A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
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I did Google “closest brothels to Canada” and it seems like there are plenty in Canada. Apparently, while it is illegal to buy sex, police don’t enforce this as they have plenty of actual crimes to be keeping themselves busy with.
So, if it means so much to the OP, they should save up their pennies and go somewhere like Vancouver.
Fun fact: just because something is illegal doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
I’d have definitely had a lot less fun if I’d steered clear if anything that breaks the law.
Lengthy discussion here.
Sometimes other bodily fluids.
I use Calibre.
I suspect that rather than being predators, it is the children themselves who do it.
How tech-literate are those toddlers?
They are developing their own extremist-infused AI models, and are already experimenting with novel ways to leverage the technology, including producing blueprints for 3D weapons and recipes for making bombs.
Given thr way AI is prone to hallucinations, they should definitely have a go at building them. Might solve our problems for us.
So the idea to make people think that Nazis are using AI, might have come from a Nazi AI? 🤯
Good second half too:
That search/SEO is broken seems to be part of the game plan here.
It’s probably like Russia burning Moscow against Napoleon and a hell of a privilege Google enjoy with their monopoly.
I’ve seen people opt for chatGPT/AI precisely because it’s clean, simple and spam free, because it isn’t Google Search.
And as @caseynewton said … the web is now in managed decline.
For those of us who like it, it’s up to us to build what we need for ourselves. Big tech has moved on
That’s why we are all here.
It’s interesting to think that Big Tech might just move on from the Web, leaving it to us ordinary humans to go back to the way we were doing it in Web 1.0 just with fancier tools at our disposal. I quite like the idea.
Keelhaul the offenders, oh Black Pharaoh¡
It feels like there’s an opportunity for shenanigans here.
I read somewhere that the largest class of jobs in half the US states was truck driver and it’s high in most other places (that article says 600k). They are likely to be the first sector almost wiped out by AI, followed by call centre workers and a lot of the legal profession. Good luck reskilling all those people. Here in the UK, call centres were often opened in areas of low employment, so we’ll see a lot of the already decimated old industrial areas hollowed out.
“If you’re driving a truck today,” he said, “my expectation is you’re going to be able to retire driving a truck.”
Probably true as it will take a while for them to ramp the numbers up to cover the shortage in truck drivers, and they’ll still need drivers for that last mile (as these trucks work best going between depots on freeways) but how long will being a truck driver be a viable occupation? When it’s one of the biggest areas of employment, can everyone transition to other logistical jobs, as suggested by the article?
I’ll take that and raise you a wifi9.
I’m not sure it’s new guy syndrome - he’s got two legal cases on the go with, apparently, very little to back it up:
Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. He didn’t hold a senior position inside the company. His lawsuit, and a second one he filed in March against several US government agencies, makes a number of improbable claims. He asserts that he was put under 24-hour surveillance by TikTok and the FBI while working remotely in Mexico. He claims that US attorney general Merrick Garland, director of national intelligence Avril Haines, and other top officials “wickedly instigated” his firing. And he states that the FBI helped the CIA share his private information with foreign governments. The suits do not appear to include evidence for any of these claims.
No at a minimum that has to make people wonder if he’s an unbiased source at a minimum and it should make lawmakers at least stop to consider how reliable a witness he is.
Well that’s me switched over to Heliboard. I’ve auditioned a few but that hits the sweet-spot. I don’t seem to be getting next word suggestions yet though.
edit: the suggestions are starting to kick in now.
I rather enjoyed it while it lasted but I was rather just posting interesting bits I was posting here, so perhaps here is the best alternative. 🤷
I may have also been using it as a kind of replacement for del.icio.us, which is much missed. I gave Postmarked a go but it isn’t doing it for me.
Shoulda used ChatGPT.
We say registrations go from 1 or 2 a day to 14 (other instances saw similar upswings). Just on this news. If they do implement it we’ll see another Rexxit with similar big numbers.