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Yes. "Machines, of course, can’t 'learn' anything. The backgrounds A.I. spat out are derivative distortions, based on pattern recognition."
David Salle’s Ghost in the A.I. Machine nytimes.com/2024/10/30/arts/de…
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Then: "But they can also feel like a cop-out, with the creative labor of making a painting outsourced with terrifying efficiency....a large part of what you’re looking at is a computer’s mimicry of a human pursuit, a chill rattles off the canvas."
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A couple of reminders about how important it is to “Leave those leaves alone.”

🍁 leaveleavesalone.org/
🍂 xerces.org/leave-the-leaves

#Nature #Fall #Autumn #Leaves

Drawing of colorful fall leaves and various animals. Under the heading "Leave Leaves Alone" we can see moths, butterflies, bees, frogs, birds, toads, salamanders, fireflies, turtles, and small rodents.
Orange, yellow, and red fall leaves lying on the ground, with this caption: "Leaves are not litter. They're food and shelter for butterflies, beetles, bees, moths, and more. Tell friends and neighbors to just leave the leaves."
#nature #leaves #autumn #fall
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We just got a flyer from the county department of solid waste saying exactly this. Progress!

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DANGERS OF AI 🚨

Artificial Intelligence 'Tricked' Dubliners With A Fake Halloween Parade Announcement. People Believed It And Came

Hundreds of people gathered to watch a Halloween parade that no one was holding.

There was no announcement of the event on the Dublin City Hall website. Moreover, the authorities warned that there would be no parade.

However, the fake announcement spread across social networks and brought hundreds of gullible Irish people out onto the city streets.
#AureFreePress

#aurefreepress

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🎮 Progress Report | November 1, 2024
🌟 #365DaysofCode Day 306
💻 #100DaysOfCode Day 40
🚀 #freeCodeCamp #Round_3_100daysofcode
🛠️ #OpenToCollaborate #GitHub #Pygame #Python #Game_Off_2024

Today’s Highlights:
1️⃣ Daily Reading:
• freeCodeCamp News: Gained new insights
• Daily.dev: Staying sharp with the latest updates
2️⃣ Game Off 2024:
🔧 Set up my VS Code environment for the game jam! Ready to dive into some serious coding
3️⃣ Pygame:
📖 Explored the documentation for building more immersive experiences

#github #python #100daysofcode #freeCodeCamp #pygame #365daysofcode #opentocollaborate #round_3_100daysofcode #game_off_2024

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I need you to remember that every one of these book-banning bastards has spent years telling us a child cannot even handle the sight of a drag queen. And now they give us Deep Throat Donny.

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Tool Check

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Not enough of these. (adze re-enactment tool via daegradtools.com)At some point someone dared to wonder, "what if a time-displaced MMA-fightin' Viking orphan became a carpenter's apprentice to Jesus of Nazareth?" and voila, a movie was born! But of all the…

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Kitty eye contact

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#caturday #catsofmastodon

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North Korea's war machine has joined forces with Russia to invade Ukraine.

The response from the West has been muted at best.

Wouldn't now be a great time for the West to give Ukraine the long-range weapons needed to strike the gathering DPRK forces in Russia that are headed to the Ukrainian front lines?
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews #DPRK

#News #Russia #EU #nato #Putin #war #ukraine #BREAKING #press #Zelensky #headline #BreakingNews #DPRK #aurefreepress

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And here The Times misses the essential point: The attack on faculty governance is part and parcel of the right's attack on the university and education. It's not about efficiency.
Professors Are Uniquely Powerful. That May Be Changing. nytimes.com/2024/11/02/us/facu…
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Thank you, Jeff, for continuously showing us examples of how the NYT is just spewing right wing propaganda and/or ignoring facts that are uncomfortable for the right wing.
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they've missed a whole lot of points in the past month. A whole lot.

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"'Y'all Aboard!': The return of Amtrak to the Gulf Coast" youtube.com/watch?v=Qc5ut75YNU… #Trains #Transportation #Alabama #Lousiana #ClimateEmergency #Infrastructure
#alabama #transportation #infrastructure #climateemergency #trains #lousiana
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Women have another option …
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#Gaza #Palestine

Footage shows an Israeli warship, flying both Israeli and Egyptian flags, crossing the Suez Canal. This comes just hours after a statement from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) justified the transit of warships from various nations through the canal.

In an official statement, the SCA reaffirmed its commitment to allowing warships to pass regardless of nationality in accordance with the Convention of Constantinople (Istanbul).

youtube.com/watch?v=ePj4m5-bej…

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#Palestine #Gaza
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I don't trust any news coming from Israel: we all know their disdain and contempt for international norms by now. For all we know, these pilots could be from any where. For example, we know that the US Sec of Defense has announced a consignment of arms to ''the region'' without knowing where exactly. Coming on the back of sending the National Guard to ''Kuwait'' a month before. They think that no one is watching.
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Blocking the channel would be something that would make Israel even more popular.
@Neil

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Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details
Your only mission in this dark, futuristic city builder? Make cool skylines.
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Sort of a Blade runner-inspired Townscaper, will definitely look into it!

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Why? Just why? It's a word predictor. To imbue it with more than that is to do the AI boys' PR for them.
I Took a ‘Decision Holiday’ and Put A.I. in Charge of My Life nytimes.com/interactive/2024/1…
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The reaction to Eliza back in the day should have prepared us for this. Anything more complex than that was bound to be treated as a Delphic oracle, the mechanism down in the pit be damned. And they hate you when you point out the mechanism, even when they understand it, because they are so in love with having an oracle.

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Terraria hits over 60 million sales with Terraria 1.4.5 shaping up to be another big update gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/terr…

#Terraria #Gaming

#terraria #gaming

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But what about Cross Play? I want to play with my kids between steamdeck and switch. The wiki said it would be available sometime after 1.4.5 has some patches or something.

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Getting out the college vote: It's more crucial - and complicated - than ever (Zachary Schermele/USA Today)

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VOTE OF OUR LIFETIME!

66,741,968 mail-in and early in-person votes cast NATIONALLY as of Saturday, November 2, 2024

The Presidential, Senate and House Races all have razor-thin margins.

The most consequential event of the year demands your action on Tuesday!

COUNTRY OVER POLITICS!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #HarrisWalz #USA #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #vote2024

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#politics #News #USA #uspol #USPolitics #BREAKING #press #headline #BreakingNews #vote2024 #aurefreepress #harriswalz

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It is actually Irish.

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Falls der (Fach-)Arzttermin nur über #Doctolib vereinbart werden kann, geht anschließend wie folgt vor: Fordert zunächst eine Datenauskunft gemäß Art. 15 DSGVO an und veranlasst danach die Löschung eurer Daten gemäß Art. 17 DSGVO. Jedes Mal. Wirklich jedes Mal. Geht ganz einfach über Datenanfragen! 👇

datenanfragen.de/

#doctolib
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Hab Antwort bekommen:

Guten Tag Vorname Nachname,

vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.

Ihre Rechte als betroffene Person können Sie nach Art. 12 ff. DSGVO gegenüber dem jeweils Verantwortlichen der Datenverarbeitung geltend machen. Als Verantwortlicher der Datenverarbeitung verarbeitet Doctolib die Daten, die an Doctolib im Zusammenhang mit der Einrichtung eines persönlichen Nutzerkontos übermittelt wurden. Für die Zuordnung Ihres Namens zu einem Nutzerkonto benötigen wir

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Danke für den Tip!

Bei der #Datenauskunft zu unterschiedlichen Anbietern

...wie #Amazon, #PayPal, #DeutscheBahn, ...

...und der Auflösung bzw. Löschung der entsprechenden Konten, habe ich den Service von Datenanfragen.de e. V. genutzt.

datenanfragen.de/

Echt toll, dass es diese Initiative gibt! 🙂👍🏻

Ein paar Klicks und die #DatenHygiene ist abgeschlossen 😀

#cloudexit #amazonexit

#amazon #Paypal #DeutscheBahn #datenauskunft #cloudexit #datenhygiene #amazonexit
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