Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?

https://youtu.be/TIf3IfHCoiE

Friggin hell. Thanks.

I think the article author is completely confused and doesn’t understand what’s happening. There are hints of what’s happening in this paragraph.

Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.

I don’t think any fresh water is being used. I think what’s actually happening is…

Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side (or maybe the other way around). That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that’s saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.

I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve walked away from some online product or service that I was interested in but refused to publicly disclose prices beyond, “FrEe TrIaL!”

Nah thanks. If you’re playing mind games like that right off the bat, that tells me everything I need to know about the experience of using the product.

69% rate the ethics of top Trump administration officials as excellent or good.

This tells you all you need to know about the ethics and moral compass of evangelicals.

threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry

No. Just the LLM industry and AI slop image and video generation industries. All of the legitimate uses of AI (drug discovery, finding solar panel improvements, self driving vehicles, etc) are all completely immune from this lawsuit, because they’re not dependent on stealing other people’s work.

Nabu announces, “The great fire orb has retreated” every evening at sunset.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

What they’re not designed to do is give factual answers

or mental health therapy

How does that not tip over when you turn?

That’s absolutely not the point. I was criticizing the journalism, not technology. 🙄

without human help

…

responded to and learned from voice commands from the team

🤨🤔

These instructions are awful. There’s no Gemini listed in my apps, and Settings > Apps doesn’t show it either. But if I search for “Gemini” in settings, THEN it shows up, but doesn’t have access to anything the article says to do.

However, from that screen, I was able to apparently turn off its access to everything, and switch back to assistant, which appears to have turned it off completely, but who knows if it’s still lurking in the background.

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The news is cool, but that image is just AI nonsense.

Ok, nevermind. I guess we’ll just do nothing. 🙄

The judge making this determination is an idiot.

The judge hasn’t ruled on the piracy question yet. The only thing that the judge has ruled on is, if you legally own a copy of a book, then you can use it for a variety of purposes, including training an AI.

“But they didn’t own the books!”

Right. That’s the part that’s still going to trial.

“The truth will set you free come back to bite you in the ass.”

Those are definitely not people that ever learned to drive a manual transmission.

Please allow me this opportunity to jump in and complain about the minority, but not insignificant number, of people that don’t seem to be aware that that is even an option (just taking your foot off of the gas/accelerator to slowly decelerate).

Every couple weeks or so I seem to find myself behind someone that’s always either accelerating, or braking, with the brake lights repeatedly flashing on momentarily for no apparent reason. It’s like they realize that they’re going just a little faster than they want, and definitely don’t want to accelerate any more, so the only thing they know to do is hit the brake, instead of just taking their foot off of the accelerator. So they’ve hit the brake and now they’re going too slow, so foot moves off the brake and back to the accelerator. Rinse, lather, repeat.

End rant. Thank you for this opportunity to vent.