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For Firefox users who weren't aware of the AI kill switch, type about:preferences#ai into the address bar, and you should see this:

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

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Lil nas x coming back during pride month to tell us hes been taking care of his physical and mental health, finishing rehab and getting treatment for bipolar disorder, and telling us that he is excited to not only make new music but also just to live his life???? And during mens mental health awareness month????? Oh i missed him bad

Friendly heat wave reminder that libraries and museums both need to have really good air conditioning systems to keep their items safe.

Many US museums also participate in the Museums For All program, where anyone with a state benefits card (medicaid, EBT, WIC, etc) can enter either for free or for a significantly reduced rate. Like $1-3.

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

The more I get back into doing creative stuff the more I understand that one Fujimoto quote

for anyone wondering about the second quote:

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Person one: Wow, it's really difficult to get the techs to tell me what the hell these orders are for, and it takes a ton of time to reconcile purchases and charges because our system changes the numbers in a way that makes it hard to search so I have to go back and compare receipts and dates and reverse engineer every order made outside of the procurement department.

Two of these people are totally nontechnical, and the third is technical but not the proper flavor of insane.

I mean the U in 170U and the H in the 220H are doing the heavy lifting here. Intel does publish the model identifiers of it's cpus. And full specs at arc.intel.com

I am aware of that and after 14 years of buying computers for enterprise environments I've got several tools available to compare processor models without digging into manufacturer spec sheets, the guy who replaced me unfortunately doesn't know that.

We're not leaving this gem to languish in the comments: