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WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto Technology@lemmy.world•Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturersEnglish21·1 day agoBig corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto News@lemmy.world•Doctors and public health organizations sue Kennedy over vaccine policy change3·3 days agoAnd he has ICE as his new imperial guard, so opponents will start to poison themselves out of windows soon enough.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto Technology@lemmy.world•Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its MistakesEnglish4·4 days agoManagement doesn’t ask people they want to fire is firing them is a good idea. They themselves would lie like crazy to keep their job and assume therefore everything the developers say would be a lie too.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto Technology@lemmy.world•Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its MistakesEnglish5·4 days agoSo some places started forcing developers to use AI with a quota and monitor the usage. Of course the devs don’t go checking each AI generated line for correctness. That’s bad for the quota. It’s guaranteed to add more slop to the codebase.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto World News@lemmy.world•Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientistsEnglish35·4 days agoWithin the universe of plastic chemicals, we’re looking at the last academic count at about 16,000 chemicals that are used or present in plastics."
Dr Symeonides says only one-third of those chemicals appear to have been evaluated for their potential hazard, and about “75 per cent” of those evaluated have been identified as hazardous.
So basically flood the world with chemicals without care if they’re dangerous and be very surprised when bad things happen.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto Technology@lemmy.world•Get Your Filthy ChatGPT Away From My Liberal ArtsEnglish9·4 days agoHa. Intellectual Soylent.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto World News@lemmy.world•Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications | Institut de Ciències del MarEnglish9·4 days agoThat was my physics teacher.
“So materials shrink as they get colder.”
“Ma’am, doesn’t ice expand?”
“We don’t talk about that.”
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto Technology@lemmy.world•AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us.English4·5 days agoLike Musk don’t liking that grok is stating facts going against Musk’s own beliefs and now he’s looking into retraining and reprogramming grok to spout the right ideologies. Having an AI will not save us.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto Technology@lemmy.world•AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us.English1·5 days agoEvery type of AI that was ever made had people saying that this is the one that’ll bring is general intelligence. It’s just a matter of scaling it up further, the hype crashed and there was an AI winter. Now LLM have their own problems scaling up and nothing really indicating it’s anywhere near general intelligence. There isn’t much more data to train them on. And so far, not enough people willing to pay for it. Definitely bubble territory.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto World News@lemmy.world•For the first time, Xi is missing a China-backed BRICS summit. Why?English153·6 days agoThere is a power struggle going on in the CCP and Xi is losing.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto Technology@lemmy.world•‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnoutEnglish115·6 days agoSo they can’t keep selling their soul and dignity without consequences.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto News@lemmy.world•Immigrants with no criminal convictions represent sharpest growth in ICE detention population18·6 days agoNext are journalists, activists (especially leaders/organizers), political opponents and critics. That’s the classics.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto World News@lemmy.world•Kyiv hit by barrage of drone strikes as Putin rejects Trump's truce bidEnglish1·7 days agoThey’ve build their entire regime on appearing strong and threatening others until they’re so scared they do what you want. That’s on a personal, party and country level.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto News@lemmy.world•Trump signs executive order calling for foreign tourists to pay higher national park fees1·8 days ago-
Scare away all the best and brightest of the entire world that you brought to your country to give the competitive edge in science, engineering and tech.
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Make the business climate so uncertain that nobody wants to invest anything in research or build new facilities, except in moving their facilities out of the country
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto World News@lemmy.world•The world's superyachts are getting bigger and bigger. Business is booming, the luxury yacht-industry says. English1·8 days agoBut in reality these things have armor and bullet proof glass. Companies sell systems with disorienting light and sound, sonar and underwater surveillance, anti drone systems and also roaming drones. They’re floating fortresses.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto News@lemmy.world•GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency” in U.S. History0·9 days agoThe goal is to go back to the slave system using some legal trickery and brute force. The money is there to make it happen.
One study I found is where they let people (their control group) check some data about effectiveness of a certain shampoo. They all found the correct answer. Then they let people do the exercise with the exact same data but said it was about gun control. Suddenly a part of the participants failed at basic math and had a lot of rationalizations.
Some folks will not just accept any fact or data that goes against a belief held by their peer group. Giving facts will even be seen as a personal attack.
Brazil already figured out that even with tariffs, Brazil stuff is still cheaper. Production on the USA side hasn’t been great.