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  • German election results explained in graphics

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  • Final graphic shows why the far-right hates education. I’m probably jumping to conclusions, but I wonder if their relatively low popularity among higher-educated voters is due to:

    1. Voters being more aware of their history (a “… doomed to repeat it” sort of thing)
    2. Better at spotting populist lies (I don’t know enough about German politics to know how populist the Left Party is)
    3. Leading more comfortable lives, thus less inclined to reach for extremes.

    It’s an undemocratic thought, but sometimes I wish there were some sort of aptitude test right before casting a vote. Or at the very least, a quick quiz to confirm you’re aware of the party’s key program points. Obviously, both options are ripe for abuse.

  • Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

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  • So long as we’re not just singling out Meta. They’ve all done it.

    At least Meta, with its Llama model family, has enabled the open source LLM space to flourish (along with Mistral, AI2, Alibaba, Eleuther, and many others).

    What-aboutism. I know. I’m okay with what’s happening here in the sense that in return we’ve gotten magical (compared to the SoTA five years ago) models with seemingly emergent reasoning capabilities and expertise in basically every domain. That’s huge, even if it’s started to feel normal.

    The issue, of course, is creatives whose content was stolen now losing out on opportunities or revenue that they relied on, meaning fewer creatives in the future and more AI slop.

    Not seeding is hilariously on-brand for Meta though. Maybe it’s the ‘possession < distribution’ defence?

  • Big Sale! But not on everything...

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  • To the extent that the billboard never existed while the image implies it did – sure.

    I love the term ‘slop’. It’s one of my favorite new words along with ‘nontent’.

    But this, to me, isn’t that. I think of slop as ‘unrequested, unconvincing, lazy, and lifeless’. In short, ineffective and unwelcome.

    I feel like this meme gets the message across. It’s not great, but it’s not terrible. The AI tells are subtle enough: the multi lane pileup in the background and some poor small size text rendering.

    Not sure why I felt the need to write this. Guess I’m of the opinion that just because something is AI-generated doesn’t mean it should be discounted immediately, unless it really feels like zero effort went into it. Have a nice day!

  • I should probably get ready for work instead of posting crap

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  • Ya better werk 🫰

  • Murphy's law

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  • Betrayed by the global clipboard

  • With all this ghostty talk. Am I out of touch for still using terminator all these years?

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  • Another happy Kitty user here!

    I use my terminal as an IDE. Kitty makes it (relatively) easy to write custom interactive applets (aka kittens) that open in new panes or communicate between panes. The ssh integration is also really useful: whenever I ssh into my remote work station my fish and helix config gets copied over.

    Judging by the code (a mix of C, python, and go) and the fast release rate, the core maintainer seems to be an utter mad genius – which unfortunately is sometimes reflected in his notoriously abrasive communication style.

    Only thing I’m lacking is persistent remote sessions. The maintainer is not quiet about his dislike of tmux and other multiplexers. It’s wildly inefficient to process every byte twice, he argues. Convincing but Kitty doesn’t currently offer an alternative for remote sessions, which is where I do most of my work. Wezterm has something for this in beta, but misses many of the niceties of Kitty. So I’m still using tmux for everything in Kitty, because it trips me up to have one way of working with panes locally and another way when working remotely.

    I tried Ghostty, if only because the maintainer is an excellent communicator. I found it polished but simple. I couldn’t figure out how to page up the scrollback or search it. I couldn’t rename tab titles. The config format seemed under-documented. I’ll give it another go in a month or so.

  • The new captcha

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  • To be fair, Daytime Me is no saint, either

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  • Morning: fugue state. Feel as if I’ve been slingshotted into a separate plane of time where the hours of the day feel drawn by random.

    Evening: alert, focused. Each minute feels precious. Backlog of ideas overflowing. Dread having to go to bed at a time that feels ‘normal’.

    A term I learned just this year: chronotypes. Basically, the preferred timing of the wake-sleep cycle varies among humans. Easy to imagine how that might have been useful from an evolutionary perspective: always someone to keep watch while the rest sleeps.

  • Cetaceans

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  • It’s a play on ‘citation needed’ Because cetacean (sih-TAY-shun) sounds like citation (sigh-TAY-shun)

  • Dutch population must stay below 20 million, ministers say

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  • Why Denmark

    So, according to wikipedia there is a small shared border.

    Real answer though: I’m an idiot. I remembered driving from Belgium to Denmark through the Netherlands and completely forgot passing through Germany along the way.

    Still think those Danes should consider a wall.

  • Dutch population must stay below 20 million, ministers say

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  • In anticipation of this I propose both Belgium and Denmark start building a wall along the border and revise their building codes so that all doorways must be made inconveniently low.

  • When things are heating up and she excitedly asks what you've got in your pants there [Day 3]

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  • Anything for my princeaesss

  • Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis

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  • Bit-co-NECCCCCCCCCCCCT

  • Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis

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  • Preferred prior experience: Midtown Madness (100+ hours), GTA (100+ hours), or comparative driving simulators.

  • Fuck it, we're doing eggs this weekend. Behold: Scotch eggs.

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  • Oftewel een ‘vogelnestje’ (in Vlaanderen alleszins)

  • When you walk into /c/lemmyshitpost to introduce a daily meme series of every line of dialogue from The Room (2003) [Day 1]

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  • Well I got the results of the test back

  • Trump Campaign Closed Down McDonald’s for Staged Fry Cook Stunt, Store Not Open Per Owner’s Letter

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  • ‘Small businesses’

  • Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop

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  • One of the points the article makes is that people boost such content despite knowing it’s fake because it confirms what they’re ’feeling’. Want to feel outrage? Here’s an image that will let you and others feel that. Truth? Irrelevant.

    In short: it’s the ‘facts don’t care about your feelings’ crowd doing what they do best: recasting reality as a jumble of vague feelings.

  • 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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  • Oooooohh