Catoblepas

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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

A coalition of 16 states

Names none of them, forcing me to open the pdf myself. Sigh.

The states are:

Massachusetts; California; New York; Connecticut; Illinois; Delaware; Hawai‘i; Maine; Maryland; Michigan; Nevada; New Jersey; New Mexico; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; Wisconsin

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 52 points 1 day ago (14 children)

All kinds of weird shit you’d think would be vegan aren’t… like some brands of white sugar (bone char) and some beers (isinglass [fish swim bladders]). And there’s always our good friend with a million names, cochineal/carmine/crimson lake/natural red 4/E120, aka bugs that make your food red.

It’s totally avoidable if you don’t use it, but I think the onus is mostly on the companies for advertising these chat bots as like, a friendly personal assistant when that’s absolutely not what they are. Like all “AI” shit, it runs mostly on consumer deception.

Had to look up what a fairy chimney was because I’d never heard the term, that sounds so cool!

Fucking lol at complaining about Republicans taking money from Democrats while suggesting the solution is to remove constitutional rights from everyone, no matter how they voted if they live in the wrong place.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LLMs generate theses kind of graph by writing a python program that plot a real dataset.

Assuming it even correctly does that. And why is that even necessary? People were able to make graphs before AI. It isn’t hard to do, and the piddling amount of data on display hardly needs a custom python program to plot it.

that's also the nature of humans.

Thoughts are more than statistical associations, and anyone telling you that you can make a humanlike consciousness through a glorified autocorrect is a scam artist.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Probably knowing that the nature of LLMs is to generate output based on statistical associations, and that they don’t have the ability to look at data and understand it.

It’s also so fucking lazy to do that and then turn around and beg for people to pay you for it.

That sounds really nice! It often costs hundreds of dollars to get your name changed in the US, and if you don’t do that then it can’t be on any of your ID documents. It’s a huge pain and barrier to a lot of people.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People don’t need to file paperwork to change their name? They just start using a new one on legal documents?

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The heat/cold retention on that must be fantastic.

I love lettuce and cabbage in salad!

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting exception: in North America around the Great Lakes, pure native copper was widely available at the surface due to the ice sheets exposing underground deposits when they advanced/retreated.

 

Building on the popularity of the seasonal $15 Summer Day Pass promotion, first introduced in 2022, Metrolink will now offer a year-round $15 weekday fare option, called the SoCal Day Pass, which provides unlimited rides on the day of purchase. On Saturdays and Sundays, the price of the SoCal Day Pass will drop to $10 to match the current weekend rate. Up to three kids ages 17 and under will continue to ride free with a fare-paying adult on weekends.

Metrolink is also introducing a new $5 L.A. Zone Day Pass, available seven days a week, that is good for unlimited single-day travel between eight select stations in and around Downtown Los Angeles, including LA Union Station, Cal State LA, Commerce, Montebello/Commerce, Glendale, Burbank-Downtown and both stations serving the Hollywood Burbank Airport.

I hope these new fares stick, I’m definitely going to be taking advantage and going some places I haven’t been before because the train ticket price felt too much for what was essentially a whim.

 

When we got to the top of the cemetery, we stopped there and they took off their vests because that's where they have the camera," he said. "Then they pulled me out of the car and kicked me."

Reyes says that after repeatedly asking them to check his wallet, one of the officers finally did so. They realized he did, in fact, have his green card, but questioned whether it was real.

"'I don't know, maybe it's fake' … The other guy says, 'No, it's real' … That's when they finally stopped," he said. "They were planning to keep hitting me because they didn't have good intentions. They took me to a cemetery."

Even so, the threats continued.

"Do you think you're a big shot just because you have a green card? I'll make sure they revoke that green card of yours," Reyes said, recalling what agents told him. "'I'm going to do everything I can to get this paper revoked,' an immigration officer told me."

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