No good outcome is possible from two brutal murdeous authoritarian regimes attacking a third.

There was a solid, enforcable, internationally recognized deal that all credible experts agree was working and keeping iran’s nuclear industry civilian. Whatever happened to that?

several incidents of this kind have been reported, including two in 2022. In one case, a speedboat coming from the United States fired on Cuban Border Guard forces near Villa Clara, injuring a Cuban officer.

The other incident took place in Bahía Honda, in western Cuba, when a vessel also coming from the United States collided with an Interior Ministry patrol boat, causing the U.S. craft to sink and killing several of its occupants.

Authorities on the island frequently report finding abandoned or seized speedboats along the northern coast (Ciego de Ávila, Villa Clara, Havana), commonly used to pick up potential migrants. They describe these operations as “territorial violations and human trafficking.”

But I don’t do anything unless prompted by a human.

Yeah it sure is.

It’s crazy but not surprising that the cowardly NYT would have an article this long about this many links to epstein and his island without any acknowledgemwnt that these men almost certainly raped children. Bill gates without a doubt did.

Yes yes yes! The clutter, the teeth, the bills, the ghosting. Watching things you can and want to do not get done is a special kind of frustrating.

However:

identify and accept that I am the problem… sucks to suck

Naahhhh, fuck that.

If a shelf is too high for me to reach, I don’t suck for being short. No amount of people telling me to reach harder will help.

The entire rest of the world is the problem. Don’t internalize that bullshit, don’t blame yourself for things you know could not have possibly gone differently.

“Child of prominent pedophile has an AI startup” is such a vibe right now.

Theres probably variation from the background there, that drives clicks to that particular spot. Several of the red-female locations have blue-male dots at the same spot.

Most social mammals mirror the behaviour of high status individuals.

That’s why i think celebrity endorsements should be illegal, it’s basically abusing an exploit, a known flaw in how our brains work that routinely leads to sub-optimal decision making.

It’s probably 1 click = blue, right? The more clicks overlap at a certain point the closer to red.

Well i’m gonna go to my room and play rage against the machine at full volume!

I worked in a phone room of a large drug company. By early 2021 we had AI agents making phone calls to insurance companies to confirm basic insurance coverage details. They only handled the “no surprises” kind of plans - so a limited set of expected answers. They would encounter something unexpected and pass off to a human maybe 10-15% of the time.

But within their limits, they did what a human did. It was recognizably AI to most listeners, but vocal tone, probing for clarity, getting all the info - the output was like listening to the output an experienced human agent.

“Less cognitively capable than previous generations” sounds like kids are getting dumber, but…

Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the previous one.

… just does not mean that. Many factors influence test scores, like say, more people growing up in poverty.

This article reads like fortune magazine enjoying their own farts.

There’s a credible argument that we’re just strongly overestimating what consciousness is.

I don’t think AI is conscious. But it processes information and comes up with an output that’s often dumb, obvious or not really on topic and then rarely kinda cool - just like humans do. It doesn’t have a will, but most experts agree that free will is scientifically impossible, even if many think we should just pretend that it’s real. AI doesn’t have the feeling of subjective experience, but that’s not really very important - we could still see a red light, understand what it means and execute appropriate bevahiour if we lacked the subjective experience of seeing the color red.

AI is not conscious, similarly to how a ventilator is not human lungs. It’s not, but it’s still doing mostly the same thing.

Of course, but sinophobia and yellow peril narratives having been going strong in Aus for over a century.

To be more unpopular than Xi with australians is a big deal.

Got the muchies for a california cheeseburger.

I lean toward that interpretation but am open to being wrong.

I work in mental health and was surprised by the amount of people in the field who believe marijuana is part of the problem, not just a symptom of it.

Cannabis use was more common among: … Youth on Medicaid or living in more deprived neighborhoods

Regular reminder that correlation =/= causation. Living a more stressful life due to poverty makes both mental illness and adolescent cannabis use more common.

That said there is a credible biological pathway to cannabis use having a causal role:

THC acts on CB1 receptors, which are highly expressed in the adolescent brain and play a key role in emotional regulation, motivation, and cognitive development.

However we still don’t have definitive evidence of causation:

Q: Does this study prove cannabis causes mental illness? A: While causation can’t be definitively established, cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric conditions

Stick mexican flag bumper stickers to cybertrucks and sports cars, got it.