The US Air Force tested an AI enabled drone that was tasked to destroy specific targets. A human operator had the power to override the drone—and so the drone decided that the human operator was an obstacle to its mission—and attacked him.
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A 28-year-old German student is standing trial in Dresden accused of founding a criminal organization and committing six serious attacks on neo-Nazis, in an unusual case of violent left-wing extremism in Germany.
https://trib.al/6QmcRbA
I haven't thought out whether to go full vegetarian, pescatarian, or simply low-meat yet. But it's cool to know it's not a big deal.
The unfortunate thing is, there's still a lot of absolute garbage I can and do eat that isn't meat. That's something I really need to work on.
Meatless May was MOSTLY Meatless May (I had a turkey burger because I was a guest at a dinner). It was absolutely no problem. The thing I missed the most was pepperoni pizza, though with the weather getting warmer there's also sushi.
There needs to be a name for the cognitive distortion for remembering conservatives as better than they were. Fifteen years ago, conservatives were justifying torture of detainees.
Thirty years ago, they were laughing about the AIDS crisis.
Your parents sucked.
"but doesn't every generation-"
15 years ago, saying "my parents are conservative" did not carry a high chance of them being utterly unable to stop shrieking about the necessity of genocide, buddy. twitter.com/pookleblinky/s…
the same way I don't talk about the near-infinite number of other things I'm not interested in. I simply don't talk about them and don't pay attention to other people who are talking about them amongst themselves
How do you abstain from the overwhelming hype around a popular blockbuster without looking like a jerk? @belfryfire doesn't know how to tell people he's not interested in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. https://pastemagazine.com/?p=361198
AI reveals that the "full" image of Magritte's The Treachery of Images (1929) contains a second object, which IS une pipe. This is probably why he cropped it out
I used ChatGPT to reveal what Bill Murray says to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation. This is never directly revealed but can be reconstructed through the power of artificial intelligence.
What he says is: "Ten years ago we had Bob Hope, Steve Jobs, and Johnny
when you don't have your finger on Ctrl and try to highlight everything, you just add an "a" to what you've typed. And when you realize what you did and undo it but STILL don't have your finger on ctrl, you add "z" behind the "a"
Charlie Kirk instructing his audience to "go after Target in a very serious way" for the crime of having a Pride display:
"The only thing they understand is force. Pain is a teacher”
https://mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-encourages-his-audience-bankrupt-target-selling-pride-merchandise…
hey New Orleans folks, there's a new board game where you tour the French Quarter on foot, car, streetcar, carriage, and riverboat. Here's the map! Enjoy!
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90 min., 2-4 players. Noon, 2:30 & 5:00. Seats are open!
"This user's guide you wrote for our product is terrible. Information is incorrect and you describe features that don't actually exist. What is this bullshit?"
"Ah you mean my 'twinkle notions'."