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  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • pls im already using all the hot water in the tank and I can't legally get a bigger one

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    Turnstiles are wide open at JFK Airport, while the MTA keeps fighting fare evasion

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  • JFK is in the midst of a $19 billion construction project that is expected to create heavy traffic for people arriving at the airport by car. Port Authority leaders have said they’re considering waiving the AirTrain fee to get people to take public transit to the airport, but for now the $8.50 fee — on top of the $2.90 subway fare — remains in place.

    So there's a subway that goes to the airport, and they want people to use it, but because of some payment system compatibility fuckup they can't pay? Or it's harder to pay? It's kind of unclear exactly what is happening here other than people getting public transportation for free, which sounds like a good thing.

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • Also I'd be cold and I don't want to

  • Advice Dog

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  • That dog has said some terrible things

  • AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

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  • So what is the alternative? A lot of artists and their allies think they have an answer: they say we should extend copyright to cover the activities associated with training a model.

    And I am here to tell you they are wrong. Wrong because this would represent a massive expansion of copyright over activities that are currently permitted – for good reason.

    He goes on to say that prohibiting AI works from being copyrighted and worker collective bargaining are better solutions, and I really agree with the arguments for this. I also liked this bit about how some of what remains past the bubble could be useful:

    And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • Mention and link to it on Reddit when it is especially relevant

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  • It's possible to cut a groove in a board so you can drive a screw outwards from it, but that's pretty difficult and also the wrong approach for shelves which should be attached to the wall by supports underneath instead to distribute forces better.

  • Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

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  • The article doesn't have pictures but one it links to does: https://www.uafsunstar.com/news/student-eats-ai-art-in-uaf-gallery-protest-arrested

    The artist's reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1qcektc/my_art_in_a_gallery_show_was_destroyed_over_ai/, which includes real pictures alongside some photorealistic AI generated depictions of the art being chewed up. He disclosed in the post text which of the pictures those are and which are real, but of course some people in the comments didn't read that and took discrepancies in the images to mean that the whole event was faked. Which is pretty brilliant if intentional, fits well with the "ChatGPT psychosis" topic of the original piece. Might have gotten slightly out of hand though since these images are now featured in screenshot of screenshot style posts that lack the context that it's not a real picture.

    I also like the memes people are making about it, overall a very entertaining event.

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  • Good movie though

  • Mosquitoes' thirst for human blood has increased as biodiversity loss worsens

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  • The researchers extracted DNA from the blood and used DNA sequencing to analyze a specific gene that functions as a unique "barcode" for each vertebrate species. By comparing barcodes found in the blood to a database, the researchers could determine which animal the mosquito had fed on.

    Out of a total of 1,714 captured mosquitoes belonging to 52 species, 145 females were engorged with blood. Blood meals consumed by 24 of those mosquitoes could be identified and were sourced from 18 humans, one amphibian, six birds, one canid, and one mouse.

    Really cool research

  • More Americans are Saying the Quiet Part Loud: They Want a Revolution

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  • more and more [Americans] are calling for a revolution—and not all of them think peace is an option

    Maybe this is true but I don't think a selection of tiktok videos is a good metric for this

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  • If it is, at least they bothered to put a different font on the text than the usual for ChatGPT comics. The woman being drawn identically in the second panel except for the eyes is also a point against it being AI.

  • YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words

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  • Browsing Lemmy by only what you have subscribed to is not as viable as on Reddit because there is generally less content per community.

  • Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025

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  • Someone's gotta stay behind to tell people to check out Lemmy

  • “My body, my choice” should apply to drug use, too.

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  • Drugs people use illegally have overlap with drugs prescribed as medicine, like amphetamines for adhd and opioids for pain management. Who gets to decide what is healthcare on behalf of the individual? Doctors, parents, governments, insurance companies? There is a lot of room between them to get it wrong. In all of these cases authorities are claiming to be protecting people from making what they say is the wrong choice. Of course it is in some cases, and parents probably should be pressuring their children not to take dangerous drugs, especially for reasons that are not healthcare. But if there are authorities that deny that something is healthcare, and that's contested, "my body, my choice" is a slogan that implies it should be the individual that decides.

  • Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%

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  • Makes sense, I have an account because it's fun to collect the free games even if I never play them, but I can't see myself spending money there.

  • Wrench

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  • I keep them, but I also bought a set of all the different sizes of allen wrench so they are now redundant

  • US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.

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  • Yeah but they externalize it as an "addiction" and want to think of their actions as being someone else's responsibility

  • 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail

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  • Did he? I read the article and it seemed to omit any mention of that. It's kind of implied by the word 'deepfake' but the exact role AI may have had here is not clear to me.