Mereo @ Mereo @lemmy.ca

Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source softw

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Indeed. The more unfortunate horror stories people will hear, the more Americans will be against limiting abortions.

In my experience, Firefox is as fast as Chromium and extremely stable. What are the extensions you are using? Perhaps one of them is causing the instability you're mentioning.

I think what people are asking for right now is for studios to take risks and be creative. They want to experience something different. Superheroes and remakes have been done to death to the point that some (myself included) are just saturated.

No. This is becoming rediculous. Stopped being so obsessed with your ex.

It's the internet, you never know. In person, by how the person behaves, you know if he's being sarcastic or not. On the internet, not so much. It's just text and I've seen people who were quite serious.

And... Server is offline...

The title is somewhat misleading:

For now, Mlilo and Dlodlo, are consulting with a slew of workers’ unions as they explore unionization.

In its analysis, the survey credited iPhone's appeal among young people to Apple's premium branding – for the same storage size, an iPhone 14 (128GB) costs 1,250,000 won ($989) compared to the Galaxy S23's 1,150,000 won. Introduction of Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payment service, to Korea earlier this year was cited as another contributing factor.

According to the article, cost is not a factor in their choice as they nearly cost the same.

The price of bottled water went up 50% in prison commissaries across Texas last month. The controversial move has two state agencies pointing the finger at each other as inmates struggle to endure an entrenched and deadly heatwave in facilities without air conditioning. The state raised the price from $4.80 per case (24 bottles) to $7.20 per case on June 27. Commissary vendor Royal Pacific Tea Company requested to raise the prices in March even though it contract was incomplete. The prices were negotiated by the state comptroller's office and appear to be approved by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

“I actually begged him not to [drink the tap water],” said Amy Aguilar, whose loved one is at TDCJ’s Ferguson Unit. Her significant other — whose name she asked TPR to not use — has described the water as “rancid” smelling. And she said she was concerned about the quality. “Do you smell the sewer?” Aguilar said she asked him, “And he goes, 'you kind of just smell it all. It's just this big ole rich mix of rancid smell.' ” Water quality in prisons nationwide have been characterized as very low, due to the age of the facilities and the often remote locations.

Of course, for them, prisoners are subhumans, sigh.

This is a stupid move. It's like Google changing its name to something else. Now everyone says "you need to Google this" instead of "you need to search this on the internet". Twitter has become a recognised brand and tweeting has become a verb in the dictionary. He's destroying years of work. At this point, we can safely say that his behaviour is not rational.

This one has been posted by a bot. A good feature for the bot to have is see if it has already been posted.

I hope that was a sarcasm, if so, add /s.

I'm just so confused by all this. What's his end game? Why doesn't let his IT team handle the redirect as it redirects to .twitter.com which doesn't work. Why X?

I guess a lot of these questions will not be answerable.

Nice setup! What's the monitor?

Mlem is far from 1.0 release. It's extremely choppy compared to 5 other Lemmy clients I'm testing and it has various bugs still such as not handling well going from portrait to landscape. This software still needs much work.

Cool!

Anyway, what were we saying?...

Let it be destroyed. We have a new beautiful girlfriend/boyfriend named Lemmy-Kbin. Let go of your ex and move on, much healthier for you.

Because these machine learning algorithms only put out what they learn so that they can target the right videos to people. In this case, I think people were searching Youtube for these kinds of videos, so Youtube's algorithm suggested them.

I think we are on the same page. There is a sociological concept of Generic Worker and Self-Programmable worker by the sociologist Manuel Castell. The self-programmable workforce is endowed with the ability to retrain and adapt to new tasks, new processes and new sources of information, as technology, demand and management accelerate their pace of change. Generic labor, on the other hand, is exchangeable and disposable, and coexists in the same circuits with machines and unskilled labor from all over the world.

Generic workers are already being replaced by automation (robots), but now LLMs are threatening self-programmable workers. The only way to adapt to the new reality is to become indispensable in training LLMs. It will completely upend the current job market as we know it. And as you said, the danger is if we treat LLMs as generative AIs.

It's on the App store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/memmy-for-lemmy/id6450204299