[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Before investing, freeze the company's CEO in a block of ice. If you still want to invest after chipping them out of the ice, it's probably a worthy investment.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Alexander Acosta straight-up admitted that Epstein was an intelligence asset and that he torpedoed the initial case in 2008 at the request of higher-ups.

Of course Acosta ended up as a member of Trump's cabinet, because we clearly needed yet another direct Epstein connection alongside Barr and Trump himself.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Even the applicator is all natural!

[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago

"Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."

  • Al Franken
[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago

What am I looking at here? I'm guessing that's weed?

[-] [email protected] 84 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's also already a ninth level spell, so saying he'll cast it at level nine is meaningless and a failed attempt to establish nerd cred.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

TL;DR: their argument is that using AI trained on an actor, even with said actor's blessing, is unfair because it shuts out other actors who used to get work imitating that voice.

[-] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago

CyanogenMod, which was the base of most custom Android ROMs at one point. After taking venture funding, incompetent business majors crashed and burned the project trying to commercialize it. It was then forked and LineageOS was born.

[-] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago

To paraphrase an old tweet: "parentheses - for when every thought comes with bonus sub-thoughts".

[-] [email protected] 172 points 1 year ago

Probably one of the most famous examples, but the robots in The Matrix originally kept humans around as wetware CPUs using their spare brainpower. Studio execs forced the Wachowskis to change it to them using humans as batteries, even though that makes no sense. Agent Smith possessing someone in the real world in the sequels would have made a ton more sense with the original explanation.

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Long-pressing the link in [https://lemmy.ml/comment/7302466](this comment) will cause Boost to crash.

The link markdown is wrong, with the URL in the text tag and the destination tag empty, but this shouldn't crash the app.

Alternate test link in case the commenter fixes it: https://www.example.com

[-] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago

Moms for Liberty, a heavily funded astroturf organization linked to GOP leadership, wasn't especially subtle in its strategies, pinpointing a handful of swing districts in purple states, like Virginia and Pennsylvania, and targeting school board elections, which are usually low turnout and easy to win. Once installed, Moms for Liberty members started banning books and Pride flags, as well as protesting that teachers were "grooming" kids with "smut," which usually meant either a history book or acclaimed, age-appropriate fiction. The idea was to create moral panics around sex and race that could tip national elections towards Republicans.

From the article.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago

Has everyone already forgotten about Cambridge Analytica, which scraped data from tens of millions of Facebook users and used it to microtarget swing voters in several countries with propaganda and misinformation to get them to either vote for right-wing candidates or stay home on election day?

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