We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.
My daughter has a genuine interest in reading and learning and we fed her slop. The people selling these things should be ashamed of themselves.
Then I went on amazon- the book has 4.5 stars in the reviews. Testimonials about what a great read it was (I looked inside it- it's not). Slop slop sop
I thought one of them had an AI-generated cover but I didn't look too closely at first. Then my daughter asked me to print out some of the supplemental material and I saw the "capybara jokes" page which was just pure slop, clearly hadn't even been read.
My daughter is really into animals, most recently capybaras, so for her birthday my parents and my mother-in-law separately got her books about capybaras. And it turned out BOTH books that they bought were AI-generated.
We all have days like this
I love it when trump admin officials get on camera and forcefully say "The President has been very clear:" followed by some statement that nobody in the world has heard before.
So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about.
I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant
Hahaha yes it's the only thing holding me back. If I could eat a normal sandwich I'd be serving a life sentence right now, no doubt about it.
Yeah this is one of the reasons I don't want to go to prison either. Notoriously limited gluten-free options.
He knows if he trips the parachute will deploy and he'll be fine
We wanted Bluesky to be more like old Twitter, and they delivered.
They think "Just War Theory" is when you say "We just started a war"
generation lead never fails
Agreed, very obviously promptu
"ONE GUY'S WIFE" is great, like she would have been more deserving if she had married more guys.
It's basically the hostage one-upmanship from The Naked Gun youtu.be/JnI30mIKW2k?...
I don't think it's healing, I think this is where headaches come from
I can't stop laughing at calling the Pope "weak on crime".
If Republicans want to be inspired by Orban, maybe Democrats can be inspired by this
NASA itself provides scads of some of the coolest imagery imaginable, for anyone to use at any time, for free. Making and circulating fake versions of these things is incredible loser behavior.
How much does that food waste % vary from country to country? I have no mental model for what that sort of map would look like, but might guess that poorer countries use their food more efficiently?
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
The Orion spacecraft Capsule Parachute Assembly System team pose for a photo before the mockup spacecraft is loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III, Dec. 11, 2017 in Yuma, Arizona. (U.S. Air Force photo by Christopher A. Okula)
A good friend of mine works at NASA, and has spent the last TEN years of his life working on the Orion CPAS (Capsule Parachute Assembly System), testing it in the deserts of Arizona.
Ten years of design & testing. For this moment.
Science is so good, y'all.
Can’t wait to post this on Facebook with a “Sometimes you have to shed essential pieces to see it through to the end 😤” caption.
“It may look like I lost a lot in the process, but I landed with what I needed 💯”
It's good to be proud of something once in a while. It's not a huge deal for each of us individually, but it matters. And hearing my preschooler tell me about what she learned about the mission at school was pretty fun (she knew an impressive amount about splashdown!)
I've been thinking about what someone wrote on here: Artemis II made me realize that I wasn't sick of space travel, I was sick of SpaceX/Blue Origin. The private companies do have real technical achievements, but they don't deliver any of the feeling of being part of something larger.
Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024
Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this
The exact same court blocked Biden from forgiving student loans via Dept of Ed with a stay during litigation; only a few months later greenlit Trump to dismantle it entirely while litigation was ongoing. Almost identical situations, complete opposite results.
