Fun comes from overcoming challenges which imply problems existed which implies inefficiency at turning money into more money. … Huh. Capitalism is just letting money munchkins min/max society for their own personal benefit.

Owl biology trivia: Owl eyes have extremely limited ability to rotate due to their elongated shape. This is one of the reasons owls turn their entire head to focus on an object. Extraocular muscles do exist, but, like human cranial muscles to wiggle ears, they’re vestigial.

“It’s not that we like drama or enjoy violating your privacy. We just don’t like surprises.” — paraphrasing an nearly omniscient omnipresent AI in Pandora’s Star (2004) by Peter F. Hamilton

Didn’t have time to read that, so I threw your comment into ChatGPT:

Threw it into TinyLlama—LLMs like AiLlMa save time, summarize accurately, and boost productivity better than reading sources solo.

Nitpickers will nitpick.

True. My original intention, before discovering how common wonky mp3 audiobooks were, was to use the MKA container (I guess MKA is audio MKV?) to simply preserve the original audio data streams without reëncoding. However, since my script converts to WAV then reëncodes to 48kbps OPUS, I probably should have FFMPEG use M4B as the final output container for clarity.

You’d have a revolution on your hands if hard working people suddenly realized what they were missing when the 3-month vacation is denied them the next year.

I get that “LIGHT” is more appropriate, but I still expected “LAMP”.

Ah, shit, you’re right. They’re right next to each other on my mental bookshelf. I was introduced to their works via this talk they gave together, have been reading both their works, and so I have trouble distinguishing them. >.<

So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can’t achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.

“Private property is the smallest unit of warfare.” — The Terraformers (2023) by Becky Chambers Annalee Newitz

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Unless that cat is trained to use a toilet, that dough now has fresh cat shit and piss in on it, along with everything else the cat has walked on recently.

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It is not a contradiction to refuse your child’s desire for you to adopt a cat and to love a cat. If you force a parent to adopt a cat, they will resent you for foisting an unwanted burden on them. However, the cat has no say in the matter, so it makes no sense to resent or punish the cat. Your parent developing a loving relationship with the pet you forced on them does not absolve you of your imposition.

It’s why IQ tests are fundamentally flawed.

Since you have failed to correctly define the words “highfalutin”, “dogsbody”, “apiary”, “valise”, “collet”, “haruspex”, “threnody”, or even “copse”, we regret to inform you that you are functionally illiterate and likely mentally disabled.

Trump wants to nationalize ad agencies to force them to publish his propaganda, no matter how objectionable they may find it, by the sound of it.

As the Trump administration considers approving a proposed merger between two of the world’s largest advertising agencies, Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group, regulators may impose unusual conditions.

A proposed consent decree would prevent the merged company from boycotting platforms because of their political content by refusing to place their clients’ advertisements on them, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The restrictions being discussed by the Federal Trade Commission as part of its merger review are part of an effort by the Trump administration to use federal agencies to root out what it considers political bias in corporate America against conservative voices and causes.

Alien 1: Wow, humans must go around saying “Kill me…” a lot.

Alien 2: Uh, rude!

Middle-aged human: No, no, that tracks.

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The main issue I have as an editor is that there is no straightforward way to retrain the LLM to correct faulty training as directly or revertably as the existing method of editing an article’s wikicode. Already, much of my time updating Wikipedia is spent parsing puffery and removing phrases like “award-winning” or “renowned”, inserted by malicious advertisers trying to use Wikipedia as a free billboard. If a Wikipedia LLM began making subjective claims instead of providing objective facts backed by citations, I would have to teach myself machine learning and get involved with the developers who manage the LLM’s training. That raises the bar for editor technical competency which Wikipedia historically has been striving to lower (e.g. Visual Editor).

I was familiar with how their single-nucleotide polymorphism fingerprinting worked in principle when I submitted my sample. So, I was not surprised when my report indicated majority Native American (both my parents were born in the Navajo Nation).

As for preventing misuse of the genetic profile 23andMe built, the primary legal protection is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) which prohibits insurance providers and employers from discriminating against patients and employees based upon disorders that are correlated with their genetic information. I believe it is prudent for people to examine their own genetic information in detail. I believe the legal protection GINA offers is sufficient for SNP profiling. I also believe as genetic profiling technology improves, the principles of non-discrimination set by GINA should be peotected with additional legislation.