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Meron35

@ Meron35 @lemmy.world

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  • Together: Australian film altered in China to make gay couple straight

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  • It's just the typical toxic and illogical mix of homophobia, morality, and politics.

    Ironically, same sex couples may actually be the key to alleviating the fertility crisis. Out and proud same sex couples tend to be of higher socioeconomic status, resolving the main barrier to having children. Yet, Draconian laws prevent them from accessing adoption or surrogacy services.

    Also, China is absolutely cracking down on porn more broadly as well by shutting down websites, and jailing people, as part of its stance against "obscene materials."

    China’s latest crackdown on porn has little to do with porn - https://qz.com/198932/china-latest-crackdown-on-porn-has-little-to-do-with-porn

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  • Firefox Sidebar Includes AI Chatbot Now

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  • It's just surveillance capitalism as usual. The basis of free markets only works when all parties have agency and no information assymetries exist. AI chatbots with friendly, conversational tones elicit people to reveal way more personal data than they usually would, and make them more trusting of an algorithm that seems to know them perfectly.

    This personal data is then refined and processed to not only profile and identify, but to directly modify the behaviour of users, so that they purchase or do things they wouldn't otherwise. Every notification, nudge, and inconvenient default setting is the result of billions of A/B tests proven to provide big tech maximum profit.

    For some sobering statistics, over 60% of the US has Amazon Prime, the vast majority of which do not even bother to price compare. With Amazon preferencing its own Amazon Basics above competitors at higher prices, this is pure profit.

  • It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy

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  • NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE

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  • r/nolawns

    c/nolawns

  • macOS Tahoe Unpopular(?) Opinion

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  • The rounded corners all all inconsistent sizes. Worst of all, for the really large rounded corners like in the settings app it clips off the scroll bar.

  • Fucking pointless

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  • Slow cookers are terrible. The long drawn out cooking process destroys the texture and taste of food and turns everything into a homogeneous slop. So much time and energy usage for such mediocre payoff. And fundamentally not different to just baking stuff in an oven for a long time.

    The real tip is to get a pressure cooker instead. Almost every slow cooker recipe can be easily adapted to a pressure cooker, for a significant savings in time, energy, and improvement in taste and texture. Even if you get anxious about pressure cookers, most pressure cookers have a slow cook function as well.

  • me_irl

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  • Literally how the generic pharma industry works. Companies specialising in generics often push against the limits of IP and/or ignore them to bring cheap generics to market, and deal with lawsuits (or not) later. See Israel, India, and Switzerland.

  • Kinky

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  • Sauce?

  • New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI

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  • So much the productivity gains are just compensating for lack of basic tech literacy.

    E.g. people sending event/meeting details without a calendar invite/ics file, so you run it through an LLM to generate you one.

  • AI-fuelled delusions are hurting Canadians. Here are some of their stories

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  • Since three months ago, Google VEO 3 is already capable of producing ASMR videos with realistic and conventionally attractive looking women automatically, albeit only for short durations.

    We are so cooked.

    https://youtu.be/BwpKj3_C480

  • What's The Point Of Hard Games, Anyway? | Game Maker's Toolkit

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  • You say that but then Team Cherry makes bosses

    like Savage Beastfly (and a rematch)

    with RNG minion spawns.

    And yes, I know you're "supposed" to use tools to quickly kill the minions, but every try uses up so many shards that you need to farm them in between tries, feeding into the broken economy. Why are there even shards as a currency in the first place if tool usage is limited and refilled every run.

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  • As suspected, this paper is based upon Paul Ekman's Facial Action Coding System, better known as micro-expressions.

    This controversial literature borderlines on pseudo-science, with Ekman's work having significant conflicts of interest in the form of undisclosed funding from US defence, police, and border control, who wanted Ekman to create systems that can detect lies based on supposed micro expressions. Subsequent independent meta analyses have found that micro expressions cannot be consistently read, even by Ekman's own researchers.

    Unfortunately, despite this, world governments have poured millions of dollars into private contractors to develop AI systems based on this flawed research for border control.

    Munecat's video essay on debunking body language experts goes into much greater detail:

    https://youtu.be/Y0VQyEY-B2I

  • We Must Seize the Narrative

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  • There's laundry to do and a genocide to stop, by Vinay Krishnan

  • soon arriving

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  • ❌ hot girl summer

    ✅ cold bitch winter

  • The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

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  • Even Milton Friedman, the Nobel winning economist credited for libertarianism and neoliberal economics was in favour of UBI.

    He specifically advocated for simplifying the tax code, and abolishing the welfare state in favour of progressive tax rates which included a negative income tax, which is a more extreme UBI.

    Right wing policy makers just heard the simplify tax code and abolish welfare state part.

  • MTG Calls for ‘National Divorce’ After Charlie Kirk’s Murder

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  • Nova Launcher is seemingly shutting down – so here are some alternatives

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  • Basically the home screen. Third party launchers used to be the frontier of introducing new features, like gestures, app drawer categories, different icon layouts like more columns/rows, customer icon theme packs, custom animations, etc.

    The iOS equivalent if you jailbroke was SummerBoard/WinterBoard, a pun on SpringBoard (name of iOS launcher).

  • faqt

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  • So you're saying we need to return to the 2000s and start communicating with ASCII art to stop AI scrapers? In.