There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case.
Dinosaurs were around before Saturn had rings.
Saturn’s rings are around 150 mio. years old.
"This generation is finished" --previous generation
Most stuff you touch was super hot while being made
We don't need bluelight filtere
Why we actually need bluelight filters in lens, monitors and phones? Led bulbs are already emitting a hell lot brighter bluelight every day and night. Whats the point in buying these less blue marketed gadgets
The fact that we aren’t aware of every process in our body means our brains aren’t fully connected with our bodies.
New physical cosmological model
With a mechanism that continually creates matter in the universe we don’t need a big bang. Creation of matter and gravity fields, (net zero) could somehow increase the expansion of the universe. 3d interference pattern of gravitational waves would create rogue waves at specific points in SpaceTime that would create matter and...
Once we can get brain-device-interfaces implanted into us in order to sort of link our brains with a computer/phone, we probably won't get that information as pictures appearing in front of our eyes.
The information would probably be delivered raw into our minds. We’d just know what time it is, what the weather will be, who’s calling us and what the news are saying, without having to process the information.
Now that AI generated text is mostly indistinguishable from human text, AI may start influencing the evolution of our language.
Given that language is an important lens through which we see the world, AI could subtly alter our perceptions and beliefs over the coming years, decades, and centuries.
Everything on Lemmy is "NSFW" unless your work is to be on Lemmy.
What is DNC is working with RNC
What if we find out one day, it was all an organized game, to screw over the citizens?
Would Sentinel Island still be untouched in the Star Trek Universe?
If you haven’t heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores....
Why doesn’t Paddington, who is famously from "Darkest Peru," speak with a Spanish speaker’s accent?
Or is he from one of those indigenous Peruvian tribes that speaks the King’s English?...
The old primary argument against panpsychism has now become the primary argument for it
Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn’t what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, “So, rocks are conscious?” This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism....
showerthoughts is just a place for people who don't have microblogging social media to dump their random thoughts
Discord would have made a better name for a decentralized network and Matrix would have been better for a private company.
Youtube is the new MTV.
Michelle Rodriguez Applies the Unix Philosophy to Acting
The short version of the Unix philosophy is basically, “Do one thing, and do it well”....
If there was more than one Illinois, would they be called Illinoises or Illinoi?
Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a word in English that ends with “is” while being singular, only plurals and uncountables come to mind, so I can’t really follow the examples of other words. What makes it even weirder, I’m not sure how to pronounce Illinoises… Would it be as written, or as if an Illinois was...
Alexa should react to short, weird sounds like glottal stops
I think it’s silly to speak in full sentences to home assistants, when I really just use 5 commands most of the time....
We're probably pretty fortunate that humans have at least some degree of self control over when we stop eating.
Like, I just was thinking about how lots of pet species will just eat as much food as you give them to the point of making themselves sick, and keeping them at a healthy weight requires not giving them access to too much food. Obviously some humans have problems with this, but imagine how bad things would be if everyone were...
in the future a voice actor will probably be a person who provides a library of voice clips to train an AI on
People will forget what the covid signs looked like
Now that all of the mask required and social distancing signs are pretty much gone there will be little record of that aspect of the pandemic....