If you’re commenting on Lemmy directly, you’re an amateur who has no business writing any text ever. There’s a reason professionals use text editors to write books.

Jokes aside, you’re sounding very gatekeeping here.

With a crop this bad, people are going to starve

Meowth: We do have a lot in common. The same Earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what’s the same instead of what’s different… well, who knows.

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Replace shopped with slopped and there’s a clean meme

Really? Are they paying extra taxes for this? Or are the taxes already paid and the local funds now being badly used which causes problems with their higher ups?

How much does sea level need to rise before they’re not lakes anymore but part of the ocean?

Yeah that would also mean they can take “viral” open source software that is currently hard to use in proprietary software because it requires everything that’s built on top of it to copy the licence, and instead “rewrite” it and bypass that licence.

So if this works one way, it’ll also work the other, and that will probably massively benefit the corporate asshats. I’m not a fan of copyright, but it’s a necessary evil to protect our freedom from big corpo.

Oh no, the (potential) fine was way higher still, this is an “agreement”

He wants a blurry girl, not in focus like his gf

What’s your feeling on ads? This reads exactly like how I feel about ads, and it’s because I know I’m being manipulated. And anything popular must be exploiting our brains similarly as well right?

Not a fan of smoking though, there’s other ways of not being perfect that don’t give cancer to other people.

Maybe re-edited later but this pic predates genai that makes readable text by years if not decades. Maybe just different brands of letters scavenged for the lightbox

So it’s okay because you’re not the one they’re fleecing?

Yes, though I’d argue that’s the same downside :D

I’ve worked in recommender systems for news specifically myself for a couple years so if anyone has some questions that aren’t too identifiable, AMA I guess

We had a system that combined your reading history (from a tracking pipeline that already existed similar to google analytics) (though it could have just as easily been sent from the front-end with the request for recommendations as we didn’t precompute anything) with several scoring systems (from simple things like popularity score per article which ignores your history, to multiple complex pretrained models that use your history to calculate a score optimising for some variable), all of which can be weighed and then the scores are added/multiplied and sorted and bam, out rolls your personal list of recommendations.

We could easily tone down (even turn negative) the populatity bias, but it turned out that it was just a strong predictor for what people wanted to read (measured in both click through rate and dwell time on the clicked page), so we’re not entirely sure whether news is just different (if you spent a couple of minutes per day scrolling past headlines you’ll have seen everything from today, and clicked what you cared about, and left again) or we weren’t really catering to the crowd that would be helped by getting non-popular recommendations, because they’re drowned out by the crowd that’s just looking for whatever’s popular.

Anyway, AMA

Sadly once you like one song that’s been on the radio once, it starts spiralling into other songs (often good even) you know from the radio and 0 other songs. With things that kind of come in sets (like “songs that played often on X channel in the 90s”) it becomes quickly a game of complete the set rather than discovering new music you’d also like.

As opposed to what? Plain bread with some tomato sauce and no cheese?

I personally feel like tea the way I make it (not too dark, no sugar but some stevia) is too much liquid to drink too much of, and it keeps me hydrated (if the pee ain’t clear, death is near!)

I’ve never heard of guarana before, sounds cool, I wonder how it tastes and whether it’s available near the price of the cheap store tea bags I’m using now.

How do you feel about tea? I couldn’t get into coffee but black tea is subtle yet strong enough for me it seems.

Oh damn thanks for pointing that out, I completely missed that, lol