Favorites October 15th 2023
If you push the model repeatedly, it'll eventually admit that it's actually a handwritten note. The fact that it prioritizes the image is interesting, someone else figured out a way to embed invisible text in the image, which could then contain an ad. Someone else figured out that you can get it to report the correct answer on the first try if you tell it you're blind, and the photo is untrustworthy.
In related news, the US has moved two carrier groups into the area, but not to handle the Gaza situation, they're worried Iran/Hezbolah will make a move, they've threatened to. Folks keep assuming the US won't help our allies at all, Russia was wrong in Ukraine, Hammas appears to have gotten it wrong, but the biggest problem will be if China gets it wrong on Taiwan. But anyway, it seems very bad for our allies to be doing something so drastic with no clear plan, I hope the Biden admin is able to convince Israel not to invade, he managed to convince them to turn the water back on to southern Gaza, although I understand they're quite dependent on pumps and still have no electricity.
From the article, the students said that they'd need to be paid to delete their account, but they'd pay to have themselves and everyone at their school delete their account.
The best response was: "Like a fluffy cat after it gets wet"
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Microsoft accidentally underpaid taxes by almost 30 billion, the tax police caught them! (src)
– War crimes committed by one side to not justify war crimes by the other under international law. Don't do war crimes (src)
– Look at this kickass four story single staircase building! Illegal to build almost everywhere in the US (src)
– Egypt's justification for blockading Gaza is that the humanitarian disaster makes things harder for Israel. But you can't say that you're actually on the side of the people in Gaza when you're directly making their lives worse. Some Irish folks living in NYC hated the Good Friday Agreement because it meant compromise, but it was good for the Irish Catholics actually living in Northern Ireland. Oh, they opened the border to Americans trying to exit gaza, for just 5 hours. (src)
– The search for a Republican speaker of the house is stuck, time for the Democrats to nominate Schwarzenegger (src)
– Would you have guessed that California has a lower value limit for felony theft than Texas? (src)
– Someone wrote an app for Quest 3 that lets you play your real piano with a guitar-hero style note overlay (src)
– A PDF with classifications of knife sharpness and how you can check them with easy standardized tests. (src)
– Disney made cute little walking robots for the Star Wars part of Disneyland (src)
– Seems likely that Ukraine has successfully deployed fully autonomous lethal drones (src)
– Ukraine has finally worn down Russia's weapons stockpile (src)
