HeartyBeast

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Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If the police lose, you really lose

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly worried about an OpenAI deal with Apple in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

Orcas are still smashing up boats – and we've finally worked out why in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Let’s go clubbing

German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

The level of engagement on Reddit these days in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

The level of engagement on Reddit these days in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

George Lucas Says Ideas in the Original “Sort of Got Lost” in Post-Disney ‘Star Wars’ Films (Gee, you think?) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Absolutely - more about Midichlorians, I say!

Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

Platipus doesn't have a stomach, why? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

So was this written by AI or someone who can’t really write English?

'Megalopolis': Francis Ford Coppola on the conspiracy of bad reviews in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If you are asked about bad reviews directly, you can’t exactly ‘no comment’ them. His response is basically ‘it’s not a conventional film’ is a perfectly reasonable one, I think.

Who knows how this will turn out

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For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one (www.independent.co.uk)
 

‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say

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CDC Warns of Cow-to-Human Transmission of H5N1 Bird Flu in Texas (scitechdaily.com)
 

A Texas farm worker contracted H5N1 from dairy cattle, indicating a new route of transmission for the virus, which has a high mortality rate and diverse symptoms in humans. The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert after the first case of H5N1 a

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Cern: Scientists search for mysterious ghost particles (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.

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Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO (arstechnica.com)
 

If you've posted on Reddit, you're likely feeding the future of AI.

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Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable (www.quantamagazine.org)
 

The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

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Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit (apnews.com)
 

A jury said Mann was defamed 12 years ago when a pair of conservative writers compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.

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Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Nuclear fusion still remains a long way off but brings the world one step closer to endless clean energy.

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IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS (www.theregister.com)
 

AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow.

AWS cited increasing scarcity and claimed the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address for customer use had risen more than 300 percent over the past few years.

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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
 

US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

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Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
 

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

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It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew (arstechnica.com)
 

Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined.

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Apple says UK could 'secretly veto' global privacy tools (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

A law change to let the government block new features would be an "unprecedented overreach," it says.

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