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@beardalaxy Or they should stop discarding reports from English speakers.

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Brian Merchant summarizes his reasoning for why the Generative AI hype is now beginning to implode.

"One persisting headache will be generative AI being wielded as job automation technology. It’s going to remain as a threat to artists and creatives because it really can cheaply pump out derivative images and text. The tech companies may lean further into enterprise use cases, insisting it can generate efficiencies if employees are properly trained to use it, for a while yet. It will be used to flood social media with dumb and occasionally disorienting images. And the AI companies may increasingly lean on winning military and government contracts, where a lack of results can be better obfuscated or at least play out over a longer period. So for all those concerned with the deleterious impacts of generative AI, we’re definitely not out of the woods yet."

(Original title: The great degeneration: Is this the beginning of the end of the AI boom?)

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@lanodan CS job market sucks right now. It looks like those with CS degrees are working in IT for the time being.

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October could be one of the most tumultuous months that we have seen in a really long time. Here are some things to look out for.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/3-major-problems-which-are-looming-over-the-u-s-as-the-month-of-october-begins.html
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The number of scams involving precious metals is proliferating. Criminals have always targeted gold and silver because pretty much nothing is easier to fence at or near full market value. Con artists know the promise of gold can play to a victim’s greed.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/sophisticated-scammers-using-gold-to-fleece-americans-for-everything.html
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With inflation at a high, the dollar losing its purchasing power, average people are losing faith in the financial system altogether.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/goldbacks-arent-just-as-good-as-gold-theyre-better.html
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Just in case getting supplies isn’t expensive enough (or difficult enough in the areas hit by Hurricane Helene), now the dockworkers from Maine to Texas have gone on strike.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/10/heres-how-the-dockworkers-strike-could-affect-us.html
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It seems like Godot lost funding, after the recent controversy, despite gaining 11 backers.

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Lets start with all the amendments after 10, then in 5 years we can revisit and see if we want to go further.
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developer politics are tiring I think a lot of devs just want to tinker cool shit. which is why they just hired someone else to manage the people.

it's annoying that we have to basically employ counter extremists now
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You can’t see it, or smell it, or taste it, and nor can children, but lead could be causing a host of detrimental effects on kids. Moreover, no one knows how many public schools don’t have safe drinking water.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2024/09/how-much-lead-is-in-school-drinking-water-alarmingly-no-one-knows.html

@beardalaxy It's honestly a type of sponsorship that I gave zero shits about. The game can never interest me in the slightest no matter how hard they shill it. But I honestly don't care if YouTubers or other content creators sponsor it.

I honestly prefer that over people shilling VPNs that are known honeypots or meal-replacement drinks with known toxins.

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so apparently raid shadow legends sponsorships were like $10-$20 thousand. that's insane. i don't blame youtubers for taking that deal at all.

@beardalaxy I can't believe you didn't realize that until now. I've always argued that it's part of the reason why Nintendo doesn't know what to do with the series anymore. The other part was that, along with F-Zero, the series started off as an over-glorified tech-demo.

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The Irish Government has announced it is scrapping its plans to introduce significant updates to Ireland’s existing hate speech laws, as there is not enough support for the proposed legislation.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/09/new-hate-speech-laws-scrapped-in-ireland.html
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