Though I would not personally use the word slavery, I think there’s something to be said about viewing women’s bodies as property to the point where they are mutilated in a way that makes it more difficult to do even the most basic of tasks. Women were bought and sold chiefly by and for the benefit of men and things were done to them, often against their will, to make their market rate higher. Again, not sure I’d use the word slavery, but mostly because in the US it is so closely associated with chattel slavery that it is hard to warrant a comparison, even though it is pretty close to other forms of slavery.

She didn’t stand for the pledge so her teacher told her to go back to her own country, and apparently the settlement is:

As a part of the recent settlement, the Plymouth-Canton community schools district has pledged to provide diversity, sensitivity, and first amendment training for staff. The district has also agreed not to punish DK, remove any indication from school files that suggest her protest was inappropriate and provide needed counseling.

I understand that it needs to be officially written out, but it’s unbelievable to me that part of the settlement is that they won’t punish her. Yea, obviously you shouldn’t because she did nothing wrong. I know teachers unions can affect the outcomes of these, but that teacher should not be employed in a school. They are racist and I don’t know how students of color or immigrant students in general are meant to feel safe in their class.

Guy work in IT and spent 100k to pay devs to make an app so people can talk to his tuned ChatGPT? I hope anyone who has hired him checks his work. That does not bode well for his work product.

Another case from the article:

“I still use AI, but very carefully,” he says. “I’ve written in some core rules that cannot be overwritten. It now monitors drift and pays attention to overexcitement. There are no more philosophical discussions. It’s just: ‘I want to make a lasagne, give me a recipe.’ The AI has actually stopped me several times from spiralling. It will say: ‘This has activated my core rule set and this conversation must stop.’

What’s weird to me is they now recognize AI will lie to you but somehow think they can prompt it not to? Your rules can be “overwritten” because they do not exist to ChatGPT. It does not know what words mean.

Oh, I’m aware of that. Just that courts will not rule against things that involve the use of AI in general. You cannot take the output directly from, but once a human gets involved they will allow it. There’s too many monied interests to allow the restrictions.

The question should be whether the final product is worth what was sacrificed to make it. That line is different for everyone, but it’s important to keep that in mind. Plenty of companies I boycott make acceptable products but are supporting a genocide.

I don’t think generative AI use is worth it however it’s employed and regardless of the quality of the final product. If enough people agree maybe they’ll stop using it.

This would never hold up in court, in part due to regulatory capture, but I think this is the only thing that would stop them.

This was only done because the editors pushed to minimize AI involvement. There’s a comment here already mentioning that: https://lemmy.world/comment/22826863

The images I am referring to are likely distinct from the ones in the title as they are from his iPhone and Google is who reported him. Regardless in the article it says the detective looked at one of the Google reported images. Whether they just referenced a known hash I don’t know for sure, but I think it’s pretty well known that FAANG scan basically all images for CSAM nowadays.

This is not what it purports to be and is misleading at best. Up to 10% can still be AI and they charge a subscription. It’s a grift at best.

They don’t seem to be suggesting they use their own money. Just using their salary as a comparison. It’d be like if a trucking company related gas expenditures to employee salaries. If they had an employee that earned 80k but only spent $20 in gas, that would be odd. They seem to be suggesting that in order to prove their working efficiency, they should be spending a certain amount of company money on AI.

I don’t agree with the assessment, but I do think it should be clear that they are not expecting that money to come out of employee salaries.

The detective alleges that that photograph and others she examined appeared to be stored in a folder on the iPhone titled “Girls I Drugged And Raped.”

What terrible friends this woman has. According to the article, none of them bothered to go and look with her or stay over there for a few nights? The article makes clear she was experiencing hallucinations, but still, I feel like a persistent thing as described warrants some kind of follow up, at least for peace of mind. Maybe help her set up a nanny cam at the very least. And then none of them even apologized?

I’m also surprised there were no charges brought against her neighbor for aiding, but I have no idea how that works in the uk.

I know you didn’t ask, so feel free to ignore me completely, but I’ve had a bit of luck by starting with a completely different genre that forces a need for different rules. If you’re playing basic 5e and can switch to something where you’re running a ship then a rules change makes sense since a ship is expected to have different mechanics than a PC. Once they see that other systems have rules that make sense for and support the genre, they may be more invested in understanding them.

This link was shared on Lemmy just recently about this book. I watched some of the persons other videos, and though we have different tastes it seems like they can identify “bad” books.

https://youtu.be/GbeKTa5xhZo

Not sure how I didn’t hear of this already. Apparently it’s not necessarily a breathalyzer, but the proposals include a camera facing the driver to monitor them and passive monitoring of the air in the car.

I don’t drunk drive and barely even drink, but that’s horrifying. I can’t believe this went under the radar for me.

More garbage that is going to break and cost thousands of dollars to fix in addition to all the violations of privacy. Cars are already advertising to people. Can you imagine if they put a camera inside the vehicle? Why not invest in public transit? That’s a great way to decrease impaired drivers of all stripes as well as help people in general. All this does is funnel more money into auto makers. I am so upset that this is the first I’m hearing of it.

You might already know if you’re into clipping coupons, but a lot of manufacturers have a buy # get 1 free per 12 month deal. Taking advantage of that is often cheaper than buying whatever’s on sale for a particular month, not that you were doing that, just making a comparison.

Edit for clarity: I was referring to pet food. Just realized I didn’t mention that.

I mean, it’s sad that they were more concerned about a lawsuit than the health of the people involved, but that’s just showing that this sort of thing is effective. The exec wanted the request approved so that this very thing didn’t happen, but it was apparently too late. The whole thing is very sad but I’m glad that’s the position the execs had over “lol, no”. The exec wanted it approved so it seems like the request was denied by someone lower down and by the time the exec was informed there was nothing to be done

I’m coming from a US centric place, but I’m pretty sure the N word is generally used to mean a very specific word which is notably not the Spanish word for black. Do people call the Spanish word the N word too in other countries?

I’m not trying to make a case that Israel is somehow the good guy or anything, just that my statement is not related to the fact it’s a Jewish state. Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide. I was just making clear have no issue with Jewish people in general. Lots of Zionists on Lemmy so I was making that clear before it got derailed by bad faith actors. I am not following the Epstein thing that closely because it disgusts me to the point it makes me physically ill, so I can’t chime in about it at all other than to say it’s disgusting beyond reason.

Shapiro backs Israel and Tucker doesn’t. Trump is heavily aligned with Israel to the point that the war with Iran is basically because of them. I think Shapiro is safe so long as Israel sees him as useful.

Not that it should need to be said, but I’m not supporting an antisemitic conspiracy about a new world order or anything. It’s just that Trump and his people are dumb and easy to manipulate and several countries, including Israel, are taking advantage of that. That’s just normal country geopoliticing, not related to any religion or ethnicity.