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Scientists study how people would react to a neurotic robot personality in real life in c/technology@lemmy.world
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Scientists study how people would react to a neurotic robot personality in real life (www.npr.org)
 

Spoiler alert: it makes them more relatable. Maybe Marvin knew what he was doing the whole time, and diodes down his left side were perfectly fine.

China’s Unitree R1 Is a Humanoid Robot Costing Less Than $6,000 in c/technology@lemmy.world
‘THE THREE MOSQUITEERS’ [OC] in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 25 points 2 days ago

I never check for boobs before squashing them. They all must die.

Boston in c/pics@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wicked awesome

That’s why they call me Mister Deltacorp. I’m traveling at the speed of warp. I wanna make a supersonic crewman out of you. in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Ah, thanks for posting the Queen album cover. I was looking at this like it was a political compass meme (in which case this wouldn't be the way I'd arrange the captains...)

We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Or its children in this case.

Looking for glass food storage containers made in Europe in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] artifex@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bormioli Rocco is an old Italian glassware company that makes various containers and glasses, but they do also have some stuff made in china so you have to check to see what you’re getting.

The hunt for the world’s rarest duck in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So it's a... Duck Hunt ?

(sorry, I'll see myself out)

Elon Musk just opened a restaurant in Los Angeles. This is the menu. in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Fuck Elon, but man do I love all-day breakfast.

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Betelgeuse’s companion star revealed in new images (www.sciencenews.org)
 

Supergiant Betelgeuse was recently discovered to have a companion star - it's bright blue, not yet fusing hydrogen, and actually orbiting so close that it's inside Betelgeuse's outer atmosphere! I wonder what it'll be named.

Through the window, Rocky Mountain National Park in c/photography@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

It’s like a Bob Ross painting!

Possible to see who a piefed instance has defederated? in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] artifex@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Sure, any lemmy instance will display both federated and blocked instances https://lemmy.zip/instances

Possible to see who a piefed instance has defederated? in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] artifex@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah per my note above is one of those lists in /instances specifically the blocked instances? On lemmy they’re clearly marked in a “blocked” list. On piefed the lists are different.

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Possible to see who a piefed instance has defederated? (piefed.social)
 

A lemmy server's /instance page shows lists of federated and blocked instances, but piefed's version doesn't seem to have this (you see Online | Dormant | Gone forever | Trusted - and I'm not 100% clear on what some of those mean). Is it possible to see a list of servers that my piefed server has defederated/blocked?

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It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says (arstechnica.com)
 

While the thought of lawyers lawyering with AI gives me the icks, I also understand that at a certain point it may play out like the self-driving car argument: once the AI is good enough, it will be better than the average human -- since I think it's obvious to everyone that human lawyers make plenty of mistakes. So if you knew the average lawyer made 3.6 mistakes per case and the AI only made 1.2, it's still a net gain. On the other hand tho, this could lead to complacency that drives even more injustice.

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One of my weird, purple avocados (files.catbox.moe)
 

There are several old avocado trees on my corner, including the one that makes these small (tho not usually this small) green avocados that turn purple and shiny like an eggplant when fully ripe. The taste is pretty typical for a green avocado -- so much less fatty than a Haas -- but with a nice floral note that I haven't come across in other varieties.

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ESA's Invictus spaceplane project revives the SABRE hypersonic engine (thenextweb.com)
 

When Reaction Engines went bankrupt a few years ago there was much speculation about when -- not if -- their technology for a supercooled hybrid ramjet/rocket engine would be picked up by another entity. It seems we now have our answer as the ESA hopes to revive and complete the ambitious project for a single-stage-to-orbit, air-breathing spaceplane.

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps (techcrunch.com)
 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps (techcrunch.com)
 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

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