Aid is a gift. They paid for some of it.

Is he entitled to US arm shipments?

The headline makes him sound pretty fucking entitled

Yeah I know. But I wanted to point out that the comment in the article wasn’t so much a real consideration as business risk analysis 101. Along with a healthy dose of corporate spin.

A spokeswoman for OpenAI declined to comment beyond pointing BI to a corporate blogpost from May, in which the company says it takes web crawler permissions “into account each time we train a new model.

The translation for this is do we stand to profit more than we stand to be punished.

Basic capitalist risk assessment in other words.

Maybe the pilot is a Boeing whistleblower and afraid for their safety?

They’re giving the royal family jail time?

I don’t think the Chinese government really gets Buddhism.

They told the crowd that a key focus of their visit was to underscore the Resolve Tibet Act, passed by the U.S. Congress last week, and aims to encourage dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials with the hopes of finding a peaceful resolution between Tibet and Beijing. The bill should now be sent to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into a law.

Pelosi said the bill is “a message to the Chinese government that we have clarity in our thinking and our understanding of this issue of the freedom of Tibet,” eliciting applause.

McCaul, the Republican representative, said it reaffirmed American support for the Tibetan right to self-determination. “Just this week our delegation received a letter from the Chinese Communist Party, warning us not to come here… but we did not let the CCP intimidate us for we are here today,” he said as people cheered.

I like reading news like this :)

Yes, actually. This specific bacteria thrives at 95f when cultured in labs.

It’s a bacteria that is able to live inside humans, after all.

Microbes also evolve faster than humans. Meaning they’ll adapt to higher temperatures faster than our body temperature will. Making humans more susceptible to bacteria like this one, as climate change continues.

I imagine some people already are.

But they may thrive more at higher global temperatures.

Thanks! It felt really good wearing it around the house last night.

There’s a trans safe dance space my friends and partner host. I’m going to wear it there tomorrow.

It’s interesting.

When I took the name I use as my handle here, I was doing emotional work before COVID and said, I’m tree frog because frogs love water and I bring the rain. (I did a lot of mourning that weekend).

Over COVID, the shell started to crack for me and I became aware of a distinct and persistent female personality hiding behind my dead name. She had already chosen a name. The more I explore being trans the more I realize, she was me all along. And the boy a mask.

My name is Rayne. It means queen. My dead name means sovereign. My handle is also a metaphor for my dharma name, skillful transformation of the heart. Frogs being shapeshifters.

I guess I use intuition to choose my names. And by coincidence, they ended up with the same meaning as both my given names.

Some people believe in numerology. I believe in name magic :)

And I’m still exploring what all of this means. Bought my first dress today. Scary and liberating.

I thought the main issue was that AI don’t really know how to say I don’t know or second guess themselves, as it would take a lot more robust architecture with multiple feedback loops. Like a brain.

Anyway, LLM’s aren’t the only AI that do this. So them being trained on Facebook data certainly isn’t the whole issue.

It’s not posting is the point.

Android phones back all photos up onto the Google cloud by default. Not everyone knows to turn this off.

Even funnier if Google also partners with a competitor, and Elon’s employees have to go back to flip phones

Could cost them their base without attracting new voters too.

We have a refrigerator from the '80s that runs like a champ.

Solved the energy problem by putting solar panels on the roof.

Same.

I give a single light honk to get their attention. Not an angry long honk.

And for the record, I’ve been caught staring at my phone a couple of times and needed to be honked at too.

It’s become a pretty common occurrence for a light to change and the driver in front of me to be staring at their phone.

Which is me saying I never used to honk at people at lights, and now I find myself doing it about once a week.