it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.

so now we know whom to blame for its enshittification

Hamala Karris?

… there are already a bunch of people who are assuming brand to mean scarification by burning since they evidently only read the headline.

anyone who actually thinks that that headline means literal branding is an illiterate dumbass who needs to read more.

anyone who’s trying to sidestep the dehumanisation of prisoners mentioned in the article by throwing focus solely on the literal meaning of the word brand is an amoral dumbass who needs to understand humanity and history more.

i think that milestone has already been achieved – at least in terms of the expected quality of the final manuscript.

have you read the da vinci code?

if this were to be true to form, batman would be dangling upside down from the ceiling.

and the next morning, after exchanging fluids intra-species, the two of them would embirth a whole new coronavirus.

oh, so when they say she has a face that launched a thousand ships, they were all just that one boat with a thousand makeovers?!

i would strongly urge you to familiarise yourself with figures of speech lest you’re – you know – branded as an ignorant person.

… but I also will kill mosquitos that are inside my house, and move spiders outside where they will potentially die.

huh, i just let the spiders be and they take out mosquitos and other bugs for me. we’re symbiotico, that way.

yep, it wasn’t just a plain tiff.

double-negatives in the headline means a positive article.

tell me about it! i ordered a cherry π and received three and some bits of cherries instead!

that’s totes the fault of the guy who can’t understand what i mean when i’m trying to be esoteric!

huh. live and learn.

i guess for other species it’s pizza?

turtles eat jellyfish?

maybe they can start with paying off the zeroes, first? they do have a hundred of them in their namesake, anyway.

The Washington Post first reported that Canadian officials alleged Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah was behind a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting Sikh separatists in Canada.

Shah is not just a “senior member of Modi’s cabinet”. he’s the architect behind Modi’s tenure as prime minister since 2014. he’s very much the king-maker in this story.

he’s one of the stokers of the fervent right-wing saffron-tinged flame of hindutva that’s consumed so many voters into blind allegiance over the last decade. he’s smart, cunning, and perhaps one of the most dangerous persons alive today.

…1/1.56", 65mm…

i mean, just report the lens bore diameter in the same metric units as the focal length already.

In general, the report found that the AI summaries showed “a limited ability to analyze and summarize complex content requiring a deep understanding of context, subtle nuances, or implicit meaning.” Even worse, the Llama summaries often “generated text that was grammatically correct, but on occasion factually inaccurate,”

how is this being accepted? one would have to go through any output with a fine-toothed comb anyway to weed out ai hallucinations, as well as to preserve nuance and context.

it’s like the ai tells you that mona lisa has three eyes and a nose and her mouth is closed but her denim jacket is open. you’re going to report that in your story without ever looking at the painting?

in many ways, yes evidently. but there’s something additional at the end of this story which transcends those legends.

but thanks for the link. live and learn!

High Citadel was the first of his books that i read and i was hooked immediately. from the crash landing to the riverside standoff to the trek across the andes to the ultimate jet dogfight - it’s just one rollercoaster dip after another.

and the guerrilla tactics were something else altogether. especially the building of the crossbows and the trebuchet as well as the crash caused by the cable spool.

i’d still place Vivero Letter, Snow Tiger, and a couple of others above it but it’s miles ahead of Juggernaut, Wyatt’s Hurricane, and the weird one about some inheritance.

did they really think that a bank – a representative of an industry reknowned for excessively charging for services that should be free – would let them get away with it?

that’s like a lion returning every night to shit in the shikari’s shoes and hoping not to get shot.