This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

so in researching how few solar panels are needed to completely cover AC for a house (answer: maybe 5ish?) I have now been driven insane by how many times I saw this, INCLUDING ON MANUFACTURER WEBSITES

this is probably a case of me not being smart enough, but I really don’t understand how the line of reasoning from quantum superpositions => failures of classical logic is supposed to work

logging on every day for my shift at the post office

huh, every state and country has a number weirdly close to 50%, even though they have very different income levels and costs of living, and have for more than a decade, how strange…

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

A common feature im noticing is rather than left wing populism being about a belief that the govt can produce material wealth via centralization its just about the idea that market constraints arent real

Others have said it so weighing in to agree: I think it's an interesting fact for, I dunno, comparative study of varieties of conservatism, that there's plenty of good conservative artists out there but none for the currently ascendant populist variety. It in particular seems distinctively anti-art.

One of the biggest shocks of my adult life was realizing there's a hidden division in society between people who think certain acts - cruelty, torture, murder - are inherently wrong, versus the majority of people who think there are no wrong actions, just incorrect targets.

I don't think listening to an audiobook is reading, and that's fine

relatedly, you note that the fact that something is F doesn’t imply it’s G, and you illustrate that with an example of something that’s F but not G, and then someone responds that your example is different from the original with respect to some other property H

was listening to a podcast while driving and it had an ad with a car horn sound effect, which genuinely seems like it should be illegal

Their new girlfriend is women

"Cars can travel at 70mph" "No, this is a category mistake: to say that a thing *travels* is essentially to ascribe it agency, intentionality, even consciousness; a thing cannot travel if it has no mind to be broadened..."

there’s a thing you get here (and honestly in a lot of places) where you’ll say “this premise doesn’t imply this conclusion” and someone will try to rebut you by bringing up a completely different premise

I get and probably agree with a version of what they’re saying, but doesn’t follow from the fact that a system doesn’t know what truth is that you cant learn the truth from it. thermometers don’t know anything about truth, but they still tell you truths about the temperature

this isn’t true. Trump can do whatever he wants and a Democratic president can’t because the institutions that check presidential power have been captured by Republicans. it’s really not that complicated

these guys sell themselves as good with women and yet any man who's actually hung out with women would know the answer's obvious

trying to figure out how to do a thing in latex, figured I'd see if anyone here has thoughts

not sure how much of this is goodhart’s law and how much of it is “you gave a bunch of nerds a silly optimization challenge”

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

not the most important detail, but was struck by this bit where he gets the classic example of a loaded question wrong such that it no longer carries the presupposition that makes denial difficult

why does he look like he’s on the verge of tears

lol I’ve had this same thought almost verbatim

give people stuff and take credit for it

I somehow missed it when it was popular but this comes on at work and it drives me nuts bc it’s about how much he loves his girlfriend but then the chorus is a sample of the first two lines of Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” and I’m like, did you not actually listen to the words?

ok, so I understand why in the Lion King remake they recast a bunch of white actors with black actors, but then for Zazu, Timon, and Pumba they just recast with…other white actors? even though the original actors are still perfectly capable of performing the roles?

really resent how helpful google’s ai summaries actually have been in figuring out latex stuff

I don't really understand why new construction installs AC but not heat pumps (especially in the south). a heat pump unit isn't much more expensive than an AC unit???

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

these are overlapping groups??

look, Amadeus is problematic in how it perpretuates myths ab out Mozart's genius and genius in general, but as someone who's had the opportunity to interact with people I'd consider geniuses, it *is* a genuinely distinct experience and one that the film really captures

a fun detail here is that the Southern Baptist Convention’s official statements about why gender is important and immutable pretty clearly imply God doesn’t have one

a fun detail here is that the Southern Baptist Convention’s official statements about why gender is important and immutable pretty clearly imply God doesn’t have one

ngl I think we as a society need to take more seriously that not paying public servants upper-class salaries creates really bad incentives

I like the idea that Hutts are like any immigrant family and Jabba refuses to speak anything but Huttese at home and his kids are like jacked zoomers that are a full foot taller than him and only speak Huttese specifically when explaining how the Samsung remote works on the phone.

so, uh, about that attempted assasination that was gonna be the administration's reichstag moment...

always so satisfying to look up my issue and find Augustine fretting over it. that's right Nerd I'm onto you

other things aside, I'm somewhat stuck on the implied complaint about Nintendo's release schedule

last couple of years there was quite a bit of news coverage in NC of the controversy over Lumbee tribal status, and a very weird thing about that coverage is that it was rarely made clear that the controversy is that they probably aren’t Native American

my basic take on land-acknowledgements is “if there’s an actual tribe that has requested them you should do it, otherwise it’s weird”

if there’s a pet I feel like you should need a license to buy it’s basically any kind of bird

it’s funny how I’m way less of an AI doomer than most folks here but also personally don’t use it basically at all, even in cases where it could be useful, and find it mostly aesthetically highly unpleasant

I think this is extremely unlikely to happen that often

heartwarming: local man doesn’t commit grand larceny

it’s cute that human beings are so into each other. perking up every time a new one walks into the room and such. we’re like dogs seeing other dogs on the sidewalk

heartwarming: local man doesn’t commit grand larceny

Maybe I’m just a reactionary Luddite refusing to embrace the glorious clanker future but I think Walmart should be prosecuted for fraud.

it is telling that hip hop, the popular music genre of at least the last 100 years that most emphasizes demonstration of the songwriter/performer's intelligence, ever got stereotyped as anti-intellectual