@nereikia, geras, ne, nemačiau. 😂
Bet įtariu, kad čia labiau pokštas, negu defoltinis australų žemėlapis?

@Tropezz, iš pusmetrio atstumo lašinais? 😀 @mcSlibinas

Truputį neįprastas žemėlapis kaip europiečiui.

@saint @kestutisk @kroitus, jau laukiu, kol upės staffas patvirtins paskyrą. 😁

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- What is the [American] most popular sport?
- American Lawsuits.
- Correct!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xp-5OwqSuAs

How is it that within 10 minutes of the Online Safety Act, Ofcom is investigating 34 porn sites, yet in 30 years of disability legislation in the UK there hasn't been a single instance of case law for websites or apps because the EHRC has signally failed to support people with disabilities even when there is a strong case to be made? 😩

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2xx6z6eko

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: #Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before #Trump took office.

#ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

#News #Government #HumanRights #Police #Courts #Politics

https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/

This conversation made me laugh

Lifes #keistamintis #hertaburbe #comicsstrip #caricature

so the other day i was watching a video about the climate impact of ai and it was overall pretty good, but one part has been nagging at me for the past few days: they compared the carbon intensity of llm text generation with that of a human, or more precisely with the proportion of the yearly co2 footprint of a single person over the time needed to write that amount of text.

and already this is a weird thing to do, for one because that "hour of co2 spent" doesn't just go away if the person doesn't write that text, they'll just do something else with that time; and also because (unbalanced) co2 emissions aren't an innate part of human existence: our species has existed for many millennia without them, and will hopefully manage to attain many such millennia more in the future.

but on a deeper level, writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. there is nothing extra there, no filler. i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.

and sure, there is a lot of text that is not written with this kind of goal. but then, perhaps, we should ask why it has to be written in the first place; and if the cost of that might be higher than just the co2 that is attributable to its creation. in a similar vein, neither should we forget to ask whether those texts that are now written by ai would indeed otherwise have been written by humans, or if there isn't an awful lot of text produced now that simply no one would have spent their time writing before.

"Dear Website User,

Under the new Australian Age Verification system, we used your passport and/or driver's license details to validate you were over 16.

Recently we were compromised and our poorly secured database was siphoned off by a script kiddie and is now available on the dark web [a mysteriously named thing that should inspire terror].

We are advising you to please consider moving, selling your car, and going through a Ratified Religion Rebirth Ceremony so you can change your date of birth.

Thank you, as always, for using our Highly Secure Services."

Sprendimas priimtas pačiu laiku. Pasidarė trijų dienų savaitgalį, galės rimtai aplaistyti visas prarastas biznio galimybes. O pirmadienį vietoj premjero pxpalucko jau bus privatus pilietis pachmieluckas.

#LTPol

A father clutching his child, sprinting for shelter.
Two elderly persons doubled over in grief on a shattered Kyiv street.

This is Russia’s war on civilians—deliberate, relentless, and criminal.
Homes reduced to rubble, lives erased in seconds.

It is terror, not war.

Photo: Yan Dobronosov