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kalkulat

@ kalkulat @lemmy.world

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Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

  • Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein

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  • Very true, I've had whole cited paragraphs removed by non-registered users. Of course, IF you've got the time, you can look through the article history pages. For recently embarassed subjects, it's not hard to spot the deletions over the past month or two, as they're colored in red.

  • Unemployed?

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  • "And ... what do you do?"

    "Are you sure you're ready to know?"

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  • Which one of those guys is William Tell?

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  • My only 'smart' appliance is a desktop monitor ... and I re-pointed its 'report' feature to a non-existant URL. Want my data? Maybe, but they'll have pay for each bit.

  • 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media

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  • Wouldn't doubt it if they did market to kids. TV networks did it for decades, every Saturday morning, with no FCC challenges.

    PBS had services for children as well. Were Bert and Ernie or Mr. Rogers 'addictive'? I have no idea what YT for children is like, but I wouldn't have handed my kids over to them to babysit without checking them out ... frequently. Corporations exist for one purpose. Will government stop them?

  • 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media

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  • "addiction in children’s brains"

    I don't think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group. Kids are not ready for alcohol or cars or pron. Did the corporations care? Probably not. Would they have at one time, here in the US? Yes, back when legislators were answerable to their constituents. At one time the FCC worried about the lyrics in songs on the radio. The population was more uptight about it. Then.

    OTOH: I recall times when parents oversaw what their children consumed. They didn't need to buy them smartphones or laptops, and they could have enforced rulse on their use. Parenting isn't for everyone.

  • Trump says America should move on from Epstein - it may not be that easy

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  • LOL well CharlesDarwin, you know, they're too evolved for prison ... they just go hide somewhere until everyone forgets...

  • Trump says America should move on from Epstein - it may not be that easy

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  • But lots and LOTS of people are resigning their jobs around the world. The last one will be the, uh, cherry on top.

  • TIL "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston was a cover version

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  • Many dozens of major hit songs in the pre-Beatles 50s and 60s were covers of sons previously recorded by black artists. The covering bands & labels did not have to get permission to cover the songs ... the laws allowed anyone to record them it without negotiating a license, but still had to pay the statutory royalty fees.

    Before Alan Freed, black music was not played on most radio stations.

  • Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

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  • From the article:

    "A total of 178 out of the 3,078 articles came back as flagged for AI ... About half of our staff spent a month during summer 2025 painstakingly reviewing the text from these 178 articles....

    Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source."

  • Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

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  • This is the guy who bankrupted 4 casinos. Clearly what he's best at.

  • Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit

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  • Cash they've got. Jail time for CEOs will work better.

  • Just a bit

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  • That's a classic and welcome comic style. Nailed it!

  • Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

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  • Profit?

    Or, 'P' as in trickle-down?

  • Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

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  • That's a really fancy way to say 'dumb terminals to the mainframe' ... only without wires.

  • A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate

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  • The link says 'zero-emissions-cooling'

    The article sez: "It relies on the temperature change of materials called shape memory alloys (SMAs) when they are stretched and released."

    How do you stretch something without producing any emissions?

  • Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days

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  • Hmmm. And this is the work of the 'Genius at Davos', you say? And where was the electricity generated ... that state that ran out of electric for weeks a few years back?

  • ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism

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  • The bot shouldn’t give lethal advice The person or company that runs the bot that gave lethal advice should be charged with homicide.

  • ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism

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  • A LOT of fraternities have gotten in BIG trouble for hazing practices that led to the death of a 'candidate'.