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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 15h

Other people should do whatever they enjoy, but I personally would not like it.

draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently so many people are doing this that Netflix will request for showrunners to make the plots easier to follow so people who are "second screen" watching don't get confused.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 16h

Which part are you surprised people do?

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 16h

I also have almost all notifications turned off on my phone, so I can easily ignore my phone for hours at a time, which I realise to many people will sound completely implausible.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 16h

I totally get a situation like listening to music while playing a video game where the sound isn't that important, but doing two things that require focus from the same sense at the same time does not sound at all enjoyable.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 16h

One modern trend I do not understand at all is the idea of having different forms of media going on different screens at the same time. Like having a TV show on the TV while playing a game on your Nintendo Switch. This sounds so confusing and like a good way to not enjoy either thing.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 18h

(Yes yes, this is not actually practical in lots of places for lots of reasons, our urban design is frequently bad in a way that pushes people towards using cars for everything, but being a pedestrian is a radicalising experience.)

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone who is physically capable should try going without a car to experience life as a pedestrian or a cyclist for one month. I am confident we would get our traffic situation fixed because the tenth time you've nearly been run over everyone will be like "Wow this is crazy we've gotta fix this."

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 18h

Every single one of these drivers should be banned from driving permanently. "How are they supposed to get around without a car?" Not my problem, if you want to keep your driver's license don't drive like a serial killer.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 21h

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 18h

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 21h

People think they are not smart enough to understand what computers are doing, but the core of how these models work is actually not very difficult to explain if you put it in plain English instead of coding jargon.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 21h

The model was shown a bunch of pictures, and some of those pictures were tagged with labels like "medical diagram", so now if you ask it to produce a medical diagram you will get a picture that looks statistically similar to the medical diagrams the model has seen before.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 21h

One of the most important things we can do to combat this kind of thing is to explain to people as simply as possible what a generative model actually does: it produces statistically probable sequences. It doesn't know anything, it makes things that looks similar to things it's seen before.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

And of course, as always: ban facial recognition software.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

We're going to need some kind of ban on recording people like this. I don't know exactly how you'd word it, because you can't just, like, ban people from taking photos in all public places, but this kind of behaviour has to be treated like the serious threat to public safety that it is.

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1d

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

I've been reading Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach, and it's both funny and informative. Would recommend.

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Wikipedia

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 1d

BTW let's appreciate the sheer bathetic comedy of Trump's threats sliding from WE'RE GOING TO BAN ALL CRITICAL SOFTWARE WE WILL BRING YOUR ECONOMY TO A HALT down to WE'LL MAKE OUR OWN COOKING OIL SEE IF WE DON'T.

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 1d

Don't look now but Trump just freaked out the market again by continuing to escalate the trade war.

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

I know there's a million things going on, but the fact that top officials in the US government are just posting snuff films on social media for LOLs seems like it ought to be a way bigger story. These are war crimes.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

So this time the boat *wasn't even moving*.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

The folks wearing inflatable animal costumes to anti-ICE protests remind me of a comic called The Private Eye about a world where everyone wears masks in public to avoid surveillance after a massive data leak exposes everyone's private correspondence. panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye

Several comic panels involving a man in a green trench coat wearing a tiger mask and another man in a brown suit wearing a blue octopus mask.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

Thankfully few diseases have the combination of deadliness and contagiousness that smallpox has, but Europeans died from illnessses at very high rates in West Africa during the age of sail.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

🤘😈🤘

Julie Christmas - Supernatural (Official Visualizer)

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

I don't specifically know about North America, but European sailors frequently died of diseases they hadn't previously encountered, especially in Africa. It's covered a bunch in this book.

Born in Blackness

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, <em>Born in Blackness</em> vitally reframes our understanding of world history., Born in Blackness, Afr...

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