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  "A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click and free up to 12GB of storage. Unlike with previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden Gate doesn’t have a toggle for turning off Apple Intelligence. That makes disabling AI features that you may not want more difficult. It also means that the AI models necessary for running Apple Intelligence will take up space on your disk, even if you don’t use them or if you go through your setting...

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  "In announcing the bill, its four congressional cosponsors cited data showing that more than 314,000 minors were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2021, including girls as young as 10. The figures, compiled by child-marriage advocacy groups from state marriage records, indicate that most of the underage girls were married to adult men. "Unchained At Last, a nonprofit worked to end forced and child marriage in the U.S., estimates that at least 66,415 of these marria...

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  "I read Gödel, Escher, Bach in high school, and it warped my brain. In that book and later in I Am a Strange Loop, Hofstadter argued that human consciousness arises from an intricate, self-referential feedback loop. A system of symbols acquires the ability to reflect upon itself, crossing hierarchical levels until an "I" emerges from the tangle. For decades, Hofstadter seemed to suggest that if we ever built an intelligence, it would arrive through that same kind of deep, recursiv...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bustikiller/117332200522794797 "Often times, I would see that the quality of the code written by AI had decreased significantly. Not that it was brilliant at the start, but I got the feeling of “dude, you’ve done this before, why are you uncapable of doing this again?”. So I had to prompt it again to re-explain how to do it. Or link it to a file with my preferences. Alright, I know what you mean now, sorry about the confusion. Let me redo it for you. And again...

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  https://youtu.be/b9DP2-Rjjgw My Cat Kept Jumping on the Counter..So I Built a Robot

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  "In Greenland news: –Yesterday at the UN, Trump made a big show of signing an agreement with Denmark and Greenland, an agreement which Trump believes gives him total control of Greenland. –The agreement is actually the same agreement the countries signed in 1951, repackaged to make Trump think it was a new agreement. But that’s not the best part. –The best part is that the agreement is only valid as long as the US stays in NATO. (I’m sure Trump has no idea that’s in there.) This either m...

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  https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/828117133252820992/i-once-visited-a-friend-while-they-had-some

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  Some of us don't like lemon on our fish.

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  oh no "Amazon‘s Prime Video is promising to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to sync up the way the actors’ mouths move on screen. The feature will be available first on “Maxton Hall,” the German-language romance that is Prime Video’s most-watched international original series to date. Lip-sync dubs are available starting Wednesday on “Maxton Hall” Seasons 1 and 2 globally in English and will also be included when the third and final season of the show releases on...

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  "Previous experiments in mice had indicated that violet light near 380 nanometers could reduce myopia. Those studies also showed that opsin 5 (OPN5), a light-sensing receptor, was necessary for the protective effect. However, light at that wavelength did not produce the same response in tree shrews. Their eye lenses, like human lenses, block most wavelengths below roughly 400 nanometers. "Human lenses, and now we know tree shrew lenses, don't transmit a lot of light in the ultra-...

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  "NFH made headlines when reports surfaced about a 2021 incident in which a Kentucky man in his 30s began visibly crying, pulled his knees to his chest, and shook his head as he was wheeled into surgery to have his organs harvested. The man, Anthony Thomas Hoover II, had overdosed and had been unresponsive for two days before his family agreed to donate his organs, believing he would not recover. But as the organ retrieval neared, he began showing signs of improvement, which allegedly went...

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  https://youtube.com/shorts/8JuoD4iRoFw?is=Ug5OWrvKuDAF_Fe6 This is the Largest Object that acts as a #Quantum Wave #physics

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  More about me. I've always wanted to be a #writer of #scienceFiction and #fantasy but working as a #computerProgrammer, #softwareDeveloper, #agileTrainer, and #coursewareDeveloper is how I made my money. I've written one #romcom #novel so far, not yet published, and a few articles on #extremeProgramming which were published. I might be a better editor than a writer. my literary heroes include Terry Pratchett #discworld and Theodore Sturgeon

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  "Perhaps most interesting, though, is a letter that New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sent to Blanche last month, reported by MS-Now here, demanding that DOJ finally turn over files relevant to his investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes in the state. It laid out a timeline showing how DOJ has given him the runaround, promising cooperation but ultimately giving him none. I. February 13, 2026 — Written correspondence to then-Deputy Attorney General Blanche requesting access to a spe...

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  The secretive company that gets job-hunters black-listed without their knowledge. "I was on a call with a prospective client — a mid-size financial services firm — when the news about the Eightfold AI lawsuit broke in January 2026. The head of HR was mid-sentence, explaining how they’d been using an AI vendor’s “Talent Intelligence” platform to screen thousands of applicants per quarter. She paused. Her legal counsel, who’d been silently observing from the corner of the Zoom grid, unmuted:...

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  "DuckDuckGo announced that it can now block most video ads, particularly those on YouTube, when a video is playing in its browser.  In a blog post about the new feature, the company explained that its YouTube ad detection and blocking is based on the open-source community filter lists from uBlockOrigin. DuckDuckGo noted that it may also apply its own rules for better compatibility, but viewers may see longer buffering times when using the blocker and there may still be some unexpected hicc...

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  "–The Reflecting Pool has now been drained, and guess what? The American flag blue paint is all gone, stripped away by all that hydrogen peroxide they poured in the pool. (Hydrogen peroxide is often used for paint stripping. Did no one tell them that?) The pool is now the same gray it was when they started. –The drained Reflecting Pool did not reveal any slices. Instead, tire marks were visible, obvious damage from Trump’s vanity drive in a fleet of 10-ton vehicles for no reason at all. –...

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  "Trump is facing some real danger regarding the suit he filed against the BBC: –He filed suit over a story they did on the January 6 insurrection, which included parts of the speech he gave on January 6th. Trump claimed that they had spliced two parts of his speech together to make it sound like he had incited the riot. The BBC apologized, but he sued them anyway, for $10 billion dollars. –Unlike most of the media organizations he sued, the BBC didn’t settle. (It’s not clear whether Trump...

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  "Uellenberg's program goes further than we had ever imagined. As with many other IOCCC entries, it contains a message in its own source listing. If you squint a bit, you can see a Pong screen in the whitespace – two paddles and a ball. Compile it and run it, and it takes a keystroke to move one of the paddles… then it reformats its own source code and outputs a new, slightly different version, showing the updated game screen. You play the game by repeatedly compiling the output from th...

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  really tired of books, shows, or movies which only have jerks and assholes as characters also really tired of sitcoms where all the characters are stupid all the time. I prefer shows where the smart people are stupid SOME of the time. time to rewatch Star Trek, Stargate SG1, and The Good Place, I guess. and reread Dresden Files. and I'm dealing with migraines and/or sinus headaches.

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  "Arison has admitted that the AI adoption process hasn’t been perfect. “We learned that A.I. agents learn off the code base that you have. Because that code had so many bugs in it, it put similar types of bugs in as it was writing code,” he said—which feels like a thing his tutor should have covered." https://gizmodo.com/grindr-is-the-latest-dating-app-to-hook-up-with-ai-2000779592

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  "A simple 7-question test helps us realize how diverse a population is. On this quiz, the highest possible score is less than 7%. No matter how common you think your answers are, no matter how normal you feel, you’re actually in sync with just 7% (at the most) of all citizens of the US. My answers put me under 4. “People like us do things like this,” is a useful definition of culture. But which things? Billions of people believe things you don’t, are unaware of things that are easily d...

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  "The first experiment exposed patients to a series of repeating tones with occasional unexpected sounds mixed in. The researchers found that neurons in the hippocampus consistently detected these unusual tones. Even more interesting, the brain became better at recognizing them over time, suggesting that learning or neural plasticity was still taking place during anesthesia. The researchers then increased the complexity of the experiment by playing short stories while continuing to record b...

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  "The image shows about 150 Amazon book covers that appear if you search the site for “100000 whys” (link). Some of these books are category bestsellers in children literature. You can view a zoomable, full-resolution version here. There’s nothing inhuman about any of these titles or covers. At the same time, I probably don’t need to convince you that you’re staring at the purest form of AI slop that now fills up many nonfiction book categories on Amazon. More specifically, what we’re seein...