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  • No refunds for 15,000 Australian ticket holders after Candace Owens’ tour cancelled

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  • She's an American conservative/fascist, and this was a speaking tour. The Australian government denied her VISA because she had the "capacity to incite discord", so the tour was canceled. But the tour was managed through a shell company that seems to have existed for essentially this exact eventuality: There are no refunds because the company is now bankrupt, and the money was successfully grifted.

  • You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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  • Of course, that's something no AI will ever be able to take away from you

  • You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

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  • You could also just add the udm=14 parameter to your search URL, which defaults to the "Web" tab of the results like so - easy enough to configure this to always be present in Firefox, and helps you avoid googling dozens of slurs a day as a bonus

    https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=hello+world

  • Anon tries watching nu-Trek

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  • Captain Picard was bald

  • YSK how to appeal health insurance denials

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  • I know someone who works for a major insurance company in the US, in the appeals department. I don't know the intimate details of everything about their job, but one thing I always remembered is if you have an expedited appeal (for a medical emergency), and they're requesting documents that you don't send within the 72 hour deadline an expedited appeal has, the denial gets an automatic administrative overturn - the appeal is approved. Presumably for liability reasons, combined with that the company gets fined if an expedited appeal takes over 72 hours to process. Potentially a usable strategy if you have an expedited appeal that's weak enough to have a chance of the denial being upheld in the end, and they're also requesting documents. Probably a pretty rare combination of factors though.

    But I've also been told by them that most denials end up being overturned on appeal in the end. And that they see people appealing denials on a daily basis, where they were denied the absolute stupidest reasons - people who obviously should never have been denied in the first place. Hard to say if this means most denials are bullshit, or if it just means people only bother trying to appeal the most obviously bullshit ones.

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • I read this whole thread thinking I was on /c/TheOnion, not /c/NotTheOnion, and thought the joke just went over your head.

    Wow, it's really not the Onion. What a headline. I gave the article a brief skim and it seems to be sarcasm-free.

  • TIL it's easy to create a National Day. Happy Pigs in a Blanket Day.

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  • This seems scammier than buying real estate in space

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  • Interstellar, not intergalactic

  • What philosophy or movie scene, had a lasting affect on you, changing or giving you a new perspective?

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  • This classic xkcd led me down a long rabbit hole years after reading it that ended in the belief that the universe itself is an abstract instantiation of pure mathematics, and exists only in the sense that any such self-consistent mathematical structure must exist from its own point of view. I won't get into the details here because it'll turn into a long incoherent rant, but the general gist is that the idea in the comic should work - but then that the rocks themselves aren't even necessary: The fact that a universe can exist is enough for it to exist, even if no one ever simulates it. Just like the question "What is the 10^(10^100)th prime number?" exists and has a definite answer, even though nobody will ever and can never calculate it, the answer to "What does a universe, with these initial conditions, and these laws of physics, look like at t = 13.7 billion years?" has an answer too, and it looks like you reading this comment.

  • Apparently, LLMs are so popular among incompetent managers because they have a lot in common. The logical conclusion would be to replace these managers with LLMs instead of laying off experts.

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  • Honestly most of the posts in this community don't really fit the community

  • An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall

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  • Ironically... so did I 🙃 But I hand-verified everything it said, and adjusted the quotes.

  • An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall

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    • “AI should serve as a scaffold for cognitive construction rather than a substitute.”
    • “...the teacher’s role is shifting from knowledge transmission to instructional design and behavioral facilitation… Teachers must develop digital literacy and data fluency while acting as safeguards against over‑automation, ensuring that human judgment and educational values mediate AI adoption.”
    • “...while AI offers efficiency and feedback advantages, traditional teaching remains essential for tasks requiring cultural interpretation, discourse depth, and emotional connection. A blended model—AI for repetitive or procedural tasks and teachers for critical discourse—appears most effective.”

    This study explicitly does not advocate for replacing teachers with AI, and repeatedly cautions against doing so

  • (American) Italian cooking advice sucks

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  • My technique isn't as refined as yours, I just add on a minimum of 2 minutes and hope for the best

    For full disclosure, I don't usually chew noodles, and that may be a big part of my preference here. Also my most common noodles are fettuccine and macaroni, but I do the same with spaghetti.

  • (American) Italian cooking advice sucks

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  • Al dente noodles are also unpleasant. Just cook them a minute or two longer.

  • My employer likes vibe-coding. What do I do?

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  • Our internal slack channels contain more and more AI-written posts, which makes me think: Thank you for throwing this wall of text on me and n other people. Now, n people need to extract the relevant information, so you are able to “save time” not writing the text yourself. Nice!!!

    I think this is one of your best bets as far as getting a real policy change. Bring it up, mention that posts like that may take less time to "write", but that they're almost always obnoxiously verbose, contain paragraphs that say essentially nothing, and take far longer to read than a hand-typed message would. The argument that one person is saving time at the expense of dozens (?) of people losing time may carry a lot of weight, especially if these bosses are in and read the same Slack channel.

    Past that I'd just let things go as they are, and take every opportunity to point out when AI made a problem, or made a problem more difficult to solve (while downplaying human-created problems).

  • Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article

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  • Their retraction article makes it crystal clear that their reporters are not allowed to use AI output in articles at all, unless it's explicitly for demonstration purposes. That rule was broken. They took appropriate action, apologized, and made a commitment to do better.

    I, frankly, believe them - ars is the news outlet I've frequented longer than any other for a reason. I understand if it's going to take more for you to believe them, but it's just one mistake. It's also not clear to me what they could have done in this situation that would have felt like enough to you? Were you hoping for a play-by-play of who entered what into ChatGPT, or a firing or something?

    I'm also not sure I'd consider the saga over. It wouldn't overly surprise me if at some point this week we get a longer article going into more detail about what happened.

  • Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article

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  • I think their response is perfectly reasonable. They took the article down and replaced it with an explanation of why, and posted an extremely visible retraction with open comments on their front page. They even reached out and apologized to the person who had the made-up quote attributed to them.

    There are so many other outlets that would have just quietly taken the original article down without notice, or perhaps even just left it up.

  • Haha that's really cool, funny number man

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  • My take on their comment was that they know this but consider it their 'religion' anyways because they don't understand the process and so, in the absence of true understanding, take it on faith alone that the process actually works out

    But the evidence is all around us even if you don't understand the processes themselves: Science built us a moon landing, religion built us the dark ages

  • Both Beautiful and Terrible at the Same Time

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  • While the downturn went from gradual to rapid when ChatGPT released in late 2022, it looks like they'd been on a steady / gradually accelerating decline for a few years beforehand - they lost all their gains from 2012-onward before GenAI really became a thing.

    Anyone know why? What was killing StackOverflow slowly before GenAI killed it quickly?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs?

  • linux4noobs @programming.dev
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    Why is pynput typing incorrect output, but only on Linux?

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Why is pynput typing incorrect output, but only on Linux?

  • Python @programming.dev
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    Why is pynput typing incorrect output, but only on Linux?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What happens when I ignore the cookie preference dialogue on websites?

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK you can use uBlock Origin to block Lemmy posts containing certain words

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What are the practical effects of the recent court ruling nullifying Musk's Tesla pay package?

  • Anki Unofficial @lemmy.world
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    U.S. Presidents

    ankiweb.net /shared/info/201216280
  • No Stupid Questions (Developer Edition) @programming.dev
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    In autohotkey, can you daisy chain together hotstrings from different scripts?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Are there any websites that track upcoming cultural events, with a focus on sports and TV?

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    Can I replace my shower controls?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Are there any recurring charges (or other downsides) that come with having a driver's license but not owning a car or regularly driving?

  • What is this thing? @lemmy.world
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    What is this cat?

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Hollow Knight - 6 Years Later. [Ceave Perspective]

  • science @lemmy.world
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    What’s going on with the reports of a room-temperature superconductor?

    arstechnica.com /science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    So, how many lemmynsfw.com communities have you blocked?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI

    arstechnica.com /information-technology/2023/07/why-ai-detectors-think-the-us-constitution-was-written-by-ai/
  • science @lemmy.world
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    A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb

    arstechnica.com /space/2023/07/a-new-thin-lensed-telescope-design-could-far-surpass-james-webb/
  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Is there a way to format post URLs to be instance-agnostic?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Is there an instance-agnostic way to link specific posts?