Mentioning here that the dev’s objection to F-Droid was that they marked the Holy Bible as “NSFW” would’ve saved us all a click.

Those licenses are not free or open source, and thus it is not relevant to this community.

It’s gambling all the way through, but sure enough there’s some amount of information to be found in the way people are betting.

As I understand it, the psychology of other participants does come into it in much the same way it does in a poker game or the stock market. One doesn’t strictly bet on the outcome of events — in all such markets that I heard about positions can be taken up and then sold for profit as opinion shifts, before the predictions are ever constrained by actual outcomes.

The goal of “prediction” markets is to make money for the people who operate them. But sometimes they’re right anyway.

Don’t laugh.

Oh I’m not laughing. They’re really pulling out all the stops to try and lose, and it’s appalling.

AI did not do it. People did it, and used “AI” as a convenient excuse.

The western world has also had evidence about these adverse effects for a long time.

The Buddhist world has had evidence for a much longer time about all the crazy shit that can happen along the way as you begin to discover mindfulness. You might want to talk to some people at the temple about it before you spend too many hours sitting zazen style.

If God wills it the real odds were 100%, so double that can only mean we get two Jesus at once! Hallelujah!

I’d like to think there’s at least a chance that they meant it in an “actually, this is The Onion” way.

The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be

Kind of them to get that out of the way in the first sentence. No further reading required.

Somebody, somewhere, is updating their list of all the old pre-fascism movies and TV shows that will need to be erased from the culture.

LLMs don’t know much about any people other than authors and fictional characters. Well, until quite recently at least: The next model will know the most intimate thoughts of millions of AI-obsessed humans.

Yes, that is the novel usage of the word I’m complaining about. It was not common 30 years ago.

Things must be getting pretty desperate in Russia. But I continue to have a suspicion that this trend of calling teenagers “children” in English is unintentionally erasing the whole concept of childhood. That they’re not children doesn’t make 16-year-olds getting pushed by their parents into arranged marriages any less horrifying.

As a joke it probably would’ve been more funny if it weren’t for all the reporting about how they were deporting people for posting JD Vance memes and are now demanding to see everyone’s social media accounts at the border.

Nonsense!? I found Jesus Christ Superstar to be quite theologically sound. My Catholic grandmother agrees.

They may have a point. Not just any form of government has the kind of moral and practical strength it takes to ban the word for ass.

Shouldn’t be a problem, considering that AI is so great that obviously in the future everybody will want to use it for everything they do all the time at any cost.

Apple hardware is typically more difficult to install linux on, and is therefore less useful. I mean you can do it in many cases from what I hear, but I think it’s still not easy on average.