Apple Event Announced for September 9: “It's Glowtime” (www.macrumors.com)
TIL Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth during his historic first manned spaceflight by ejecting 6 km from the ground and parachuting down by himself. (airandspace.si.edu)
How can we stop corporations from using Lemmy as a training dataset for AI?
Reddit third-party client ban closed user messages behind paywall. I think we the Lemmitors should stop AI training on us or at least monetise it (for our instances)
I am the only woman in a group text with 8 guy friends in a professional program - I would really appreciate your thoughts on this and why: is this acceptable/not a big deal? Weird? Scandalous?
Based on this, I might have more specific follow-up questions. Please be kind with me as this program just started, and we are all really just trying to create friend groups as efficiently as possible and have good intentions, before everyone gets set in their ways so to speak. Thank you!...
Trump blasts Harris plan to ban price gouging as communism. But GOP states already block some price hikes. (www.politico.com)
Former President Donald Trump is attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan for a federal ban on price gouging by grocery stores and food suppliers as “Soviet-style” controls....
Gen 1 Pokémon Fans Are In Awe As Cubone’s Face Is Discovered In Old 90s Picture Book | Retro Dodo (retrododo.com)
Gen 1 fans of Pokémon, especially those who played Red and Blue versions, can now find a bit more peace regarding the sorrowful character of Cubone. For years, it was known that Cubone never removes its skull helmet due to which nobody has ever seen its real face. However, recent discoveries have proven this notion wrong....
‘Indescribable’ crew errors led to UK tech mogul’s shipwreck, yacht maker says (www.scmp.com)
There's a story here (lemmy.world)
AAAAAAAAAA
Out of curiosity if a woman is in control of her own body. If the SCOTUS did not reverse Roe than why can't a woman in control become a prostitue?
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk’s best move in EU fight may be an eXit (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk has no easy way out of his fight with the European Commission, which is investigating whether his social-media site X breached rules designed to limit illegal content and disinformation. The billionaire is facing determined adversaries in the relevant Commissioners Thierry Breton and Margrethe Vestager, who have a new...
Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest person, dies at age 117 (abcnews.go.com)
A woman classified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person in the world died on Aug. 19 at the age of 117, her family confirmed to The New York Times....
FINAL FANTASY XVI available on PC September 17th (store.steampowered.com)
$50 for the base game, $70 with DLC included....
What's your PP care routine?
I just rinse it with water then with diluted dettol. And let it air dry after wash. Twice a day (morning & evening)....
We keep running into LLMs that are pretending to be people, but I bet there are a handful of people out there pretending to be LLMs.
That “uncensored” HuggingFace Space probably isn’t even hooked up to a real GPU. It’s just some guy named Bob eager to narrate your sexual fantasies.
Would you like a receipt? (lemmy.today)
Kremlin accuses the West of helping Ukraine attack Russia (www.reuters.com)
Why is the gas bill so high? (sh.itjust.works)
What laptops/devices are you using to sail the high seas?
Is the QR code in the room with you now? (lemmy.world)
Venezuela’s opposition faces setback after countries suggest repeat of presidential election (apnews.com)
SAO PAULO (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition was dealt a blow Thursday when countries that had been pressuring President Nicolás Maduro to release vote tallies backing his claim to victory in last month’s presidential election began suggesting a repeat of the contest instead....
When Florida judges sentence children tried as adults, they give them higher sentences on average for felony crimes than adult offenders (www.miamiherald.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/article290425414.html
Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches October 31 (www.gematsu.com)
That’s way sooner than I expected. We’ve barely seen this game and it’s already releasing in 2 months.
