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potterman28wxcv, in Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying | WIRED

They are not making them more efficient. They are studying how to make them more efficient. It’s a really big difference because I am not yet ready to place my life in the hands of a CNN-based AI

Five, in Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form emergency unity government
Five, in Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form emergency unity government

A position in the war cabinet has been left open for Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, who has refused to join the government if the far-right Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit parties remain in it.

Yeah, this is fucked.

NightLily, in Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts
@NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com avatar

Heldamned misinformation campaigns.

Rapidcreek, in Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form emergency unity government

Bibi is pretty much done with his Judiciary overhaul.

Rapidcreek, in Few Good Options as Israel Weighs a Ground Assault on the Gaza Strip

Gotta say that bringing up 300,000+ troops in 72 hours is very impressive.

El_Dorado,

I guess they just have huge numbers available also due to the fact that almost all women and men are in the military service and hence reservists

Chozo, in Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI - The Verge

I don't get why this would be a problem. It's just a poster image.

Hell, even if they used AI for the in-show VFX, I still don't see why it would be an issue. Almost all VFX for the last several years have been using some level of AI tools.

sunbeam60,

You are forgetting a cardinal rule: When something is likely to affect the press, the press affords it more attention.

So the writers, editors, graphic designers etc of the press are likely to be very affected by generative AI. So they worry about it. So they write about it.

I’m also in a line of work that will see substantial changes … so I understand their plight. But I think a large part of the reason the press write about the use of genAI to make “art output” is that they worry about genAI will make their “art output” soon.

zerfuffle,

Considering a good chunk of US media is just ingesting Reuters and adding a spin to it, I’m not surprised.

SomeGuyNamedPaul,

“So they write about it” with AI assistance. It can easily be argued that modern word processor software has some level of AI in it.

She: What kind of woman do you think I am?

He: We’ve already established that. Now we’re just haggling over the price.

Same story, it’s just a question to what extent the software moves from being an unacceptable amount of assistance as a tool. Sports equipment follows the same story, at some point it’s regarded as cheating, we just haven’t established what that line is. Clearly there are people who don’t care what that line is and so long as it represents a competitive advantage to ignore that line then people will freely cross it.

CleoTheWizard, in At least 9 Americans killed in Hamas attack on Israel

I like how Americans are treated like some special class. As if the US hasn’t had collateral damage in their attacks that harm citizens of other countries. The US just uses it as a very weak reason to get more involved…

Rapidcreek,

Germany, France and Spain also have killed and kidnapped citizens. Their newspapers are reporting similar stories on their citizens, which is the reason the EU froze all the humanitarian aid to Palestine.

And those numbers will go up. All those hostages are not Israeli

Like the WTC this is truly an international incident.

liv,

Germany, France and Spain also have killed and kidnapped citizens.

You may wish to rephrase that…

SenorBolsa,
@SenorBolsa@beehaw.org avatar

It’s technically true either way, but yeah that doesn’t read well and definitely wasn’t the intent.

liv,

I agree, it is technically true. Sorry if I sounded too nitpicking, I’ve just come back from a week with no internet access /news so for a moment I thought you were talking about all of them doing it during the events of the last few days!

hassanmckusick,

Maybe don’t go on vacation in an apartheid state?

Rapidcreek,

Sure that’s a reason to kidnap kids. Congrats

hassanmckusick,

If the vacation is taxed then isn’t the vacationer effectively funding the apartheid state?

Rapidcreek,

Really? They deserved it? That’s what you got?

hassanmckusick, (edited )

Do children deserve it? no. Did the parents of those children put them in that situation? yes.

But tell me, where do you draw the line? Murder is bad but funding a murderous government isn’t? How many steps do you have to be from the hitman before your conscious is clear?

And are you seriously out here pulling a “think of the children” as if an apartheid state is just super cool and nice to children? Do you need to refresh yourself on what apartheid means? I’ll wait

Edit: OP never comes back to explain why murdering 1 Israeli child is worse than murdering thousands of Palestinian children. They don’t have an answer, they have talking points.

Rapidcreek,

Barbaric terrorism, raping, murder, mutilation, parading dead bodies down the street, can not be justified by anything. Sorry for you if you think differently.

hassanmckusick, (edited )

You’re literally doing it right now. You fully acknowledge that Israel is an apartheid state but you’re not acknowledging anything they’ve done wrong.

For the people who don’t get it, Israel was established in the 40’s when the US and British took the land from the native Palestinians and created Israel as a state for the jewish people. This isn’t ancient history. Some of your grandparents are older than Israel.

Israel exists on stolen land and their goal is fully destroy Palestine. It’s as black and white as can be. It’s murder. It’s very nearly genocide. But the US is cool with it because we use them as a FOB.

Rapid here is defending murder. The recent actions of Palestine are, an admittedly gross but justified, self defense.

Edit: moved a comma

Rapidcreek,

I do acknowledge that what Isreal does is oppression of Palestinians. I also acknowledge that what Hamas did last weekend was nasty and barbaric. Something you can’t seem to do and I feel sorry for you.

hassanmckusick,

Something you can’t seem to do and I feel sorry for you.

Lol weak. Dude I literally just said it was “gross” you can’t immediately come back and say that I “can’t admit that it was nasty”. Gross and nasty are literally synonyms.

Can you pause for like 2 seconds and realize that you’ve become so lost in “winning” this argument that you’ve reduced yourself to spouting literal nonsense?

And that goes double for whoever upvoted you.

Rapidcreek,

So, it’s me and anyone that agrees with me? Whatever rings your bell, my friend.

hassanmckusick,

I wouldn’t say “agree”. I don’t think it’s possible to “agree” with a non-sequitur. Like… by definition I don’t think thats possible.

Generally when you upvote something because it agrees with your side regardless of the correctness that is a form of “circle-jerking”.

douglasg14b,

Really, victim blaming?

Get out of here with that low quality crap.

hassanmckusick,

What’s low quality is using misapplied therapy speak to try to shut down a conversation.

It’s not victim blaming. It’s a fucking war zone. There are US citizens in Palestine right now stealing Palestinian houses. How are the Palestinians supposed to know who’s who? Stay the fuck out of the active war zone if you don’t belong there. It’s not like the Palestinians who don’t have a choice, people on vacation 100% had a choice.

“ViCTiM bLAmINg”. The victims are the Palestinians. Get the fuck outa here.

zerfuffle,

Except the EU backtracked. It’s like everyone on here is salivating at the thought of more dead Palestinians, as if they haven’t suffered enough under apartheid.

hemko,

EU paused development aid, but continues on humanitarian aid iirc

zerfuffle, in ChatGPT's mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing | TechCrunch

Do people not know how to use the API? $20/month is obscene.

Pons_Aelius, in Netflix Is Reportedly Planning a Price Hike After the Ongoing Hollywood Actors’ Strike Ends | Entertainment News

Why do I get the feeling that Netflix would be raising prices this year even if the writers and actors strikes had never happened.

This stinks of the suits using the strike as something to blame the price rise on.

WarmSoda,

Exactly. They’re just using the strike as an excuse.

Pons_Aelius,

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

toothpicks,

Exactly. Fuck that behavior!

Safeguard,
@Safeguard@beehaw.org avatar

Perhaps, and this is very cynical of me, they are thinking, how can we make folks feel bad against the writers and actors?

  1. price hike and people pay for it: They blame the writers and actors for the price hike.
  2. price hike and people do not pay for it and leave, Netflix and people can blame the writers and actors as well. ("see!!! those demands are just not accepted by people!!! ")

It’s the only reason for the price hike I think.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

The more obvious reason to me is that they've got X subscribers, and they think they can make Y more dollars by raising prices for all of them.

Safeguard,
@Safeguard@beehaw.org avatar

I think Netflix would simply see that as a nice extra benefit. But the main reason is to “stick it” to the writers/actors. Without incurring the wrath of customers for the price hike themselves, they will just point their finger…

sxan, in U.S. is sending a carrier strike group closer to Israel and will begin supplying munitions starting today
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I was having this discussion worth my wife last night.

I’m hoping (but will not be shocked when it proves otherwise) that full-throated endorsement now will mean more effective censure latter when the Netayahu gvmnt begins a more obvious program of genocide.

If the US is reserved now, it weakens later admonishment. I don’t expect it to make a difference. Netanyahu’s brother was killed by Palestinian PFLP–EO militants, and he’s not exactly rational about them. He’s also a friend of Trump’s, and that’s definitely going to play into Biden’s responses.

Incidentally, I’ve heard some Israelis referring to the attack as “their 9/11.” I think that sums up how the current situation is being framed by the Netanyahu government pretty well.

emma, (edited )
@emma@beehaw.org avatar

Israel is such a small country that the percentage of population killed in these attacks is greater than the percentage of the US population killed in 9/11. Everyone knows someone who was killed, kidnapped or injured.

So yeah, 9/11 has some accuracy as a metaphor.

emma,
@emma@beehaw.org avatar

Proportionally, when the death toll was at 700, that was already EIGHT TIMES the percentage of population as 9/11. In US terms, the equivalent would be 25,000 deaths through terrorism in a single day. (Source: The News Agents podcast)

Six hours ago the death toll was reported as over 1000 in Israel.

Rapidcreek,

Netanyahu is being blamed for the attack by Israelis. I think his self life has run out. But, before that happens Isreal will enter Gaza and it will be punitive.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Interesting. I hadn’t heard that. My wife manages an organization with a group in Israel; we’ve only heard the “9/11” comment, and some chatter about the reservists being called up.

Where are you hearing that Israelis are blaming Netanyahu?

Rapidcreek,

I did see a snap poll that indicated that, but can’t find it. But, there is this editorial in Haaretz:

“>The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu.”

“>The prime minister, who has prided himself on his vast political experience and irreplaceable wisdom in security matters, completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession, when appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions, while embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence and rights of Palestinians.”

haaretz.com/…/0000018b-0b9d-d8fc-adff-6bfd1c88000…

Haaretz, as you probably know, is the paper of record in Israel.

Sina,

Buffer zones are a very trendy topic these days, that’s what I expect they’ll go for before the dust settles.

storksforlegs, (edited ) in Microsoft Copilot Is Coming: Why It’s Both Exciting and a Bit Sad
@storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

So long as I can disable it, thats all I care about. If people want to use it, go for it. But I dont want my personal desktop use to train an AI, or have it butt in like Cortana.

I get how it could be useful in certain settings but I feel like its offering help for a problem that doesnt exist most of the time. Like, do most people need generative AI to complete everyday desktop tasks?

Also this sounds like a potential privacy nightmare, even for Microsoft.

DeForrest_McCoy, (edited ) in U.S. is sending a carrier strike group closer to Israel and will begin supplying munitions starting today

To think republicans pretend like aiding Ukraine is the real problem… yet They’ll blow Netanyoohoo any time he wants. If anyone in Washington had a damn lick of sense they’d cut Israel off entirely.

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org avatar

If anyone in Washington cared we wouldn’t spend a dollar on foreign war (as opposed to domestic defense) until domestic needs are 100% taken care of.

rgb3x3,

While I agree that we very much need to take care of domestic issues, it’s more complicated than that. It’s in the global best interest for us to help Ukraine steamroll Russia. We’re getting a bargain that way, rather than becoming directly involved in a conflict.

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org avatar

Yeah, that’s the same thing people say every time a war pops up. It was also the justification for the trillions we wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Karzyn,

The US supporting a country fighting a defensive war against an aggressive invader isn’t equivalent to it invading another country and attempting regime change.

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org avatar

You’re right. It’s more like 1983, when we poured money out for Saddam Hussein because his guys were going to fight Iraq for us.

That worked out well.

But, in the end, it doesn’t matter. There’s a blank check for war and I’d just love it if people cared about the extent to which we neglect our own people in service of it.

bl4kers, in Spotify Premium Adds Free Access to Audiobooks in Australia and the UK | Technology News
@bl4kers@beehaw.org avatar

Coming soon: Spotify ads for a Joe Rogan audiobook

DSLeMaster, in At least 9 Americans killed in Hamas attack on Israel

How many where killed by fellow Americans here on the same day? I have trouble being appalled at 9 dead there when so many dead here merit no action from our politicians.

leetnewb,

You can be appalled at both at the same time.

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