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gus, to news in Heads of 3 top US colleges refuse to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment

It’s especially disappointing given the mission statement of beehaw. You know, the one they require every user to read when signing up and write a statement about?

… we grew increasingly upset with modern social media. Modern social media has become a breeding ground for hate speech, for trolls, and for bad behavior. We don’t want to recreate that environment. We want to explicitly make a nice little corner of the internet where we can hide from racist, sexist, ableist, colonialist, homophobic, transphobic, and other forms of hateful speech.

gus, to technology in Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages

The reward for mining a block is over a quarter of a million dollars these days. $250k / 4k transactions = apx $62.50 per transaction. Around $8 is from the transaction fee from the sender, the other $54 is from the block reward minted out of thin air.

gus, to technology in Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages

Swamp coolers.

Fans blow over water to lower the pressure, causing evaporation to occur at room temperature.

Evaporating water absorbs heat from its surroundings without raising the water’s temperature as it undergoes a phase change. It absorbs nearly 20 times more heat than it would from being heated from 50 degrees F to 100 degrees.

gus, to technology in ‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders

In a recent interview, Zynga’s vice-president of player succcess, Gemma Doyle, referred unabashedly to internal models that identify people who are on course to spend high sums.

Should they reduce their outlay, she told GamesIndustry.biz, the company would “reach out and call them to find out what’s wrong”.

wtf

gus, to gaming in Weekly "What are you playing" Thread || Week of July 9th

I’ve been playing through Powerwash Simulator on Gamepass recently, among other things. The game has just enough going on to keep you engaged while also being super zen (until you’re trying to find those last 6 things that are only 99% clean agggghhhhhhh). Progress goes at what seems like the perfect rate, you’re never spending long cleaning an individual item, yet there’s so much to clean that you get a pretty good sense of accomplishment from finally finishing a map.

It’s pretty good for playing in the background too during useless wfh meetings while being able to stay fairly attentive

gus, to technology in Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library

No, it’s more like checking out every book from the library, and spending 450 years training at the speed of light, being evaluated on how well you can exactly reproduce the next part of any snippet taken from any book.

gus, to technology in The Release Date and Key Features of Windows 12 Unveiled

Makes you wonder if they’re going to just start implementing the version number on every update, sorta like Chrome does these days. Will we see another Windows 95 eventually?

gus, to gaming in Why I Probably Hate your Favorite Video Game's "Awesome Story" (an incomplete list)

What video games do you think had a good story then?

gus, to technology in Megathread for Reddit News & App Shutdowns

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