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So this is basically a result of the DEA forcing eBay to enforce a ban on pill presses for them?

I hate how the government has basically been deputizing internet companies to enforce laws and regulations for them. If the DEA had done this themselves you could appeal it, ask your congressperson for help, or take them to court, but as long as their actions get laundered through a private company, the rights of the affected citizens disappear.

Human brains are not large language models.

> If you don’t install Apple Music or Apple TV, you can continue to use iTunes for all your media. … so why would I install either of those? What’s actually changing if I only have iTunes installed?

The way I see it, the source of humor is basically the superiority theory but applied only to a knowledge gradient. Socrates saying that he’s handsome is funny because it implies that he doesn’t know how ugly he is, and the rest of us do. We all laugh to show that we possess the knowledge he lacks - we “get the joke”. The handsomest man in the world saying he’s handsome isn’t funny because it’s just a true statement, there’s no one being dumb to be made fun of.

Well, it wouldn’t be the first time that a law with good intentions has prefaced a loss of freedom

When you have a hammer…

They’re raising the entrance fee from $25 (which was apparently set in 2015) to $30

According to the BLS inflation calculator, $25 in 2015 had the same buying power as $32.64 now

Apparently museums are getting cheaper in real terms! What’s the issue?

> Unless you're claiming that GPT-3.5 is deriving the Declaration of Independence (from information about the founding fathers?)

This would make a fun short story - “ChatGPT, author of the Quixote”

They should look to make it not tell lies first. If they were serious about trying to sell AI as a product, they’d make it functional instead of worrying about its tone.

It’s not “about” anything, it’s just nonsense generated by a computer program. Any meaning you find in it is pareidolia.

As is the article, and almost everyone talking about the topic.

But Copilot has been shown to distribute (parts of) the copyrighted works used to create it. That’s the difference.

AI image generators also often churn out near-exact replicas of their inputs. For example:

Original: https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/460636_IGDB-272x380....

Copies: https://lexica.art/?q=bloodborne

He encouraged all state governors to do the same:

>Second, I am urging all Governors to do the same with regard to state offenses. Just as no one should be in a Federal prison solely due to the possession of marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either.

(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...)

I wouldn't care about this VPN if it weren't for the fact that I can't ignore it. There's an option to hide it from the toolbar, but every time I open an incognito window it pops back up again. It's incredibly annoying.

This is incorrect. Most flag emoji are based off of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2[0], which will continue to be updated. The Unicode Consortium’s decision to not accept new flags refers to flags outside that standard, like the pride flag or the flags of subnational regions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

Only about $200 more than the national median household income https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

One benefit I didn't see mentioned was that central banks, being an arm of the government, presumably won't cut off payment processing for completely-legal-but-socially-unacceptable sites like private payment services do. I know this happens to porn artists/websites all the time, and recently it's been happening to political extremist sites like Parler etc. too.

I'm surprised it wasn't banned already, tbh.

Along with Ruffle, there's also Flashpoint, a project to curate an archive of every flash game and animation on the internet. (https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/)

I got the same kind of card ordering a laptop charger earlier this year. Tried to report it to Amazon. Got back a canned response telling me to report individual reviews. Amazon doesn't care.

It's heartening to see Google finally taking steps towards curbing the spread of disinformation on their platforms recently. Now if only Facebook would do the same.

Most societies already levy property taxes on real estate, including on unimproved land. I don't know how they assess the value of that land, but they must have a working method for it.

There's nothing wrong with that.

"Using GANs to create textures for already drawn fantastical creatures" would be a more accurate title. It's impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the title would suggest.

Hey, I got one of those too. Tried to report it, but Amazon won't even accept reports about sellers buying reviews. And then the product vanished from the store after a week or so.

There's a popular belief in Japan that a person's blood type influences their personality[0]. This probably made Japanese emoji designers add them to their pre-unicode emoji sets, which then got rolled into the first set of unicode emoji in 2010[1], along with a bunch of other Japanese symbols.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_personality_theory

[1] https://emojipedia.org/unicode-6.0/

And at the same time, private companies cannot force you to use their services, or threaten you with violence or imprisonment if you refuse to follow their rules.

So they used a misleading photo in the header of an article and, when called out for it, immediately replaced it and acknowledged their mistake? Come on now. I wish other news sources showed this level of journalistic integrity.

fivethirtyeight gave the democrats a 63% chance of getting a federal trifecta a week ago : https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-forecast-thinks-dem...