What is the most unnecessarily excessive thing you have ever done to accomplish something?
Famous example... a man spent $44b to push his memes.
Stupid sexy Socrates (startrek.website)
Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army (interestingengineering.com)
Japanese ministers eat Fukushima fish to show it's safe after nuclear plant wastewater is discharged (apnews.com)
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers ate Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting Wednesday, in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that began last week....
Apple to Buy TSMC's Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023 (www.macrumors.com)
Apple to Buy TSMC’s Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023::Apple will receive all of TSMC’s first-generation 3-nanometer process chips this year for upcoming iPhones, Macs, and iPads, according to…
Internet (lemmy.world)
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead in plane crash (scrippsnews.com)
It's all made up (lemmy.world)
Khajiit has wares...if you have coin. (lemmy.world)
blep (mander.xyz)
It’s too warm and we both do our best to cope.
Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)
Not everything should be connected to the Internet (www.theverge.com)
This is a good example, why not all devices should be connected to foreign servers. Errors can happen everywhere. But it could end badly, if some Corporations make errors and creating trouble, which would otherwise not happen....
A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: 'It was all a lie.' (www.businessinsider.com)
A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: ‘It was all a lie.’::The lawsuit alleged Salesforce retaliated against the executive after raising concerns about the product claims.
Now I am become purple. Destroyer of souls. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Florida officials tell state schools to teach AP Psychology 'in its entirety' (abcnews.go.com)
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. has instructed Florida school officials to teach College Board’s AP Psychology course “in its entirety,” according to a letter obtained by ABC News from the state Department of Education.
*LLMs and AI art stepping over the corpse of NFTs* (i.imgur.com)
Imagine thinking this is acceptable on public transportation. (lemmy.world)
Original (i.imgur.com)
‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the...
Texas troopers told to push back migrants into Rio Grande River and ordered not to give water amid soaring temperatures, report says (www.cnn.com)
Emails shared with CNN by the Texas Department of Public Safety detail a trooper-medic expressing concerns to a supervisor over the inhumane treatment of migrants along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Sleepy teefies (lemmy.world)
$4 Lunch (lemmy.world)
[NEWS] Important update about the campaign against browser-levelcensorship in France (SREN bill) (imgur.com)
This was sent out by Mozilla today via email, fighting the recent SREN bill proposed by France ✊...