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I personally would say you're wrong because a toy definitionally is an item and a video game is not physical. The play station is a toy, the game is a game. Game is action, toy is thing.

But if you're asking if I'd be bothered that someone thought I was playing with my toys, so to speak, then no.

As a German who is not diagnosed autistic I find the 30/70 split of German/autistic quietly distressing.

My problems, in perspective.

This really puts my problems into perspective.

Oh, that's hilarious, I recognize half of these as a badly rephrased tumblr post.

the only april fool's I'll accept 😂😂

Thank you! 🎂🎉

Migraine passed and the day continued to be lovely! Thank you 🎉

Thank you 🎉 I got lucky with the migraine pill and it was a very good day!

It's my birthday today and the universe thought I could totally use a migraine. Thanks universe! I could always use another one of those!

(Otherwise having a great time, I love birthdays 🎂)

Hi Friends, good news! I am hosting The Daily Show this week Tuesday - Thursday. Do your thing for the algo so more people see it. Guests this week are Sterling K. Brown, Mero, and Eiza González. March 24-26 on Comedy Central and Paramount

And their vitamin content is higher, because most vitamins are not shelf stable! Unless you're eating directly field to table, frozen will always have an edge there. It's a very good way to get fruit and veggies that aren't in season, too.

The song is well known for its opening line, sung by South African composer Lebo M in Zulu. While no official transcription of the movie version exists, the Zulu version of the lyrics from the musical/stage production (by Hal Leonard, 1997) is known as follows:[7][8] Nants'ingonyama, bakithi, baba Sithi hu 'ngonyama. Nants'ingonyama, bakithi baba Sithi hu 'ngonyama. Sizo ngcoba 'ngonyama. Ingonyama nengw'enamabala. Which translates to English as:[8] Here comes the lion, father, Oh yes it's a lion. Here comes the lion, father, Oh yes it's a lion. A lion we're going to conquer. A lion and a leopard come to this open place. The version sung in the film by Lebo M uses the variant 'ngwenyama rather than ingonyama as in the stage production, a term also used as an honorific for "king" (e.g. the King of Eswatini in Swazi).

Honestly, I'd heard that way before the clip and it wasn't a big deal over the 30 years the movie's been around. As it turns out, they're both right.

Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says. In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong. The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now.

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Bring the thing

Where do rainbows go when they break the law?

Prism.

They get a light sentence.

It gives them time to reflect.

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Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

#Booksky You know how we keep encouraging y’all to nominate Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett’s Astreiant Series for the Best Series Hugo? Apart from a genuine belief that these are terrific books? Because it’s doable! We could see the amazing books on the Hugo ballot and that would be the BEST!

A comic with two panels. Top: ditto wearing a tie and looking at graphs on a computer titled "I'm tired of looking at the bad lightscreen" Bottom: Ditto playing pokopia on a TV and smiling. "I'm want to go home & look at the good screen" Trxyland signature

Hey, Sam, hey, what if I tell you that basic utilities should be free at point of access, much like health care or education, even housing. There is no world in which the commodification of our basic needs is a good one.

Every time the screen is magenta I might as well guess, but sort of pastell-y colors, I could clearly see the line up to 0.0008. Totally fascinating.

I'm consistently doing pretty well on this but the most interesting thing is what I can't differentiate- bright yellows, pinks and greens.

Buck Frobisher's March 11 Speech YouTube video by girlyskin

Happy 11th of March!

Oh my god, please don't give me the link to that, that would be cruel and unusual punishment...

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI

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If you've got something to spare this month, Settiai has been a friend for many years and deserves a chance at a stable home.

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