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You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

What if instead of proof-of-work we made proof-of-leisure

As scrapers click on everything they see sporadically without any sense or reason, they won’t wait for any amount of time when they get to a website - they will start to click every link they see until the whole bandwidth is wasted on their stupid bullshit.

What if when some website is opened for a first time from that ip/useragent combination there is a page that says “do nothing for three seconds and don’t press on any of those links” with 5 faux links that will immediately result in being banned. Then after 3 seconds links disappear and the original requested page opens up.

Is this something? Maybe even 1s is enough

what if we kissed in the smouldering ruins of the ruling class

This is really cool! A paper from Italy rmdopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e
has found that people with Long COVID (C and D) can be distinguished from healthy controls (A) and people who had COVID-19 infections but not Long COVID (B) by sticking patients' hands under microscopes and looking at the capillaries in the fingernail! Fast, cheap, easy, and useful!

h/t @tomkindlon

Good morning / afternoon / evening / night dear birds of a feather! 🏴

I think i finally found a shampoo and conditioner that is for curly hair/is affordable that i can use after covid made me allergic to everything in 2020.

"best country on earth" has the highest prison population both total and per capita, unsafe drinking water, slave labor, militarized police, no public infrastructure, the largest wealth disparity in history, the biggest military on the planet that somehow keeps losing. whats good dude. whats good there.

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By Allison Bechdel (of Dykes To Watch Out For and also The Bechdel Test) - first published 1996

Things changed since then: apparently not a damn thing?

This comic is 30 years old and evergreen.

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