Derek Chauvin would also like a word.

The problem with Universe is that they were trying for the Battlestar Galactica audience, thereby alienating a bunch of the SG/SG1/SGA audience.

Have you forgotten Infinity already?

I’m afraid that that information has had to be [redacted]. Choose another path.

Oh, they’re being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling “gold” (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can’t give is the old-style reddit “gold” (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.

I like the idea, but there doesn’t seem a way for a pod to temporarily move into the other track, which raises questions. Like, how do they handle rebalancing the pods? Ideally, you want a free one at each station for the next person who comes along, but if you come into a station with pods already there, do you have to get out and move to the first pod? Or when you leave your station, do all the pods on the line automatically move one station up the line, making a new pod available for the next person and leaving you a smooth trip to your destination (but limiting energy savings)? Do the pods have to cycle all the way to the end of the line to turn around (again, energy inefficient if most of the traffic is between a lesser number of stations)?

I like the idea, I really do! I’m just curious how they handle balancing availability and traffic.

Clever human!

Look up Michael Townsend, he created a hidden apartment inside a shopping mall. Nocturne episode.

For years, the site had a standing policy that prevented the use of generative AI in writing or rewording any questions or answers posted. Moderators were allowed and encouraged to use AI-detection software when reviewing posts. Beginning last week, however, the company began a rapid about-face in its public policy towards AI.

I listened to an episode of The Daily on AI, and the stuff they fed into to engines included the entire Internet. They literally ran out of things to feed it. That’s why YouTube created their auto-generated subtitles - literally, so that they would have more material to feed into their LLMs. I fully expect reddit to be bought out/merged within the next six months or so. They are desperate for more material to feed the machine. Everything is going to end up going to an LLM somewhere.

I thought you were supposed to aim rubber bullets at the ground, so the force would partially dissipate. There are cops shooting straight out from hip level, which I guess isn’t horrible, but the people shooting straight out from eye level are officially violating a bunch of regulations.

Even during the height of the pandemic, a friend of mine found a ‘reason’ that they had to be in the office one day each week (usually Friday, because almost no one else was there on Fridays). Their reasoning was, “If I can do my job entirely from the comfort of my own living room, there’s nothing that would prevent the company from hiring someone to do my job from the comfort of their own living room, in India or the Philippines.”

They’re not “getting revenge” for him leaving California, they’ve stopped buying cars of dubious quality from an immature, arrogant, and very literal white nationalist.

It’s called “Ulterior Motives” and was made by Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth. It appears in the 1986 adult film Angels of Passion. […] “two angels are sent back to Earth to provide some sexual satisfaction to the mortal humans”.

The news even made it to Christopher Booth, who’s been working as a composer, director, and producer for years, mostly on horror flicks and TV series. “Well today, my mind has officially been blown:) WOW,” he wrote on Instagram.

some kind soul has uploaded a heavily censored, safe-for-work version of Angels of Passion to YouTube.

Link to song.

It’s UniLad, what were you expecting?

Since the width of the lines is supposed to represent the number of people brought over, I was trying to figure out why the line to North America got thinner - were the authors trying to minimize traffic to North America? And then I realized that it got thinner because so many people died on the journey over.

"We are currently experiencing higher than normal call volume. Your call is very important to us. Please continue to hold … "

Yay!!!

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2922:_Pub_Trivia

“One of the things we’ve realized is once a piece of media exists, even if it is disclosed [that it’s AI generated], it can then be lifted out of any documentary, make its way onto the internet and into other films, and then it’s forever part of the historic record […] If it’s being represented as this is a picture of this person, then that’s what’s going into the historic record,” she added. “And it’s very hard to pull that back.”

It’s about twice the size of New Jersey …