But not, and I think this is significant, directly involved in the sales at Starbucks. In light probably of the desastrous experiments elsewhere.
If they could, they would have, so it must look really unreliable

Observational constraints project a ~50% AMOC weakening by the end of this century Combining observations and climate models suggests a 60% stronger weakening of the Atlantic circulation than using models alone.

Une nouvelle étude s'appuyant sur des données d'observation prévoit que la circulation océanique atlantique #AMOC s'affaiblira d'environ 50 % d'ici 2100, même dans le scénario d'émissions moyennes et sans prise en compte de la fonte du Groenland.
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They are great, and even more when stacked !

Loi Yadan : «Un jour, ces moyens de surveillance seront utilisés par un dictateur», prévient Marc Trévidic L’ancien juge antiterroriste s’inquiète, dans une interview pour L’Humanité, des dangers du texte aux contours flous, qui doit être examiné jeudi 16 avril dans l’hémicycle, sous le feu des contestations.

Loi Yadan : «Un jour, ces moyens de surveillance seront utilisés par un dictateur», prévient Marc Trévidic

Le magistrat Marc Trévidic, ancien juge antiterroriste, se joint aux contestations, voyant dans le texte une porte d’entrée à toutes les dérives

Making events into public memory is a cultural technology you have to do on purpose and repeat over and over. The fight to keep hold of the truth never ends it's generational and idk, maybe we're bound to lose in the end. But I have to believe we can do better than we did in the last six years.

If you think Murdoch is bad, check this out

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

France: Draft antisemitism law could seriously undermine free expression and other human rights, warn UN experts GENEVA – Draft legislation aimed at combatting “new forms of antisemitism” would seriously undermine freedom of expression, legal certainty in criminal offences, and other international human rights, ...

UN experts warn French draft antisemitism law could seriously undermine free expression and other human rights and risks trivialising genuine instances of antisemitic hatred, hampering identification and fuelling perceptions of instrumentalisation.

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Contextual Factors That Impact the Performance of Portable Air Cleaners: A Critical Review Portable air cleaners (PACs) can reduce indoor concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), although their impact can vary substantially. This review explores how PAC performance measured during an intervention can be affected by the indoor and outdoor environment, device operation, and study methodology. A literature search identified 41 randomized interventions conducted in homes (64 articles) satisfying the inclusion criteria. Reporting of key contextual factors was inconsistent between investigations, and many factors were frequently absent from discussion. Average reductions in indoor PM2.5 concentration ranged from 6.3–82.7% (effectiveness) and 1.2–54.9 μg·m–3 (absolute reduction). Neither measure was positively associated with PAC cleaning power (clean air delivery rate, CADR, or volume-normalized CADR, CADR/V). Concentration reductions were frequently lower than expected based on nominal CADR/V, suggesting that PACs operated at lower speeds than reported and/or that room dimensions underestimate the mixing volume of a space. Effectiveness was greater when windows were closed and when testing was conducted in bedrooms compared with living rooms. Absolute reductions were greater, with larger variance, as ambient PM2.5 concentrations increased. Accounting for these factors may strengthen assessments of past and future interventions and guide the implementation of PACs to reduce indoor PM2.5 concentrations and improve associated health outcomes.

If you size a air cleaner, you need to size it to the mixing volume, not the room volume!

"... room dimensions underestimate the mixing volume of a space..."

Size the CADR to the volume between closed doors.

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Thank you very much for your work on this !

Exactly in line with this, there has been a diversification of house and garden plants to many new species over the years... Some specialized nurseries now have a number of plants close to nettles for instance.

Je viens de découvrir l’étendu des mesures de flicage que Lecornu veut mettre en place concernant les arrêts maladie. On est beaucoup trop calme.
Depuis 6 ans le covid nous handicap et nous tue. Et ces mesures vont tout aggraver ça va être terrible. ⬇️

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.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Je ne la vois pas ? Je vois deux plantes differentes seulement

Oui, c'est probablement le mieux (en deplacant le cotoneaster). A voir si la spiree n'a pas trop chaud/soif

Ca peut être plus agréable de mettre des annuelles ou des vivaces plus petites et changer de temps en temps, ces deux là c'est de l'arbuste.

A moins que tu n'aies une idée precise de ce que tu veux, ça peut valoir la peine d'attendre 1 an pour voir si ca tient, si ca te plait, si c'est ingerable parce qu'il faut arroser tout le temps... et quelles sont les conditions a cet endroit pour choisir le remplacement. Sur un aussi petit espace

C'est peut-être cette spiree là Spiraea arguta (les feuilles des autres n'ont pas cette forme pour la plupart). En taille, ça va (1m, 1m50 de haut), mais ça dit qu'elle n'aime pas les conditions trop arides, ce qui arrive vite dans un bac au soleil
www.promessedefleurs.com/arbustes/arb...

Celle de droite c'est un cotoneaster, pas de l'Erigeron karvinskianus (qui aurait peut être été un meilleur choix, hors l'aspect invasif, vu la taille de la jardinière) ?

La spiree aussi, selon la variété/espèce.
Quelle est la profondeur des bacs et leur orientation? Pour l'arrosage?
Est ce que en effet il faut bloquer la vue (c'est pas ce que j'aurais choisi, la spiree sera degarnie en hiver, et le cotoneaster c'est ok de loin mais pas toujours joli de près)

(Et du thé, parce que l'eau bouillante non aromatisée c'est marrant 2 minutes)

Si c'est l'équivalent d'une valise ou deux en volume, je vois pas pourquoi pas...
Si c'était moi, je prendrais la bouilloire elec et des tasses aussi.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

Eh, faut prendre ce qu'il y a ! J'avoue là j'echangerai bien

Je suis vraiment dépitée de voir les gens de gauche capables de voir que le travail sur les jours fériés "sur la base du volontariat" n'est pas un vrai choix

Ms incapables de voir que c'est exactement la même mécanique sur l'euthanasie

Ils répètent "c'est ton choix c'est ton choix"

Sauf que non

Oui mais c'est beau ?

Pour les français : c'est une preview de ce qu'ils tenteront ici aussi l'année prochaine

Et ds le cas où il n'utilise pas l'arme nucléaire, mais bombarde de manière massive des infrastructures civiles, cela n'empêchera évidemment pas les médias de faire comme si le pire avait été évité, que ce n'est finalement pas si grave, etc... alors que ce serait des crimes de guerres injustifiables