The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient (www.wired.com)
The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient::Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.
The holy trinity of DS9 (startrek.website)
What's the coolest thing you've found in a thrift store?
Or just second hand in general
Why don’t we use radiators as heat sinks in the summer and pump cold water through them?
‘A cocktail of ignorance and a big ego’: A Ukrainian war official has slammed Elon Musk after he disrupted a stealth operation by cutting off Starlink (fortune.com)
Thousands of migrant children test NYC schools system (www.bbc.com)
Since April 2022, 110,000 migrants have come to New York, with 10,000 arriving a month, largely bused here to the Port Authority terminal by conservative leaders from border states like Texas, in a political dispute about border security....
Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech (www.wired.com)
Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech::Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office. Nearly half the app’s workers refused and have been laid off.
Selfhosted private/secure blog/journal
I am looking for self hosted blog/journal that is private by default. Not looking to host a public blog, rather something that I can write more personal entries on and is easy to read later. I want to be able to include multimedia in the entries....
UAW strike would show Biden, other leaders that it's time to 'pick a side,' union boss says (www.cnbc.com)
Trump is liable in the second E. Jean Carroll defamation case, judge rules; January trial will determine damages (www.cnn.com)
A federal judge ruled that the jury hearing E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit will only need to decide how much money Donald Trump will have to pay her, after the judge found the former president was liable for making defamatory statements....
Reduce carbon emissions (lemmy.world)
Cuba uncovers network trafficking Cubans to fight for Russia in Ukraine (www.aljazeera.com)
Cuba says it has no part in war in Ukraine and would ‘act vigorously’ against those trafficking Cubans as fighters....
Google Now was the better phone assistant, no AI or LLMs needed (9to5google.com)
Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell in hospice care, representative says (www.cbsnews.com)
Former Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell is receiving hospice care treatment at home, a representative confirmed to CBS News Sunday....
I don't understand the whole Twitter/Mastodon social media format
I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts....
Peak mankind (lemmy.ml)
Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army (interestingengineering.com)
Topics for a Linux intro course
Hello fellow Linux Lemmings!...
Hot take: Users without a profile pick are mildlyinfuriating (upload.wikimedia.org)
For real. I can never understand why some of ye don’t have a cool pfp. You could even get some cool background art on your profile as well. Really jazz it up, ya know. But I swear 90% instead opt for the default lemmy logo. How uncreative and boring. I can’t even tell most of you people apart.
iFixit tears down a McDonald’s ice cream machine, demands DMCA exemption for it (arstechnica.com)
McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map McBroken and found that 34 percent of the machines in the state of New York were reported inoperable. As I write this, the...
Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser 'due to some external concerns' (thegrayzone.com)
The Grayzone raises over $90,000 for 3 independent journalists....
Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis (www.cnn.com)
Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region....
What's the best way to rip music off Spotify so that I can store it on my HDD?
As per title. New releases especially are quite hard to find on other clients or p2p resources; what’s the best way to get them from the source so that I can share them back?