*sell it to everyone

I’d rate IGN a 7/10. It has a little bit of something for everyone.

Source: Valve Was Forced To Censor Games, Now They’ve Outed Mastercard [YouTube]

It’s not the BBC’s job to be an authority. Their job is to report what the (relevant) authorities are saying:

DeepSeek challenged certain key assumptions about AI that had been championed by American executives like Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

“We were on a path where bigger was considered better,” according to Sid Sheth, CEO of AI chip startup d-Matrix.

Perhaps maxing out on data centres, servers, chips, and the electricity to run it all wasn’t the way forward after all.

Despite DeepSeek ostensibly not having access to the most powerful tech available at the time, Sheth told the BBC that it showed that “with smarter engineering, you actually can build a capable model”.

That said, seems suspect that an AI startup CEO is getting this much airtime. I would have preferred an industry analyst or an AI researcher.

It was fun(?) and interesting for a few minutes. If that was my full time job, I’d better be getting paid decently for it.

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Rather than In addition to this, they should leak all the websites that MPs are visiting.

If it’s anything like the United States, we’re sure to find some embarrassing search histories (at the very least).

No privacy for me. No privacy for you.

Waiting for the “our database got deleted, but I still love AI” post any day now.

As if kids won’t suss that out in two heartbeats.

“Can”? Were they physically unable to before?

Not every Friday:

Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:

• September 5th
• October 3rd
• December 5th

I don’t even know who Kevin Kelly is. Is he not normally a shill for the CCP?

What’s more, they talk up how it’s open source and then don’t link to the repo.

Here it is, BTW:

https://github.com/protonpass/android-authenticator

❌ Shame people for consensual kinks.

✅ Shame people for non-consensual kinks.

why would it be natural that this should trigger a refund

If someone pays me for a service and then dies before receiving that service, it may not be legally required, but it would be natural to return that money to the account it came from, so it can be distributed via their will or whatever.

Because unless they transported his corpse after he died the plane, they didn’t provide the service they were paid for.

!birdsarentreal@lemmy.world

That bird is Lovecraftian horror-level terrifying.

It’s one of those things I don’t notice until I make a trip back to Reddit to pick up something I left (moving out takes time).

At least once per visit I end up clicking an ad by accident, because they’re everywhere.

Non-paywall: archive.ph

An electorate that has lost the capacity for long-form thought will be more tribal, less rational, largely uninterested in facts or even matters of historical record, moved more by vibes than cogent argument and open to fantastical ideas and bizarre conspiracy theories. If that sounds familiar, it may be a sign of how far down this path the West has already traveled.

For canny operators, such a public affords new opportunities for corruption. Oligarchs attempting to shape policy to their advantage will benefit from the fact that few will have the attention span to track or challenge policies in dull, technical fields; what a majority now wants is not forensic investigation but a new video short “owning” the other tribe. We can expect the governing class to adapt pragmatically to the electorate’s collective decline in rational capacity, for example, by retaining the rituals associated with mass democracy, while quietly shifting key policy areas beyond the reach of a capricious and easily manipulated citizenry. I do not celebrate this, but our net-native youth seem unfazed: International polls show waning support for democracy among Gen Z.

Lest you mistake me, there is no reason the opportunity to sideline the electorate or to arbitrage the gap between vibes and policy should especially favor either the red team or the blue team. This post-literate world favors demagogues skilled at code-switching between the elite language of policy and the populist one of meme-slop. It favors oligarchs with good social media game and those with more self-assurance than integrity. It does not favor those with little money, little political power and no one to speak up for them.

Can’t even cry in front of the blender anymore.

At least the air fryer is still safe.