IIRC, some jackdows (both male and female) seem to just like “pretty” rocks and will maintain a cache to visit irregularly.

Source: Trust me, bro.

Imma reuse my joke from last time this was posted:

The Green Revolution deserve AA capability, too!

The TL;DR is that training AI on copyrighted works falls under the Fair Use exemptions in copyright law

This judgement was reversed by the next federal judge that reviewed AI, in the Meta case.

It is far from legally settled whether training is fair use or not.

Source: https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-copilot-for-entertainment-purposes-only

“The Java Trap”

(link for the lazy: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html )

WARNING: This is NOT “Free Software” or “Open Source”.

I thought that was just the Cybertruck, which yes, I wouldn’t drive even if someone gave me one. I’d flip it and buy something else.

I think both the sedan and roadster are okay electric cars, and I think they have enough range I could use them to reduce the amount of gas I burn in my Volt for longer trips.

But, I haven’t really been paying attention to Tesla recently, and Elmu has certainly been looking horrible to me.

Once companies started suing people trying to practice “responsible disclosure”, I stopped attacking people that choose maximum disclosure.

Responsible disclosure has always been a bit of a hedge. It’s rare to be able to show you are actually the first person/organization to discover a vulnerability.

we are going to need to develop a different model of learning, using, and processing information that considers the provenance of where the information came from and how it got there

They used to teach this in schools under “critical thinking skills”. Following the chain of sources to the primary sources was a task I had to to (at least in part) more than once in secondary school.

Authoritarians don’t like that tho.

Next time, try it without the “Appeal to Nature” / Naturalistic Fallacy.

You don’t get to blame me for your reactions, only my (in)actions.

When no words accomplishes the task just as well, it’s not selfish to avoid small talk. The fact that you find it rude or impolite is your problem, not mine.

That is the disconnect Im referring to…the fact that people are taking jobs thinking that they get to dictate what the job entails, even after being told what the job entails, even after signing documentation saying they agree to what the job entails. Where does that come from?

I don’t know, but I saw something similar in my father (RIP). He would agree to something, then get some benefits, then later attempt to “renegotiate”. That sort of behavior isn’t something “GenZ”. Some people just want to squeeze water our of rocks, even if it is deleterious to their relationships.

Similarly, I’ve certainly had employers that, despite my job duties clearly not covering the task would ask and expect me to perform other tasks “for the good of the company”. It’s fairly common these days for job offers to include “and other duties as assigned” because employers want to have all the power, and I’m fine with workers (of any generation) just refusing to comply.

It does sound like the employee was being unreasonable and maybe should be dismissed, but that doesn’t get the task done either, so maybe the “do it, you have no say” approach isn’t any better. And, I have no idea how I’d handle it. I kinda don’t like delegating stuff anyway, so if I thought the task was important I’d do it myself unless someone happily volunteered. But, I know that might not “scale” the way it needs to make the business work.

Laziness is my choice and a virtue in my profession and my preferred operational method.

you’re being paid a wage in exchange for your labor and we need your labor on this specific task. “So I don’t get a say in it?” Well, NO, you don’t…what on earth would make you think you think that?

Yes, they do. They can just go home, or walk around the block, or work on something else. No matter what your employer tells them, they aren’t a slave at any point in time.

Will there be consequences? Absolutely. They might get fired. They might get sued. If the task is sufficiently important the State might consider them not doing the task criminal negligence.

This isn’t entitlement, it’s choice and freedom, and perhaps having different priorities than the person assigning tasks. Everyone, including GenZ: Do you, and if you can try to spread joy and reduce suffering.

Do remember tho, someone has to keep the infrastructure working, and it’s often not clear where in joy in that lies.

why words wen none good

(I’m GenX, [1980] but I’ve always thought a lot of “polite” “social” habits are dumb.)

Anyone interested in the U.S. general strike this year: https://piefed.social/c/news/p/1928891/date-may-1-announced-for-national-strike-aimed-at-crippling-trump-no-work-no-school

I just bail on any site that requires age verification. It sucks, but there are still some that work. I do hear that using a VPN can often help.

Yeah, there was some phonics in my primary school education, and I continue to approach new words in that way sometimes. But, they said Phonetically.

Cave 1.0 scored 1000000% but also force fed the proxy lemons, so it was treated as a failure.

Wait, I thought phonetically (example: papa hotel oscar novermber echo tango india charle alfa lima lima yankee) meant using a phonetic alphabet, not using word(s) with the same Soundex encoding.