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why do americans seem to always have thick necks in photographs?

Both men and women. Is it to do with the way they smile/pose for the camera or something? Seriously, I can almost tell someone is American by the way their neck looks in a photo

In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ (english.elpais.com)

is the lemmyverse dying already?

There is not much getting posted, it is becoming emptier and emptier....

What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ?

I never got why conservative got crazy if you specify a pronoun, but at the same time expect you to specify whether its, it’s Mr/Ms/Miss (and often don’t take Dr as an answer), looks like the same question

Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings (world.hey.com)

0.30000000000000004 (feddit.de)

NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals (www.insider.com)

NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals::The New York Police Department paid Voyager Labs more than $8 million in 2018. The company says it uses AI to analyze criminal behavior online.

So, Unity is charging game developers per video game install now... (blog.unity.com)

So today Unity announced changes in how they are going to monetize their game engine, and it is, rightfully might I add, poorly recievedHere is how much youtuber Dani would have to pay unity if they consider his games to gain over $200k in revenue Dani’s hypothetical unity payments...

How long you been on lemmy?

A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply (fortune.com)

Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of meth, U.N. says (www.nbcnews.com)

Giant cabbage already in hand (startrek.website)

What’s the Bare Minimum Number of People for a Mars Habitat? (www.universetoday.com)

A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help...

How to be less racist/bigotred?

So I am a part of the LGBTQ community and work in a big city in middle europe. A lot of my coworkers are religios and have a foreign background. They are mostly very nationalist and homo-/transphobic. I hate them for their blind hate and bigotry, which wont change. I have realised, that I have become a bit bigotred towards...

Airplane crashes during gender reveal party, killing pilot (thehill.com)

Warning: Crash video autoplays in article....

I thought advertisements were supposed to be enticing... (i.imgflip.com)

I forgot Mastodon was on F-Droid, shoulda checked there first

Complimentary mini muffins (sh.itjust.works)

Gaming laptop with good Linux support?

A similar question was raised some day’s ago from a other person, but with different background. In this case, I would like to buy a nice gaming laptop. Of course I would use it for office and coding to, but primary I’m searching recommendations for gaming. I would like to play Wine/Proton game’s and also native Linux...

Finland's Marin, once the world's youngest premier, steps down as party leader (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2185432...

Starfield Review Thread

Game Information...

The end of the Googleverse (www.theverge.com)

Sad Wolverine (feddit.it)

Does anyone else act more 'human' when solving captchas?

Whenever I have to do a captcha where you must select all tiles with bicycles, I know I can just click through super fast, but I feel like that might make the website suspicious, so I purposefully slow down like “Geez, this is a melon-scratcher!” or click and then unclick a tile like “whoops, silly me, thats an umbrella...