Only tangentially related, but… Trump Mobile claims they’ll offer telehealth?
and will be able to measure your heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, blood pressure, stress index, and more, all using… your phone’s camera? 😭
Edit: oh yeah and they changed the entire phone’s design again. It’s a COMPLETELY different phone 💀
They do still rely on similar models though, they just produce shorter outputs and are more fine-tuned, so they run for less time per query and thus use less energy.
It will always use more power than traditional search boxes. To be fair though, it probably isn’t enough to matter relative to all the generative crap.
“I should base my surveys about human behavior solely on responses from non-human machines” said… someone, apparently? Damn. 💀
I initially thought this might be AI generated because it looked a little bit odd to me, but nope, seems to be real!
Here’s some other ones from NASA:
We can’t wait for that to happen, xitter needs to close the technology before the first image puts them in trouble.
That is why this bill imposes heavy fines. No company has good reason to operate a tool like this if every single nude generated can cost them half a million dollars each.
This bill isn’t a “you can do this but we’ll give you a slap on the wrist each time you do” bill, it’s a “if you build a tool like this and let it loose, your company is going bankrupt and we’re talking your life savings, so you’d better not”
Grok generated about 6,700 undressed images per hour.
That would be 3.35 BILLION dollars per hour if the maximum 500k fine was enforced for each.
(I’m citing the law, not the article)
There’s a few things that I think help prevent something like that from happening.
“Nudify” or “nudified” means the process by which: an image or video is altered or generated to depict an intimate part not depicted in an original unaltered image or video of an identifiable individual
“Intimate parts” includes the primary genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast of a human being.
So a reasonably sized bikini probably wouldn’t qualify, because it still covers intimate areas to some degree, but anything too skimpy would.
The prohibitions in subdivision 2 do not apply when the website, application, software, program, or other service requires the technical skill of a user to nudify an image or video.
So something like Photoshop wouldn’t qualify because you’d need the skills to actually edit images yourself.
I think this:
“No, see… My app is designed to show you what you look like in user-created outfits. Like a virtual closet mirror! What do you mean users are trying on tiny bikinis and clear cellophane dresses? How could I ever have planned for that?”
Would be prevented by this law, but with very good reason. Anyone developing a feature like that could very well simply develop a filter that can tell if too much of a sensitive area is being exposed that wasn’t previously there. If they put technical safeguards in place, and it takes reasonably large amounts of effort for a user to bypass, then the site wouldn’t be liable because it would require “technical skill of a user”.
A site like that can exist, and being able to digitally try on outfits is nice, but it shouldn’t be allowed to ignore the obvious consequences of not putting restrictions on how much skin can be shown.
Oh boy! Just at a time when RAM prices are going d- ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This company is known for this. To clarify, I mean known for making deliberately inflammatory ads, then showing them as obtrusively or carelessly as possible, because it gets people to post about it.
The only reason their company got popular in the first place was when they put these ads everywhere to piss people off and generate engagement.
“The goal of the campaign was always to rage bait”
This guerrilla marketing approach, combined with traditional media coverage and tactics, led to significant success. Artisan saw a remarkable +197% growth in brand search traffic, quickly establishing itself as the most well-known AI employee creator.
So you’re saying a bus, which on average can support a much larger volume of people than cars can, are running consistently on time, and the lanes are also providing routes that allow emergency responders (not just cops, remember that ambulances can use these lanes too) to get to where they’re going without having to wait in traffic as someone dies?
Not to mention that if the dedicated bus lanes didn’t exist, bus service could be slow/inconsistent enough that all the people riding the bus would just switch back to cars, and now you’ve got way more cars on the road clogging it up again.
Why would you think this is a problem?
She likely could afford a car since she has a mayor’s salary
Definitely couldn’t before though! Hence why her parents help her cover childcare expenses.
Very much worth a read!
But will Lidl actually listen? That’s the real question.
They might not care if one person tells them that, or even if many of them do, especially if they make the calculus that those people will probably still be buying other things at Lidl anyways.
If sales for the product drops because people are putting sticky notes on them, knocking them over or hiding them behind other products, etc, then Lidl has a reason to not bother with the hassle.
It also benefits movements through the radical flank effect. (e.g. when white people saw the Black Panther Party carrying guns to protect their community, MLK Jr’s fairly peaceful sit-ins seemed not that bad in comparison, and when having to make a choice on whether or not to give black people rights, it was easier to justify doing so if the perceived alternative was “black people in the streets with guns”)
In this case, the options then become “buy products that always have random sticky notes and are telling me I’m a bad person” vs “grab the product that doesn’t have the sticky notes”.
If it becomes increasingly annoying to buy products which support Israel because there’s constantly little sticky notes/stickers, people pushing things further back on shelves or flipping products around, etc, then it becomes a lot easier to justify just… not bothering buying the products that are being boycotted. (and it also saves people the hassle of looking up which products are being boycotted, which just makes the lives of anti-Zionists easier)
I don’t mind and actually prefer if it hits a bit less strongly over the next few weeks. Yesterday was lots of heart racing, nausea, and digestive issues haha.
Okay yeah, that’ll probably work out just fine for you then!
Caffeine usually causes me anxiety so I’ll hold off until I start finding the meds less effective.
To be clear, caffeine isn’t something most psychiatrists would recommend, and it’s most effective to just have an increased overall dosage, especially given caffeine is more likely to cause anxiety. I personally just find that it sometimes affects different things.
So for example, if I’m on my meds, AND I take caffeine, I might find myself more focused than usual, but if I’m not careful it could lead to me getting focused on something totally random or unproductive, so I have to choose if I want that added risk of accidentally blowing an hour or two on something totally unrelated to what I sat down to do.
I consider caffeine less of a “making your meds effects stronger” kinda thing, and more of an “altering how your brain responds to your meds in some ways” kind of thing. Depending on the person and their needs, adding caffeine could have wildly different results. Best to focus on meds dosage first imo.
I can’t wait until it calms down because I’m experiencing emotions and feelings I never felt and it’s a bit overwhelming. I feel like I need to relearn how to communicate and move and pick things up and work and be a human lol.
Gosh that’s so true. When you live your life trying to accounting for how your brain works on its own, and suddenly you’ve got meds that totally change how your brain is able to operate, you gotta re-train your brain a bit. All part of the process though :)
This seems too good to be true. I didn’t even know existence could be like this. Is this normal? Is it the honeymoon phase? Is it just because I’m taking an amphetamine? I’m beside myself and life feels like I’ve got all the cheat codes now. It seems too good to be true.
Kinda depends honestly. As I’m sure you know, these meds aren’t something that perform consistently across different people, but your experience isn’t uncommon.
For me personally, I had a fairly calm feeling start, and it took me till the end of the day to realize that I had barely touched social media, gotten 3X the normal amount of work done, and also had near zero anxiety.
A few weeks in, and it was more of a subtle effect, after slightly bumping up my dose after experimenting with it a bit to get some better results. I’m not sure if it was placebo, or just my body adjusting, but overall things are still way better. When I’m on my meds, I don’t overthink things anymore, my anxiety is lessened (though not gone like it originally was), and I find it easier, but not guaranteed, to switch from social media to more productive tasks, and to stay focused on those tasks.
Personally, based on what I’ve seen and heard, and what my psychiatrist has told me, I’d say you’ll probably have an experience like this:
If you want to help keep your meds effective, or just generally wanna try to make things easier for yourself, you can try supplementing a little caffeine in and seeing if it helps give you a boost (be warned this can cause headaches or anxiety spikes too, so start with a small amount of caffeine and go from there. I find it causes headaches and anxiety for me, but drastically increases my ability to hyperfocus on things, ideally something worth my time)
Or if you have extended release and instant release meds, you can try taking a small amount of instant release and your extended release at the same time to give you a boost, so you can start being productive on something, and then the extended meds will just help you continue well throughout the day after you’re already on track doing whatever it is you need to do.
I’d say that “too good to be true” feeling is true to the extent you probably will never reach the exact same high as when your brain wasn’t used to it yet at all, but overall, the meds will help a lot, even if it’s not “every day is world changingly good”, and that’s perfectly fine :)
They also just don’t think about the fact that gay/lesbian people exist.
“whew, good thing we got all the MALES out of WOMEN’S restrooms! Good thing there’s NO FEMALE PEOPLE AT ALL that could also be attracted to other women and want to perv on them too!” /s
It’s never been about protecting women, it’s just an excuse to hate trans people because why not.
Once I got pulled aside before even getting through the security line, then the people rummaging through my bags and patting me down started gambling real money with each other about what my age was before I told them -_-
Mozilla uses “they’re” to refer to Kit, but other than that there’s no explicit statement at all.
Kit is a companion, not a commentator. They’re not here to deliver punchlines. Kit shows up as a small signal that Firefox is working for you, then steps back so you can keep moving.
I never thought I’d like using a word more than enshittification, but conshitidation takes the cake, I think.