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psst
you! yes, you
would you like to see a piece of fantastic investigative journalism, uncovering an international tax fraud scheme (in minecraft)?
do you want to see how some kids invented CDOs-but-worse and how it ended?
here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLm-QFzrxA

Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home:
Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table.
Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling.
If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it hangs off the edge.
Nudge it any farther, and gravity wins.
Now take two blocks and start over.
Stacking one on top of the other, how…

This Block-Stacking Math Problem Has a Preposterous Solution You Need to See to Believe — Scientific American
In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity Amanda Montañez Math Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home: Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table. Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling. If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it…

I've been a Duolingo user since 2013. You can track the enshittification of the product since they went public.
Enshittification is now complete, with humans being replaced by AI. This act of mine is my way of avoiding being treated like a wallet while you mistreat others.
#duolingo #workingClass

Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Stars:
🎵 Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It
#Stars
https://starsband.bandcamp.com/track/hold-on-when-you-get-love-and-let-go-when-you-give-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3QF9b4PhQnTChD08dJruWN

Since fire season has kicked in, a reminder that it's easy (it took me ~10m because I am a crappy solderer) to add an ESP32 to an Ikea Vindriktning air quality sensor and get pm2.5 data into HA so you can have it notify you when the air quality gets worse than usual.
It costs ~$25 for the esp32 Vindriktning. There are plenty of howtos out there, mine is at #HomeAssistant @…

"How can you make sure your sunscreen is 'reef safe'?"
#Suncream #Environment
https:/…

Y estamos hablando de uno de los principales representantes de la derecha "mšs moderada" de nuestro país. 😬
Re: https://x.com/lucialopezchile/status/1930784491959656779

How AI-assisted "vibe hacking", which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity "arms race" (Matthew Gault/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-ai-hacker-agents/

The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stereolab:
🎵 If You Remember I Forgot How to Dream, Pt. 1
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-remember-i-forgot-how-to-dream-pt-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zdPzkMrDQt28PtHRaiZ17