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  • Don’t a handful of them want votes from people who believe the world is literally 6000 years old?

    OK, that would be about control, though political control.

    There is probably one Texan legislator, at least, who also believes the 6000 year thing and could pass a lie detector for “do you really believe God breathes souls into life at conception?“

    Now… Could they pass a lie detector for “do you promise you would never pay for your mistress to fly out of state for an abortion?“

    Can’t say no for sure… 🤥

    (Cautioning overestimating malice in a way that underestimates superstition.)

  • beef rule
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    A pamphlet from the New Mexico Beef Council that says “Learn About Beef With The Beef Kids” and shows four children in front of a barn that says “BEEF ✔️”

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    A reminder to love nature
  • Ah, you mentioned working inside a company and I liked that idea, so I wanted to show you had provided something that would support your criticism.

    I have an inkling young Greta knows more than both of us. Her Wiki is quite impressive! A portion:

    Thunberg's climate activism began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced her family's carbon footprint. On 20 August 2018, at age 15, Thunberg began skipping school, vowing to remain out of school until after the national Swedish election in an attempt to influence the outcome. She protested outside the Swedish parliament where she called for stronger action on climate change by holding up a Skolstrejk för Klimatet (School Strike for Climate) sign and handing out informational flyers.

    After the election, Thunberg spoke in front of her supporters, telling them to use their phones to film her. She then said that she would be continuing school striking for the climate every Friday until Sweden was in compliance with the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Thunberg's youth and blunt speaking manner fueled her rise to the status of a global icon.

    Shortly after Thunberg's first school strike for the climate protest, other students engaged in similar protests in their communities. They then united and organized the school strike for climate movement under the banner of Fridays for Future. After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, weekly student climate strike protests took place on Fridays around the world. In 2019, multiple coordinated multi-city protests involved over a million students each.

    To avoid carbon-intensive flying, Thunberg sailed on a carbon-free yacht from Plymouth, England, to New York City where she attended and addressed the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. In her speech, Thunberg scolded the world's leaders by exclaiming "How dare you" in reference to their perceived indifference and inaction to the climate crisis. Her admonishment made worldwide headlines.

    Thunberg's rise to world fame made her an ad hoc leader in the climate activist community. She also faced heavy criticism, much of it mocking her as a naïve teenager. Thunberg's influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other media outlets as the "Greta effect". She has received numerous honours and awards, including an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, inclusion in Time's 100 most influential people, named the youngest Time Person of the Year in 2019, inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019), and multiple nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.

    After Thunberg graduated from high school in June 2023, her protest tactics began to escalate. As an adult, her protests have included defying lawful orders to disperse—defiant but peaceful confrontations with police—which have led to arrests, convictions, and one acquittal. Thunberg's activism has also evolved to include causes other than climate change, most notably taking a pro-Palestinian position triggered by the Israel–Hamas war.

    Does she deserve our criticism?

  • App development
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    Snapchat’s offered that for years, though generally you get consent since you’ll point the selfie camera at yourself and a friend.

    Hmm:

    -> thinking about somebody naked

    Widely accepted if you don’t talk about it

    -> Photoshopping somebody naked

    Widely despised (w/o consent). Maybe it’s too linked to the release at some point of the images. but I have a feeling even if no one ever posted that stuff, we would still feel icky about it.

    Interesting, something is icky but I don’t know why

  • A reminder to love nature
  • I promise I’m not playing dumb - could you offer an idiot’s guide:

    • thing one
    • thing two
    • [thing three] she did wrong

    And

    • thing one*
    • thing two
    • [thing three] she should have done instead?

    *work inside a corporation to dismantle climate destruction from the inside

    Appreciate your time.

  • How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude?

    So awkward, but come on it says right there on the package to wash those mushrooms or whatever it is… You’re not their mom but you don’t wanna eat feces or whatever ended up on the produce. A quick rinse is never going to be perfect but it’s better than nothing.

    In the absence of legitimate suggestions, commiseration is welcome too 😉

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    Does Info Flow sound like Audit the Audit?

    Info Flow:

    https://youtube.com/@INFOFLOW211

    Audit the Audit:

    https://youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit

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    Info Wars - @BeetleMoses
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    A three-panel comic strip. In the first panel, a man in a suit (Alex Jones) is sitting at a desk with a banner behind him that says "Info Wars". Offscreen, someone says "Cut!! That's a wrap for today!"

    In the second panel, “later”, Jones asks a green frog washing dishes "Everything ok, babe?"

    In the third panel, the frog cries and demands "How long do we have to hide who we are??"

    !

    Frog truth via UC Berkeley

    https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs

    > Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females

    > Atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.

    > The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially “dead” because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley’s Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology.

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    Toilet rule
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    Post with a photo of a boxed child's potty labeled "I look & sound like a grown-up toilet.” The post states "Everyone who still uses Twitter in June 2024".

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    ................something else?
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    Screenshot of a Category dropdown with two options, the first selected: I'm hiring for artificial insemination Something else

    Seen on a contact form

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    Microblog Memes @lemmy.world brbposting @sh.itjust.works
    das bagel
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    A short video still featuring a woman with blonde hair and a text overlay that reads "Things I prefer in the US as a German" with American and German flag emojis, and further states "I don't know why we don't have bagels in Germany."

    Above this, the social media post caption reads "I can think of a reason!" The post is from "Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social."

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    iOS 18 reportedly WILL allow ChatGPT to be permanently disabled, allegedly according to Apple Software Engineering SVP Craig Federighi
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    Brad Thornborrow 14h @stephenrobles Hey, I have ethical reservations regarding OpenAl in general. Is there an option in the new OS versions where we can disable ChatGPT integration entirely?

    Stephen Robles 13h @bradthornborrow Yes, Craig Federighi discussed in last night's talk show. It's off by default, and only prompts to turn on if you ask for something Apple Intelligence won't do. But you can disable that prompt entirely and never use ChatGPT

    Source

    Federighipedia

    Note: transcript not yet available:

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    Give yourselves a round of applause 🖖
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    Social Media Post: Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that

    Source (login walled)

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    How do you think Apple's AI rewrite (Writing Tools) performed in their example from WWDC?

    I highlighted what I might have wanted to carry over to a more professional rewrite. (If the filename was real, I'd sanitize it so as not to single out any one employee, but I do think it's an effective example.)

    Using these powerful tools >is lazy, unprofessional, and could result in a catastrophically expensive, embarrassing mistake

    if someone's not careful :)

    Source: Apple Intelligence on Apple.com

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    OK, this is kinda funny. I wanted to make sure I'd actually seen this in WWDC. Turns out they showed a different rewrite (embedded below):

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    I think I see what happened. The [macOS] rewrite shown is more 1:1, but comes out sounding goofy (very LLM). On their site, they didn't want to show that, but then they used an [iOS] rewrite that missed e.g. the filename used as an example. Even someone skimming the email should see that filename was garbage and be afraid of getting called out in a meeting for typing a name like that in the future, so I think it's a miss not to have it.

    Not to make a mountain out of a small example or two, but I do hope folks are aware they'd do best to read every word of anything generated for them. Reminds me: I'm excited for that word-by-word suggestion feature as it allows for one-by-one modifications to be very intentionally made.

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    👉🕳️👈
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    Post: My attention has been drawn to this packaging design from HP, which presumably someone approved. Image: In a brown cardboard box sits a shipment inside a protecting wrapper. The wrapper is illustrated with two hands with index fingers extended, indicating that you should put your fingers in the hole in the middle of the wrapper and tear it apart.

    Source

    Edit: if you’re too young (or innocent?) to immediately understand the reference, DO NOT web search

    goatse

    It’s graphic and you will never be able to unsee it

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    Honk rule
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    “a Pontiac Vibe with a huge check engine light in the back window and a cluster of bumper stickers that read: remember if you honk all you honk at me i will honk if you get any closer you have to i honk honk if you will if myself want honk if you have ever been personally victimized by honk”

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    Were the "Cancel" and "OK" buttons swapped when inserting a link in a comment?

    After an update a couple weeks ago, I thought there was a bug inserting links. Turned out I was just hitting Cancel.

    Guessing it was my brain since I don’t see anything in the change log. Feel free to lie to make me feel better :p

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    1200s London ruled 🔥

    Translation:

    >You will come to London. Behold, I warn you, whatever of evil or of perversity (behavior or beliefs that are considered immoral or unnatural) there is in any, whatever in all parts of the world, you will find in that city alone. Do not go to the dances of panders (people who arrange sexual relationships for others), nor mix yourself up with the herds of the stews (brothels or houses of prostitution); avoid the talus (dice games) and the dice, the theatre and the tavern. You will find more braggadocios (boastful, arrogant people) there than in all France, while the number of flatterers (people who praise excessively to gain advantage) is infinite. Stage players (actors), buffoons (clowns or jesters), those that have no hair on their bodies (eunuchs, men who have been castrated, typically to serve in positions of trust around women or in royal households), Garamantes (a North African tribe), pickthanks (flatterers or sycophants), catamites (young boys used for homosexual purposes), effeminate sodomites (men who engage in anal sex), lewd musical girls, druggists (people who manufacture or dispense drugs), lustful persons, fortunetellers, extortioners (people who obtain money through force or threats), nightly strollers (people who wander the streets at night, possibly for criminal purposes), magicians, mimics (people who imitate the speech and mannerisms of others), common beggars, tatterdemalions (raggedly dressed people)—this whole crew has filled every house. So if you do not wish to live with the shameful, you will not dwell in London.

    Source at The Internet Archive

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