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Scientists trained a lump of goo to play Pong
  • "...scientists are confident it could improve if we teach it to feel pain."

    There's a sci-fi horror movie begging to be made out of this. Add in some self-replicating nanotech to perform monitoring, maintenance and command/control functions but due to some technobabble during the inciting incident, it starts "gray goo"-ing the facility into more growth media and food. The good news is that we taught it to feel pain, bad news is now it intends to return the favor.

  • Words truly matter
  • I want to believe that the kids mentioned in posts like this are playing along with their parents' delusions so they don't have to sit through another lecture about how the Federal Reserve is a Ponzi scheme and they're chemtrailing us with fluoride.

  • Teacher says contract wasn't renewed because he wouldn't use trans students' preferred names
  • Good, fuck off. He can find a new job where he's not expected to treat his fellow humans with the respect they deserve. Being wrong about the nature of reality doesn't grant the right to be an asshole even if they sincerely believe that it should.

  • If "AI" doesn't attract customers why are companies hyping it so hard? Are they just dumb or is there another factor?
  • Suits heard about this secret sauce called AI that can cut down on the need for those pesky humans that are always looking for handouts and luxuries like a living wage and benefits. The consumer will have to accept it when the only choices they're offered are varying flavors of the same shit.

  • A watched pot never boils

    I was in the middle of something in another room and it occurred to me that this familiar expression could be adapted for ADHD: A watched pot never catches fire. Good reminder to exercise a little extra caution in the everyday tasks that get boring but are still dangerous if you get complacent. Driving, cooking, poking around in a running computer with screwdriver even though you know you should shut it off, that sort of thing.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I should get back to cooking breakfast before the "food is done" alarms start going off throughout the building.

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    New salvage operation underway

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3494377

    > Took a while to get here, any ideas for what to do with it?

    [Edit: Image broke so I've hosted it elsewhere.]

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    New salvage operation underway

    Took a while to get here, any ideas for what to do with it?

    [Edit: Image broke so I've hosted it elsewhere.]

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    [Resolved] Spam user/communities: @soraya, !free, !woman

    User @soraya@lemmy.world (Soraya Pepe) is advertising a forum service as well as a booking site where you can order donuts* that they'll deliver to your hotel room. They are using bit.ly links to obscure links to their forum topics in community sidebars as well. These communities are !free@lemmy.world and !woman@lemmy.world.

    Donuts*

    Probably not donuts.

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    User flooding instance with (mostly) empty communities

    @comcreator@lemmy.world has created 80+ communities here, most of which are empty save for a "Looking for moderators" post. Some have 0-3 posts which are nearly all from the creator and a couple have some regular user activity.

    I recognize that this may not be against the rules as long as it's not simply for the purpose of squatting on a name but is worth observing for future developments. It does not appear that this user intends to actively moderate since they're looking to hand those communities off as soon as they're created.

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    [Resolved] Advertiser account/community

    https://lemmy.world/u/HeGetsUs_ad / https://lemmy.world/c/hegetsus

    "He Gets Us" advertising campaign setting up on this instance.

    Edit: And it's gone. Thanks!

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    What's this guy's deal again?

    The image was in one of my old document folders alongside some saved image macros and things. Think he was called Candleman, Candlejack, Candlestick, something like that. I just don't remem-

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    betterdeadthanreddit @lemmy.world

    An early bird in the hand gets the low hanging fruit in the bush.

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