You can clearly see here it is not big pharma trickery, just regulatory stupidity
Coopervision is transparent about this, they are certified for 2-week use in Australia and a month in UK
Contact lens regulation works in weird ways so this isn’t unusual, just funny, because for once I’ve been a good instruction follower, replacing lenses every 2 weeks, not waiting till they go blurry.
Turns out it’s all FDA/pharma trickery, they sell the same lenses as monthlies.
This is interesting đź‘€ I ordered fortnightly disposable contact lenses this time instead of the monthly ones I had been using.
But it’s the same lens! It’s made of the same silicon hydrogel (hydrogel = water retaining polymer). Same moisture content. Made in the same UK factory.
My emotional support rolling stock is here đźš‚
morning morning morning
nooo you can’t build 1400 homes here that is my emotional support disused facility 🥺
I miss it already :/
Yes exactly same in Canberra, some trees are 100% green like it’s bloody December
I think it may have hatched
If the universe isn't intelligently designed then why does the far side of the moon suck so bad aesthetically compared with the near side? Checkmate atheists
back at work *cries*
Hey autumn understanders, are there years when most trees forget about autumn and skip the whole shedding growing routine?
Talbingo reservoir and shrooms en route
I’m back
welp
It’s reeeeeaaallly nice
I’m staying here everyone should go here sometime it’s amazing
www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/camping-and-...
Halllo how is everyone’s Easter going? I’m in cave land.
Muslim | Revert | Crypto | Investor | Stocks | Arsenal FC ❤️|
atheists how do you explain this??
blooning
A swan came to hang out with us during the fireworks, it was very cute but it couldn’t keep still for a fireworks photo dumb bird
It’s also bloon week in Canberra. Much going on, good time to visit.
Happy Canberra New Year
No man the car does drive itself.
Anthropic is a ripe target here as far as jokes about hypocrisy are concerned: It's pitched as the conscientious AI lab, but also it settled last year to pay out $1.5 billion to authors whose pirated books it used for training. These posts represent a fair critique of all of the big players, which have ingested enormous quantities of material created by others, often without permission, to build proprietary models over which they now claim something like authorship. The scrapers have become the scraped, their own powerful distillations of the world's information sampled, reconstituted, and distilled once more.
The backlash here isn't just about that irony. Anthropic is, at the moment, the Al lab to beat and the company whose products are most responsible for recent speculation about how AI might blow up the economy. As a result, mockery wasn't coming just from people whose content had been scraped by Anthropic or who generally object to the way LLM models are trained. It was coming from AI insiders who see big firms as pulling the ladder up or trying to fortify their early dominance with the help of regulators, copyright law, and government funding. Within the story of an international arms race, model distillation can be cast as a threat to national security and American economic competitiveness. Within some of the other stories about AI, it might look more like fear of competition in general: of cheaper models; of free, open-source models; and of the rapid commoditization of capabilities that, just a few months prior, were unique and prohibitively expensive to develop. The Al firms called out by Anthropic - DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax — make models that are open to use not just in China but in the U.S. and elsewhere and that are already competing for some of the same customers. Moonshot's latest Kimi models seem to perform, for many functions, about as well as the best American models did in the middle of last year. DeepSeek, the arrival of which briefly sent the AI industry and the stock market into chaos, is expected to release a major model update imminently, which may help explain why the big labs are all speaking up at the same time.
it was interesting to see a bunch of AI people suddenly start making BlueSky jokes about model scraping at Anthropic's expense — it's almost as if the LLM theft critique is grounded in something real and significant! nymag.com/intelligence...
E-bikes are fast replacing petrol bikes in both countries.
They are virtually free to run so the slightly steep price of a decent one at ~US$1500 is within reach of a lot of people.
e-motorbikes don’t need huge motors or battery packs, even with half the peak power of a petrol bike it just flies.
