

YouTube continuing to advertise to children while claiming otherwise
YouTube continuing to advertise to children while claiming otherwise
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This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet’s atmosphere by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
I thought I’d remembered reading about this before. Sounds like just a couple more years, and they’ll be sure this gas is there, which is huge, but not totally conclusive.
Personally, I’d bet it’s life. A big rocky planet with an ocean of phytoplankton sounds like our best bet for finding it. The scientists in the article are trying really hard not to be excited
That’s what I’m doing. I used to live further north, where it was really important to have good snow tires, but I’ve moved a couple hours south, and it’s just not worth the trouble here, for a handful of snowy days, and a trip up north for the holidays.
I like the idea that they’re not just symbols, but shapes. Get anything to be shaped like a rune, and it’ll touch magic. So two rocks leaned against each other just right might create a trickle of water, or a tree that grows a twisted enough web of branches could, by chance, summon a flame. Then, like with all natural phenomenon, people figured it out! It fits well with the trope that wizards are arcane researchers and scientists, you find in settings like D&D’s
I can give you a couple tips!
· Get some fish sticks if you don’t have some. The stiff, fiberglass rods, not the processed seafood. You can get singles, or multiples that screw together. You use them by taping the cable to the end, and then pushing the fish stick from the back, to run cable through small spaces.
· Run a pullstring with your cables! Taped alongside your Ethernet cable you should also always include a pullstring, so that if you ever need to pull another cable that same way, you can just tape it on and pull. This can be actual pullstring, which is usually just a thin nylon cord, or another length of Ethernet cable.
· You can pull on it harder than you think, but not as hard as you hope. This is something that really you have to learn over time, but it helps to know beforehand. Ethernet cable is pretty strong. It’s coiled in boxes because you’re expected to pull it long distances, and sometimes it snags. When this happens, you don’t immediately have to run and fix the snag. You can add some force, and give it a yank. But if it feels like it’s really stuck, always make the walk. There’s nothing worse than running an entire length of cable, only to find out it broke somewhere in the middle. On the upside though, it does become a free pullstring
I learned how to do this as an entry level tech for an ISP, and it’s been so handy since. Ran cable into my attic, and then down to my office on the other side of the house, as well as my partner’s. Just got a second switch recently that I’m going to put up there so I only need to drop cables down from now on
Is this a thing for knees? Every once in a while, my knees just pop out of their sockets. It’s incredibly painful, and I have to move them back by hand. I went to a doctor when I was like 18 though, and they took an x-ray, and couldn’t find anything
I agree with all of this, and I think it’s the right choice. You don’t have to immediately come out as the brave warrior of what is right, but you can absolutely speak up, in all kinds of ways. Even just starting with, “Hey, this line doesn’t sound right, I think it would make more sense if it said ‘gender’ here,” could be helpful. If they insist, ask why.
Everyone’s individual circumstances are going to be different, but there’s definitely something you can do. The pressure you’re feeling is exactly what the fascists want you to bow to, but most of the people you work with aren’t fascists. You might be surprised how much change you can make
The other people interviewed answer those questions if you keep reading
“It really weighed on the creativity of my role, and again, spat in the face of my expertise”, [Ricky says]. “It wasn’t just this though; the tool itself lacks the intent, context, and limitations of what we’re doing. It doesn’t have other aspects of the project, influences, references, or personal experiences in the back of its mind, because it doesn’t have a mind. Whenever we design something for a game, it’s drawn from somewhere, influenced by other things, and filtered through our own experiences as a human. These AI ideas lose ALL of that…"
“What follows from these discussions is me explaining why, usually over hours rather than minutes, that these tools have no place in a professional game development pipeline or production and actually hinder the development of visuals”, Francis says. “I also find myself explaining to them how the iteration and ‘idea’ phase of a project is where the best stuff happens, how exploring things through artistic labor is where your best ideas come to fruition, and why would we want an AI (that we don’t even own) to do that for us with art that isn’t ours to use?”
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Quite literally “defaced” though
If he’s not arguing to improve it, he’s arguing that it shouldn’t exist at all, which is worse.
We must move away from binary tales of catastrophe, not towards naive utopianism that ignores problems and risks that comes with change, but hopeful solutionism that reminds us we can solve and mitigate them…
I don’t like Black Mirror, but I would never say that there’s no place for it. It obviously resonated with a lot of people, and it was probably an entry into the genre for a lot of new sci-fi fans. Very ‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’
It definitely reads like a criticism of Black Mirror to me
Black Mirror fails to consistently explore the duality of technology and our reactions to it.
Absent is the plot twist of Pandora’s box that made it philosophically useful: the box also contained hope and opportunity that new knowledge brings.
Black Mirror didn’t fail to do those things, it wasn’t interested in them
I don’t like Black Mirror. I think it’s generally lazy and sensational. But what this person is saying is not a valid criticism, it’s like saying the Bee Movie would have been better if there had been an extended car chase. Louis doesn’t want to improve the show, they want something else entirely.
If you want a contemporary forward-thinking scifi, check out author Becky Chambers!
I work for an ISP, and this is a common practice among my peers
His “hair” is so unnatural it’s hydrophobic
People read the subject line, assuming it’s not longer than about seven words, and then the first 30%, and last 15% of your email, in my experience. You can increase this by adding line breaks and bullets. In my experience, the best responses come from a short paragraph, followed by a couple bullet points, then a couple sentences, then your salutation/signature. I try not to write anything longer than that.
can’t believe Trump voted to embargo his own luxuries lmao
You are the Iron Man of these already mundane Avengers lol
Part of it might be unpaid photo printer labor 😜