The light colored irises make the pupils prominent, but they don’t seem constricted which I associate with anger- and fear-type reactions. This reads calmer to me, maybe curiosity?

Beautiful functionality. All that wing and feet and vision system!

A Reuters analysis found the ​image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools.

I suspect some low-level staffer used a joke prompt, maybe expecting it to be flagged early on, and it escalated up the presentation life cycle through multiple layers of people who didn’t know or care.

Like many languages, languages of the Bible like Hebrew and Greek have grammatical genders. The aspect of God that smites things is grammatically male. The aspect of God that conveys spiritual strength - usually translated as “the Holy Spirit” - is grammatically female. Progressive movements of Protestantism and Judaism see God as both genders: one of the two creation stories in Genesis states God created man AND woman in God’s image. The focus on the male aspect of God, and the second creation story in Genesis with the rib thing, is a conservative movement hang-up and not a general religion thing.

There was a reddit scandal last year where the mods of the ChangeMyMind sub agreed to let an AI lab research what arguments people on the sub found persuasive by writing fake responses. Claiming to be from an impacted group turned out to be a top persuasion factor.

It’s not like it gets a majority of people. But if you can peel one percent off with one campaign, then those people’s connections can start to see that side of the argument as more human due to the in-person exposure, and the next campaign can peel off another one percent - it adds up over time.

Not at customs. Courts have consistently held warrantless searches are a-ok before you are officially admitted entry to the country.

The intent of the law was to have something to charge corporate fraudsters with if they destroyed the accounting records with proof of their fraud when served a warrant. Or illegal drug manufacturers destroying their chemlab. Ownership of the property doesn’t come into it.

The envisioned cases were always domestic crime investigations where there was already enough evidence to get a warrant. The application at customs where they don’t need a warrant is the novelty, and I really hope the government loses its case.

If the job need is for someone to maintain Linux servers running services that have to interface with Windows servers for related services, someone unwilling to interface with Windows could be a bad fit. Might have been a good choice for both sides to not continue with the interview.

And differences in average upper body strength between men and women are used to deny women work in jobs that involve lifting things. It can be done in a misogynist way like a blanket ban, or it can be done in a more knowledge-seeking way like requiring a physical therapist to evaluate lifting ability as part of the hiring process and only accepting candidates that can safely lift 50 pounds or whatever. There are structural incentives for the blanket ban in the form of the extra cost, time, and overhead management of the physical therapist evaluation program, but it has benefits of ruling out unusually unfit men who would likely get injured on the job as well as expanding the candidate pool to include unusually fit women.

I don’t know what the equivalent to a professional evaluation of lifting ability would be to certify someone as SafeToDate.

The framing that I learn from all the work projects that lose out to the fire of the day really helps me stress less over all the unfinished work. I am better able to do the initial evaluation efficiently and stop working at an earlier stage on things with cost/benefits ratios that don’t justify, and more likely to successfully identify fixes when projects that do justify coalesce.

Would still be nice to fix all the things I know are broken, but I am mostly at peace with the system as it is.

It takes only a small amount of risk to make an activity a bad choice. If 5% of people who walk through a neighborhood are mugged, anyone with a choice will avoid walking in that neighborhood, even though an overwhelming majority of 95% would be fine.

The calculation around dating is similar. If there is a 3% chance going somewhere private with a guy would result in nonconsensual sexual activity, it’s not worth doing. Not fair for the 97% or whatever of guys who have normal behavior boundaries, but life isn’t fair.

Targeted import taxes to compensate for companies getting subsidies from their government fosters competition. Blanket banning all imports removes competition and results in poor quality expensive products. Good for the local companies but bad for consumers.

But “targeted” is too complicated for many people. A ban is easier to understand, and gets a lot more vibe support.

Yes! Differentiating hangry from true disagreeableness could really help prevent misunderstandings.

Ha! One point owl, but both teams are still in the game. More exciting plays on both sides to come :)

It’s interesting to see them just kinda spread out without a noticeable nest-type structure. Google AI says this species looks for somewhere with a 360 view to keep their chicks. Neat that strategy works for them.

Thanks for the kind thoughts, stranger. It was eighteen years ago now, and I am glad to have been here for those years!

It’s only the marrow that is wet. The structural part of the bone is non-absorbent.

The marrow can exert a lot of pressure. Many years ago, I had to have chemotherapy, and in between chemo rounds got marrow-stimulating shots to make the marrow ooze blood more and reduce the amount of time I was anemic. The associated pain in my large bones was the worst pain I have ever had.

Many years ago, I had to have a central line (semi-permanent IV to a large vein) for a while. Whenever a nurse flushed my line with saline, the tastebuds in my mouth felt like they were tasting salt. Our body wiring connects in strange ways.

If it didn’t get clicks, and the associated ad revenue, it wouldn’t be so widespread.

Taking notes for reference seems like a use AI is halfway decent at. Going by your surprise at its use, they aren’t using it wholesale for things it’s bad at. Seems like good judgement on the part of your developer.