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I rebuke this. I would like to unsee this and get it out of my brain where now I cannot stop thinking about

Verification pop-up for badge issued by Wired

What we’ve launched today is the first step for how we’re going to evolve verification.

The initial set of trusted verifiers includes news orgs who’ve agreed to take on the task of verification for their journalists. In the future, this set will expand, as well as how apps can choose to use them.

Mercury = Weird Egg Planet

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

It’s pretty easy to imagine the trends we’ve seen from smartphones (alienation, anxiety, reduced reading comprehension and persistence) compounded dramatically by LLMs.

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Alt for four images: 1. A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos. 2. The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background. 3. A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights. 4. A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.

Alt for four images: 1. A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos. 2. The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background. 3. A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights. 4. A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.

Alt for four images: 1. A person in a black robe and a tall brown felt hat stands facing a line of riot police holding shields labeled “Polis.” The person is being sprayed with pepper spray, and the air is filled with mist and debris. The person wears a gas mask and stands with a composed posture amid the chaos. 2. The same person in black robes and a tall brown felt hat stands calmly with arms folded while being sprayed with pepper spray by riot police. The individual wears a gas mask and stands on a wet street littered with water bottles. A line of police in helmets and shields labeled “Polis” stands in the background. 3. A person wearing a black robe, gas mask, and tall brown felt hat stands with arms outstretched in front of a row of riot police. The police hold transparent shields marked “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet.” Smoke fills the air, and the scene is illuminated by strong overhead lights. 4. A similar scene shows the same person in a dramatic pose with arms wide open and head tilted back, wearing the same attire. Smoke surrounds the area, and the line of riot police with shields labeled “Polis” and “Çevik Kuvvet” remains in the background. Debris is scattered on the ground.

Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey

If Elon was *that* competent in fighting fraud, he'd stop it on his own app first. But he's not, and he cannot.

I know an episode like that

The Doctor and his sonic cane

Almost no media creator (musician, director, author, etc) cares much about those "rules" - which means they are not rules. They're categorizations of uncategorized creations

GENRES ARE MARKETING TOOLS NOT RULES

People talk about “falling down a Wikipedia rabbit hole,” but my young friends: as incredible as it is to believe, before search engines became the de facto standard, this was how the *entire internet* worked.

Link to link to link to—oh dear it’s 4am already.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. Ernest Hemingway

This one hits too hard.

What's an opinion you have that would make a bunch of people angry?

Write it down in a notebook called, "Why would I want to make a bunch of people angry right now?" and then close that notebook and have some tea.

The brightest minds in human history worked hard to come up with the idea of vaccination, developed it for specific viruses, organized its implementation, succeeded in all this; and some flat earther decides that all this is a conspiracy to plant a chip in him...

... while praising Neuralink.

A screenshot of a social media post that states a Florida woman was arrested this week after allegedly threatening a health insurance provider. Lakeland Police said the woman became increasingly upset during the call which she ended with delay denied depose you people are next. On the left is a mugshot of Briana Boston, the middle aged white woman with blonde hair and a blue shirt. On the left is the mugshot of Luigi mangioni, He is a white man in his twenties with dark curly hair and thick eyebrows.

When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything".

Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something.

They just don't care about YOU.

#FoggySky

Happy Rotter and the Prisoner of Doomscroll

Her Şey Çok Güzel Olacak 2

Mental exercise:

Can anyone tell a definitive difference between a single Communist Party rule and a hypothetical Capitalist company ruling a whole country on its own?

I honestly can't find any.

In the end, the "people" would be paid employees of the Party/Company in both cases.

I'm familiar with public policy terminology. Terminology does not have synonyms

It's called *public* health care, unless you're trying to make a wordplay

Y'all replace knowledge with literacy so much that you make people try to prove their method of acquiring knowledge as "reading". Which is completely unnecessary.

Knowledge is knowledge. Literacy is but a method to get it.

If knowledge is identified by one method of acquiring knowledge, that's the problem. Reading is a method, not knowledge itself. "What counts as reading" is just semantics replacement, not a solution to the main problem - which is denying other types of knowledge acquirement.

What does this have to do with labeling it as "reading"? Blind people can listen to audiobooks all they want. If teaching institutions are obsessed with "what counts as reading" instead of knowledge, that's a problem of obsession with that label. It can't be solved by joining that obsession.

Teachers' job is making kids learn, not "making kids learn by reading". Publishers' job is publishing knowledge material, not "publishing reading material". If you focus too much on what counts reading, you miss the main point on both.

I really don't understand why labeling an activity as "reading" is so important. What happens if audiobooks don't count as reading? So what?

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A good manager becomes obsolete on purpose. Only a great boss gets that.