This is the "Hawk Tuah"...

Why is reality so negative?

This six and seven day a week work schedule is not why I signed up to work at [current job].

YouTube Begins Skipping Videos for Ad-Blocker Users YouTube's latest move against ad blockers involves skipping videos straight to the end or muting audio for users with ad blockers enabled, according to user reports. This follows previous tests by the Google-owned platform, including blocking playback after three videos and slowing down load times for ad-blocker users.

YouTube Begins Skipping Videos for Ad-Blocker Users - Slashdot

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Meta AI Chief Says Large Language Models Will Not Reach Human Intelligence LLM's such as ChatGPT would never achieve the ability to reason and plan like humans Yann LeCun said LLMs had "very limited understanding of logic... do not understand the physical world, do not have persistent memory, cannot reason in any reasonable definition of the term and cannot plan...hierarchically."

Meta AI Chief Says Large Language Models Will Not Reach Human Intelligence - Slashdot

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Hopes For Sustainable Jet Fuel Not Realistic Hopes that replacement fuels for airplanes will slash carbon pollution are misguided and support for these alternatives could even worsen the climate crisis, a new report has warned. There is currently "no realistic or scalable alternative" to standard kerosene-based jet fuels, and touted "sustainable aviation fuels" are well off track to replace them in a timeframe needed to avert dangerous climate change

Hopes For Sustainable Jet Fuel Not Realistic, Report Finds - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Hopes that replacement fuels for airplanes will slash carbon pollution are misguided and sup...

Neuralink cures homosexuality.

CNN's Holmes: Turnout for Trump Bronx Rally 'Bigger' Than Dems 'Would Like to See' ”there were a lot of people here that were actually from the Bronx.” “Before we even came into the rally…we talked to a number of people outside in the community and the reaction…was really mixed” and that there were “a number” of ex-Biden voters who were “very unhappy,” particularly with the economy and looking for alternatives to Biden.

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CNN's Holmes: Turnout for Trump Bronx Rally 'Bigger' Than Dems 'Would Like to See'

On Thursday's broadcast of CNN's "AC360," CNN National Correspondent Kristen Holmes stated that the turnout at 2024 Republican presidenti...

No jail time for former Dem Baltimore prosecutor convicted of perjury, mortgage fraud On Thursday, Marilyn Mosby was sentenced after being convicted of perjury and mortgage fraud. The 44-year-old former Baltimore city prosecutor was spared jail time, instead receiving a sentence of 12 months home confinement, 100 hours of community service, and three years of supervised release.

The Post Millennial

No jail time for former Dem Baltimore prosecutor convicted of perjury, mortgage fraud

Marilyn Mosby was sentenced to 12 months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service, and three years of supervised release.

Is there such a thing as a "false positive" for an ADHD test? One would think that was a possibility...

Is a College Degree Worth It in 2024? | Pew Research Center Only 22% say the cost of getting a four-year college degree today is worth it even if someone has to take out loans. Some 47% say the cost is worth it only if someone doesn’t have to take out loans. And 29% say the cost is not worth it.

Pew Research Center

Is College Worth It?

Americans have mixed views on the importance of having a degree. 47% say the cost is worth it only if someone doesn’t have to take out loans.

Media Matters hit with sweeping layoffs after defamation suit by Elon Musk, federal probes The billionaire mogul sued the Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization for defamation last November, accusing the company of manufacturing images showing advertisements from major companies alongside posts made by white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

Media Matters hit with sweeping layoffs after defamation suit by Elon Musk, federal probes

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Gonna tell my wife I'm suffering from "Stiff Person Syndrome"...

Arizona lawmaker says ChatGPT helped draft new deepfakes law Republican state Rep. Alex Kolodin said he used ChatGPT to write a subsection of House Bill 2394, which tackles AI-related impersonations of people by allowing Arizona residents to legally assert they are not featured in deepfake videos. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4682722-arizona-lawmaker-chatgpt-helped-draft-deepfakes-law/