The governor should commute her sentence to life in prison. He’s fucked up so many times and still won’t learn. To let the multi-time botching executions prison commissioner resign instead of firing him… coward. I hope the Tennessee voters remove this idiot at their earliest opportunity. Please, please, please prove me wrong and show this is enough to break through the MAGA cult.

Yeah, I wondered that briefly as well. One reason I didn’t bother to elaborate on the problems, if it is an AI image I’m not going to help train it.

There’s a lot more wrong just in the pic than the screw… But that’s what I mean, you can’t trust anything he’s done, it all needs to come out and start over.

Yup, one more in concurrence. Someone who’s used an electric screwdriver and watched ~10min of YouTube videos would be able to avoid many mistakes showing here.

Are Americans the only non-EU nationals that have to go through EES biometrics when traveling into EU/Schengen zone? I’m pretty sure that’s not the case.

Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if many Americans don’t know we’ve been doing this to non-US nationals visiting the US for years via our US-VISIT program.

I’ll take my downvotes now 😞

Jk, I’m on an instance that disables downvotes. Meaning folks have to write coherent comments for me to be aware they think I’m dumb/wrong/eeeeevil.

I could see tinkering with local models being a very satisfying hobby. I’ve always been curious about how accurate they can get on sentiment. E.g., a southern US woman saying “bless your heart” can have implied condescension while other regions it may be more of a straightforward good-faith comment; how and how well does a model get trained on that sort of thing.

Relevant XKCD SMBC

I respectfully disagree and think hobbies are for enjoyment. If someone makes music for personal enjoyment with the help of AI tools, good for them. If another person finds joy in making “real” music without AI assist, good for them too.

Creating a piece of art myself is different than enjoying someone else’s creation. There’s a place for both. Lots of respect for, say, professional musicians. They have natural skills and years of hard work that I don’t and no amount of hobbying will get me close to them. But I still find satisfaction in twiddling around on a piano and writing my own tunes. AI helping people enjoy their hobby more is a good application, IMO.

Contrast that with people using it to “side-hustle” and try to scrape up some easy dollars by flooding the world with passionless slop, that’s a different thing.

All hail The Monad 👑🌈🙌

FYI, only like half take the original or modified (which is what you’ve posted) Hippocratic Oath. The other approx. half take other oaths.

Article in the Academic Medicine journal, " Content Analyses of Oaths Administered at U.S. Medical Schools in 2000"

I just finished Moss’d In Space by Rebecca Thorne. Picked because it had a happy cover and the ebook was available immediately while I waited for another TBR book to be available from my library.

The lightness of the cover carries through the book. There’s dangerous space travel, smugglers, conflicts between alien species, but overall the challenges never seem insurmountable (at least not for more than a couple sentences). It’s light without being pure bubblegum. Even the romance part is light with more of the focus on familial relationship and friendships. Sequel slated for next summer and I have added it to my TBR.

Well that makes a lot more sense, lol. I figured it was an AI-written goof.

AI giant Anthropic has urged the Albanese government to consider giving “conditional approval” for big tech to train its models on Australian copyrighted works under an opt-out model, after conceding it won’t secure a blanket copyright exemption.

Australians gonna be pissed when Albania gets up on their copyright business

Work/life balance. Respect.

All warmer weather states. Interesting. Optimistic me would have hoped for states where bicycles are more feasible year-round would invest more in infrastructure.

Nope

Multiple points of contact. Our parents were friends. Our older brothers were friends. We went to the same school but were in different classes. We had some hobbies in common. I don’t recall when we first met, we were probably 4-7 years old and certainly no unique relationship feelings until many years after that.

Roadkill doesn’t come with a nutrition label

RFK Jr., US Secretary of Health and Human Services (probably a real thing he said)

Joke aside, US gets a ton of produce food from around the world so if we’re having a problem due to quality of soil the food is grown in, other countries are too. The question is frame oddly.

Do you like Flanagan’s other TV shows? We have plenty of adaptations of Hill House, but his is my fave. I don’t even like Stephen King that much but I’ll give this Carrie a go because it is by Flanagan.

Feelings seem to vary quite a lot on him, esp around the character monologues.

I agree with the skepticism, however this one is being reported by real aviation news sites, Aviation Weekly specifically.

The confirmed news is an SR71 that used to be parked outdoors has been moved.

Investigative journalism and some theorizing goes further, I found The Aviationist article saying “according to Trimble’s reporting, NASA also contacted former members of the SR-71 program to determine whether they would be interested to participate in a potential return-to-flight effort.”