Dogyote

@Dogyote@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate 'Green Methane'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you feel if those fossil fuel producers stopped extracting fossil methane and instead were producing methane from atmospheric CO2 and fossil free energy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like we’re going back to the pre-internet era but it’s obviously a little different. Before the internet, there were just a few major media providers on TV plus lots of local newspapers. I would say that, for the most part in the USA, the public trusted TV news sources even though their material interests weren’t aligned (regular people vs big media corporations). It felt like there wasn’t a reason not to trust them, since they always told an acceptable version of the truth and there wasn’t an easy way to find a different narrative (no internet or crazy cable news). Local newspapers were usually very trusted, since they were often locally owned and part of the community.

  The internet broke all of those business models. Local newspapers died because why do you need a paper when there are news websites? Major media companies were big enough to weather the storm and could buy up struggling competitors. They consolidated and one in particular started aggressively spinning the news to fit a narrative for ratings and political gain of the ownership class. Other companies followed suit.

  This, paired with the thousands of available narratives online, weakened the credibility of the major media companies. Anyone could find the other side of the story or fact check whatever was on TV.

  Now what is happening? The internet is being polluted with garbage and lies. It hasn’t been good for some time now. Obviously anyone could type up bullshit, but for a minute photos were considered reliable proof (usually). Then photoshopping something became easier and easier, which made videos the new standard of reliable proof (in most cases).

  But if anything can be fake now and difficult to identify as fake, then how can you fact check anything? Only those with the means will be able to produce undeniably real news with great difficulty, which I think will return power to major news companies or something equivalent.

  I’m probably wrong about what the future holds, so what do you think is going to happen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has google stopped working for finding anything?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  duckduckgo has been working well imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Govt and researchers seemingly discover new type of superconductivity in an exotic, crystal-like material — controllable variation breaks temperature records⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah what happened to that one out of South Korea?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Set phasers to fun⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Omg I can’t handle the blue dude’s gold teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just a ship dropping out of warp a safe distance from our system. While inconvenient, it’s considered best practice to drop out well away from the system’s center to shed the particles you’ve accumulated in your warp bubble during transit. They are extremely energetic and can cause immense damage if released irresponsibly close to an inhabited planet. This is especially true when visiting a primitive world that hasn’t set up any sensible warp safety systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ozempic Threatens Profits at Food and Beverage Makers Worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or are these relatively few people really having that much of an impact?

  I’m imagining a world where 99% of grocery shoppers ignore the cookie aisle while the last 1% fill their carts with Oreos every visit, like Whales in pay to win mobile games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mike McMahan Calls On Fans To Help Keep ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ From Facing The Same Fate As ‘Prodigy’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but if you’re not going to subscribe regardless then why not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mike McMahan Calls On Fans To Help Keep ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ From Facing The Same Fate As ‘Prodigy’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To those complaining about streaming services, I’ve been using free alternative streaming websites for years and haven’t had an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo better check your fuel prices: economist.com/…/why-uranium-prices-are-soaring

  Plus imagine how expensive uranium will get once we start relying on nuclear. It’ll be the new oil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Joy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem the tweet is pointing out is that research scientists are mostly concerned about getting and keeping funding since their jobs and the jobs of those working for them depend on it. Thus they’ll target research questions that are deemed sexy by those in control of the funds. This can lead to a few areas being over-researched and other worthy areas of inquiry being underfunded. Plus that over-researched work can be of questionable quality and importance since a lot of less-good scientists get funded due to the overabundance of funds.