Always have made stuff up. Most journalists have no training nor the least bit of expertise in anything they write about.
And indeed, all of that tech received significant and long-term pushback when introduced.
Decline But One Line
That is very bad.
Bluesky Screechers
The AI that exists now is 1,000x better than what was available in 2024 or before
If you used it then, haven’t touched it since and hit me with your idiotic opinions, let it be known that you have no fucking idea what you’re talking about.
Shudder
Someone said that The Sundays’ bandmembers provided a canvas for Harriet Wheeler to paint her voice on. That’s the most beautiful and accurate phrasing I’ve ever heard about one of the most exquisitely transcendent voices in music.
That song still holds up and is an all-time great.
When “Goodbye” comes out of its very long bridge (really, it’s two bridges mashed together1) and Harriet breaks in at 3:58 with that “Oh, as the heavens shudder….” — that is pure frickin’ music magic there.
- Most longer songs have something like intro then verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge then chorus/verse/chorus/chorus then outro or something like that. “Goodbye” is an atypical song because it doesn’t have a chorus and the middle is either a really long bridge, two bridges mashed together, or an interlude and a bridge, depending on your inclinations. The outro is short and inconclusive — which of course is deliberate. It is intended to leave you unsettled and unsatisfied, while the rest of the structure of the song is also supposed to sonically mirror a lack of conclusion and unfocused frustration, anger and questioning. The repeating interrogative-like bass figures and the interspersed musically-disconnected guitar lines mimic unfocused thoughts in the wake of a betrayal. The declaration near the end of the song that “I belong to you” is manifestly untrue, and this is why it’s asserted so forcefully. It’s a wish framed as a romantic declaration, a lament posing as a confirmation.
The autism epidemic is a myth.
The New Laser That Can Take Down Aircraft.
Researchers Warn: WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System.
Amazon Ring’s lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance.
A few seconds of audio is all it takes to create a realistic audio deepfake.
A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at zspec = 14.44 Confirmed with JWST.
Wild ID
Idiocy in the wild: The Problem With LLMs.
LLMs are, by their very nature, plagiarism machines.
That’s funny, because your mom was a clown machine.
No Model
What a world. Soon they won’t even need the model.
Markedly
Oopsie! That’s gonna leave a mark.
Rome Resume
You were definitely wrong. Western Europe and its cities didn’t achieve Rome-comparable levels of wealth and size until the late 1600s.
Measles Surges In The U.S. As Public Health Systems Falter.
Uncommon Knowledge: How Big Tech and Trump Tariffs Broke Cheap PCs.
America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs.
FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine. Evil.
Americans might finally be buckling under the weight of rising debt and slowing wage growth.
Amazon may launch a marketplace where media sites can sell their content to AI companies.
Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat plants.
Befat
Indeed. Being fat is the rare easily-identifiable issue that you can simply correct and your life and health improves immensely. Obesity is upstream of so many other somatic and even psychological problems.
Pretending this was not the case for two decades did no one any favors. Quite the opposite.
Dry Ice
I don’t agree with the methods ICE is using, but in reality all the illegal immigrants should’ve been rounded up and sent home long ago. The problem itself should’ve never been allowed to get as bad as it did.
After all, I’d never presume to just show up in a country with no right to be there and no legal status and expect to stay there. Why should that the default expectation for the US but no other nation? Most countries in the world (unless you are an Islamic rapist) will toss you right back out on your ass. As they should.
China Secretly Testing Nuclear Weapons And Covering Its Tracks, U.S. Alleges.
Blood omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia.
Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more.
Why E cores make Apple silicon fast.
Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom.
Ruling-Class Control of AI Is Making Things More Expensive and You Poorer. This take on AI I (mostly) agree with.
How close is AI to taking my job?
Path Scam
People are always like “sophisticated scam attempt” and “James Bond himself tried to pull one over on me and I foiled him!” when it’s like the most basic and pathetic scam attempt in history.
Lord, I need to get into the scamming business.