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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you miss that OP mentioned they’re blind?

  Here is that image you posted, but with manually-written alt text added.

  (I don’t usually do this when adding alt tags but in this case I also added the same text as a title/tooltip to make it also easy to read for users without a screen reader. Apologies to screen reader users that this probably causes you to hear the description twice.) A meme with three rows and two columns. The first row has the heading ‘Two sexes’, above a picture of a white male-presenting person (labeled ‘male’) on the left, and two female-presenting people (labeled ‘political’) on the right. The second row has the heading ‘Two sexualities’, above a straight couple (labeled ‘straight’), and two same-sex couples (labeled ‘political’). The third row has the heading ‘Two races’ above a picture of the same white man (labeled ‘white’), and three non-white people (labeled ‘political’).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  see also: Conscription of people with disabilities. It’s ongoing in present-day Ukraine.

• Why did the proposed *Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance* project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it?en.wikipedia.org ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people know what the Streisand effect was about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  it was about this photograph

  The original image of Barbra Streisand’s cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, which she attempted to suppress in 2003 Of course I went to the wikipedia article to get a link the actual image to post here, but, to answer your question: yes I did in fact remember what the photo looks like without looking it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHY???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  either that, or

  Giorgio A. Tsoukalos “aliens guy” meme, no text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly wtf?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  not the first time OP is raising questions like this 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  I think you misunderstood me

  > Go ahead and post the same link for Google job listings. I’ll wait. My comment was in response to your comments (bolded below) in this thread: >>>> I was already thinking of getting a Linux phone next, this is helping to seal the deal. Fuck Apple the genocide enablers. >>> >>> please do explain how Apple is doing anything here. If Israel wants to provide their military with iPhones they’re going to no matter what Apple does. >> >> They don’t have to do business with/in Israel. > > That still will not stop a nation state (especially Israel) from getting their hands on Apple devices. My point was not to say that Google is better than Apple here - in fact, unlike Apple (as far as I know), Google has actually built AI tools specifically tailored for Israel’s genocidal business requirements. My point is that if Apple wanted to boycott a country (which in the case of Israel they obviously don’t, which job listings at their R&D centers are just one of many points of evidence of) it would actually make it difficult-to-impossible for any substantial part of the boycotted country’s government to rely on using iPhones. (Unlike Android derivatives which can easily be used without direct reliance on Google’s services…) As an aside, while I would not use iOS for philosophical reasons, it is hard to dispute that (for most adversaries, at least) compromising it is generally much more expensive/difficult/unlikely than Android. So, given that Apple is friendly to them, the IDF’s policy decision to use iPhones makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Physically obtaining the devices is insufficient; they need ongoing software updates and other network services too.

  The IDF could/would absolutely not be doing this if they did not trust that Apple is a very committed partner.

  You can also observe from Apple’s job listings that they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats going on in YSK?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YSK: lemmy growth passed the appealing-to-spammers threshold a long time ago; please do report spam to help mods/admins see and delete it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the process has a great name: Kleptoplasty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf. Why do Israeli tanks look like IRL Dall-E?

  I rescind my remark.

  no, you were right - even though it is based on an actual photo, it is also slop, because someone upscaled a low res version using a neural network.

  compare the tank tracks in OP’s image with the high res original photo:

  closeup of tank track on OP’s AI upscaled slop image same closeup in high-res original photo

• YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.en.wikipedia.org ↗
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• You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the suddenlemmy.ml ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard of academics and/or media from China advocating for applications of phrenology/physiognomy or other related racist pseudosciences. Have you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  one can also get the full paper directly from yale here without needing to solve a google captcha:

  …yale.edu/…/AI Personality Extraction from Faces …

  I don’t have the time nor the expertise to read everything to understand how they take into account the bias that good looking white men with educated parents are way more likely to succeed at life.

  i admittedly did not read the entire 61 pages but i read enough to answer this:

  spoiler

  they don’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastic surgery would become more popular.

  One of the paper’s authors had the same thought:

  “Suppose this type of technology gets used in labor market screening, or maybe dating markets,” Shue muses. “Going forward, you could imagine a reaction in which people then start modifying their pictures to look a certain way. Or they could modify their actual faces through cosmetic procedures.”‌

  She also bizarrely claims

  “we are very much not advocating that this technology be used by firms as part of their hiring process.”

  and yet, for some reason:

  The next step for Shue and her colleagues is to explore whether certain personality types are drawn to specific industries or whether those personality types are more likely to succeed within given industries.

• The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"lemmy.ml ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “is this a pigeon?” butterfly meme, captioned “is this numberwang?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same, honestly⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bears definitely took notice of the drone. The animals’ heart rate skyrocketed when the UAV flew overhead, and their stress response was stronger when the quadcopter flew in windy conditions that masked the sound of its approach — apparently bears do not like being surprised. One bear started moving faster after the quadcopter flew by. And the bear that had experienced the greatest increase in heart rate — from 41 beats per minute to 162 — moved nearly 7 kilometers in the next 28 hours, encroaching into a neighboring female’s territory.

  All in all, though, the bears weren’t stressed all that much, the researchers concluded.

  🤌

  At least there is this:

  Ditmer’s team says that their results reinforce the NPS ban on drones in parks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When Miamoto died,

  Myamoto isn’t dead

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  Is the communications holofilter ready?

  Engage the overlay. Put them on screen. Commander Sisko disguised as Kobheerian Captain Viterian (Norman Large) by the USS Defiant’s Holofilter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email

  I’m guessing you probably don’t realize how many organizations host their email with Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Roll Safe” meme (Kayode Ewumi tapping his finger on his head), no text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i agree reactions can be useful, but adding them to email the way Microsoft has is obnoxious for recipients using any client other than theirs. and, i think this is probably their intention: receiving an email reaction in a client that doesn’t render it as a reaction feels wrong and MS probably hopes this will encourage some people to switch to using Outlook.

  the right way to add reactions to email would be to make it opt-in (and also not a vendor-specific header but instead something which aims to become a standard): clients should only allow reactions to messages which contain a header specifically signaling that the sender supports receiving them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  💯

• YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" headerneilzone.co.uk ↗
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• You can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" headerneilzone.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Deep Space Nine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  their fishing rods are invisible for you? including the hook and line? that must be rough. how do you avoid getting caught when you can’t even see them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have in fact read 1984. (As an aside, I highly recommend reading Isaac Asimov’s review of it…)

  Anyway, FYI:

  Obesity and hunger often go hand in hand

  What Is the Hunger-Obesity Paradox?

  etc etc 🙄