Comment Copyrights? (Score 2) 39
More Than Half of New Articles On the Internet Are Being Written By AI
And the copyrights for them go to
Comment Re:Could it be? (Score 1) 12
First post aside, isn't this just static electricity?
Won't really know for sure until someone shuffles across Mars in socks and touches the rover.
Comment 3 billion people, really? (Score 1) 56
OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money
the bank expects OpenAI to reach 3 billion users by decade's end, up from roughly 800 million today
Over 1/3 of the world's population, really? Although, think of how much money OpenAI will have lost by then.
Comment American? Influencers (Score 4, Insightful) 102
Are we sure they're American? 'Cause elsewhere... Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls via new X account location information.
Google: X location feature
Comment Re:USA (Score 1) 14
Well, USA secrets are screwed. You don't even need to directly tap some of the officials as they pass along what they're doing to their family members, including classified info.
Pete Hegseth is concerned enough that he's switching from Signal to SMS to leak battle info
Comment Just take the money (Score 1) 101
Why do these people even bother to make up bullshit excuses for taking our money? Leave the "AI" part out and just announce that you're writing yourself a few checks at the taxpayers' expense.
Take what you want. Take it all! Just stop lying about it. It's not like you're fooling us anyway.
Comment Re:AI or A1? (Score 1) 101
His cabinet doesn't know the difference between artificial intelligence and sauce for overcooked steaks https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Honestly, at this point, he probably just thinks he's giving a job to a guy name Al - "A" "L" - who lives in Manhattan. (*sigh*)
Comment Re:Problem (Score 1) 159
I'm doing my part! (Every time I see a window and a conveniently-nearby rock, I throw the rock at the window.)
Comment Wegovy weight loss ... (Score 2) 20
Judging from the commercials, weight loss from Wegovy is probably more from all the marching around town than the drug itself.
Comment I've had 3 cell phones ... (Score 2) 159
#1 - Qualcomm QCP-1900, 1998-2015 (17y)
#2 - Kyocera HydroVIBE, 2015-2021 (6y)
#3 - Google Pixel 5a, 2021 - Present (4y, so far)
The Qualcomm was on nTelos (initially PrimeCo) and had to give it up when nTelos in my area was sold to Sprint and they didn't/wouldn't support the phone's spectrum. The Kyocera was on Ting (Sprint) and gave it up when Sprint was bought by T-Mobile and CDMA was deprecated and VoIP required, also Google Play support EOL for KitKat. The Pixel 5a is on Ting (T-Mobile) and I'll probably keep it until forced to get something newer - works great so far.
I'll note that the Kyocera - from 2015 - was IP57 certified *with* a headphone jack and removable battery (along with 32GB MicroSD and SIM) under the removable back w/gasket.
Submission + - Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls 4
Nicholas Grayhame writes: The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app. Upon rollout, rival factions began to inspect just where their online adversaries were really based on the combative social platform—with dozens of major MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts revealed to be based overseas....
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe. An Ivanka Trump fan account, IvankaNews, has 1 million followers and frequently posts about the dangers of Islam, the threat of illegal immigration and support for Trump. That account is based in Nigeria. ...
Donald Trump and several close associates were investigated for conspiracy or coordination with Russia during the 2016 election. Two of Trump’s campaign members were indicted. Certain content creators are paid for tweets that drive engagement on the site formerly known as Twitter, which gives them a financial incentive to cash in on the divisive nature of U.S. politics. For those in countries like Nigeria or Bangladesh, the American dollars paid by X for their work can make a big difference to their lives. X payouts are calculated on the basis of engagement from verified premium accounts with content on X.
Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”—is actually based in Eastern Europe. An Ivanka Trump fan account, IvankaNews, has 1 million followers and frequently posts about the dangers of Islam, the threat of illegal immigration and support for Trump. That account is based in Nigeria.
Donald Trump and several close associates were investigated for conspiracy or coordination with Russia during the 2016 election. Two of Trump’s campaign members were indicted. Certain content creators are paid for tweets that drive engagement on the site formerly known as Twitter, which gives them a financial incentive to cash in on the divisive nature of U.S. politics. For those in countries like Nigeria or Bangladesh, the American dollars paid by X for their work can make a big difference to their lives. X payouts are calculated on the basis of engagement from verified premium accounts with content on X.
Comment Re:I'm no nuclear engineer (Score 1) 113
But the cost of building this installation sounds like it would be prohibitive
More expensive, sure, but probably way less risky than "dropping" it.
By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground
Comment Makes sense (Score 1) 37
As technology progresses we can better handle the dangerous waste power from Gooble Boxes currently being routed to the special disposal volcano.
Comment Perfect storm of mediocre (Score 0) 18
Microsoft hasn't been able to do proper security - or proper development for that matter - in half a century, and AI is notorious for pissing out poor quality code.
Glad I only use the git part of Github.
If only Microsoft saw some sense and quit pushing this disaster of a technology - or at least gave people the option to leave it out of their activities. Fuck this AI shit, seriously. It's getting really tiring now...
Comment Re:undeniable (Score 3, Informative) 113
Renewables are undeniably a good idea. The energy is just right there.
Sure they are not without problems, and in a country the size of the UK, there's not enough to be energy independent, but even with that we should build more.
Denying it: Trump - Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere (and other sources):
Trump called wind and solar power “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!” in a social media post and vowed not to approve wind or “farmer destroying Solar” projects. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” he wrote on his Truth Social site.
So short-sighted... (sigh)
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