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whamlastxmas··on Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit
Also shout out to https://usetrmnl.com/ which is much cheaper than OP if all you need is a display that updates every 5+ minutes. The founder is a really cool guy and cares a lot about this project
whamlastxmas··on US to rewrite its past national climate reports
i mean, does it? we can't answer some really important questions about the nature of the universe, and we literally can't even start to model very important areas of physics that we know must have existed. it's hard to think we can honestly answer what exists versus what doesn't when we can't even comprehend or guess at the enormity of what's being asked.
whamlastxmas··on US to rewrite its past national climate reports
unfortunately it's really common in humans to find ways to belong, and lots of people find this in politics. there are lies everywhere from everyone, there's a reason politicians have a reputation first and foremost as liars. and to pretend climate change isn't a political topic is burying one's head in the sand - people are going to lie about, which we factually see all the time.

however when you start to identify with a group, you start to reject anything that doesn't reinforce your existing stance and group think. this is a really human trait and goes back to humans needing to be able to feel things like guilt and shame and desiring things like acceptance and validation, because these traits were what allowed us to live as groups and in small societies, when being in these groups vs ostracized was the difference between life and death.

mansplaining aside, i agree. i do wish there was more honest and interesting discourse around many topics, rather than things devolving into "everything this sexual predator says is fake and wrong". which isn't to defend them, but rather to share the exhaustion that discussion that isnt focused around science and data and instead is mostly talking points from our overlords.

whamlastxmas··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
I mean you can just listen to human made music if that’s an important part of the experience for you. I doubt humans are going to stop anytime soon
whamlastxmas··on DrawAFish.com Postmortem
I was proud of my ability to have an extremely penis looking fish get past filters. I feel like when presented with censorship my instinct is to always test its limits
whamlastxmas··on Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants
There are tons of labs at universities that are privately funded. It’s not common but there’s plenty of them. And the one I know best is probably the top in the world for what it does (niche in physics)
whamlastxmas··on Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators
Can a skyscraper?
whamlastxmas··on Meta's Vision for Superintelligence
They’re two separate concepts
whamlastxmas··on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats
It isn’t that straight forward. If you wrote it and it got published, it still counts as published even if you didn’t publish it yourself. The crux of libel is that you made it permanent somehow by writing it.
whamlastxmas··on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats
Honestly I saw more petty drama on the Toyota Yaris forums than I ever do here
whamlastxmas··on Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition
the idea, i would guess, is that their boss is sort of a dick, and they were all willing to quit over it, but figured they'd unionize first even if it meant getting fired
whamlastxmas··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
Is this spam? That name only shows as an instagram account and this thread. If you pay for insta followers is this how they get them now? Haha
whamlastxmas··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
Training isn’t recreating or distributing so copyright won’t apply if the ruling is actually consistent with the intention of the law, which it may not.

Using copyrighted materials and then meaningfully transforming it isn’t infringement. LLMs only recreate original work in the same way I am when I wrote the first sentence of this paragraph because it probably exists word for word somewhere else too

whamlastxmas··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
I had a recent example of ChatGPT giving me a really fishy answer I didn’t believe after it searched online, so I looked at the cited page, and it was clearly hallucinated slop written by another AI.

I wish for it to only use sources that are older than 2019 and have zero ads and referral links, haha.

whamlastxmas··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
Brave for iOS for ad blocking which Firefox doesn’t provide
whamlastxmas··on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
It would be more efficient to just make the heat pump slightly more capable of cooling to reach the same total performance
whamlastxmas··on The daily life of a medieval king
It’s a fun fact because it’s different from current society, and it’s nice to highlight that something now viewed as abuse was not, at the time for her specifically, a traumatic situation according to her public records. Obligatory “just because it wasn’t traumatic for her doesn’t mean that wasn’t overwhelmingly the case for others”
whamlastxmas··on Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease
Wanted to share same sentiment. Thanks to gp for sharing.
whamlastxmas··on Reflections on OpenAI
This is not true and it’s weird hyperbole misinformation
whamlastxmas··on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
Are the cliffs waived or accelerated? Makes me not trust this
whamlastxmas··on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
It’s sad that the organizational failures that led to that embarrassment will definitely not change. Too much eagerness for subjugation
whamlastxmas··on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
And this highlights why intellectual property is really gross to me
whamlastxmas··on Slack's 57MB 404 page
It would be an interesting competition to find the biggest JavaScript payload for a single page of any Fortune 500 company.
whamlastxmas··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
Claude code is much better than cursor + sonnet in my opinion, even without the good ide integration
whamlastxmas··on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
I can use fake name and address with privacy cards
whamlastxmas··on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
I use privacy dot com cards I can turn off in a single click
whamlastxmas··on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
Got a surprise for you if you think any admins in group isn’t the ultra wealthy
whamlastxmas··on Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?
there is zero way ABC or George would have accepted losing against trump/settling and the absolutely terrible optics of that if they had literally any other choice.
whamlastxmas··on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
the problem is that ADHD impacts every single action of every single day for the rest of your life with no cure. yes you've fixed the coffee situation, but there are literally 50 other things i have to do every morning, sometimes they're things unique to that morning, and while i work really hard to be mindful of creating structure in my life to help cope with severe ADHD, it's not reasonable to have 50 separate techniques for the 50 things i have to do every morning and follow all of them perfectly or even have all of them perfectly setup.

there is massive, massive emotional fatigue to the amount of effort that getting through a day with ADHD entails, and this is on top of other things like having a ton of sensory sensitivity where literally just being around bright lights, is being bright outside, the sound of traffic, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, car horns, a door shutting loudly, someone clinking dishes while serving coffee, all cause emotional reactions in me that are intense enough for me to physically cringe. i literally cried while driving home a week ago at night because the oncoming car headlights are so bright the entire drive and i have to drive with one arm stretched out to block them from my view and etc etc

my brain is not an easy place to live. i am cognitively capable of understanding what technique can help with what issues. the problem is both recognizing every possible way my adhd can fuck things up and the amount of mental and emotional drain it is to have to consider everything all the time lest something fall between the cracks.

whamlastxmas··on Nvidia won, we all lost
Nvidia shareholders make money when share price rises. Perceived extreme demand raises share prices
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