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ozymandias1337on Why do some leading geologists reject the term "Anthropocene"?

& according to Urban Dictionary we are living in the "Assholocene"

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Assholocene

ozymandias1337on Do we need to store all that telemetry?

Rock the Kasbah

ozymandias1337on AI made these movies sharper – critics say it ruined them

Exactly. It looks airbrushed as hell.

ozymandias1337on There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station

Reruns of It & Sesame Street was broadcast on the Public TV Channel, in the early '00s. In the Anglophone African country I was currently residing in at the time.

ozymandias1337on The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

Inquiry into alleged coerced hysterectomies begins in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8ka4Gc07A

ozymandias1337on Large Language Models' Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

Smoke & Mirrors

ozymandias1337on A study trying to link computer use and erectile dysfunction

Conclusion

The present study offered substantial evidence for a positive causal association between computer use and the risk of erectile dysfunction. However, a definitive causal association needs to be established by further research.

ozymandias1337on A study trying to link computer use and erectile dysfunction

Is this Correlation or Causation?

ozymandias1337on Gen Z Is Toxic for Companies, Employers Believe

More like "Companies & Employers are Toxic for Zoomers."

ozymandias1337on Gen Z Is Toxic for Companies, Employers Believe

GOOD

ozymandias1337on Blocklist that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist

AutoComplete and Machine Learning are tools.

They are not the same as the Abomination parading as Intelligence called "AGI".

ozymandias1337on Blocklist that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist

AI is NOT a toy it is an Abomination.

ozymandias1337on The Google employees who created transformers

AI is in the eye of the beholder.

ozymandias1337on OpenAI Expected to Launch 'Better' GPT-5 for Chatbot Mid-Year

< "materially better," said one CEO > sounds like a strange choice of words to me.

"Virtually or Technically better" is a more accurate choice of words.

ozymandias1337on OpenAI Expected to Launch 'Better' GPT-5 for Chatbot Mid-Year

Is it going to be 'Better' than GPT-6, which is going to be released next year?

ozymandias1337on Slack or Discord?

Neither.

ozymandias1337on Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)

They are constantly shifting the goal posts.

ozymandias1337on Elon Musk reveals that Tesla will soon start accepting DOGE

Enlo loves his Cryptocurrencies like he loves his Women;

i.e. He cannot stick to 1.

ozymandias1337on Google asks me daily for my location to improve connectivity even if I say no

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712284

ozymandias1337on Google is changing how Chrome detects and warns you about unsafe sites

De-Google Your-Self before You wreck Your-Self.

ozymandias1337on ReCAPTCHA Sucks

Codeberg is better from what I have heard on the grapevine.

ozymandias1337on Open source is not insecure

Open Source is as secure as OSINT.

ozymandias1337on Why do we get sleepy when we study?

Breaking News: Studying is Boring!!!

ozymandias1337on Google asks me daily for my location to improve connectivity even if I say no

Degoogle Yoself

ozymandias1337on Are We Watching the Internet Die?

Web 3.0 is ded, long live Web 4.0 !!!

ozymandias1337on Are We Watching the Internet Die?

I Agree, this is just typical boomer behaviour.

ozymandias1337on Are We Watching the Internet Die?

I miss those days when most websites implemented this.

ozymandias1337on Are We Watching the Internet Die?

Enshittification will exist for as long as the profit-seeking motive exists.

As long as MAU is the prime target, enshittification will continue.

ozymandias1337on Open Source = Free Software

* Open Source != Free Software

ozymandias1337on Open Source = Free Software

Simply put, Free Software is software that you can use, modify, and share with virtually no restrictions. Although it's often distributed free of charge—occasionally referred to as “free as in beer”—Free Software is not to be confused with “freeware.”

↑ 2010, Jason van Gumster, Robert Shimonski, GIMP Bible, John Wiley & Sons, page 4.