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Trevor 🍁🇨🇦 @trevorsideas.bsky.social · 8h

Just once in a while it'd be nice if we spent the kind of money we throw at these schemes at things that would actually help make people's lives better.

Imagine what we could do in 10 years with trillions of investment into the public good. Instead of... *this*

Trevor 🍁🇨🇦 @trevorsideas.bsky.social · 9h

"Ottawa’s embrace of AI comes as many warn of a potential bubble"

"Blit said there is a certain amount of AI hype about but give it a decade and it's not hype."

Always the same thing: Just give it a decade!
No representation by industries having their work stolen.
Very little on privacy.

Experts say Ottawa’s new AI task force is skewed towards industry

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has given its new AI "task force" until the end of the month to fast-track changes to the national artificial intelligence strategy — a plan

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 9h

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 10h

Got to agree with the quaint Yahtzee bloke on Silent Hill f. Once you start prodding at it and especially its four endings, the game falls apart very quickly.

Not a terrible game, but it could have been so, so much better.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvN8...

Silent Hill F | Fully Ramblomatic

YouTube video by Second Wind

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Hourly Fops @hourlyfops.bsky.social · 12h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Hourly Fops @hourlyfops.bsky.social · 13h

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Hourly Fops @hourlyfops.bsky.social · 14h

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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 14h

mocking bird

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 15h

That's not the only type of racing drone. There's an increasing push to the 'flip-over' design that STING also uses in the racing community as you can go much faster that way, with the stubby wings providing lift.

STING is much larger, with advanced optics, of course.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 16h

One day people will face up to the fact that 99% of the use of DMs like Sora is in sh*tposting on social media for social cred.

Ain't nobody paying for that kind of sh*t either :)

Futurism @futurism.com · 17h

"People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences."

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 16h

That looks more like a standard FPV racing drone than a copy of a STING, to be honest...

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 17h

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 17h

When a body decomposes, the skin turns black due to the necrosis process. At that point it's very hard to tell what the pigmentation level was.

In death all of us are equal.

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 18h

It's absolutely not worrying that the Trump regime is currently backing off from protecting Taiwan against China and is trying to strongarm TSMC into moving its bleeding edge fabs to the US.

No sirree, everything is fine.

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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 19h

Building the DVD Logo Screensaver with LEGO

Hackaday Article

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 18h

I absolutely agree with you there. Once the 'Big Seven' collapse with this impending bubble in the US stock market, we'd risk something closer to the 1929 crash.

We got more safeties now, but still. Best to be prepared for the worst, IMO.

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Hackaday @hackaday-feed.bsky.social · 1d

Building a Diwheel to Add More Tank Controls to Your Commute

It’s often said that one should not reinvent the wheel, but that doesn’t mean that you cannot change how the use of said wheel should be interpreted. After initially taking …read more

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 1d

MT lawmakers are suing to make it easier to kill wolves. Yes- you read that right.

Once again, wolves are being treated as targets instead of the vital, intelligent keystone species they are. Science and ethics must guide management. Wolves deserve better.

www.ktvh.com/news/montana...

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, that sound you hear is the 'AI' bubble getting inflated with what will likely be the last major cash infusion from VCs.

There never was any money to be made in this bubble, but in this Ponzi scheme there are enough gullible idiots who do not seem to be aware of this minor detail.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 1d

Wolves in the wild are a glimpse into a world few get to witness. Every sighting is a reminder of the importance of conserving wild spaces and the creatures that depend on them.

Discover where you can spot them: 🔗
bit.ly/3WpCOOg

5 Best US Parks To See Wild Wolves Roam (That Aren't Yellowstone)

If you're hoping to spot a majestic wolf in the wild, head to these national parks in Montana, Minnesota, Wyoming, and Alaska for a chance encounter.

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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Qualcomm Introduces the Arduino Uno Q Linux-Capable SBC

Hackaday Article

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Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 1d

The most tragic fact about today's 'AI revolution' is how incredibly devoid the average human is of even basic signs of intelligence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Hourly Fops @hourlyfops.bsky.social · 1d

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