Hard Pass

Centrist Democrats are cannot be trusted to stick to their word, they fold on fundamental campaign promises to their constituents almost every chance they get.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/50834

Anti-AI YouTube creator's channel demonitized by YouTube AI. This guy's content, which is mostly concerned with AI, is decent and getting better IMO.

https://bsky.app/profile/1borzoigaming.bsky.social

added image in to post because for some reason it's not showing up in lemmy as an image

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An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

Brings me joy

Crossposted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/60456787

the rubber wrapped around
a thousand miles
of hair thin lines
in the back, there and outside
on heads with one too many eyes

there, back and way out

Now, owner Jon Basso has told SFGATE that Heart Attack Grill’s time has come at the current location, which dates to 2011. “Las Vegas has priced the regular middle-class person out of the opportunity of having a good time,” Basso responded when reached by email. “Our customer base [is] predominantly regular people. The Heart Attack Grill needs to move to a new location.”

As Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence, the tech giant is mandating that more than 7,000 workers must move to new teams, and it’s radically changing some employees’ jobs. The Guardian has also learned that some of these reassigned employees will shift to two new teams: one building AI cloud infrastructure and another that’s building an internal AI agent codenamed Hatch.

Late last week, Meta employees received a notice that engineers had been “selected” for reassignment and would begin reporting to the cloud infrastructure and Hatch teams by the end of this week. Meta made a similar move last month when it reshuffled at least 1,000 engineers on to a new data labeling team called Applied AI, or AAI – at first giving them the option to volunteer, but later telling workers: “Transfers aren’t optional.”

“Our work, infrastructure and our products are fundamentally changing as a result of the continued acceleration of AI,” wrote Peter Hoose, vice-president of production engineering at Meta, in an internal post about the two new teams viewed by the Guardian. “The pace of what we are building is unprecedented, and these are exactly the kind of challenges that define what we do best.”

A Meta employee referenced last month’s reshuffle in a comment on Hoose’s announcement, writing: “Does ‘selected’ imply this is an [Applied AI]-style draft rather than a voluntary move?”

Further proof the Meta doesn't know what the Zuck it's doing. The rebrand has gone swimmingly, given all the time we spend in the legless metaverse.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/13399769

so to anyone who never asked for this, here's my intro into the basics of energy metabolism

in the previous post i discussed why energy metabolism is important in the first case. without energy, nothing moves.

energy in nature basically 100% comes from the sun. Well, it's not 100% actually but pretty close to it. There's some life that can live off of deep sea hydrogen or sulfur or some other mineralic energy sources (deep biosphere) that are of volcanic origin and therefore not sunlight-powered.

but most life lives on or close to the surface and is therefore solar-powered. That's why it makes sense to consider nature's solar panels (yes, they exist) as the first chapter about energy metabolism. Yes, nature has solar panels! They look something like this:

as you can see, they have cables to transport the energy away from the collection site and into the wider plant body. the energy gets then used to grow fruits or the vegetative plant body (stem, branches, roots, ...). the fruits get sometimes eaten by animals, where the energy is used for physical movement and heat. at this point, the energy leaves the domain of nature and returns to the domain of physics (in the form of heat) until it radiates away into outer space through thermal radiation.