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  • Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other

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  • These people are such morons. It would take about 2 minutes of an intro level Anthropology class to learn that for like 95% of human history we lived in small groups like this — so we’re definitely able to do it — but they only worked because they were (mostly) egalitarian. They absolutely don’t work when group members consistently value themselves over the group.

  • You are given the notebook from Death Note and are time travelled to a time of your choosing, as long as it is more than 150 years ago. What do you do/who do you kill?

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  • Orson Scott Card did something along these lines in the book Pastwatch.

  • Governors and Big Companies Aim to Ease A.I. Transition for American Workers

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  • I think if there were real trillions of value being created by AI you’d hear more of them getting on board with UBI. But since they know it’s all make-believe they don’t want to stir the pot, just keep things going long enough to cash out at a high valuation.

  • If Apple makes their own chips, with embedded memory. Why do they have to raise their prices because RAM modules are in short supply? I mean, don’t they just burn the memory directly onto their chips?

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  • Apple and others use system-on-module (SoM) architecture, where discrete slabs of silicon are integrated together in a single package, which lets them use a less expensive process for their 64GB of RAM transistors versus the smaller/higher performing/much more expensive node that they’re etching the logic transistors with. But at the end of the day, every OEM is competing for time and space on the same handful of machines in the world that are capable of etching the silicon. Those machines are huge and hugely expensive and can’t be spun up on a whim, so even Apple ultimately has to pay more because the chip makers know that if they don’t they can find someone else who will as there’s no alternative.

  • TIL cheese is fundamentally just fat, protein...

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  • What do the few books I read tell about me? (German)

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  • They tell me that you can read in German

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    is the barter system the peak of economics?

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  • Yep, I have a dramatic oversimplification problem. But it’s hard to describe 50,000+ years of economic proclivities in a tweet :)

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    is the barter system the peak of economics?

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  • Maybe bartering as the primary system, but there are definitely historically and currently many examples of “real” bartering (like in-kind work, or even the nonsense going on with trading out datacenter capacity right now, I’d argue)

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    is the barter system the peak of economics?

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  • The prominent anthropologist Dave Graeber studied this extensively and concluded (most accessibly in his book Debt) that the kind of barter economy that we were taught about in elementary school probably never really existed like that, and that there have always been means of exchange (like money). So even if there was a societal collapse, you might barter individual things with neighbors once in a while, but even in a modestly sized group or one they regularly trades with others you’d almost immediately implement a better system.

  • Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

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  • Is it even "hacking" when you're just asking the computer politely?

  • Can someone who works in an industry or for an employer with clear negative impacts on society/the world maintain a clear concience?

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  • In good faith? No, I don’t think so. But I have a friend who worked at Facebook with the specific intent of dealing damage by delaying or stopping projects and generally slowing things down. It was a drop in the bucket, but she lasted 4 or 5 years before they realized she was adding literally nothing of value.

  • Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store

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  • Justice fuel ✊🏼

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  • And they say unions hinder innovation.

  • Jucika and the robot man

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  • Even back then they knew AI wouldn’t sit idly by and serve humanity.

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    Pentagon Declassified image of Aliens.

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  • Matt Gaetz?

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    F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe

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  • In the late 1990s I wrote an Alias|Wavefront plugin called greeble that built a bump field + height field from texture so artists could paint greebles on by hand, so whether or not that’s the proper way to do it, it’s been a texture thing for a long time.

  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • “Turn into” ?

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  • In another comment pmjv says this one is about Mr mobilek, so it’s definitely in-universe

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

    hothardware.com /news/scientists-claims-4k-and-8k-tvs-arent-noticeably-better-than-hd-to-the-human-eye
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Florida schools will test armed drones this fall to thwart shooters

    www.facilitiesdive.com /news/florida-schools-will-test-armed-drones-this-fall-to-thwart-shooters/758243/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

    www.theverge.com /news/773928/google-open-web-rapid-decline
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film

    www.wsj.com /tech/ai/openai-backs-ai-made-animated-feature-film-389f70b0
  • Solarpunk technology @slrpnk.net
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    3D-printed Water from Air project can capture 1.6 gallons of drinking water per day Using no Electricity

    www.behance.net /gallery/223198269/Water-from-Air
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    World's first 'thermodynamic computing chip' reaches tape out

    www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/semiconductors/worlds-first-thermodynamic-computing-chip-reaches-tape-out-normal-computings-physics-based-asic-changes-lanes-to-train-more-ai
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    The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

    gizmodo.com /the-world-will-enter-a-15-year-ai-dystopia-in-2027-former-google-exec-says-2000641195
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    U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal

    www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/u-s-senator-probes-intel-board-over-ceo-lip-bu-tans-former-china-links-raises-national-security-concerns-amid-cadence-scandal
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Scientists study how people would react to a neurotic robot personality in real life

    www.npr.org /2025/07/26/nx-s1-5467200-e1/scientists-study-how-people-would-react-to-a-neurotic-robot-personality-in-real-life
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    Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps

    techcrunch.com /2025/07/16/jack-dorsey-backs-nonprofit-and-other-stuff-experimenting-with-open-social-tools-like-nostr/