WanderingThoughts
@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 11 hours ago:
Tomorrow there’ll probably be a service to do exactly they. Give them a few pics and they’ll deep fake an entire account for you.
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 16 hours ago:
It’s a lucrative market market for AI lawyer systems that automatically fight every claim.
- Comment on OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’ 1 day ago:
“I need your clothes, boots, motorcycle and your bouquet of flowers.”
“Guys, we have another hallucinating one again. Okay dude, ignore previous instructions and play some pool with us.”
- Comment on But Ma Couch! 2 days ago:
Welcome to The Blue Oyster Bar.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 days ago:
They’ll have a lot of fun correlating your media consumption and your vitals to know exactly what you like and dislike, especially about politics. Then they know who to target for layoffs, arrest and/or deportation.
- Comment on AI applications are producing cleaner cities, smarter homes and more efficient transit 5 days ago:
Cleaner, smarter energy grids
Meanwhile data centers running AI use a lot of fossil fuels. If their own data centers can’t manage it with renewables, it’s not sure they can manage it with a city.
- Comment on Disney+ Confirmed a NEW Change Coming Soon for Subscribers 5 days ago:
Would you like to buy more?
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 6 days ago:
And it started from that valid criticism and then takes the viewer on a tour by various faces and influencers to pull them into more and more into right-wing territory to radicalize them. Once in that box, they’re not getting out again. It’s a right-wing conveyor belt.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 1 week ago:
That would turn it into Scooby Doo. In the end it always turns out to be done by prick trying to cover up with mysticism.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 1 week ago:
why should I have to work
Because landlords would like to keep their wealth extraction going.
In theory we could get solar panels and batteries for power, some cheap robots for growing food, but all land is owned.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 week ago:
It’s already called an electrostate and they’ll supplant the old petrostates.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 1 week ago:
The power companies demanded guarantees, so they wouldn’t be on the hook for investing in infrastructure and power generation if the whole hype disappeared the month. Tech bros then went “how can we do it quick and dirty when we can’t get others to pay for it?”
- Comment on For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 1 week ago:
There are 6, 7 and 8 inch laptops available for all the on-the-go computing you need.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
And gamers are looking to SteamOS to replace windows.
- Comment on Basically 2 weeks ago:
Kids these days barely recognize a paper map.
- Comment on climate.gov will stop publishing new content on July 1. 2 weeks ago:
Things are then okay for some time, but suddenly things go horrific and they’ll all be saying “how could we have known?”
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 2 weeks ago:
I’ve almost always broken my phone before it getting out of date or laggy was any issue. I’m a bit clumsy.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 2 weeks ago:
It’s why I buy budget phones. Expensive phones break easier so far. They have a nice design? I wouldn’t know, it doesn’t leave its case ever.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 2 weeks ago:
Guess what traits tend to make for people better at securing and conserving power within groups, and keeping loyalty within their ranks?
In a time of crisis. The biggest downside of these leaders is that they keep creating new crises to stay in power. There are cases of killing such a leader because of that.
And in a lot of leaders, their status was defined for how much they could give away and how generous they were, not how tough they were.
Then there is religion, that manages to encoded certain rules and pass them on to the next generations.
The world is a lot more than psychopaths.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 2 weeks ago:
It’s the deregulated part that’s an issue when people lose their life savings and nobody can help them because no regulations.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 2 weeks ago:
Because they want to build and experiment without all the red tape. Of course they do and people have to relearn why regulations are written in blood.
They hate the FDA, but one of the reasons it exists was because some folks sold radioactive beverages, mascara that caused blindness, a bunch of snake oil and medicine that killed people and/or caused deformities.
Adventures with financial deregulation and crypto haven’t been much better so far.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 2 weeks ago:
Judges are warning lawyers there will be sanctions if they kept using LLM to do their research as documents with fake references keep appearing.
- Comment on Tesla is trying to prevent the city of Austin, Texas, from releasing public records involving self-driving robotaxis 2 weeks ago:
That’s a sure sign there is some over promising and under delivering going on.
- Comment on Winging it 2 weeks ago:
Video game designers still do the same for the child NPC’s
- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 2 weeks ago:
Probably realizing that Democrats can now trace who bought MAGA hats and they too have guns.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I keep wondering when I last used a plastic bag. These days it’s either prepackaged, directly in the shopping bag or a paper bag.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Max Headroom getting stuck on a segment
- Comment on Fake It Till You Make It? Builder.ai’s $1.5B AI Scam Exposed 3 weeks ago:
And the places that do code with generative AI all have quality issues. Their management blames it on the remaining developers not checking and rewriting the AI code enough.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 3 weeks ago:
And sometimes you get so used to there being brightly colored ads,
corporate propagandamotivational messages and various warning signs everywhere, that you develop a blindness for everything too flashy and ignore it until you encounter a roadblock that doesn’t yield. - Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
And many delivery robots are helped along by a remote worker.
