Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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13·7 days agoYou posted the album cover of this album (see also: their music video for Stress) but your post text is describing something else? 🤔
how it looks in lemmy-ui (default lemmy web interface) when people do this
@petrescatraian@libranet.de out of curiosity, what client are you using, is it just the friendica web interface? presumably it doesn’t render the image that the post URL points at, which is why you put it again in the body? (or did friendica just do that automatically? 🤔)
38·13 days ago
Interesting that someone like Asimov has not seen how technology would make this possible
He did. A few paragraphs later he says:
Orwell was unable to conceive of computers or robots, or he would have placed everyone under non-human surveillance.
Some recommended reading about George “I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler” Orwell:
- Isaac Asimov’s 1980 review of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list
- https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/George_Orwell
one could say the widespread misperception of who he actually was and what he stood for is rather… orwellian 🙄
1·27 days agoi don’t want to beanplate it but i can’t help but ponder the origins of lemmy’s specific fascination with cans of beans; any details on this cultural lineage would be appreciated.
(fyi icymi 2023’s “I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans” currently remains the most upvoted lemmy post)
anyway:
24·28 days agoan IOF spokesman reposted the photo saying “If this is indeed a real, recent picture, these actions do not align with the IDF’s values and the behavior expected of IDF soldiers”
also it’s from the spammer’s “staging” instance, so the payload is a URL with a staging hostname which doesn’t even resolve 🙄
one of the maps of all time.
sadly this was posted not as a joke but apparently in complete sincerity by an FM radio talk show host with 97k twitter followers, and 19 hours later it has been edited but still not deleted. even more depressing is that most of the hundreds of twitter users replying to it haven’t even noticed that there is anything wrong with the map.
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That website was made by someone suffering from some cognitive dissonance. They correctly observe that LLMs “can produce convincing-sounding information, but that information may not be accurate or reliable” and then somehow immediately afterwards conclude that “summarize this for me” is the type of thing which LLMs “might” be “good at”.
fyi, the commonmark markup used by lemmy has support for alt text which you aren’t using in this post
0·1 month agoWait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, …
which ones are accepted where is... complicated:
from wikipedia:
Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]
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i guess for the majority of people who see it, that is the whole article.
but if you use tor or a VPN maybe you get this instead: