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We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.
  • Copyright issues aside, can we talk about how this implies accurate recall of an image from a never before achievable data compression ratio? If these models can actually recall the images they have been fed this could be a quantum leap in compression technology.

  • You are granted one of the following super powers: which one do you choose?
  • Just because you are fast doesn't mean you can see all around you at all times. In any contact sport contact is eventually inevitable, because they almost always involve you running at people at some point.

  • You are granted one of the following super powers: which one do you choose?
  • Most depections of telekinesis do not exert an opposing force on the user, in other words the force is exerted in an arbitrary vector from an arbitrary point in space. That means you could compress a hole in the ground under you but not levitate at all because the force doesn't act on your body. If it did act on your body lifting 5000 lb would crush your bones to dust.

    As other people have pointed out a better option is the "magic carpet ride" or more desirable "flying motocycle" angle, where you Exert force on an object and it moves you as it normally would when pushed or pulled by any other force. I personally like the "infinite parasailing/paragliding" angle as it is possible to do without immediately being noticeable as strange by the public, and it requires less mental effort since you are still using lift for upforce.

  • You are granted one of the following super powers: which one do you choose?
  • Contact sports woth super speed is not a good idea unless you have very enhanced durability. The likelihood you will end up with brain damage or accidentally badly injure someone else and yourself is way too high. Track and field is clearly the way to go.

  • Higher Vehicle Hoods Increase Pedestrian Deaths
  • Vehicle design prioritizing pedestrian survivability is beneficial regardless of urban design, though admittedly an optimal design will depend on median speed of the vehicle.in pedestrian areas.

    Return to retro 1940s rounded truck hoods is honestly an inevitable design shift at some point, as fashion always cycles, but the aerodynamics and fuel efficiency standards are against it.

  • Higher Vehicle Hoods Increase Pedestrian Deaths
  • Would cattle scoop style front ends save lives? The point would need to be crumply plastic for auto collisions, but i wonder if designing for deflection would legitimately benefit pedestrian collision survivability.

  • Or some cheap plastic from Amazon Marketplace...
  • Accidentally nailed it.

  • Similar fables to King Arthur and Robin Hood in other cultures?
  • Ugh, yeah, I fought aurocorrect over it and lost in the end it looks like. Got it fixed up now.

  • Similar fables to King Arthur and Robin Hood in other cultures?
  • Alibaba in some ways.

    Nasreddin Hoca is the most popular Turkish folk hero

    Anansi the Spider is a great trickster folklore character from the Akan in Ghana. I loved these stories as a kid and had a great book on tape.

    Can't go wrong with this list:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_folk_heroes

  • Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy'
  • Their products will fail and they will learn. This is likely people who do not know English very well seeking to use AI to automatically name their products for them. Not a terrible application for AI, but certainly shouldn't be fully automated with no editorial oversight.

  • Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her
  • Some people care more about driving adoption than being a federation absolutist my dude.

    If you haven't watched a YouTube video in the last year I'll give you $20.

  • Significantly wetter or drier future conditions for one to two thirds of the world’s population
  • "By using non-parametric trends30,31 and considering an ensemble of 146 CMIP533 and CMIP634 climate model runs (Tables S1 and S2), we identify regions where wetting and drying patterns converge across the globe. Our trend-based approach aligns with the continuous nature of radiative forcing35, provides flexibility and robustness in detecting and quantifying global warming-induced changes, and effectively controls for natural variability36.

    Our innovative approach (see “Methods”) evaluates the entire time-series using no interannual averaging and combines information from the fullest range of GCM projections available to determine their agreement and the extent of precipitation impacts with no ensemble aggregation. This is important because each set of simulations provides a plausible storyline of future precipitation patterns under elevated global warming, rather than using aggregated data which can obscure important trends and patterns."

    Read the methods before commenting on them please. This study uses 146 different simulation models and takes a non-averaged median projected value to generate the final projections.

  • Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her
  • Odysee is one of the biggest distributed video hosting platforms, equivalent to PeerTube. It's not sketch, but the embed isn't working for some reason. That is on the instance admin.

  • ELI5 why is anarchy not "the guy with the bigger stick" making the rules?
  • To build on this, it would be accurate to say that Anarchy is the principle upon which the technologies of Anarchism are built. Rather than a political system, which inherently function through obligation of participation or subjugation, the technologies of anarchism are participatory. That is to say anarchism provides methodologies of engagement between individuals and groups to achieve outcomes without obligation or subjugation which are imposed by the system, replacing those attributes of hierarchy instead with consent, participation, and consensus which are fundamentally voluntary and opt-in in nature.

    Another way to say this is that Political Systems are means by which a group forces rules upon individuals, while Anarchism is a set of methods by which individuals can perform actions as groups.

  • Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs
  • One has to wonder if they just split off adult content into a separate platform using the same Amazon logins, and including cross-platform notifications one way from the twitch site to the adult site whether it would solve both their cash flow and advertising problem.

  • Why is there a ICC case of genocide against Israel but not China or Russia?
  • Follow this simple rule for clarity, replace the names and ethnic background of the parties in question with A and B, acknowledge that A and B have historical conflict and are distinct ethnic groups but set aside their cultural characteristics and specifics. Now take the actions of A towards B and compare them to historical examples. Under jurisprudence there can be no a priori exoneration of any group due to historical factors, actors must be judged solely on their actions.

    The ICC follows "The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part. It does not include political groups or so called “cultural genocide”." And Israel is walking a fine line at the moment by claiming that they are exterminating a political group "Hamas" but their actions towards the civilian population will determine their guilt or innocence in the eyes of history and the international community. The ICC's job is to collect all the facts that we civilians can not, and make a determination based on those facts. If you believe Israel is innocent, you should not worry as the facts will clearly exonerate them and so will history be written.

  • Argentina's Milei backtracks on dollarization
  • Maybe a Swiss Franc or Japanese Yen peg might suit them better, if they could buy enough volume.

  • These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories.
  • They do if you're on kbin or mbin

  • www.nature.com This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own

    A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.

    This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own
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    www.nature.com This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own

    A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.

    This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own
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    www.bbc.com US judge orders names of more than 170 Jeffrey Epstein associates to be released

    Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019, was known to associate with powerful figures.

    US judge orders names of more than 170 Jeffrey Epstein associates to be released

    Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019, was known to associate with powerful figures. Now a list of 170 associates of Epstein will be made public after being sealed by the court in previous trials.

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    Raunchy, alcohol-fueled Taco Bell party included open sex, lawsuit claims

    A former Los Angeles area Taco Bell employee is suing the company and a franchise owner after she claims a Christmas party at the fast-food restaurant descended into a drunken mess that included open sex.

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    Philosophy Lectures

    I have found the European Graduate School to be the best source of free video lectures on Philosophy I have found. They of course slant towards Continental philosophy. You get in person lectures and sometimes lecture series from the contemporary greats from Slavoj Žižek, Derrida, Baudrillard, Butler, and many others. https://youtube.com/@egsvideo?si=qqeB6s3msY6ivXsi

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    Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction @kbin.run KinNectar @kbin.run

    Asking the big questions

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    Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction has a new home

    kbin.run Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction - kbin.run

    Discuss SciFi in all its flavors across any media.

    Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction - kbin.run

    I am an avid fan of Science Fiction, and I have a feeling I am not the only one here. I just founded a new inclusive Magazine/Community for sharing and discussion of all things SciFi.

    Please join us for discussion of your favorite books, comics, TV shows, Movies, and more.

    https://kbin.run/m/SciFi

    !SciFi

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    Malware on the fediverse?

    Hey all, I'm fairly new to the Fediverse.

    I'm just wondering what is preventing mallard from being shared on Lemmy, K.Bin, etc. via images or other embeds? Is there some file vetting happening under the hood?

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    Biohackers Netflix Show

    netflix.fandom.com Biohackers

    Biohackers is a German series created by Christian Ditter. It tells a highly-gripping story about friendship, love and revenge at a German University that is overshadowed by a revolutionary biohacking-technology and its ethical implications. It centers around the rivalry of two women: Mia a medicine...

    Biohackers

    I watched a few episodes of this and enjoyed some of the gimics. It left me wondering what from the show was "realistic" vs pure gimic. Also I wonder what University has the most established Biohacking community.

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    Alabama man first to undergo stem cell transplant to restore vision lost in accident

    Stem cells from one eye show promise in healing injuries in the other. Could this possibly be a step towards reversing age related degeneration of the eyes?

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    A Tool For Generating Threads From RSS

    Hello all, I have been dipping in and out of the Fediverse for years now and am loving where the technology is now.

    For about as long, I have been interested in building my own network/community for my professional area of activity (cannabis, hemp, and Natural produccts). I have seen many other attempts with few succeeding in the way I would like. One thing I think could really help anchor a nee community would be a steady flow of relevant content in specific dedicated community/magazines so that people can use the community as a source of news and comment on it.

    To those ends I am wondering if anyone is aware of a tool that could take RSS feed subscriptions and generate posts from them into a fediverse platform, ideally Lemmy or K.Bin. In an ideal world this would include autosummarization, and posting of a link the the main article. To be clear I would like to run this on my own dedicated instance.

    Anyone know of anything like this?

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