"Cow Tools 🐮" : Brown Swiss (cow) in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
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#Cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzeesIan Sample (The Guardian)
From the 17 January edition of The Week:
"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission keeps a database of the various items that people in America have got stuck in their rectums. The most recent
data shows that about 4,000 people (average age: 43) seek hospital treatment for such mishaps per year. Among the items recorded were beard clippers, a sandal, uncooked pasta, a dog chew toy, an egg, a turkey baster, a pair of glasses and a shampoo bottle."
The mind is not the only thing that boggles 😂
I'm not generally a huge user of hashtags, but the mastodon "featured" profile tab is useful, so I'm using a hashtag to group the various threads related to my WIP "The General Theory of Slop" so they're easier to find and follow.
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Earlier today I learned that pip includes a bunch of telemetry data in the HTTP User-Agent header for every request it makes, and has for >10 years (with increasing amounts of info): github.com/pypa/pip/blob/545ed…Not only is this not opt-in (as any telemetry should be), but there isn't even an opt-out. I'm still shocked and not sure what conclusions to draw from this, except: This is not okay!
I remember there was quite an uproar when Go tried to add opt-out telemetry a while back, and rightly so. How did I never hear about Python doing this before? Sure, less details, but still sending telemetry without ever asking for consent.
I like #Python, I want to keep using it, but can I if core tooling ignores user consent like this? And what other key development tools (Python or otherwise) have things like that and I just haven't noticed yet?
The Python package installer. Contribute to pypa/pip development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Yeah, tool and version should be fine, that's to common expectation of what's in a User-Agent. Certainly debatable if it was ever a good idea, but it's from times when the internet seemed less dangerous (whether it was… not sure).
I've seen some documentation on how to access the data (requires a Google account, though), but the thing that's bothering me is that they collect it without consent in the first place. And there isn't even an opt-out (which I'd still consider problematic, but at least it'd show they considered user privacy).
The U.K. government is warning of continued malicious activity from Russian-aligned hacktivist groups targeting critical infrastructure and local government organizations in the country in disruptive denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++ - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayerGitHub
OpenAI defines their mission as creating "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work."
We need to flip this framing.
The economy is best understood as the way humans divide up the work, and distribute the results.
1/4
Unless the supply of that product can be somehow constrained by way of legal or economic restrictions, this means the price will drop.
What makes work economically valuable is that it is performed by humans.
3/4
AI captions do not conform to #WCAG they usually require a lot of work to make them usable
The highest-risk areas for real harm are: (1) named entities/numbers, (2) multi-speaker attribution, (3) timing/readability, and (4) hallucinated “corrections.”
#deaf #multimedia #justsayin #a11y
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.
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In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
The Digital Domain returns tonight!
How did you spend the first few weeks of the year?
Bob has stoned AI fun, but are there places where it's not as smart as he thinks it should be?
Bob finally got his speaker!
7 PM EST!
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A US Marine, traveling home after a tour of Iraq just before Thanksgiving, boarded an extremely overcrowded Amtrak train heading west from Penn Station. He searched up and down the carriages for a seat, but the only one available was being occupied by a fancy French woman’s poodle.
The Marine coughed politely and said,
“Ma’am, would you please place your dog on the floor so I can sit down?”
Without even looking up, she sniffed and muttered,
“You Americans are so very rude. Can’t you see my little girl Trixy-Woo is using that seat?”
Exhausted, the Marine walked the length of the train again - still no seat. He returned and asked once more,
“Please, ma’am. I’m really tired. Could you move your dog so I can sit?”
She laughed and said loudly,
“Not only are you Americans rude, but also pig-headed and arrogant as well!”
That was it.
As the train had not yet left the station, the Marine picked up the poodle, dropped it out the window onto the platform, and sat down.
The woman shrieked, “Is there any man here who will defend my honor? This American thug must be put in his place!”
A well-dressed, refined Englishman sitting nearby calmly looked up and said to the Marine,
“Sir, I find you Americans do many things the wrong way. You prefer coffee over tea, drive on the wrong side of the road… and now it seems -
You’ve thrown the wrong bitch out the window.”
The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota -- one of the protest’s organizers -- shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting
“ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.”
The 37-year-old mother of three was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month amid a surge in federal immigration enforcement activities.
The protesters allege that one of the church’s pastors
— David Easterwood
— also leads the local ICE field office overseeing the operations that have involved violent tacticsand illegal arrests.
Nekima Levy Armstrong,
who participated in the protest and leads the local grassroots civil rights organization
"Racial Justice Network",
dismissed the potential DOJ investigation as a sham and a distraction from federal agents’ actions in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
“When you think about the federal government unleashing barbaric ICE agents upon our community
and all the harm that they have caused,
to have someone serving as a pastor who oversees these ICE agents, is almost unfathomable to me,”
said Armstrong,
who added she is an ordained reverend.
“If people are more concerned about someone coming to a church on a Sunday and disrupting business as usual than they are about the atrocities that we are experiencing in our community,
then they need to check their theology and they need to check their hearts.”
apnews.com/article/minnesota-i…
Happy Martin Luther King Jr day. He said so many profound things and taught us so many valuable lessons, but this is the quote that resonates strongest with me. To me, it’s even more important than ever when we all have the potential to be keyboard warriors and spread global disharmony with a few key presses. But in any aspect of life, they are words to keep in mind when we feel we have been wronged and the poison of vengeance is pulsing through our veins.
"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
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It's the year 2046.
The only two remaining political parties are Accept and Ask Me Later.
Everyone is losing.
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Si he solicitado [el alta de] asistencia sanitaria a une cónyugue, alrededor de cuantos días laborales se puede demorar [en aparecer como beneficiarie]?
Pregunto esto para españa.
Compartid porfi. Si me dais cifras de 2025 o cercanas me sirve, para hacerme una idea de como está el panorama.
me refiero a lo siguiente:
doy de alta a une cónyugue como beneficiarie, y quiero saber cuanto se demora en el le den el alta para que me aparezca en la lista de beneficiaries
I watched the first two episodes of Starfleet Academy, after consciously trying to stay out of the Star Trek fandom's catastrophising about it, as well as avoiding the obvious attempts at pre-emptively shit on it by the chuds, and I have some thoughts about the series.
I don't know if this effort will pan out, and we're going to get a long running series with a rotating cast going farther into the future, like the showrunners seem to indicate. At this point, just like with Discovery, I value a lot more a valiant effort even if that may ultimately fall short, than a safe bet on whatever grimdark slop they'll give us next if things don't change.
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