You don’t have to have ever played Magic: The Gathering to be familiar with its mythical Black Lotus: a powerful card from the game’s first set that now routinely fetches eye-popping amounts in the collectible market. But no Black Lotus, no matter how pristine or rare, has ever sold for $3 million. It’s such a…
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Anthropic, which makes the Claude 3 family of AI models, is launching an iOS app and adding a second paid tier for groups to share access to the models.
The Claude mobile app can act as a chatbot, and users can also upload photos straight to the app for “image analysis.” Previously, Claude was only available through Anthropic’s Claude.ai website and third-party model libraries like Amazon Bedrock, Hugging Face, or Microsoft Azure.
Scott White, product manager at Anthropic, says many Claude users have been accessing the AI models through the mobile web, which led Anthropic to offer an app version of Claude.ai. He says the company will come out with an Android version soon.
Anthropic, though, is a little late with its mobile app....
Batman: Arkham Shadow is a new entry in the beloved comic book metroidvania beat ‘em up series, though it’s not what many players were probably hoping for. It’s being made in VR and will be exclusive to the Meta Quest 3 headset. It’s scheduled to release in late 2024.
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For many of us, Google storage is the modern-day hard drive. It’s the place where our most important thoughts, documents, and memories reside. But just like with a traditional hard drive, the space isn’t infinite, and running out of room can be a real problem.
By default, Google gives you 15GB of space to use for everything associated with your account. That includes content connected to Gmail, Google Drive, and all Google photos (except those saved before June 1st, 2021). Needless to say, data adds up fast.
You can check your current storage status by visiting this page, and if push comes to shove, you can purchase more space there, too, for as little as $2 a month for an extra 100GB. But shelling out more money might not be necessary....
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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:
Crucial battle for Chasiv Yar in Ukraine. The picture says it all.... 😬
#Ukraine #Russia #ChasivYar
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good grief, how did I get to the point of having that many browser windows and that many tabs open all at once... jeeeeeeeeze, dude
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship."
Frederick Douglass
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Confederacy Authorizes Enslavement or Execution of Black Union Troops
never believe propaganda about passive & contented Black slaves.
"By the end of the Civil War, roughly 179,000 black men (10% of the Union Army) served as soldiers in the U.S. Army and another 19,000 served in the Navy. Nearly 40,000 black soldiers died over the course of the war " - https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A father worries when a daughter has to work in this environment. (I'm not worried about the protesters at all, I'm worried about the cops.)
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/the-scene-at-uw-madison/
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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:
Bender & Shah 2024 is now officially published *as open access* at TWeb.
For everyone who is using or promoting LLM driven chatbots as information access systems: this one is for you
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., says she will follow through on her threat to hold a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson sometime next week, despite signs that her effort will fail.
I do not envy anyone working on the previously announced Legend of Zelda movie. Whereas, with Mario, they needed only make cute cartoons and load the film with jokes and easter eggs, Zelda feels so much more nuanced, and any angle is likely to displease many. Filmmaker Wes Ball has recently made it clear that his…
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Today, Meta has announced that the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham series will be Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game that’s exclusive to the Meta Quest 3.
Iron Man VR developer Camouflaj and Oculus Studios are developing the game, which is set to release later this year. Meta didn’t share much about the game itself, giving us a short trailer featuring Batman’s POV as he swoops over the grimy, rain-slicked streets of Gotham.
Though light on the actual gameplay features, the trailer suggests a big part of the game will likely include a lot of those “glide through Gotham” traversal sections that made Batman: Arkham City so damned cool. Meta also hasn’t yet shared who will be voicing Batman. Kevin Conroy, the voice actor best known for...
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
:: The story of a child housekeeper who works for ‘Mnimal’ a cleaning tech company that claims their robots systems can bring your home to a state of “elevated minimalist cleanliness” via “smart targeted cleantech interventions” neither robots nor software can deliver any of this effectively, so an army of young workers must either laboriously attempt to clean via remote control or simply sneak in to the house on guise of ‘a routine service call’ and do it by hand. 1/
The time a person has to decide whether to have an abortion in Florida and other states with six-week abortion bans is at most two weeks. Why? It's has to do with how we date early pregnancy.
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LinkedIn is now in the gaming business. Starting today, users on the LinkedIn mobile app or on desktop can play one of three different games — Pinpoint, Queens, and Crossclimb. You’ll be able to play each game once per day, and after your daily session, you’ll get access to all kinds of metrics including your high score and daily streak, different leaderboards, and who in your networks has also played. The games are available here under the LinkedIn News and My Network section on desktop or the My Network tab on mobile.
Here’s a brief rundown of the three games.
Pinpoint is a word association game. The game will unveil five different words, and your job is to guess the category the words fit into. The words will reveal themselves on a...
Sure, new parents are an anxious lot. But instruction manuals for devices meant to keep the baby safe and healthy are daunting and add to the anxiety. Why are they so confusing?
Ring’s Indoor Cam now comes in a pan and tilt version and three new colors. | Image: Ring
Amazon-owned Ring has announced a new version of its wiredindoor security camera. The $79.99 Ring Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam adds a motorized pan-tilt base to the Ring Indoor Cam (2nd Gen), which otherwise retains the same features as before: 1080p HD video, two-way talk, motion alerts, a built-in siren, and a manual privacy cover that blocks all audio and video. It’s just now you can point the camera up and down and all around using the Ring app.
The camera also has a new look, with Ring offering three new colors for the first time on any of its devices. Well, only one has any actual color; the blush version is a nice dark pink. Then there’s a charcoal gray and a cream white in addition to the existing white and black.
These new shades are...
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Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners. The chatbot, which runs locally on a Windows PC, can already use Mistral or Llama 2 to query personal documents that you feed into it, but now the list of supported AI models is growing to include Google’s Gemma, ChatGLM3, and even OpenAI’s CLIP model to make it easier to search your photos.
Nvidia first introduced ChatRTX as “Chat with RTX” in February as a demo app, and you’ll need an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU with 8GB of VRAM or more to be able to run it. The app essentially creates a local chatbot server that you can access from a browser and feed your local documents and even YouTube videos to get a powerful search tool complete with summaries...
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The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor.
Google says policies like Schedule A, a list of occupations the government “pre-certified” as not having enough American workers, have to be more flexible and move faster to meet demand in technologies like AI and cybersecurity. The company says the government must update Schedule A to include AI and cybersecurity and do so more regularly.
“There’s wide recognition that there is a global shortage of talent in AI, but the fact remains that the US is one of the harder places to bring talent from abroad, and we risk losing out on some of the most highly sought-after people in...
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GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io ("John Kennedy") wrote:
BASIC is 60 years old today!
Happy Birthday to a programming language that introduced millions to software development. 🎉
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Truth be told, spiders are mostly lazy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/the-truth-about-spiders/
People in Florida no longer have access to abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Police have cleared Hamilton Hall and the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University.
rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Boys with a time machine: change the first release of Stardew Valley to let you save whenever
Girls with a time machine: convince Nintendo of America to keep Akira Toriyama's original box art for Dragon Quest
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There are a lot of differences between Changpeng Zhao and Sam Bankman-Fried, and now we can add one more to the list: the amount of time they’ll serve for their crimes. Bankman-Fried got 25 years; Zhao got four months.
There’s more. Zhao appeared in court in a tailored navy suit with a light blue tie when he spoke in his own defense. Bankman-Fried was shackled and in prison garb.
Bankman-Fried defrauded people, pleaded not guilty, repeatedly perjured himself in court, got convicted on seven counts, and then gave an absolutely bizarre speech during his own sentencing hearing that made the judge think he’d be likely to re-offend. (This is to say nothing of his pretrial antics.) By contrast, Zhao pleaded guilty in a deal with the government...
Wastewater pipes at a reclamation plant in California on Wednesday, August 4, 2021. | Getty Images
aBig brands are paying startup Vaulted Deep $58.3 million to shoot poop and other organic waste products into underground wells as a way to fight climate change.
The deal was brokered by a group called Frontier Climate, which Stripe, Alphabet, Meta, Shopify, and McKinsey Sustainability launched in 2022 to support emerging climate tech. Specifically, Frontier is interested in trying to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They connect buyers with startups like Vaulted Deep that are developing ways to capture CO2 and sequester it underground so that it doesn’t heat up the planet.
Vaulted Deep’s strategy is to gather sewage, manure, and agricultural and paper mill waste and inject it deep underground to keep carbon in the waste from...
People who've lived in co-ops, communes, group houses and 'intentional communities' share four questions you should ask yourself before taking the leap.
nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Hah, Mullvad ad spotted near Times Square!
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
More dots. We need more dots on this map!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/protests-everywhere/
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firstdogonthemoon@aus.social ("Firstdog Onthemoon") wrote:
24 billion km and still going. I would too. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/24/last-year-voyager-1-started-sending-gibberish-code-it-was-broken-in-space
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firstdogonthemoon@aus.social ("Firstdog Onthemoon") wrote:
Extinct kangaroo boffins! I love them and you should too. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/may/01/all-the-extinct-kangaroo-boffins-are-losing-their-minds-at-the-latest-kangaroo-news
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beckett@triangletoot.party ("Old Tom") wrote:
“To be clear: I, a member of the UNC faculty, was nearly caught in a line of pepper spray being fired at UNC students, by UNC police, working under direct orders of UNC administration, as I left class on the last day of the semester.
“These cops were in a blind rage, with zero care for bystanders. They were out of control, pepper spraying the people they were hired to protect.”
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edistro@social.edist.ro wrote:
do not put milk in your eyes
ANYONE SUGGESTING USING MILK FOR PEPPER SPRAY SHOULD BE SLAPPED ON SIGHT. DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES.
it is 2024 and we have been through this again and again and again.
Rinse with water; then saline.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.please for the love of christ:
do not put milk in your eyes
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#BBC [World] Watch: Violent clashes break out at UCLA https://w.st/5BCpR
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Mr. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to enforce a norm — that in the United States, public officials do not engage in tit-for-tat political prosecutions — that he has for years threatened to shatter. In promising to sic his Justice Department on Mr. Biden, Mr. Trump has laid the grounds for the very conditions that he was asking the justices to guard against by granting him immunity." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/politics/trump-biden-president-immunity.html
It’s unclear how many TikTok users are being prompted in-app to visit its website for cheaper TikTok Coins. | The Verge
TikTok appears to be probing App Store rules that require it to pay the “Apple tax” on in-app purchases. According to Sendit app co-founder David Tesler, some TikTok users are being directed to purchase TikTok coins — digital tokens used to tip creators during live streams — on the company’s website via an in-app link, effectively dodging the 30 percent commission Apple takes on digital purchases.
Screenshots acquired by Tesler show at least two instances where iOS users are encouraged to “recharge” their TikTok coins on TikTok.com to explicitly “avoid in-app service fees.” Tapping the “try now” link on these notifications opens an embedded web view where users can access payment options like Apple Pay, PayPal, or credit/debit cards to...
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
International Workers' Day! Rejoice & resist!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/happy-international-workers-day/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Leo Salkeld
Sowerby is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1895
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Aram Khachaturian dies in Moscow, 1978
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Antonin Dvorak dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1904
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Kate Smith born, 1907, Greenville, VA
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 (and the poor soul was never able to learn to program as a result)
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born, 1930, Marksville, Louisiana
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Mastodon gave me some good commentary on my rejection of ChatGPT as a writing aid.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/social-media-1-chatgpt-0/
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency, as thousands of residents were told to boil […]
Derrick Evans had served only 37 days as a freshman West Virginia state legislator when he livestreamed himself storming the US Capitol on January 6. “Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!” he yelled, after pushing his way into the building with the mob. He was soon arrested, and in February 2022, he pleaded guilty to […]
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hannah@social.alt-text.org ("Hannah Kolbeck 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
Hi friends,
The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, I have brain cancer.
I built a working, scalable, proof of concept library of shared alt text with fuzzy matching.
I'd like to connect with the #accessibility dev community. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.
Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.orgBoosts appreciated
Many federal judges receive free rooms and subsidized travel to luxury resorts for legal conferences. NPR found that dozens of judges did not fully disclose the perks they got.
The protests sweeping college campuses don't just involve students. Professors are increasingly pushing back against university administrations they see as infringing on students' free speech rights.
The state is shaping up to be big battleground over abortion rights in November. Research shows a majority of U.S. Catholics supports abortion rights — even though church leadership does not.
Florida has been a major access point for abortion in the South. Now its residents, along with thousands more in the region, will have to seek abortion care elsewhere after six weeks of pregnancy.
After former President Donald Trump and Arizona GOP senate candidate Kari Lake distanced themselves from the law, some abortion rights opponents are left wondering who they can count on.
Three police officers and two paramedics faced felony charges in death of McClain, a young Black man not suspected of a crime. Two cops were aquitted.
A new 2024 election poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist shows fundamental divides over concerns for America's future and what to teach the next generation.
There's growing support from Republicans in Congress for excluding non-U.S. citizens from a special census count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
In his 43 years at the L.A. Times, Louis Sahagún reported on everything from the Latino communities of east LA, to the plight of the desert tortoise. And he got his start sweeping floors.
A drought has upended life in several South American cities, leading to water rationing and power cuts as well as forest fires.
Nickelodeon's megahit show SpongeBob SquarePants made its TV debut on May 1, 1999. Fans of the cartoon span generations and the animated series has become a multibillion-dollar franchise.
Deno 1.43 enhances productivity with a faster language server, improved npm compatibility, a new `deno serve` subcommand, URL.parse() API, and announcements regarding Deno 2.
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designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud ("Design Thinking! Comic") wrote:
Actions have consequences
New York police officers cleared pro-Palestinian student encampments late Tuesday night at two campuses as similar protests continued to simmer across the country's higher education institutions.
A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti's new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled country.
The Arkansas-based company said that after managing the clinics it launched in 2019 and expanding its telehealth program, it concluded "there is not a sustainable business model for us to continue."
A leading figure in his generation of postmodern American writers, Auster wrote more than 20 novels, including City of Glass, Sunset Park, 4 3 2 1 and The Brooklyn Follies.
The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.
Police cleared and arrested protesters occupying Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday night at the request of university administrators, marking a dramatic climax to the antiwar protesters’ occupation of the building. As the drama unfolded, campus officials asked police to remain on campus until at least May 17. The NYPD’s arrival on campus was its […]
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I don't feel like Mastodon started like this, either. It used to be a cozy, welcoming niche for all kinds of nerdery.
Last year or so, though, I feel like I can't even find the content I'm here for. It's just drowned out, if it's even there. Almost like there *is* an algorithm, but it only pushes stuff that's gonna wreck your current mental state.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I hate to say it, but I miss having an algorithm.
Mastodon content is overwhelmingly non-stop variations on "everything sucks, we're all fucked," to a degree I don't feel like Twitter was even at the height of the pandemic. But at least with Twitter you got a few laughs in with your depression and despair.
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LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault ✌🏻MCRT") wrote:
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triker@mstdn.plus ("Sarah with an H") wrote:
Bike Stolen! Please Boost!
https://bikeindex.org/bikes/406557
Someone stole my trike! It had to have been a professional thief with a truck, as they cut the cable in situ, but the lock on the front wheel and frame was taken along with the trike. They couldn't have ridden it away.
If you see this trike for sale on social media, ebay or craigslist please DM me.
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temptoetiam@octodon.social ("Abie") wrote:
@pzmyers
Specialty bike stolen in MN. Maybe boost?
https://mstdn.plus/@triker/112360424467380443
The Rust Project is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024, a global program organized by Google which is designed to bring new contributors to the world of open-source.
In February, we published a list of GSoC project ideas, and started discussing these projects with potential GSoC applicants on our Zulip. We were pleasantly surprised by the amount of people that wanted to participate in these projects and that led to many fruitful discussions with members of various Rust teams. Some of them even immediately began contributing to various repositories of the Rust Project, even before GSoC officially started!
After the initial discussions, GSoC applicants prepared and submitted their project proposals. We received 65 (!) proposals in total. We are happy to see that there was so much interest, given that this is the first time the Rust Project is participating in GSoC.
A team of mentors primarily composed of Rust Project contributors then thoroughly examined the submitted proposals. GSoC required us to produce a ranked list of the best proposals, which was a challenging task in itself since Rust is a big project with many priorities! We went through many rounds of discussions and had to consider many factors, such as prior conversations with the given applicant, the quality and scope of their proposal, the importance of the proposed project for the Rust Project and its wider community, but also the availability of mentors, who are often volunteers and thus have limited time available for mentoring.
In many cases, we had multiple proposals that aimed to accomplish the same goal. Therefore, we had to pick only one per project topic despite receiving several high-quality proposals from people we'd love to work with. We also often had to choose between great proposals targeting different work within the same Rust component to avoid overloading a single mentor with multiple projects.
In the end, we narrowed the list down to twelve best proposals, which we felt was the maximum amount that we could realistically support with our available mentor pool. We submitted this list and eagerly awaited how many of these twelve proposals would be accepted into GSoC.
On the 1st of May, Google has announced the accepted projects. We are happy to announce that 9
proposals out of the twelve that we have submitted were accepted by Google, and will thus participate in Google Summer of Code 2024! Below you can find the list of accepted proposals (in alphabetical order), along with the names of their authors and the assigned mentor(s):
Congratulations to all applicants whose project was selected! The mentors are looking forward to working with you on these exciting projects to improve the Rust ecosystem. You can expect to hear from us soon, so that we can start coordinating the work on your GSoC projects.
We would also like to thank all the applicants whose proposal was sadly not accepted, for their interactions with the Rust community and contributions to various Rust projects. There were some great proposals that did not make the cut, in large part because of limited review capacity. However, even if your proposal was not accepted, we would be happy if you would consider contributing to the projects that got you interested, even outside GSoC! Our project idea list is still actual, and could serve as a general entry point for contributors that would like to work on projects that would help the Rust Project maintainers and the Rust ecosystem.
Assuming our involvement in GSoC 2024 is successful, there's a good chance we'll participate next year as well (though we can't promise anything yet) and we hope to receive your proposals again in the future! We also are planning to participate in similar programs in the very near future. Those announcements will come in separate blog posts, so make sure to subscribe to this blog so that you don't miss anything.
The accepted GSoC projects will run for several months. After GSoC 2024 finishes (in autumn of 2024), we plan to publish a blog post in which we will summarize the outcome of the accepted projects.
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@pzmyers Here are a few more or less random papers on the topic - they exist, are they all self-serving? https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ChatGPT-4-and-Human-Researchers-Are-Equal-in-A-Sikander-Baker/66dcd18c0f48a14815edca1d715fa8be8909cca6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10164801/ https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ChatGPT-Utility-in-Healthcare-Education%2C-Research%2C-Sallam/dfdf7ff01aa6f691831e663fd29bc71890be39e2
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mapache@hachyderm.io ("Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻") wrote:
Do you feel like your Resume/CV is personal information that you don't want to share unless it is a technical recruiter? Or do you feel like this is public information and you don't mind sharing?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the vow Tuesday amid the negotiations mediated by Egypt that seek to reach a cease-fire deal that could see the release of some or all of the remaining hostages.
I mean, at least it’s just $200? | Image: David Pierce / The Verge
Since it launched last week, Rabbit’s R1 AI gadget has inspired a lot of questions, starting with “Why isn’t this just an app?” Well, friends, that’s because it is just an app.
Over at Android Authority, Mishaal Rahman managed to download Rabbit’s launcher APK on a Google Pixel 6A. With a little tweaking, he was able to run the app as if it were on Rabbit’s own device. Using the volume-up key in place of the R1’s single hardware button, he was able to set up an account and start asking it questions, just as if he was using the $199 R1.
Oh boy.
Rahman points out that the app probably doesn’t offer all of the same functionality as the R1. In his words: “the Rabbit R1’s launcher app is intended to be preinstalled in the firmware and be...
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
Good track.
Great music video.
"Days Go By" from Dirty Vegas
A federal court has blocked Louisiana's new congressional map in a case that could determine the balance of power in the next Congress and set up another Supreme Court test of the Voting Rights Act.
All first responders charged in the fatal botched arrest of Elijah McClain have been sentenced, but questions remain about whether it's changed how Black people are treated by police and paramedics.
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
Pretty soon, Apple might let you send your iPhone in for repair without disabling Find My and Activation Lock. In the fourth iOS 17.5 beta, 9to5Mac and MacRumors found that Apple is planning to introduce a new “Repair State” mode that keeps the anti-theft measures on while your iPhone is getting fixed.
Apple and many authorized repair providers currently ask you to turn off Find My when you’re getting your iPhone repaired. It has this requirement to “prevent anyone else from getting service for your device without your knowledge,” according to Apple’s support page.
But turning off Find My got a little more tricky with the introduction of Stolen Device Protection. When enabled, this feature forces you to wait one hour before performing...
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breakingtaps@universeodon.com ("Breaking Taps") wrote:
This project has been something of a white whale for me. Think I've been working on it 5-6 months now?
Still a lot of work to be done, but I'm finally confident (enough) in the results to share some details!
I made photosensitive pixels from Copper Oxide 😎
The second-gen AirPods Pro offer a wealth of ecosystem tricks, along with some of the best ANC you can get in a pair of earbuds. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
Earlier today, Beats announced the Solo 4 alongside the forthcoming Solo Buds. The latter joins a burgeoning lineup of wireless earbuds under the Beats brand, though, despite being an Apple product, they don’t offer noise cancellation and the kind of deep ecosystem tricks afforded by the latest AirPods Pro with USB-C. Fortunately, Apple’s second-gen earbuds are currently matching their all-time low of $179 ($70 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart.
Whereas the entry-level Solo Buds are geared toward both Android and iOS, the premium AirPods Pro are aimed squarely at Apple users. The refreshed earbuds continue to offer top-tier ANC, refined sound, and the same feature set as the second-gen model from 2022, save for some added dust...
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The face-off between streaming TV service Fubo and Warner Bros. Discovery is continuing to escalate. Fubo announced via a late afternoon press release that it has dropped Discovery networks effective immediately — “including Discovery, HGTV, Food Network and TLC, among others” — and has been unable to reach a separate deal to bring Turner sports networks TNT, TBS, and truTV to its customers.
The company claims that it had little choice but to drop the batch of Discovery channels after talks with WBD went nowhere, and it’s accusing WBD of bad-faith negotiations and an “abuse of massive market power that ultimately limits consumer choice.”
Fubu says that it offered WBD “market rates” to secure all of this content but that it never received...
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I simply don’t know how to feel about an incoming update to the Google Phone app that adds sound effects to the Android dialer. First spotted as part of a beta update by 9to5Google, the app may soon let you tap one of six “Audio Emoji” buttons to play a short sound clip that both sides of the call can hear.
There’s clapping, laughing, crying (a sad, sliding trombone), partying, a drum sting (ba-dum ts) and... poop, which emits a fart sound. You can access the buttons during a call by tapping the option in the dialer’s overflow menu or with a small flag positioned toward the bottom.
The dormant adolescent in me wants to try the poop button at least once with a trusted friend who won’t disown me for having a questionable sense of humor....
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More news organizations, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and four others, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement.
The publications, all owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, claim that both OpenAI and Microsoft trained on their articles without compensation or permission. The plaintiffs included as evidenceseveral excerpts from conversations with both ChatGPT and Copilotshowing that both chatbots reproduced lengthy excerpts of specific articles on command, indicating that their training datasets included the texts of those articles.
They also showed screenshots of Copilot, which can search the web in real time, reproducing entire news...
Dame Judi Dench has played everyone from the writer Iris Murdoch to M in the James Bond films. But among the roles the actress is most closely associated, are Shakespeare's heroines and some of his villians. Amongst those roles are the star-crossed lover Juliet, the comical Titania and the tragic Lady Macbeth. Now she's reflecting on that work, and Shakespeare's work in Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent.The book is comprised of Dench's conversations with her friend, the actor and director Brendan O'Hea.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
Fans of the original Dragon’s Dogma never dreamed the wonky fantasy RPG might get a sequel. Over a decade later, Capcom delivered a successor that improved on the flaws of the first without shaving off the sharp edges that earned it a cult following to begin with.
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"Who failed Uvalde? YOU failed Uvalde!"
Coldest chant I've heard in years. Should be yelled at every Texas Ranger and State cop for eternity.
A new trailer is here for Funko Fusion, a game that looks more and more like a fever-dream mess of giant-headed characters from popular movies and shows. The game is out this September, so get excited, because our monoculture future is getting closer and closer!
Aviva Siegel, 63, was taken hostage by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, along with her husband Keith. She was released after 51 days, but he was not. On Saturday, Hamas released a video showing Keith alive.
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How to write pro-Meta propaganda disguised as a think piece:
Step 1: offer an early concession that Meta is a bad company. But keep it vague!
2. Say it's too early to make any conclusions.
3. Then conclude that you're optimistic nonetheless.
4. Tell people to ignore all critical thinking and instead to "wait and see."
Bonus: make it personal. Identify a Meta employee with no decision making authority and state you think they have good intentions.
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Buttons feel magical. You press here, and invisible connections make something happen elsewhere. But “magical” is probably not how I’d describe most public drinking fountains.
Who among us hasn’t walked up to a drinking fountain, expecting a bubbling stream of life-giving water, only to experience the crushing disappointment of a measly trickle after smashing in that button?
But I’m beginning to think it’s not the drinking button’s fault; they’re actually some of the most elegant buttons out there. They’re one of the few remaining buttons where your push directly and mechanically controls the result. They’re over a hundred years old. And all the action happens within an inch of the button itself.
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Yasaka Jinja, Kyoto. Watercolour.
A United Nations official said negotiators have a "clear path to landing an ambitious deal" on plastic pollution. But environmentalists say the plastic industry is undermining an effective agreement.
Campus protesters want administrators to sell off investments in companies with ties to Israel. Here's a look at what divestment means — and why universities are saying no.
In a new interview with TIME Magazine, Trump promises to prosecute President Biden, unleash the National Guard on immigrants and says it's "irrelevant" if he's comfortable criminalizing abortions.
The Justice Department is expected to propose a new, lower classification for marijuana that would lessen restrictions on the drug. But there's another review process to come.