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Arthur Besse

@ cypherpunks @lemmy.ml

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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

  • They/Them

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  • USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller

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  • same here; other articles there load fine but this one gives me HTTP 500 with content-length 0.

    (the empty body tag in your screenshot is generated by firefox while rendering the zero-length response from the server, btw.)

  • Rational Self-Interest

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  • Ken Burns is in your future

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  • I can't be the only Ersalrope Wars buff here, right?

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  • Old Memes Dump

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  • big oof.

    We can conclude: that photo isn’t AI-generated. You can’t get an AI system to generate photos of an existing location; it’s just not possible given the current state of the art.

    the author of this substack is woefully misinformed about the state of technology 🤦

    it has, in fact, been possible for several years already for anyone to quickly generate convincing images (not to mention videos) of fictional scenes in real locations with very little effort.

    The photograph—which appeared on the Associated Press feed, I think—was simply taken from a higher vantage point.

    Wow, it keeps getting worse. They're going full CSI on this photo, drawing a circle around a building on google street view where they think the photographer might have been, but they aren't even going to bother to try to confirm their vague memory of having seen AP publishing it? wtf?

    Fwiw, I also thought the image looked a little neural network-y (something about the slightly less-straight-than-they-used-to-be lines of some of the vehicles) so i spent a few seconds doing a reverse image search and found this snopes page from which i am convinced that that particular pileup of cars really did happen as it was also photographed by multiple other people.

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • 🥛🤝🦆

    (it's odd that PBS is promoting this, as it is actually a terf movement)

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  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • Lets Enhance is a pretty great supercut, but nothing beats the original Blade Runner scene.

    enhance 224 to 176

    enhance, stop

    move in, stop

    pull out, track right, stop

    center and pull back, stop

    track 45 right, stop

    center and stop

    enhance 34 to 36

    pan right and pull back, stop

    enhance 34 to 46

    pull back, wait a minute, go right, stop

    enhance 57 to 19

    track 45 left, stop

    enhance 15 to 23

    give me a hardcopy right there

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  • RoboFlop: Tesla's Cybercab Event Torched By Analysts And Investors

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  • headline was more exciting before i read the last four words of it

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    Howard Stern announces sit-down interview with Kamala Harris

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  • Biden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patriotic

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  • The article text doesn't support the headline ("Biden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patriotic"):

    “ With the grace of God, and the goodwill of neighbors, it’s gonna hold,” President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday night after the agreement.

    In a statement later, Biden applauded both sides “for acting patriotically to reopen our ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding.”

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    Thursday’s deal came after Biden administration officials met with foreign-owned shipping companies before dawn on Zoom, according to a person briefed on the day’s events who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The White House wanted to increase pressure to settle, emphasizing the responsibility to reopen the ports to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene, the person said.

    Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told them she could get the union to the bargaining table to extend the contract if the carriers made a higher wage offer. Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the carriers they had to make an offer by the end of the day so a manmade strike wouldn’t worsen a natural disaster, the person said.

    By midday the Maritime Alliance members agreed to a large increase, bringing about the agreement, according to the person.

  • This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.

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  • Like… okay… I know this is me in the new brain, I’ll shut down the other one.

    the other one: i'm pretty sure you've got it backwards, pal

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  • I was referring to the "This is actually a good sign for self driving" part of their comment.

    The captcha circumvention arms race has been going on for over two decades, and every new type of captcha has and will continue to be broken as soon as it's widely deployed enough that someone is motivated to spend the time to.

    So, the notion that an academic paper about breaking the current generation of traffic-related captchas (something which the captcha solving industry has been doing for years with a pretty high success rate already) is "good news" for the autonomous vehicle industry (who has also been able to identify such objects well enough to continue existing and getting more regulatory approval for years now) is...

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  • i hope you're joking. please, tell me you're joking?