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In an ironic twist of fate, a Reddit user, Pickyickyicky, recently shared a story on r/antiwork about their boss. The boss once showed no sympathy for a coworker grieving his dying mother, but he now faces the heartbreak of watching his own mother suffer from a terminal illness. The story has resonated with many, shining a light on workplace empathy and the power dynamics at play.

 

China’s internet regulators have launched a campaign cracking down on puns and homophones, one of the last remaining ways for citizens to safely discuss sensitive subjects without recriminations or censorship.

“For some time, various internet jargons and memes have appeared frequently, leaving people more and more confused,” said an editorial by the Communist party mouthpiece, the People’s Daily

China’s online spaces are strictly monitored and censored. Some sensitive topics and terms are strictly banned, such as references to the Tiananmen massacre, or criticism of President Xi Jinping. Insulting individuals or China generally is also frowned upon.

In response, users have adapted, using funny or obscure references and in-jokes to get around the censorship. Many rely on homophones, using phrases that sound very similar in Mandarin, but were written with different Chinese characters, such as the word for “paratrooper” (sǎn bīng) instead of “idiot” (shǎ bī).

 

When Hollywood’s writers and actors went on strike last year, it was, in part, because of AI. Actors didn’t care for the notion that their likenesses could be used without their permission, whether by the studios that hired them that week or by someone at home with a computer in 2040. Writers didn’t want to do punch-ups on potentially crummy AI scripts or have their words (or ideas) cannibalized by large language models that didn’t pay them a dime.

But while some Hollywood filmmakers came out of the strikes fearful of how AI might wreck their industries, others wanted to learn more. This week, many of those filmmakers gathered in a movie theater in Culver City, California, for the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative-AI film competition sponsored by FBRC.AI and Amazon Web Services.

 

The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”

Sam Altman, the cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, one of the most dramatic tech companies of the modern era. An inkling of Worldcoin began in 2019 when Altman began exploring identity verification that could be used in universal basic income schemes.

He teamed up with technologist Alex Blania to turn the idea into a reality. In a world of rapidly advancing AI, they theorized, it would be important for a human to prove they were not a bot. The answer they came up with relied on individuals using iris-scanning tech to generate private tokens that would verify their identities around the world.

Worldcoin, then, is the ultimate attempt at tech solutionism: A human-grade AI world that Altman is building might also be technologically regulated by a tool that Altman has his hands in.

 

More than 3,600 people died alone in their homes in Korea last year, data showed Thursday, with middle-aged and elderly men accounting for more than half of such deaths.

The number of "lonely deaths" came to 3,661 in 2023, up from 3,559 the previous year, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

The figure indicates that 1.04 out of every 100 deaths in Korea were attributed to solitary deaths last year.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The title is not wrong, bedevils in this context are burdens / weighs

The title in French (translate with depl)

Le gouvernement socialiste espagnol est confronté à une crise du logement "insoutenable

Translate back to English

Spain's Socialist government faces an "unsustainable" housing crisis

The article also mentions that the government is trying to push through laws such as rent caps, punishments for landlords to improve housing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Most religions in China get the same treatment from the CCP.

Christian communities have had similar experiences.

In 2016, thousands of crosses were torn down from churches throughout Zhejiang Province. The authorities have also broken up congregations that have not been approved by the state, while church leaders have been arrested and jailed.

The demolition of domes, crosses and minarets and their replacement by Chinese-styled tiled roofs and Buddhist-styled pagodas. It involves mandatory patriotic education for Buddhist, Christian and Muslim clergy and it entails party-approved sermons and prayers.

South of Xinjiang in Tibet, the authorities have restricted the practice of Tibetan Buddhism over the last decade. Religious festivals have been banned more frequently and government employees, teachers and students have been barred from participating in religious activities.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/26/a-jealous-god-china-remakes-religions-in-its-own-image

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

shifting weather in the Sahara desert has also impacted this year's hurricane season

Sahara desert hit by extraordinary rainfall event that could mess with this year's hurricane season

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

It also publicly noted that going NSFW (Not Safe For Work), a tool moderators used to add friction to accessing a subreddit and to make the subreddit ineligible for advertising, was “not acceptable.”

Easy solution here, post NSFW content in every sub 👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In reality it is probably double or triple that.

Yup, I've read articles in NYT or WSJ (kinda forgot), about single mom, daughter and her dog living in a car because they couldn't afford the rent.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is just Google's clever way of not removing the sideloading feature from their OS.

They let app developers to prevent users from using sideloaded app.

This way they can avoid antitrust lawsuits.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Google : "You don't own your phone, we own you."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Organic Maps :

No Ads ✅

No Telemetry ✅

Google :

Does it make us money? ❌

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't even have a smart tv, I don't want anything other than my phone and laptop connected to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's the problem there's no common consensus from scientists. What is happening right now is similar to the scenario from The Day After Tomorrow, scientists debate and offer their theories.

from phys.org today

Not the day after tomorrow: Why we can't predict the timing of climate tipping points

A study published in Science Advances reveals that uncertainties are currently too large to accurately predict exact tipping times for critical Earth system components like the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), polar ice sheets, or tropical rainforests.

These tipping events, which might unfold in response to human-caused global warming, are characterized by rapid, irreversible climate changes with potentially catastrophic consequences. However, as the study shows, predicting when these events will occur is more difficult than previously thought.

Climate scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have identified three primary sources of uncertainty.

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-day-tomorrow-climate.html

Also as Rahmstof said.

“There’s now five papers, basically, that suggested it could well happen in this century, or even before the middle of the century,” Rahmstof said. “My overall assessment is now that the risk of us passing the tipping point in this century is probably even greater than 50%.”

While the advances in AMOC research have been swift and the models that try to predict its collapse have advanced at lightning speed, they are still not without issues.

This research gap means the predictions could underestimate how soon or fast a collapse would happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You can create and set up telegram bots for your own use

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