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you can really tell who doesn't have an actual job by their stance on pangram
Pangram cannot tell the difference between AI-generated and AI-edited text. It has no clue where the actual ideas come from. Yet people weaponize that "100%" label to shame writers and wreck careers, hitting vulnerable people the hardest.
It is the exact opposite of everything we’ve spent years teaching about ethical AI deployment.
The irony is that Pangram's founder is drinking so much of his own Kool-Aid that he gets mad when committees rightfully ignore his meaningless label.
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Seeing a lot of deeply condescending “content” recently that’s like “Flannery O’Connor is Dostoyevsky for girls!”
But what if Dostoyevsky is also Dostoyevsky for girls and O’Connor is also O’Connor for boys? What if we all grew up a little bit?
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most responses to the criticisms voiced in this article seem to be hostile because they think they're women voicing an innate resentment of young boys but that's a misreading imo, what they're really saying is that Hatchet doesn't encourage any intellectual growth by design
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Attacking non-critical consumer-facing infrastructure - like grocery stores - with pre-warned and limited scope cyber attacks is the best way to convince your population they need to harden their society.
It's really classic Ender's Game - you only get to use the weapon once, it has to destroy the enemy completely.
Real catastrophe is not spoiling meat, its multi-megawatt turbines that go beyond safe RPM, critical valves in chemical refining that report the wrong position, air traffic control networks.
Destruction of hard infrastructure that is replaceable on a year-to-decade timescale. Like a water treatment plant, transformer station, airport, and so on.
Food is the most high throughput thing in our society besides gasoline. It has a residency time of a few days on shelves, and so any total loss of inventory is recoverable on the scale of a week.
UPDATE: The European refrigeration cyberattack has now reached Italy and Romania, bringing the total to at least 10 countries affected across Europe.
In Italy, several Coop stores in Sicily were hit, including at least three in Catania and one in Palermo. In Romania, at least six stores have reportedly been affected.
Some affected businesses have yet to publicly disclose the incidents, meaning the actual number of countries and locations impacted could be even higher.
The full scale of this cyberattack remains unknown.
Countries affected so far: 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇴 Romania
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Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750), still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands who specialized in flowers, achieving international fame in her lifetime #WomensArt
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Re: the perpetual “how do people read so many books?” discourse:
Average person reads 1 page per minute and if we call the average book 365 pages (it’s probably less) then you will average 1 book per year for each minute you devote to reading each day. Pretty simple.
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We often talk about literacy in relation to art, and yes, very important for that. But also important for more prosaic things like leases, contracts, and policies.
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I can’t wait to read everyone’s secret poetry
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me staying home all day: The world is evil and nobody deserves anything
me after 30 minutes on the train and 10 minutes walking outside: Evetybody in the world is Beautiful
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America: We need to kill the humanities so we don’t lose the AI race to China
China: Every child shall read Jane Eyre
ALT New York Times headline about how Jane Eyre is now mandatory reading for ninth graders in China
