stevenalowe

The point about ICE’s actions and attitude coloring the public’s perception of all law enforcement is spot on. I would expect legit law enforcement to protect us from such thuggery, but instead they stand by and do nothing, or worse, actively assist.

People under 16 should not be permitted to socialize or express themselves, nor should they be allowed to hear words from adults at all, not just online.

/s

Real musicians play real instruments, not synthesizers

Real musicians play real instruments, not samples

Real musicians play real instruments, not AI-generated slop

All of the above is bullshit y’all

Real musicians play with anything they want.

Bandcamp’s first policy will become an enforcement nightmare in the short term and irrelevant the long term.

I’m still waiting for someone to create something really good with AI - meaningful, impactful, emotionally gripping - not just novelties. Same problem as AI text slop - by the nature of its training, it regresses to the mean

Also: how much time/effort/money one spends creating art is unrelated to quality. Spending 40 hours recording and producing a mediocre song does not make it “better” than a mediocre song generated in a few seconds by AI or any other tool

Yeah ChatGPT says they really hate that!

“According to the sources, the President has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and would not be supported by Congress.”

“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'”

Um… banned by what authority? I fail to see how this is legal. Same as banning obese people from buying cookies

“The proposal would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of Californians worth over $1 billion.”

So if enough people vote for it, ex post facto theft is ok because “crisis”?

If they can do it once, they can do it repeatedly, no crisis required

TLDR; I’m guessing every theory but the current ones because that’s how science works

Pareto distribution FTW

“…social-media monitoring tools, facial recognition software, license plate readers and services to find where people live and work.“

Pretty easy to switch from targeting “immigrants” to “dissidents“

This designation is absurd there is no “puzzle”.

Article title: do male actors’ heads get bigger as they age

Anecdotally my head isn’t getting bigger but it is getting more squared, but I’m not an actor

“All regulated user to user services” could arguably include email, text messaging, and voice calls. Is the goal to make the Internet “adults-only” or just to track everyone and everything? Who gets to decide what is “regulated“? Which grifters get to run the “official” age verification services?

To what end? The government cannot take care of its unemployed already, why should we believe any kind of “AI tax” would be effective?

and of course the scope will never be expanded...

I believe it works like this: it’s criminal fraud, and you’re the patsy

I stand corrected, thank you.

I still don’t approve of it, but it does appear to be “legal”

I can find no such claim in the news, the articles all say “Venezuelan oil tanker”

I did not mean to imply that steps could be skipped, just that they can be orchestrated more rapidly in some niches where there are a lot of conferences

The public pays higher prices either way

Microservices allow independent scaling; team size is irrelevant

It looks to me like crypto has also failed to deliver on the author’s five “axioms”

I like the satellites as edge compute in space angle but waste heat is still a thing

"It was seized for a very good reason," he [Trump] says, without offering further detail.

Perhaps because he really really really wants to start a war which will allow him to invoke emergency powers before he gets impeached again

“The tech was used” but how, specifically, in regards to Operation Grim Reaper? The implication is that it was used to select targets but if that it true then does that mean there are still unexploded pagers in use?

Congestion pricing == demand pricing

Yet it’s good if the city does it but bad if a Corp does it?

400,000 years ago, based on items that were likely known/used far earlier

Good article, just wanted to add that the time from idea to international speaker can be weeks/months, not necessarily years, depending on your niche

Under what authority???

I think the AIs should post directly