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  • Because if there's anything a link aggregator needs, it's MORE reasons for people to not read linked articles! Will they also add AI responses? That way users wouldn't need to bother with reading OR writing!

  • Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed

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  • I've enjoyed the last Tiny Tina one actually, except the atrocious DLC, but hated the dialogue in 3 too.

  • Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads

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  • Hahaha, great point :) HELLO FELLOW HUMAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD AN AUTHENTIC, TRUSTED AND ENGAGED RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THAT IS TOTALLY NOT A ROBOT? :D

  • Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads

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  • Quotes from the original announcement:

    Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.

    Bwahaha, "most human"? Really? Wow.

    A scalable, AI-powered social listening tool designed to unlock strategic value

    Barf. Oh boy, "social listening tool" - that's a new one...

    These are tools for a new era of community marketing, one where brands can tap into Reddit’s authenticity

    Yup, because nothing says "authenticity" like artificially realigned messages interspersed with AI slop ads. Such real, much authentic, wow...

  • Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed

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  • Guess I'm not a REAL Borderlands fan, since I'm still not going to "make it happen" at this price, and even if I do eventually buy it (and that's an if - I'll carefully read multiple reviews and watch a couple of streams before I decide) it's going to be for max half that. Tough shit, eh Randy?

  • Teachers Are Not OK: AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

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  • Great point. Somewhere along the way we started teaching facts and formulas instead of showing kids that learning is fun and encouraging them to do it on their own because they enjoy it and not because they have to...

    Sigh, imagine an education system like that, instead of the current pipeline for creating obedient drones, holy crap...

  • Teachers Are Not OK: AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

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  • Homework definitely is an issue, and a big one. I don't find it useful at all, and sometimes it can actually be detrimental, because until it's checked it can reinforce errors and make them more difficult to correct later... I'm not a teacher, but from a layperson's perspective I would be totally fine with zero homework. People need some downtime to relax, and kids are people too (or so I'm told), so they should have time to rest, play games or do whatever after school...

  • Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

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  • Wouldn't be surprised, since "no" as a full sentence does not exist in tech or online anymore - it's always "yes" or "maybe later/not now/remind me next time" or other crap like that...

  • Teachers Are Not OK: AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

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  • I think the whole issue is much deeper, and stems from the fact that we (as in humanity, not any particular country) have perverted the very reason and purpose of education (assuming it ever was clear and uncorrupted, but that's another story).

    Overwhelming majority of students don't learn because they want to. They don't want to become well read and spoken, they don't want to be able to answer questions without having to check on their phones, and so on and so forth. They "learn" because they have to. Because if there aren't enough check marks next to their name in an Excel spreadsheet somewhere, they're going to get in trouble. And that's why, if there's an easier way to get those check marks, of course they're going to use it!

    Why spend days or weeks reading a long book if I can read an AI summary in 5 minutes and put a checkmark in the "read a book" column? Why spend time on writing an essay, if I can have ChatGPT do it and get a checkmark in the "essay" column?

    I don't have a solution to this problem by the way, because I used to be a nerdy kid that actually enjoyed learning and craved more of it, but the real problem is not AI or LLMs, it's the whole approach to education (and to work afterwards: see the "oh shit, only a month until HR eval, what the hell were my personal goals that I made up at the beginning of the quarter?" situation so many of us face...)

  • US military can temporarily detain protesters in Los Angeles, commander says

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  • In the laaaaaaaaaaand of the freeeeeeee... sing along US friends, you know the words!

  • Sweden: Citizens bear responsibility for travelling to Gaza after warnings

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  • "She went to a bar wearing THAT?! That's like really asking for it then, totally her fault, what was she expecting?"

  • What is “cheese” called in your language?

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  • Ser (in Polish.Pronounced similarly to "sir" in"yes sir")

  • Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia

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  • Et tu, Wikipedia?

    My god, why does every damn piece of text suddenly need to be summarized by AI? It's completely insane to me. I want to read articles, not their summaries in 3 bullet points. I want to read books, not cliff notes, I want to read what people write to me in their emails instead of AI slop. Not everything needs to be a fucking summary!

    It seriously feels like the whole damn world is going crazy, which means it's probably me... :(

  • Paranoid Kash Patel polygraphs FBI agents in MAGA purge

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  • Polygraphs have wires and knobs though, so that makes them scientific, high-tech and modern - otherwise the only way to do their witch hubt would be dunking agents in a pond or stripping them naked and looking for satan's birthmarks...

  • Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates.

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  • Amen to that - way too many people forget that interviews are a two way street. You interview me, sure, but at the same time I am also interviewing you to see if the company is a good fit for me. Job seekers are not (or should not be) a bunch of starving orphans begging rich for job owners for scraps. Having a job means providing a service and being compensated for it, not total servitude...

  • Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates.

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  • I would have to be MUCH more desperate than I am to ever accept being interviewed by a damn machine... It's even worse than those "record yourself answering these questions" bullshit. Nobody should work for a company that does not even respect them enough to talk to them

  • What's your hyperfixation song?

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  • This one, and I'm not even joking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-6X4JhMpc

    The rhythm and that progression towards the end are just so damn captivating to me. I wish so much it was a full song instead of a silly short riff...

  • White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts.

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  • Yet again, republican ghouls working hard to increase the amount of suffering in the world as if they feed on it... Fucking hell, they don't even hide it anymore, they brazenly brag about it now...

  • Kristi Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as Trump’s Right to Deport People

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  • Simple mistake, she was thinking about habeas ignoramus.

    Ehh, I joke, but it really isn't even funny anymore, is it?

  • 70% of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division lawyers are leaving because of Trump's reshaping

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  • Yet another mission accomplished for Trump and his administration then... I genuinely wonder if 100 years will be enough to fix everything they fucked up - probably not.

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    It's been a while since I went to a cactus/succulent event, so of course I couldn't come back home empty handed :)

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    Some new cute succs my wife bought

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    SOLVED

    How to remove this icon from the status bar? Xperia 1 VI, Android 14

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    Another cactus/succulent event, and I bought too many again :)

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    Another cactus/succulent event, and I bought too many again :)

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    Update on one of the grafted bois

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    Haven't posted in a while, so here are a couple of random unedited and edited photos of my cacti, since I'm trying to teach myself how to properly use my new phone camera

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    More of my cacti started blooming!

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    Some of my Gymnocalycium cacti started blooming

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    Some of my Gymnocalycium cacti started blooming

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    Progress report: grafted bois growing big and strong!

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    Progress report: grafted bois growing big and strong!

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    I've been asked to share my messy and disorganized collection, so here it is - feel free to point and laugh ;)

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    Went to Tokyo Cactus and Succulent Grand Bazaar today and didn't come home empty handed ;)

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    Went to Tokyo Cactus and Succulent Grand Bazaar today and didn't come home empty handed ;)

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    Today's haul from one of the biggest cactus farms in Japan

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    Today's haul from one of the biggest cactus farms in Japan

  • cactus @sh.itjust.works
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    New succulents - May 2024

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    New succulents - May 2024

  • Succulents @midwest.social
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    Three Musketeers