You want the article to not show the image that it's talking about, that illustrates his dangerously cavalier attitude towards nuclear annihilation? I feel like the president posting images of himself with his finger on the button is relevant info.
I guess there is more money in going after Google/Meta/MS/Amazon than there is in going after the telecom companies that actually own and operate the cables? (FALCON seems to be owned by a company I've never heard of called Global Cloud Xchange, and Gulf Bridge International is also the name of the company that operates that one.)
Gonna be honest, I consider myself pretty into TTRPGs and even I don't know what the deal is with Pathfinder. I looked at it when the first edition came out and it seemed like "D&D 3.75" so I didn't see a reason to bother with it when I already had so many books for 3.x. I have heard the current edition is doing its own thing but haven't bought the book to see what that thing is.
My biggest "issue" (it's not an issue for me, but it's infuriating to people who watch me play) is spending huge amounts of time faffing around with stuff that has extremely little impact on the game. I have over 80 hours in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave and have not finished Part 1 on any route. I'm checking out Aion 2 and have spent ages walking around harvesting ingredients and clicking on minor collectibles and grinding enemies for pet souls instead of doing the main story that rewards the lion's share of XP, so I'm basically not really progressing at all.
I'm not lost, but it might look like I was lost if you were watching over my shoulder and wondering why it is taking me so freaking long.
We need more people like Chloe Freeman.
Freeman’s employer did not see it this way. When police questioned her (thus collaborating with ICE), she openly said that she disagreed with ICE separating immigrants from their families. Trinity Health fired Freeman and has refused to make any public statement on the events of May 28. It is criminal that this and other hospital systems allow ICE and CBP agents to enter medical buildings.
From the title I foolishly thought that maybe he built a machine learning system to optimize player selection by training on the results of hypothetical fantasy football teams from previous seasons, or something, and I thought "well it might not be in the spirit of the competition but at least he's having fun tinkering."
No, he just handed it off to an "agentic" system and lets it play for him because he couldn't be assed. Why even bother?
I forgot about the Wired interview. It's kind of wild that AntiNorn intentionally got people riled up and then called them vindictive.
Like, if I joined a community for some wholesome show and started posting distressing gore of people's blorbos, and when people expressed their disgust my response was to say "UM ACKSHULLY blorbo isn't real, so there's no reason for you to be distressed when seeing this image" and then I posted some more stuff I knew would piss them off, I would fully expect to be ostracized.
If I said "We already had this debate when Antinorn was pioneering AI torture thirty years ago" would anyone know what I'm talking about or is this extremely niche internet trivia?
Context: Creatures was a series of "artificial life" simulation games centered around caring for norns, simulated life-forms with (simplified) simulated genetics, biochemistry, and "brains" made of linked neurons that control their response to stimuli and include neurons related to memory, emotional states, etc. It's primitive but reward and punishment work the way you would expect: praising your norn for taking a certain action will improve their mood and lead them to be more likely to take that action again, they will learn to be afraid of creatures if they're hit by them, etc. (There are notable limitations, including there only being one representation in their "brain" for all "norns" for the first two games, so they can't easily distinguish between members of their species, and some things are basically hacks, like they way they "learn" words.) It was convincing enough that some people became very attached to them, and there was a thriving fan community organized in webrings. A popular fan creation for the first game was a custom norn genome, the "canny norns" by Akamai, which added an extra brain "lobe" that allowed them to pay attention to the object in their hands and the object they were looking at simultaneously, which led to a pretty large improvement in their behavior.
And so of course there was one fan, Antinorn, who enjoyed torturing his norns: slapping them, starving them, using the built-in Science Kit to inject them with toxins, and other creative punishments. Then he'd upload the damaged norns to his fansite, seemingly primarily for purpose of ragebaiting the rest of the fandom, which was extremely effective.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. I am going really slowly and playing one chapter of each story at a time before switching to the next one. I like the map exploration aspect a lot.
I looked it up and the reasoning seems to have been that strychnine poisoning causes lethal, uncontrollable muscle spasms, so a very small dose might increase the strength or speed of muscle contractions in a way that improves athletic performance. They got the idea because it was sometimes used medically for the same reason, to try to treat heart conditions prior to the development of more effective treatments.
Obviously it didn't really work.
the strychnine was intended as a performance enchancer
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