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Freedom of the Press

Journalists: Send us examples of your stories being censored (like this) by Meta in the last year, whether on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads.

404media.co/facebook-is-censor

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Jim Stormdancer

I've seen a number of people confused about this, so I did some research. Here are the most important answers:
- The moose want to lick your car because it has salt on it
- It's bad for the moose to lick your car because it will become accustomed to being around humans
- To stop the moose from licking your car, drive away

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Cat Hicks

The pragmatics of running schools is just beyond some people. Think about your own attention span and how much you as an adult with adult resources probably still can struggle with unstructured time. If kids struggle to teach themselves from textbooks why wouldn't they struggle with chat apps. Just ludicrous to me how little curiosity we have about the human mind

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@grimalkina I struggle with unstructured time more as an adult. The key thing is that almost no matter how I use that time, I will find a way to feel (usually slightly, but still) bad about it. That never happened when I was a kid, I would just play or read or do whatever I wanted! Of course I can't say how much of it was beneficial, but some learning happened (dinosaurs, planets, that kind of thing 😅).

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joene 🏴🍉

I forgot the Matrix-fan-boys (not the film). Tech-bros incoming. 🛡️

Seriously. If I can get my 82 year old parents successfully use @signalapp (incl. account creating / onboarding) successfully for a long time now, it's a WhatsApp alternative. Period. People are maybe going to install one extra IM-app (if they keep WhatsApp) on their phone. If they see that only 1 or 2 people are using an IM-app, they won't use it and because Signal already has a critical number of users, it's the only one people keep. The race for thé #WhatsApp alternative is between #Signal and #Telegram. So let's hope it will be Signal. 🙏

All other gadgets have their own use-case, but not for my old parents, the sport instructor, your new girlfriend or your irritating little nephew.

But I really hope Signal is going into the decentralization game ASAP.

Muting this thread now.

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@carnage4life do you think this is unlikely to apply?
> "Performance-based cuts are often backfilled by Microsoft, so its total head count may not change much."

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Dare Obasanjo

Now that we’re officially into the third year of layoffs in big tech, this does seem like the worst tech job market of this century. Worse thanthe dot com crash (2000 - 2002) and the housing crisis (2007 - 2008).

The question remains whether this is just another boom and bust cycle or whether the industry had a peak caused by ZIRP that it won’t hit again?

businessinsider.com/microsoft-

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Joelle Snowe

hello,

I deleted threads and bluesky.

I'm a trans writer and hairstylist, searching for a more free Internet away from corporate ownership and control.

I like movies, books, music, videogames. all the things. idk, does anyone not like that stuff?

I do not like talking politics very much but being trans makes it kinda hard to avoid, so

*womp womp*

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@jonny that alt text is pure perfection

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jonny (good kind)

all these open issues and missed deadlines can wait because i need to watch the mother fucking movie about the mother fucking boxing kangaroo played by a guy in a kangaroo suit and this is the still they freeze on at the end of the actual tv ad
youtube.com/watch?v=YaE8gZUzwN

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Greg Wilson

Speaking of free speech, Facebook is deleting internal posts criticising it for adding UFC president Dana White to its board (you know, the guy caught on video hitting his wife). Facebook is also deleting internal employee posts asking why the first ones were deleted. 404media.co/facebook-deletes-i

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@djspiewak yeah, with weather forecasting you definitely would want more accurate or farther-predicting models. (worse, trading firms, militaries and others probably want forecasts that they then keep secret, spurring the demand further as they make potentially the same forecast unbeknownst to each other)

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Daniel Spiewak

@spoltier What this actually makes me think about though is how many more problems are like this? Clearly there's nothing particularly special about real-time graphics rendering: it just happens to be a classical approach which is being significantly augmented by a learned one. Maybe weather forecasting is another good near-term exemplar?

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@djspiewak interesting point. The potential rebound effects (more demand because it consumes less power) are probably limited by the fact that Nvidia is a monopoly (so they're not passing on those savings to the consumer), and because other factors are limiting the GPU load (like not many 8k displays yet, or it not being worth it to offer ultra high quality graphics if only the latest cards can use it).

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Daniel Spiewak

Framed another way, even though training DLSS probably had a massive carbon footprint, the inference will be applied across every PC gamer who turns it on, and stretched over the lifetime of the GPUs that almost certainly results in a very significant net carbon *savings* on the video game rendering that people were going to do anyway.

So in other words, this is an example of AI significantly reducing net energy usage.

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@jdavidnet it does seem to be focused on the AI use case. I could see it as an inference / finetuning server for a small company or a developer playing around with open models. The announced / rumored price compares favorably to the Mac for that amount of RAM, but of course it is less versatile.
If / when the bubble pops then maybe there's potential for personal use, but not really at its current price.

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Justin D Kruger (he/him)

Ok, but can it run Crisis?

What would you use NVIDIA Digits for? A custom ARM RISC Core + Blackwell AI/ Graphics?

Is this the core of a future gaming console?

Embedded Applications?

#EdgeAI #AIEdge #AI
#AI #NVIDIA
#NvidiaDigits #CES #CES2025

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Allie!

“There’s no way that the world could create another way of programming AI models” -Jensen Huang, overly invested in that outcome.

I’ll bet against that right now with full confidence.

That said, God help anyone who shorted nVidia or buys puts prior to the 2030s.

#ai #nvidia

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Dustin Metzgar

@ColinTheMathmo thanks for introducing me to the word calque.

When searching examples of calques, AI was kind enough to provide me with this gem.

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vruz

@resuna @ColinTheMathmo

"Insidious" is a loanword from French, of Latin root, and "A few fries short of a Happy Meal" is a calque that mirrors "Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank / Ein paar Tassen fehlen im Schrank".

I quite liked Colin's contribution.

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