The "think of the children" and identity verification mania that swept the world in the first half of this year, means only adults can learn some people have breasts. Porn and nudity are longer the primary merchandise of the internet. It's not surprising that video LLMs are being instructed to 'undress' people. At the same time, OnlyFans performers are revealing more of their bodies.

OnlyFans performers do their advertising on other social media sites. This very week, many of them have migrated to nudity, for a millisecond. I suspect that OnlyFans is saturated and new entrants can no longer grow their base with bikinis and suggestive dance moves.

Microsoft made computing technology popular and ubiquitous, Apple and Google made computing technology, faster, 'smarter', cloud-powered and standardized.

As you noted, the problem is, the Virginia EPA, allows one data center to make tonnes of pollution. The real problem is, the loophole is permanent: The data center doesn't have to upgrade its power supply to nuclear: It can poison the city for years.

Also, it would be faster and much cheaper to upgrade to solar and salt batteries, than nuclear. Which makes the permanent loophole, egregious fascism, not the temporary cost of building new 'infrastructure'.

As long as politicians can be 'bought', the people in the USA will never get healthier.

Anyone remember Microsoft's Start Menu Tiles: Hundreds of tiny web-pages that couldn't be curated or deleted? One had to disable the entire Advanced Start Menu, which wasn't a big problem, since it's original function, a menu, remained.

This is the same: A software developer deciding what information users should download (and be used to decorate the page), before downloading the information the users actually want.

Facial biometrics are not stored on one's phone anymore. Google is recommending they save your facial biometrics in 3D. The police (and other kidnappers) get more than access to one's phone, they get access to every account one has 'secured' with 3D biometrics.

The second problem, will be a paradox of Google's creation: Google will feed 3D biometrics into their AI, which will then be able create fake 3D authentication videos: Which is pointless when Google already has your data. The problem arises when other web-sites decide they should monetize your 3D facial biometrics, too. Then, any person with Google Omni can break into any account.

https://blog.google/innovation...

I bought an espresso machine for home and a pod-coffee machine for work: $170 vs. $70.

Most of the Nespresso-style pods (with the A-shaped base), now use aluminum.

Task time is 15 minutes for the espresso and 5 minutes for the pod-coffee, plus cleaning time at 35 minutes for the espresso and 1 minute for the pod-coffee machine.

The CEO and shareholders.

I'm wondering what questions cost 20 billion tokens per day. After a few days of simulations, the military should know the probable outcomes and and the easy-to-identify triggers. The problem isn't the military doesn't have a clue but more:
- Political assumptions override the reality of a military campaign having large consequences.
- Generals demanding an easy answer.

Was the LLM hallucinating how to turn multiple failures to stop Iranian attacks, into a win?

Last year, the GOP congress gifted $500 billion over planned costs, nearly doubly the DoD budget. This year, GOP congress is attempting to gift $700 billion to the DoD.

Apart from building "Trump class" warships without a blueprint, there's no discussion on how the money will be spent.

IIRC, there was a post several months ago, claiming that a strong cup in the morning was the only time that coffee was beneficial. IIRC, a few years ago, a post claimed that multiple cups of coffee did not increase alertness: One was elevating the metabolism and addicting the body for zero benefit.

About 18 months ago, all in-pod coffee turned black: Every brand is overcooked to satisfy the American palette. Starbucks is the worst; very overcooked and watery: For some reason, the latter does not undo the former.

It wasn't high-trust: It was, computers were isolated until told not to. It was, the OS had the tools to report ad-ware/crap-ware and remove it. It was vendors sticking to a market position, not turning into advertising businesses for an extra dollar; so this crap wasn't possible. Now, it's vendors using Microsoft's own totalitarian control to abuse their customers.

Ideally, the 'recyclable' materials would be sorted by brand, then counted: Then, PSAs would report which corporations are repeatedly mislabeling their containers. Also, the law would be modified so that the cost of those PSAs could be added to the fines they receive from the government.

It's easy to see why corporations control the government: It's cheap for billionaires to claim they're the victim, even cheaper when Fox News does the propaganda for them.

Many neuro-atypical brains fall into boredom or OCD quickly. The result for afflicted males is difficulty getting a promotion, or even working full-time. That makes it difficult to avoid boredom with eqiupment-centred recreations such as SCUBA diving, catamaran/car racing, "kitesurfing, paragliding, motorbike riding, scating, bikepacking". Nowadays, the male obsession can also choose from indoor activities such as TCGs, RPGs and online computer games.