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aramis87

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  • Meta is Adding AI-Powered Summaries to WhatsApp

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  • Until they change their ToS (without telling you) and enable it by default (and hide the controls that let you decline).

  • Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party

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  • I can only hope ...

  • Meta is Adding AI-Powered Summaries to WhatsApp

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  • In other words, meta is harvesting your WhatsApp data, and gives you a (potentially inaccurate) summary in exchange for feeding their LLMs.

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  • I'm sorry :( It was such a good store!

  • Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks

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  • How is a manufacturer going to be held responsible for their flaws when musk DOGE'd

    investigating his companies?

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  • I’m near enough to You-Do-It

    . :'(

  • New Orleans debates real-time facial recognition legislation

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  • Just a reminder that it's illegal to wear masks in New Orleans unless it's Carnivale.

  • 'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

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  • Farm labor is often 12-14 hour days. It's backbreaking work. Also, Florida and Texas (and I'm not sure what other states) have passed laws eliminating guaranteed water breaks for outside workers.

  • What is your favourite less well known app/software?

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  • I prefer WizTree. It'll show you space usage, but you can also search for files, and it's incredibly fast.

  • Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem transported to DC-area hospital after allergic reaction, DHS says

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  • I'm more than happy to chip in to send some doordash to her room ....

  • Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads

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  • Fuck spez.

  • Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads

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  • "dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives".

    the company is also introducing a “scalable, AI-powered social listening tool. [...] Informed by proprietary metadata, it provides precise, real-time insights that help marketers confidently plan campaigns, validate creative ideas, and make smarter business decisions"

    I wonder how much they had to pay a business major to come up with those sentences, or did they just use ChatGPT ....

  • Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads

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  • The APIcalypse.

  • 'Very telling': Trump agency under fire after posting Russian flag on Flag Day

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  • Every time I see something mild but stupid (like this) that's done by administration, all I can think of is that OSS sabotage manual that was like "make mistakes", lol.

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  • Thinking of adopting a couple of cats, advice welcome.

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  • Keep some dry food available at all times, so they can snack as they please, but feed them wet food a couple times a day for their main meals: dry food is harder on their kidneys and increases their chances of diabetes in later age. (Both kidney and diabetes issues are manageable with care, but it's much easier to avoid them if you can!)

    Figure out their favorite flavors, including 'odd' flavors like duck and venison. Those flavors may change over time, so verify favorites once a year or so. You'll want at least one, preferably two, "best" flavors for each cat. Then do not feed those flavors to the cat, except to verify they still like them. When it's time to give them medicines, you want flavors that they don't eat everyday and that will definitely pique their interests.

    If your cat ever needs appetite stimulants, get the transdermal versions. There are two: mirtazapine and ciproheptadine. Mirtz is more commonly used, but it makes some cats very agitated and meow-y. For those reasons, I tend to avoid it: I'm giving appetite meds to the cat because it's feeling poorly, and I'd like to know that any odd behavior is due to their health issues, not debate myself over whether it's a health issue or a medication side effect. Ciproheptadine is less common but has less side effects; you should be able to get it made at a compounding pharmacy.

    To use: wear surgical gloves, put a dose on your finger, and gently massage it onto the inside of their ear. Their appetite will perk up in about an hour. Alternate ears, and clean the inside of the ears with a damp cotton ball every few days, to avoid medication build up.

    If you have other meds to give, pull their regular food, then give them the appetite stimulant. Wait until they're hungry, mix the meds into their regular food and feed it to them.

    Don't give churu's or similar gravy as a regular treat; you want to be able to use them to mix meds into.

    Get them a cat tree for the living room, someplace they can be tall. Arrange furniture so there's something for them to sit on at most windows. If you can put beds in a couple of their most-favored places, that would be great!

    They're going to be cautious in a new environment and with new people. Ask if you can bring something from their old home to your new one, to help them settle in: the blanket they slept on (don't wash it!), something like that. Find out what food and litter they had in the old place and start out using those at your place so they'll feel a bit better settling in, then slowly transition both over to whatever it is that you prefer.

    Put them into one room to start and give them a couple days to settle before slowly introducing them to the rest of the house, especially if you have young children, dogs, or other pets.

    They'll likely take some time to truly warm up to you; be patient.

    At first, don't just bend down and pick them up or bend down and pet them: their instinctive reaction is that something is coming out of the sky for them. Instead, stand a couple feet in front of them and dangle your hand where they can see it. They'll consider, approach, sniff, then likely brush your hand. This is the signal that it's okay to touch. Eventually they'll adjust to you and you won't have to do that, you can just bend over and touch, but at the start it just makes them tense, especially in a new location with new people.

    Probably other stuff, but I don't remember.

  • Do you ever use words from different countries?

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  • I speak English. And, as James Nicoll said,

    The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

    I speak some Spanish and some Dutch, but I don't know if I borrow many words from them that aren't "normal" borrow-words.

  • Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff

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  • And he'll vote for them again because he supports them and thinks "they just did it the wrong way". Dude, this is exactly the way they were always going to do it, but you never listen to the other side because they're "woke". And by the time you wake up, it'll be too late for all of us. Not just the fascist USA, by the way, because corporations and their enablers now have free reign to deny science and avoid action until the rest of humanity is dying in a cataclysmic hellscape. But I'm glad you were able to avoid seeing a couple of people holding hands, I'm glad all this was worth it to you.

  • West Virginia Republican Gets Cold Feet About GOP Plan to Make Families 'Poorer, Hungrier, and Sicker'

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  • Does the bill still have that clause that says judges are no longer allowed to try to limit the executive branch? Because that's the clause we should be campaigning against.