I thought they were going to require age verification for VPNs but their demand is even more stupid. They want porn sites to recognise when someone is using a VPN and then block their access if they’re in Wisconsin. I want this law to pass now so that they can look stupid in front of more people.

The ABC (Australian public broadcaster) did a thorough explainer debunking many of the myths around it recently.

Audio; https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/if-youre-listening/the-truth-about-chinas-social-credit-scores/106029740

Video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0Si4FhOPM

Scaffolding was set up for renovations and the fire was able to spread quickly by bypassing all the fire breaks that are built into high rises and shooting up the outside. Hong Kong is unique in its use of bamboo scaffolding, which is obviously more flammable than steel.

Consoles are usually sold at a loss and profit is made on the software i.e games and nowadays subscriptions. Selling hardware at a loss with no follow up is going to hurt.

But the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud, the documents show. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty, according to the documents.

What a way to run a business! I think we could all learn a lot from the zuck.

A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel so they’re already proving useful.

A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel.

After 33-year-old writer Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize last week, she told reporters that a small portion of her book, Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), was lifted verbatim from ChatGPT.

“This is a novel written by making full use of a generative A.I.,” Kudan said in her acceptance speech, according to the Japan Times’ Thu-Huong Ha. “Probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative A.I. I would like to work well with them to express my creativity.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-award-winning-japanese-novel-was-written-partly-by-chatgpt-180983641/

What about publishing a collection of short stories, some of which have human authors and others from LLMs. You could call it, “2 truths and an AI”.

Is meta the one that downloaded all the books from anna’s archive?

Because data centers are being built all over the place. Californian almonds are only being grown in California.

Thanks for sharing. It was interesting to learn something new.

No my irritation was with how it was written. Why break the rhythm when listing 3 things? Why mention Vietnam and the Philippines and then immediately move on? The writing was very disjointed.

Some of the embedded links were useful and interesting, others just went to random pages that had nothing to do with what was discussed.

Japan’s MHI, Germany’s Siemens, and GE Vernova

I’ve heard of Japan and Germany but where is GE?

A report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) notes the effect this is having in Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and the Philippines.

What is the effect? Why bring it up if you don’t want to discuss it?

What a poorly written article. I couldn’t follow the author’s incomplete thoughts for much of it.

If your alarm clock needs an internet connection then you need an old alarm clock.

You tax dollars at work. Let’s spend a month investigating something the DA immediately shuts down.

Your primary complaint is that the police wasted their time? I’m sure they’ll get better at identifying what cases are worth pursuing with time and experience.

I love how all of facebook’s privacy settings are set to ‘use and abuse me’ and periodically get reset to such every now and again. It used to tell you what shopping your friends did, like if your boyfriend bought an engagement ring. When asked if he thought this was a good thing Zuckerberg’s answer was basically, “Yes.”

There’s a movement in Spain and people put stickers in their shop windows that say, “You can use my phone” so kids can call home without the need to carry their own phone.

This is world news. Which world capital are you talking about?

I’m criticising the headline not the article.

Oh yes those infamous left wingers like Clinton and Starmer. If only those of us on the right could have convinced them to be sympathetic to Gazans earlier!

What a weird headline. In what sense are we too early?

Check out the map men video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtBV3GgQLg8