion. Also, Jonathan Frakes does a hilarious commentary on Star Trek: First Contact where he sounds simultaneously like a popular high school jock and a gigantic Star Trek dweeb, and I adore him for it.

  • The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

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  • I worked at a used media store 10+ years ago, and I remember worrying about what would happen when everything was conveniently available on good ol' reliable Netflix, which at the time seemed like the logical thing that everyone would eventually sign up for, and then what would I do?

    Fast forward to today, and streaming has certainly changed the market. Huge TV show box sets are almost impossible to sell, though it's not a totally dead market. DVDs and Blu-rays sell about as well as they ever did, if not better. Maybe everything is on a service somewhere, but most households aren't going to sign up for every service, so as a result of all the streaming services fighting like dogs for library rights, there's almost always someone looking to get a cheap, used, physical copy of a movie they can't get elsewhere.

    If anything, I feel more secure about the future of physical media today than I did ten years ago.

  • Wendy's closing hundreds of U.S. restaurants as sales plunge

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  • Man aims to cross the Atlantic using 3-foot boat smaller than an airline seat in adventure of a lifetime

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  • The Boats!

  • Italy’s famous Lovers’ Arch collapses into the sea on Valentine’s Day

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  • Reminds me of New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain, a famous rock formation that looked like a man in profile, which was so identified with New Hampshire that they put it on their state quarter... and which collapsed within a couple of years of the quarter being released.

  • This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

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  • Winter Olympics in crisis as athletes deplete entire stock of 10,000 free condoms

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  • Seems fine to me.

  • It's deffo what I want

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  • Wannabe President ICE Barbie’s Fake ‘Cabinet’ Meetings Exposed

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  • We live in the stupidest timeline. I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that the first woman president could be someone in the Sarah Palin / Marjorie Taylor Greene / Kristi Noem model.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • Newsom was Lt. Governor of CA from 2011-2019. I am not Californian, and I don't know what they're dealing with outside of the seemingly-constant wildfires, and those seem pretty fucking bad, and I'm sure there are some other pretty terrible things Californians have to deal with, too.

    That said, payday loan companies deserve to get spit-roasted by the Devil and the Devil's angriest pet donkey in the deepest bowels of Hell.

  • AI could wipe out most white-collar jobs within 12 months, Microsoft AI chief warns

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  • I remember the Babelizer from the early internet, where you would input a piece of text, and the Babelizer would run it through five or six layers of translation, like from English to Chinese to Portuguese to Russian to Japanese and back to English again, and the results were always hilariously nonsense that only vaguely resembled the original text.

    One of the first things I did with a LLM was to replicate this process, and if I'm being honest, it does a much better job of processing that text through those multiple layers and coming out with something that's still fairly reasonable at the far end. I certainly wouldn't use it for important legal documents, geopolitical diplomacy, or translating works of poetry or literature, but it does have uses in cases where the stakes aren't too high.

  • Nazis cleaning up Nazi mistakes

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  • The even larger issue, one that underpins a lot of laws of warfare, is that you want people to have every good reason to surrender. If POWs have to be treated according to specific laws, then everyone knows approximately how bad it can be, and they all know that at the worst, they can surrender. If you can set POWs to work clearing minefields or commit any other given atrocities against them, then armies have every reason to fight to the death rather than surrender when backed into a corner, and that doesn't do anyone any good.

  • The F-35 Debate Is Really about How We Killed the Avro Arrow | The Walrus

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  • The F-35 is not just an aircraft. It’s a system of systems. Software updates, mission data files, sustainment logistics, and upgrade pathways are all tightly controlled within an American-led ecosystem.

  • Trump receives trophy as he’s named ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’

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  • Whats a good hobby to get into, as someones whos home alot with a laptop?

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  • I just got into tying knots! It's a useful skill. You can pick it up in a couple of minutes and then improve continuously. There are a lot of books on the subject. It's cheap. You can use cord you might already have lying around the house, or you can get paracord at the hardware store, or you can go somewhere fancy like Paracord Galaxy if you want some extra special colors or patterns. It's soothing and leaves you with something tangible at the end.

    Here's a monkey's fist knot I just finished! I've been giving them to friends to use as keychains.

  • "Yeah? How many trenches have you stormed, kid?"

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  • See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation.”

    “Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,” said Abe. “And in Morocco —”

    “That’s different. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remberer Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.”

    “General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five.”

    “No, he didn’t — he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.

    --F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Mlop

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Mlep

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    I was trying to look up the punchline to an old SNL Weekend Update joke

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Use of sidewalk

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Me watching my health insurance premiums quadruple for next year.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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    Hungry Houserule

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    mrw I donated blood, then took my gift card and bought some bullets

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    Happy Rulester

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Choose, Neo

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What is something the previous owner of your house did that you're grateful for?

  • NonCredibleDefense @sh.itjust.works
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    Classics are classics

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Ultra-Lounge Christmas Rule

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    They're philanthropists!

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    9 to 5 business hours were made to fence in the power of night people

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Blue

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    There Were A Number Of Players On The Field

  • Terrible Estate Agent Photos @feddit.uk
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    Haven't you always wanted to live in a castle rendered in early '90s CGI?