I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.
They also devour my dreams.
I’d recommend things based on stuff they like to read/watch in other media, so I don’t have a single must-watch.
That said my initial picks would be Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Spy x Family, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Nichijou. Perhaps Log Horizon? EDIT: Uzumaki for people who are into suspense/horror.
I think the text leaves the worst parts out: assumptions, decontextualisation, faulty reasoning, focusing on individual words instead of what they mean, and things like this. As in, issues with that part of comprehension that depends on logic, not on language proficiency.
All of those were already a problem before chatbots. But since chatbot output is really bad at those things, I think increased exposure to chatbots might make the problem worse.
[François] The revived people of South America helped me to learn it [Spanish]
Things like this are the ones that make me like the least this part of the series. It shows how much they rushed research.
There’s no way they’d learn Spanish in Araxá, most of the population there speaks Portuguese. In fact, I don’t even know why they decided to mine niobium there, if they entered SA through the Amazon river delta; for reference they’re further from each other (2000km) than Berlin from Moscow. Plus there are niobium deposits in the Amazon basin, smaller and less profitable but still enough for their purposes.
And the whole idea of going to Catalunya feels silly. There are some fluorite deposits in Sant Cugat del Vallès but they’d need to walk something like 15km from the coast, on a rather hilly terrain. Transport is hard. There are better deposits in Asturias, by the coast, but no olives. But you know, where there are fluorite deposites near the coast? And olives? Tunisia. Plus dates; amazing travel food, tasty even if dried for long-term storage, and with a high caloric content. I should stop chewing on those everyday, though. They certainly don’t help with my weight.
Those things don’t make me say “bleeergh, I’ll drop it!”, but come on… it’s a stain in a series that shone because of all the research behind it. Granted, mostly Chemistry, but still.
If you develop some feature (or bug!) of course some people will find a decent way to use it. That doesn’t mean the feature should be there on first place, specially when the possibility of abuse is so obvious. Plus if the pressure behind this anti-feature was “only” single page applications, and nothing else, I bet it would be implemented in a different way.
Also, look at the big picture. In isolation, one could argue giving pages access to your browsing history was a necessary albeit poorly thought feature; but when you look at other stuff browsers nowadays are supposed to do, you notice a pattern:
Are you noticing it? All those “features” are somewhat useful, but with such obvious room for abuse it would be insane to add them, in retrospect. And that abuse is usually from money hoarders, or people controlled by them.
Worse: all of them crammed into what was supposed to be a system to show you content, but eventually got bloated into a development platform, transforming browsers into those bloody abominations of nowadays, with a huge barrier of entry, dominated by a single vendor (and where the vassal of said vendor got ~3% market share). I’d say that not having a monopoly is more important than all those features together.
And odds are the ones pushing for those features (like Google) knew they were insane, and that they would raise the barrier of entry for new browsers. But that was their goal, innit? Enshittify the web while claiming control over it.
Single page applications are only a necessity because pages are expected to be huge behemoths, so requesting a new page would take too long and put a burden on the server. And that is mostly the result of corporations bloating their sites with advertisement, to the point our expectations on what’s an acceptable page size became distorted.
(Note Angular was released by Google in 2016, and the anti-feature is from 2015. I don’t think this is a coincidence.)
I’ll expand here what I mentioned in another comm.
Most back button hijacking relies on the browser history API. Further info here: “The replaceState() method of the History interface modifies the current history entry, replacing it with the state object and URL passed in the method parameters.”
So for example. You visited site A, then site B. Your browser stores this as “user went A then B”, so if you click the “back” button while navigating B, it sends you back to A. However Javascript in the site B can tell your browser “no, the user didn’t visit A then B. They visited C then B”. So as you click “back” you’re sent to a third site you never visited.
Why is this anti-feature there on first place? Why are sites even allowed to interact with your history? Because corporations really, really, really want to know your browsing history: which sites are directing traffic to it site, which pages within that site you visited (imagine those pages show you products you might potentially buy), so goes on. It has practically no reason to exist for non-commercial sites. Now remember Google is a corporation, it profits the most from advertisement, and has a role in the web standards, and you’ll notice Google was at least partially responsible for this anti-feature.
And now, the same Google is using its monopoly over search to dictate which should be the rules for the usage of the anti-feature it added. As if the internet was Google’s property: it’s who decides which features should be on the internet, and how you’re allowed to use them.
Moral of the story is: even if it looks like Google is doing something good, remember they were responsible for this mess on first place.
Also, free will implies there’s someone making a decision. What is that “someone” and where is it?
Yup, I agree it isn’t something epistemically real.
The reason I still find the concept of free will a desirable fiction is that it pushes people towards doing things that benefit other people, not just themselves, without necessarily curbing down their power. You can use it for example to drill people “yes, you have the choice to cause harm, but you should not act on it”.
…or something like this. It’s one of those things that is rather clear for me in my thoughts, but not so much when worded.
I don’t think so.
The main problem with dictatorship is that whoever is in power will act to their own benefit, even when this harms you. You don’t need to rely on the concept of free will to show this is a bad idea.
Instead of “illusion” (as the text says), I’d say free will is a fiction, or perhaps an abstraction. It has desirable legal, moral, and social consequences; but we should not confuse that with “real”.
In other words: no, you don’t have free will, but it’s better for everyone if you act as if you did.
You think the hardest part was convincing Purson? Pfffft. That isn’t even the start of their troubles!!!
I guess I think of Bertia as the MC, even though Cecil is supposed to be the MC.
Cecil is the main character, but Bertia is the protagonist.
People often use both interchangeably, because they often refer to the same character, but here I think the distinction is useful:
This distinction is also something you see in spin-offs: the protagonist is usually the same as in the original series, but the MC is a different one. And this series plays a lot like a spin-off to an inexistent main series, since you’re following the love interest instead of the otome villainess.
And also in Sono Bisque Doll, at least at the start (Marin as the protag, Gojō as the MC). Later on it becomes a mess, and likely on purpose.
So far I’m pleasantly surprised with this adaptation. And the “we’re going to have a baby” scene, goddammit I laughed hard in real life at it, I don’t remember doing so while reading the manga!
Seeing Garfiel crash was very emotional
Specially as Reala thinks he’s just missing his mother, when he knows she is his mother.
And, like. We take Garfiel as more mature than he really is, as he’s physically well developed, but the poor guy is just a teen.
And in this episode, he was selling dirty mags to the boys too!
I ended watching the series anyway, even with all that AI controversy. Not a big deal, but still considering to drop it anyway.
@NineSwords@ani.social summed it up rather well. I can deal with visual issues (I’ve watched Hoshi no Samidare, for all that matters!), but I hate when they ruin a good story.
Myne and Maomao forced me to wait to throw this season’s stuff into a backlog, so I’m watching this episode right now.
So far I’m really liking the adaptation. They did a really great job setting up Veor as the cruel and ruthless barbarian, and Serafina as a war prisoner that will suffer unthinkable acts… only to undo those expectations later on.
That threat did not materialize, and now some apologists are saying that it was just one of Trump’s deranged bargaining tactics, as if that excuses such categorical declarations of mass violence from a US president
Even if playing along this fucking farce of “just” a “bargaining tactic” (instead of accurately representing it as commitment to war crimes), and even if we brush off all moral standards (we should not), that’s still bloody stupid. He’s making sure the Iranian population gets as motivated as possible to resist, while the United-Statian population resists against any sort of war effort. He’s shooting his own foot split hoof.
Currently, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, xAI, Oracle and even Meta have large contracts with the US military.
That should surprise nobody. Let’s play “spot who you know”:
But this week should serve as a clarifying moment.
Aah, cut off the crap. If this is a clarifying moment for anyone, the person in question has been living under a rock since forever.
The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.
The accusation of genocide is completely accurate; domicide is only part of it. Israel’s modus operandi goes as follows:
It’s likely what Netanyahu is doing with Lebanon, too. Nazism called it Lebensraum (“life space”, or “living space”); I don’t know how the Zionism calls it, but it’s the same deal.
Moving past the obvious slurs in your comment
I already explained why they were used, here and here.
those migrants might actually get more of a red carpet treatment - sorry to spoil your vengeful dreams.
Emphasis mine. Contrariwise to your assumption, no, I don’t dream about people getting treated like subhumans. I encourage you to actually read the comment you’re replying to, and you’ll see
…seriously, I hope not. I’m not from the belief two wrongs make a right. Immigration is part of human social behaviour since some of us left Africa; and I’m not surprised they’re leaving USA, given the current awful state of that place acc. to news.
Side note: if I wanted to write “vengeful dreams”, I’d have better targets. And I wouldn’t write something as mild (yes) as that comment.
In part because they are who they are
i.e. a society built from oppression, living from oppression, and selling it as merit.
but also because of the spoken language making it easier to get higher paid jobs […]
Okay, you clearly did not get the comment you’re answering to, so I’ll summarise:
Your typical American expects to be treated above others, as if this was a divine right granted to the United Karenland of America. And news are simply parroting this mindset, doing everything possible to not step on little Karenlanders’ toes. I’m trying to remind them that, if they get well treated, it’s because there are plenty people out there who behave like decent beings, instead of behaving like your typical American.
Now, if your depiction of Romania is accurate or not in this regard, that’s irrelevant for the sake of my original comment. But I’ll ask you the following: do the Roma folks agree with you? Technically they aren’t immigrants, but a similar situation applies. (Just like African Americans in USA.)
Side note #2: language prestige piggybacks on the power (soft and hard) associated with its speakers. And I think it’s an open secret USA is going downhill. I wouldn’t be surprised if “I’m a native English speaker!” became a liability later on.
And as a personal opinion, I think it’s wrong to put all the American migrants in the same pot.
That is not what I’m doing.
My take is that cetacean communication is, as far as we’ve analysed and attested it, proto-linguistic: it shows some of the features you’d expect from Language¹, but not the complete package.
This case is a good example. It’s showing low order units equivalent to phonemes; but it isn’t showing all that recursive “use blocks to build blocks” structure we see in Language e.g. [gestemes² | phonemes] building morphemes, morphemes building words, words building clauses, clauses building sentences, sentences building utterances, all of those to convey meaning.
Now let me point out some issues with the article. Mostly as correction.
Correction: “Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels aspects of human language, study finds”. Namely the abstraction of sounds into phonemes, or of gestual articulations into gestemes.
No, they don’t. In fact a lot of humans don’t have any sort of alphabet, with or without quotation marks. What they do have is a form of phonemes.
The distinction is important here because phonemes³ pop up instinctively for us, but an alphabet is a rather later learned development of some human societies. And the cetaceans in question likely have it instinctive too, like we did.
The video explains this better, but: note Mandarin has phonemic tone but not vowel length, and Latin has phonemic vowel length but no tone. For a better example of a language combining both, check Ancient Greek⁴. (For Slovenian it depends on dialect, some have tone⁴ and some don’t.)
I think a lot of the “underlying” structure might be actually shared across mammals: it’s the ability to abstract a variable signal into discrete units. The convergent evolution in this case would be only to use that underlying structure with the sounds produced by one’s own species.
One thing the article doesn’t mention is the potential for those being community-specific. As in: different vocalisations mean the same thing in different groups of sperm whale.
Side note this is fucking cool, and props to the researchers behind this. I wish the article did a better job conveying their findings. I’m reading the links provided by the article right now, and they look amazing.)