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Raheem Mostert: 'I have a really strong feeling about this offense' https://www.raiders.com/video/offense-raheem-mostert-raiders-training-camp-presser-geno-smith-nfl-072525

Steelers GM Omar Khan on offseason overhaul: 'We think it came together pretty nicely' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-gm-omar-khan-offseason-overhaul-we-think-it-came-together-pretty-nicely

Currently testing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor with FSR 4 on Linux (thanks to Optiscaler oc). I must say I'm finally enjoying this and any other game I have tried so far to the fullest. There's just this nagging feeling of resentment that AMD doesn't seem to be in a hurry to do their own job and release officially FSR 4 for RDNA 3 on Windows and Linux, hence the turncoat hesitations. For what it's worth, I'd choose Linux over Windows any day.
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#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

Since leaving the US, things have gotten a lot better for me but it's still hard existing under capitalism. Just being a human is hard enough, but parenting is an order or magnitude harder.
Even here, with all the complexity of being an immigrant, it's somehow still less emotionally challenging than being in the US.
I wrote up a reflection on some of my feelings before leaving tangled up with some of the challenges I still have. I hope this helps some folks feel less alone, or makes it easier for other folks to understand why some parents are having a hard time.
CW: just.... Lots... Death, gun violence, trauma, etc
#USPol

Tänk er ett samtal där du ställer en fråga, får ett svar och sen lägger personen på. Har den missförstått frågan måste du starta ett nytt samtal, men den som svarar denna gång vet inte varför du fick det svar du fick förra gången och svarar helt sonika någonting annat... och lägger på.
Låter det frustrerande?
Det är det!
Öppnar mitt tredje 'samtal' med denna text - är jag för hård?

Sittich-Strolch mittels mobiler Gewahrsamszelle verhaftet
https://www.polizei.bremerhaven.de/blog-leser/sittich-strolch-in-geestemuende-polizei-nimmt-schraegen-vogel-in-gewahrsam-2.html

Sittich-Strolch in Geestemünde: Polizei nimmt schrägen Vogel in Gewahrsam
Mit viel Freude und einem Sinn für leichte Prosa hat unser Kontaktpolizist aus Bremerhaven-Geestemünde einen Einsatzbericht verfasst, der zeigt: Polizeiarbeit macht Spaß – auch wenn man es bisweilen mit schrägen Vögeln zu tun hat.

An absolute curtain of rain closed in and caused a delay. It soon passed and the game was able to resume.
At 3-2, it was a narrower victory for the home team, the Salem Red Sox, than it ought to have been. The Carolina Mudcats had 6 errors. There could have been a 7th, but the scorers must have felt some charity for a duffed ball at 3B and let it slide.
Single A baseball is that of dream chasers and prospect pitching, not necessarily brilliant talent and discipline.

WATCH: Raiders Quarterback Geno Smith Speaks Following Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/watch-las-vegas-quarterback-geno-smith-pete-carroll-seattle-seahawks-training-camp-hondo-carpenter

WATCH: Raiders OL Jackson Powers-Johnson Speaks Following Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/las-vegas-jackson-powers-johnson-chip-kelly-training-camp-geno-smith