It's interesting when I see headlines start popping up identifying particular individual billionaires as the owners of companies that have done something bad. Usually it's just the company itself that gets called out, since investors usually have little direct control over stuff like this.

The face-eating leopard is eating its own face. Fascinating. If thousands of Ukrainians weren't dying as a result I would be enjoying the spectacle.

My guess is that this gives them data they can analyze on how many people actually read the page that far.

Aha, there's source of the problem. Those phones weren't set to airplane mode.

I don't know, banning Trump from real estate for just a year or two doesn't seem like much.

Sounds like nothing particularly unusual or alarming. Researchers found a few thousand images that could be illegal that were referenced by it, told LAION about it, and LAION pulled the database down temporarily while checking and removing them. A few thousand images out of five billion is not significant.

There's also the persistent misunderstanding of what the LAION database is, which is even perpetuated by the paper itself (making me suspicious of the researchers' motivations since they surely know better). The paper says: “We find that having possession of a LAION‐5B dataset populated even in late 2023 implies the possession of thousands of illegal images—not including all of the intimate imagery published and gathered non‐consensually, the legality of which is more variable by jurisdiction,” When the LAION-5B dataset doesn't actually have any pictures at all in. It's purely a list of URLs pointing at images that are on the Internet, each with text describing them. Possessing the dataset doesn't make you in possession of any of those images.

Edit: Yeah, down at the bottom of the article I see the researcher state that in his opinion LAION-5B shouldn't even exist and use inaccurate emotionally-charged language about how AI training data is "stolen." So there's the motivation I was suspicious of.

At the end of the article:

Younger firms and CEOs also tend to be more enthusiastic about hybrid work arrangements, meaning they’ll get more popular over time as existing business heads retire, he added.

So don't worry, those fragile ego managers will die out over time.

I don't think sites like Reddit or Lemmy are for "connecting people." The opposite, in fact. I'm not here to connect to people, I'm here to connect to information and ideas. I follow communities due to their subject matter, not due to who is present there. I don't respond to people because I recognize them, I respond based on what they wrote in a specific comment.

Things like Twitter or Mastodon are for "connecting people." That's their purpose, you follow a person because you want to see what they want to say. That's why I avoid those parts of the Fediverse, I'm not here for that.

There's a little bit of something for everyone, focus on the bits that are suited to you and don't spend too much time messing around in the other parts.

Not at all. From what I understand of this article, it wouldn't stop you from doing anything you wanted with the image. It just generates a signed certificate at the moment the picture is taken that authenticates that that particular image existed at that particular time. You can copy the image if you like.

Notably, Jassy said employees are free to leave if they do not want to comply with the hybrid work requirement.

This sort of statement always makes me raise an eyebrow. There are very few situations where employees are not "free to leave" and most of them are not good.

Meanwhile, for completely unrelated reasons, I decided to mention that the https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ instance is run by the former top mod of /r/piracy.

One fraud happened and therefore everything with the word "conductor" in it is fraud afterward? The Jan Schon scandal was about single-molecule semiconductors, which have nothing to do with lead apatite superconductors.