A supercomputer capable of mimicking the human brain is set to be activated in 2024. The DeepSouth system, developed by researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, uses spiking neural networks to efficiently emulate large networks of neurons, rivaling the rate of operations in the human brain. This...
My father, who convinced me (16 m) at the time to move in with him instead of my mother when they moved. All 3 of the other siblings stayed with my mother. He then kicked me out the week I turned 18, a week into my senior year. Since then he stays in touch only to speak with his grandchildren (now going on 4 kids). I have never...
Don't let him round your kids. He treated you terribly and hasn't changed, you shouldn't expose your children to someone like that. It doesn't matter if he's your dad.
content warning: involving discussion of rape/sexual assault although as the title implies, there is no convincing evidence that any of this has actually occurred....
I wonder if the 'proof' is going to be another 'intercepted phone call', with two obviously IDF soldiers speaking broken arabic with heavy isreali accents?
Do you think they'll call each other Sunday and Monday to keep the bit going?
Sure, except there's estimated 50 million people worldwide currently enslaved. So outlawing this shit hasn't really done that much sadly considering there's now more people enslaved than ever.
I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?
Eh I'd quite confidently say Farscape is far less problematic than any other show of it's era and a great many after it.
And humans are not superior in that universe, they once believed they were and evolved into universally hated (but really hot) hyperfascists. Bringing them down was one of the biggest eventual arcs in the show and it wasn't done by Chriton being superior, he just had wormhole weapon tech in his head that he didn't want and believed nobody should have.
Chriton is one of the most basic life forms in that part of the galaxy too, he's barely more sentient than food and it's mentioned almost once an episode. He gets by by the skin of his teeth and his only real skills are maths and making friends/pissing people off.
(I do like that he also looks like a bit of a gormless idiot too, and testament to the writing and actor as he never comes across as an entitled white boy either.)
Babylon 5 has held up better than DS9 in my opinion, like both are good but B5 is just very clearly much better. The Expanse is fantastic though I agree with you fully there.
(Btw I'm not really arguing with you about anything here, I just wanted to rant about Farscape a little as I love it dearly.)
I vote Hawk Owl. I like it's triangle brow and M shaped face, and that it looks smart enough to be as pissed off as it looks (which I know is anthropomorphising but grumpy owls are adorable).
If I was going by the photos in the main post, it would be the Long Eared Owl as that smug expression is so charming.
But over all, I think the gormless innocence and sheer beauty of the Buffy Fish Owl has won me over this round. Their apricot coloured plumage is very pretty too.
That top photo is the sort of look you give someone when they've just said something very stupid and you're trying not to laugh before they do, just in case they were being serious.
If paired against a less famous (and derpy looking) owl, this BLowl would likely have had my vote for how unproportionally large and pretty it's eyes are. Alas.
I find grapes far too sweet these days. I tried variety box of them a few months back and none tasted fresh and tart how I remembered them from childhood.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Tighter water restrictions for drought-stricken northeast Spain went into effect Wednesday, when authorities in Catalonia said that Barcelona may need to have fresh water shipped in by boat in the coming months....
I like the long dark, it's like 13 hours of that 3am feeling of being the only person awake, so I'm free to exist unbothered by the rest of the world. I end up far more productive and content at this time of year too, and mostly nocturnal. Living by lamp light is far too nice.
That paragraph above reminds me most of The Out-sorcerer's Apprentice. Where to quote from the wikipedia page
'a fairy tale universe is exploited economically'.
He's written like 40 books
and they're all pretty good fun (the fantasy stuff at least, his historical fiction wasn't my jam), not high literature or anything though, just nerdy, silly humour with some fun clever bits.
The first 2 books, 'Doughnut', and 'When It's A Jar', I would normally recommend over 'The Out-sorcerer's Apprentice', they're more scifi slanted and imo tightly written.
The fundamental technology tying the books together is re-explained in book 3 though and you can figure stuff out without having read books 1 & 2, but it's probably not going to be quite as funny without all that pained context and layers of multidimensional headfuckery.
Every so often you just have to fill yourself up with pizza till reality stops hurting. Pies can't cure you but the food coma certainly helps blunt the pain for a few hours.
I'm still heartbroken that Matchland was killed off. It was a really cool turn based match 3 strategy game that involved powering up warriors by connecting tiles for 15 to 30 seconds.
The cool bit was that you could go diagonally too and all the shapes you drew would fire off at once once the timer to draw them was up, so you could get all these huge combos on the board at once if you planned your turn right.
They even killed the cartoon network clone they released of the game too. I really miss them both, it was a really fun well designed game with cute art and music.
I drink a lot of jasmine green tea. Nothing fancy, just Twinnings usually.
I make a pot and a mug (drink the mug while the pot steeps) most mornings, which is around a litre of liquid that hydrates and caffinates me enough to contemplate doing something productive, and leaves my mouth and body feeling clean and fresh.
I drink black coffee sometimes too but only when I need a faster pick me up. Compared to tea though, it feels jarring, leaves my mouth tasting bad and makes my sweat and urine smell awful.
Over the weekend, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, including multiple United Nations schools sheltering Palestinians. At least 85 incidents of Israeli bombing have impacted 67 facilities run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the last two months....
DeepSouth (www.westernsydney.edu.au)
A supercomputer capable of mimicking the human brain is set to be activated in 2024. The DeepSouth system, developed by researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, uses spiking neural networks to efficiently emulate large networks of neurons, rivaling the rate of operations in the human brain. This...
How do I cope with my father hating me?
My father, who convinced me (16 m) at the time to move in with him instead of my mother when they moved. All 3 of the other siblings stayed with my mother. He then kicked me out the week I turned 18, a week into my senior year. Since then he stays in touch only to speak with his grandchildren (now going on 4 kids). I have never...
Despite lack of evidence, allegations of Hamas ‘mass sexual asasult’ are fueling Israeli genocide in Gaza (mondoweiss.net)
content warning: involving discussion of rape/sexual assault although as the title implies, there is no convincing evidence that any of this has actually occurred....
Pompeii archaeologists unearth disturbing bakery-prison for slaves (www.euronews.com)
Comfort shows without transphobic jokes?
I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?
Shout-out-to-mods-posting (programming.dev)
Owl of the Year Match 4 - Northern Hawk Owl vs Northern Pygmy Owl (lemmy.world)
WINNER: Northern Pygmy Owl 43-16...
Owl of the Year Match 3 - Long Eared Owl vs Buffy Fish Owl (lemmy.world)
WINNER: Buffy Fish Owl 39-23...
these hulls sing (i.imgur.com)
when the stars hit the deflector dish just right…
Owl of the Year Match 1- Barn Owl vs Bare Legged Owl (lemmy.world)
WINNER: BARN OWL 45-19...
What fruit is better than mangoes?
Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO (arstechnica.com)
Did someone say history memes? (startrek.website)
Generivory - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (www.smbc-comics.com)
Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Generivory...
With about 1 month to go, how would you label 2023?
Barcelona may need water shipped in during worst drought on record in Catalonia, authorities say (www.pbs.org)
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Tighter water restrictions for drought-stricken northeast Spain went into effect Wednesday, when authorities in Catalonia said that Barcelona may need to have fresh water shipped in by boat in the coming months....
fr*nce (feddit.de)
Which is the best part of winter: the sun setting at 5pm every day, or it literally hurting when you go outside?
EU states can ban religious symbols in public workplaces (www.bbc.com)
What "sacred Bajoran trinket" do you suppose this is? (lemmy.world)
Found in DS9 s2e12 “The Alternate” and it’s totally not an air freshener from the 90’s.
Fuckin project managers (hexbear.net)
Forget Elf on the Shelf. It's... (lemmy.world)
An alternate idea thought of in response to negativenull’s post.
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong?
Unfortunately based on true events (lemmy.world)
Here's the thing… (lemmy.ca)
Report: 83% of mobile games fail in the three years after launch (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Fuckn UAE government (lemmy.zip)
Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?
I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?
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Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza Tops 13,000 as Israel Repeatedly Strikes U.N. Schools Housing Refugees (www.democracynow.org)
Over the weekend, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, including multiple United Nations schools sheltering Palestinians. At least 85 incidents of Israeli bombing have impacted 67 facilities run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the last two months....