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    TIL Meme is a Mesopotamian goddess associated with healing

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  • Totally unrelated though, and just a coincidence. The word meme in the way we use it today was coined by Richard Dawkins in (IIRC) The Extended Phenotype. I presume it's an abbreviation of Mental Gene, or something like that. The idea was that a meme is an idea or concept that can fight for survival amongst other ideas, just as a gene tries to survive being being a good fit to its environment

  • They can only be a good thing!

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  • They are the goodest space dogs

  • German state sued over failing to meet climate targets | dpa international

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  • One reason I'd like to see Germany held to account is their long-term efforts to push the interests of their car industry, even as it filled the world with overly polluting (and, recently, increasingly over-sized) vehicles

  • What's the worst case of enshitification you've seen lately?

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  • I recently used just some smoked paprika for the same job. It was much nicer than the OEP spice mixture, and a lot cheaper

  • Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down

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  • The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you've got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can't see a version of computer "intelligence" that's any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn't going to be general - it's going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths... And at that point you've not got some special interesting AGI - you've just reinvented the idea of apps

  • Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down

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  • If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn't "general". Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

  • "The Universal Law of Cities" by NJB

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  • I can't remember who said it, but somebody once framed this as "You can make a place easy to drive around or you can make it worth visiting, but you can't do both"

  • What game do you (or did you used to) play on car rides?

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  • I loved this game! I'll never forget the time I came back from certain defeat when we suddenly passed a pub in northern England called something like "The Batley Marching Band"

  • Where does technology come from in Star Wars?

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  • A few years ago I'd have jokes about data ports being the same fitting as power sockets, but USB-C has ruined that

  • Piss off!

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  • I'm guessing there were three authors on this study, based on the "human" dots

  • What keyboard do people find useful these days?

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  • Oh, this looks good! Thanks

  • Has the use of a comma instead of the word "and" in English news headlines always been a thing?

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  • It's a very American style thing. UK English media don't do this, and it always feels strange when I see it in US media

  • Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?

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  • Thing is, a lot of these aren't that bad? Making an oxygen mask feels really different to just setting fire to the fossil fuel to shift a 3-ton vanity pickup truck half a mile to Starbucks. And lots of the others can readily be replaced. Clothes, for example: rayon from bamboo can replace a lot of polyester and nylon

  • Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York

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  • Every metric? What about the poor shareholders in oil companies? Have you no empathy for them at all, you monster?

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    Which are your favourite/most worthwhile British charities?

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  • A small local one. The big ones do great work, of course, but another £1000 doesn't change things much for them, whereas £1000 would make a tangible difference for a small charity

  • Newsmax guest calls bike lanes "communist garbage"

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  • Newsmax guest calls bike lanes "communist garbage"

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  • Nothing more capitalist than expecting vast amounts of free infrastructure from the government

  • Do you know the answer?

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  • That's whatever browser or app you're using. It rendered as (c) for me... Bracket, c, bracket

  • Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’

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  • Premeditated littering as well