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Whooping cough’s back — and it’s Covid’s fault
  • But to protect newborn babies from the disease, pregnant women can also be offered pertussis vaccines. In England, the BMJ reports, uptake among this group has fallen from over 70 percent in September 2017 to 58 percent in September 2023.

    Sounds like 12% of expectant mothers have had their trust in doctors destroyed by the policies enacted during COVID. That's not COVIDs fault. That's our fault for how we reacted.

  • eza (formerly exa, ls replacement) can now show the actual total size of directory contents
  • ls does 90% of this stuff already, so why not just add the options to it?

    looks at readme

    eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls.

    ls is maintained so what do they mean? "Modern"?

    looks at code tab

    Oh! It's another person thinking the world needs to be written in Rust.

  • Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record
  • 69 MJ is 19.17 kWh. About 86p of electricity at today's wholesale price in the UK (£45/MWh: today is fairly average).

    The research they are doing is great, but there's so much engineering to be done to turn fusion into something practical; something capable of running streams of pulses, not just single ones.

    This was the last experiment for this reactor running it outside of design limits.

  • We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.
  • The trained model is a work derived from masses of copywrite material. Distribution of that model is infringement, same as distributing copies of movies. Public access to that model is infringement, just as a public screening of a movie is.

    People keep thinking it's "the picture the AI drew" that's the issue. They're wrong. It's the "AI" itself.

  • We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.
  • AI is creating an image based on someone else's property. The difference is it's owned by a corporation.

    This isn't the issue. The copyright infringement is the creation of the model using the copywrite work as training data.

    All NYT is doing is demonstrating that the model must have been created using copywrite works, and hence infringement has taken place. They are not stating that the model is committing an infringement itself.

  • We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.
  • They are showing that the author of the tool has comitted massive copyright infringement in the process construction of the tool.

    ...unless they licensed all the copyright works they trained the model on. (Hint: they didn't, and we know they didn't because the copyright holders haven't licensed their work for that purpose. )

    It doesn't matter if a company charges or not for anything. It's not a factor in copyright law.

  • let 'er rip
  • There a lot of people who aren't scientifically minded that treat scientific knowledge just like scripture. It comes from wize people and they just trust and accept it unquestioningly.

    Those who practise science know that all knowledge is to be questioned, and everything needs evidence. They also know that everything we "know" is most likely wrong. It's just the best explanation we have so far and that's a good thing.

  • Why is this so difficult?
  • I think it's more that people confuse the Israeli government with "the Jewish people", when the truth is that they are very separate. The Israeli people are somewhere in the middle. There seems to be a bunch of them who are quite supportive of their government's actions.

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