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The data is already being (ab)used in the UK. https://humanists.uk/2025/06/04/police-access-to-period-apps...

Most entertainment industries have very strong union presence.

I'm fairly certain there would be no Classic WoW without private servers to show Blizzard there was a demand. They seemed embarrassed about the entire concept.

Same with emulation, really; had that not been developed, I doubt Nintendo would care about their back catalogue.

The problem with having a public trust score is that it'll be gamed by bad actors A/B testing their bots surely.

In a world where this is useful, you aren't going to be spending your precious battery on running an LLM...

Horrific. Completely ruins the art direction.

Frankly the other cofounders are just as bad as Thiel but don't draw the headlines quite as much.

"Yesterday, Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale agreed with an X post suggesting communists in the Western hemisphere should be blown up. “Exactly,” he wrote. “What did you think founding Palantir was supposed to be about?”" - https://responsiblestatecraft.org/defense-companies-maduro/

"“We support warfare and we are proud of it,” Karp stated bluntly during the conversation with German media outlet Heise.de." - https://zetbit.tech/news/209/pentagon-backing-palantir-ceo-k...

"In a CNBC interview Thursday, Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp opined that AI will undermine the influence of “highly educated, often female voters” and empower working class men instead. And anyone who doesn’t realize this political reality, he added, belongs in an “insane asylum.”" - https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceo-palantir-ai...

AI is the final season of embrace, extend, extinguish. It's why Microsoft are so enthusiastic about it.

Americans can delete Italy.

Boy, Americans really do have an overinflated sense of their power.

So their "fix" was to have an artist do a quick paint-over to remove the most egregious artifacts. Is that... actually any better? Just hire artists to make the damn paintings in the first place.

Steam is a service that's been running for >20 years and somehow hasn't been enshittified (although, I suppose when it first appeared it was seen as enshittification). It's worth celebrating, to be honest.

I'll counter your cherrypick with my own:

Dr. Olivia Guest, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Dr. Abeba Birhane, Assistant Professor of AI

Prof. Iris van Rooij, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett, Director of Computer Science Dept., Professor of Computer Science (AI, Software Engineering)

Dr. Alex Hanna, Director of Research, DAIR

Roel Dobbe, Assistant Professor of Public Interest AI and Algorithmic Systems

Dr. Mark Blokpoel, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science

Dr. Dan McQuillan, Senior Lecturer in Critical AI

Dr. Ronald de Haan, Assistant professor of Artificial Intelligence

Joost Vossers, PhD Candidate on Artificial Intelligence

Dr Esther Mondragón, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

Prof Eduardo Alonso, Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Andrea E. Martin, Research Group Leader, Language and Computation in Neural System

Dr. ir. Gabriel Bucur, Assistant Professor in Statistical Machine Learning and Explainable AI for Health

Prof. M. Dingemanse, Professor of Language and Communication & cofounder, EU Open Source AI Index

All of these people definitely stand to very much directly benefit from AI hype.

I'm sorry, what? If you're a voting member, then yes I //do// expect you to read all the candidate statements. That's the least you can do to be actually informed about your decision. The laziness on display - even being bragged about here - is astonishing. If you don't have the time to be informed about your decision, then there's always the other option - not voting.

I just want to buy a product and not have it constantly upsell me. Like what Affinity was before. Please.

They are a porn company now, after all.

This would destroy the goodwill that they've built up as a public good. People generally don't mind you archiving their content, but if you're selling access to that data, they aren't going to stand for it.

I recently read the book "Invisible Friends," and in it, among other things, the author does go on to explain that it's theorised that many skin infections come from a lack of biodiversity in a persons' skin microbiome, because the "good" or neutral microbes compete with the "bad" for resources. Supposedly people who share a house together often have similar gut microbiomes, too.

So yeah, I don't know. I think you have a point here.

Even $5k/year seems insane to me for hosting what is essentially an IRC channel...

Humanoid robots are probably never coming. The fact is - flesh and blood humans pay for their own upkeep. Wear-and-tear, particularly on a heavy lifting robot, would probably be their biggest cost and might always outweigh the cost savings.

Context for non-UK readers: the HMRC is the UK government's tax collection branch, roughly equivalent to the IRS in the USA.

Unlabelled graphs are infuriating. Are the charts average framerate? Mean framerate? Maximum framerate?

Awful that this is even required but here it is: https://nitter.poast.org/rainbowpikmin/status/18429670878092...

You would think so, but take a look at Lost Media Wiki - https://lostmediawiki.com/Category:Lost_TV

Lot of stuff from 90s-2010s in there.