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Microdosing and tripping on mushrooms is on the rise in U.S. (www.npr.org)

Pentagon removes Gaza pier again, no clear date on reinstallation (thehill.com)

Uber and Lyft agree to minimum pay and benefits for Massachusetts drivers (www.theguardian.com)

Some Surprises in the No Surprises Act (www.propublica.org)

ChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’ (theconversation.com)

How the ACLU is planning for the return of Trump (www.motherjones.com)

My buddy! (lemmy.world)

My buddy!

ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later (arstechnica.com)

Researchers create 30 fake student accounts to submit model-generated responses to real exams. Professors grade the 200 or 1500 word responses from the AI undergrads and gave them better grades than real students 84% of the time. 6% of the bot respondents did get caught, though… for being too good. Meanwhile, AI detection...

Steam/GOG Summer Sales

With the Steam and GOG summer sales going on any games people would recommend?...

Martin Mull, Comic Actor of 'Clue,' 'Roseanne' and 'Arrested Development,' Dies at 80 (www.thewrap.com)

As a big fan of both Clue and Fernwood 2 Night, this one hit hard.

Wise Men Said (fedia.io)

In 1977, at the time of Elvis Presley’s death, there were 170 Elvis impersonators worldwide....

USA presidential candidates

USA politics explained

Ngl this is pretty punny. (sh.itjust.works)

Not since Apple Vs. Epic... (lemmy.world)

Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code (visualstudiomagazine.com)

Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals

Initial scrolling of the Steam Summer Sale seems pretty lackluster, but digging through the comments sections in other threads, a few gems have stood out, and it doesn’t appear we have a thread dedicated to this yet, so post what you think are the best deals here!...

Mmm Hmm (lemmy.world)

Nature is incredible (lemmy.world)

Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (www.theverge.com)

Could offline physical piracy be good to games?

The other day I saw a bunch of USB sticks for sale at a gas station with greatest hits of various artists and music genres and it got me thinking of physical piracy again. It’s something I haven’t consumed for over 15 years, but with the fall of prices of USB sticks it is completely viable economically if you do the math,...