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Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut (www.theverge.com)

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ (www.wired.com)

AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors often in poor countries paid small sums to correct chatbots and label images. On Wednesday, 97 African workers who do AI training work or online content moderation for companies like Meta and OpenAI...

Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand (finance.yahoo.com)

States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat (www.wired.com)

Around 46 million Americans live in states that have introduced bills to ban cultivated meat, the latest escalation in a surprising culture war....

A plus side to old Murphy being deaf (i.imgur.com)

We had new floors put in today and Murphy was oblivious to the noise that would otherwise stress out a hearing cat.

Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley (aftermath.site)

Mexico: Heat wave kills several people, hotter days ahead (www.dw.com)

The so-called “heat dome” weather phenomenon has trapped hot air over the country, causing temperatures to soar to 45 degrees Celsius in some areas....

Unit Tests (sh.itjust.works)

Python is great, but stuff like this just drives me up the wall (lemmy.world)

Explanation: Python is a programming language. Numpy is a library for python that makes it possible to run large computations much faster than in native python. In order to make that possible, it needs to keep its own set of data types that are different from python’s native datatypes, which means you now have two different...

Este gato es muy largo! #gatitodelarbol #caturday (paquita.masto.host)

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Poland foreign minister accuses Russia of trying to influence EU elections (www.euronews.com)

Top Polish diplomat Radoslaw Sikorski said on Saturday that Russia wanted to destabilise Europe....

Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy (www.theguardian.com)

Lambeth Palace documents show purchase of enslaved people in 18th century approved by Anglican archbishop...

Cherry blossoms, mecha, and cute anime girls? – Sakura Wars / Taisen (Sega Saturn) (blisscast.wordpress.com)

Sakura Wars is set in a Steampunk Tokyo, in the 1920s, protected by a mysterious Imperial Assault Troop. The male protagonist, Ichiro Ogami, an Imperial Japanese Navy Ensign, is transferred to the Flower Division in order to become its captain. As he arrives at the Grand Imperial Theater, the theater manager, Ikki Yoneda, tells...

Google Patches Fourth Chrome Zero-Day in Two Weeks (www.securityweek.com)

Utah man declined $100K offer to travel to Congo on 'security job' that was covert coup attempt (apnews.com)

The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there from the U.S. as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt....

What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? (kbin.social)

As I've gotten older as a player, I have found myself dropping some eras of gaming that I used to be nostalgic for. One of them is the 8-bit era, the NES days. I have played some of the best that system had to offer and I will never say that system didn't have any good games....

‘Selective hearing’ headphones: Hear clearly in a crowd with one look (newatlas.com)

TALLY HO! (slrpnk.net)

What scenarios do you envision might arise once animals join our ranks? (spectrum.ieee.org)

I heard about this because someone I know personally on here says she’s helping to work on this (which by the way sounds like it would perfectly fit the format/structure of the fediverse) and I felt too fascinated to not ask. What are some scenarios that comes to mind when you think of this being a thing?