Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities.
Well, that’s a combination of words I’ve never ever seen before.
Also, both this article and web site are weird. It’s this strange combination of a “news article” and a research paper. Which is it?
This study uses a systematic search on r/NoFap and two control forums (r/pornfree, and r/stopdrinking) to define a corpus of violent content.
Well, there’s a textbook definition of cherry-picking right there. Control group needs more than just two other forums.
Of the 421 violent posts identified from September 2011 to September 2022,
Oh boy, if I had a dollar for the amount of times I saw a news article reference a science paper with an abysmal sample size, I could use that money to buy a decent used car. It’s the main problem on something like 98% of the science shit I’ve see here and on Reddit.
"The big difference between Apple and Google is Apple didn’t write anything down,” Sweeney said, according to CNBC. Epic Games did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.
That says all I need to know about the difference between these two cases.
They were using the charity as a way to hide money that they were actually stealing from another golf charity event. The math doesn’t add up, and this is going to end with the IRS throwing these assholes in prison. Trey Parker already put out in a comment (on that same video above) that he’s suing their organization, and this is going to attract a lot of federal govt attention. The IRS does not fuck around when it comes to charity fraud.
He’s still a scumbag, but don’t oversell it, the truth is bad enough.
One, running a charity and saying that you’re donating money and then not donating that money is still charity fraud, especially when you advertise that you’ve “donated the money” in past events.
Two, they run another golf event that has donations that are easily tracked (by the number of donation members and tier groups for those donations), but the money from those events do not add up to the money they have on their non-profit statements. They have also conveniently left out their donation amounts for that golf event in an (very poor) attempt to hide the money that they have been stealing from that event.
He’s a scumbag, and a criminal, and a thief. And he and his brother deserves to serve prison time. And they did this in the dumbest way possible, to the point that a YouTuber could follow the path and find the fraud. This sort of case is a federal prosecutor’s wet dream.
Jirard’s donation of the money they have is an attempt to distract from the real embezzlement crimes. They stole money. The math doesn’t add up. And now they want you to believe that 100% of the money was just sitting in a bank account for 10 years that they finally donated.
The cost of doing business. They will continue to discriminate and it would still be profitable to them.
The judges in these lawsuits don’t seem to understand that it’s not just about paying money and damages back, but making it financially unsustainable to repeat the crime.
I’m trying to expand my library of classic game/game-inspired music. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I’m including some music that I particularly enjoy for reference....
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters....
Deep Mind is actually delivering shit like an estimate of the entire human proteome structure and creating the transcendently greatest go player of all time.
Not to mention the huge advances in Chess AI. LeelaChessZero is the open-source implementation of the original AlphaZero idea Google came out with, and is rivaling Stockfish 15. Meanwhile, Torch is a new AI being developed that is now kicking Stockfish’s ass.
Grandmasters and notices alike are learning a lot from chess AI, figuring out better ways to improve themselves, either by playing them outright, using them for post-game analysis, or watching two bots play and see the kind of creative strategies they can come up with.
If you click on the article, spend two seconds on it, and don’t actually read it, have you actually fulfilled the marketing goals of the web site?
For one, you haven’t actually read anything, so there’s nothing to register “this is a good web site with good content and I will read their articles in the future”. No reputation bump from it.
And two, you didn’t have time to actually see the ads, that is, if you didn’t already had an ad-blocker in the first place.
The goals of clickbait don’t actually align with the goals of their profitability.
Clearly the technology doesn’t work, and probably won’t ever work. I certainly can’t tell the difference between the faces, so how could a AI model hope to do anything differently?
Elon's "extremely hardcore" toxic work culture means people are forced to take Adderall without a prescription to meet their workload. Just ask SpaceX employees.
"Some SpaceX workers resorted to taking Adderall to keep up with the pace of work at the company's launch facility, and others found themselves falling asleep in the bathroom during long workweeks, a recent Reuters investigation found.
"Travis Carson, a former SpaceX worker at the company's facility in Brownsville, Texas, told Reuters some workers took Adderall — a stimulant designed to help people with ADHD improve their focus and concentration levels — without a prescription to keep up with the pace of work."
Those are the kind of excuses people at SpaceX make. When a leader fools workers into thinking they are doing unique and societal-changing work, he can push them to work for any amount of punishing hours.
The entire gaming industry runs on this mentality.
The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.
“I searched Google to find ChatGPT, in order to ask it what time is it. The time is a continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.”
It’s still growing the weapons industry, which is keen to encourage war across the globe, as that leads to money.
Maybe if the rest of the world actually built up a decent army, instead of leaving all of the military matters to the US, then the US wouldn’t have to spend half of it’s goddamn budget on the military-industrial complex.
While Blizzard is very much focussed on its big money-makers like its various Warcraft games, from WoW to Hearthstone to Warcraft Rumble, as well as Diablo and the much-maligned Overwatch 2, he’s still open to StarCraft making a comeback. That said, RTS fans shouldn’t get their hopes up. While the series might return, that...
And if they say “yes”, if they are blatant and transparent about their business model, that will somehow make it better? This idea of “putting sunshine on a problem” never actually solves anything. The problem company just comes back with “Yeah? So? What the fuck are you going to do about it?”
The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.
I don’t get it, either. I use a plugin to expand horizontal space on Lemmy, because I already hate how much real estate it wastes. Mastodon is much much worse, with this aesthetic that forces you to use a mobile “long-ways” view of the content.
I’m convinced that Mastodon is more popular only because Elon has pissed off Twitter users more than Spez has pissed off Reddit users.
Why would I follow a specific person for non-video content? That strikes me as way too parasocial to me. All that person is going to tell me is their personal opinion, and I barely trust the news articles that appear here, much less some famous person’s random opinion.
Why on earth would a fighting tournament allow mods? Nevermind cosmetics… it’s just a easy gateway to cheating. Nobody knows what kind of code those mods are executing. Maybe it’s a simple cosmetic mod that has a hidden option to make some move a few frames faster.
The problem isn’t the mods, but the tournament organizers allowing it in a competitive setting, without any filtration.
Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can identify a person’s age, location, gender and income with up to 85 per cent accuracy simply by analysing their posts on social media....
SnoopSnoo was able to pick out phrases from Reddit posters based on declarative statements they made in their posts, and that site has been down for years.
In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept “the right people” to continue work on Destiny 2.
What I mean is… sometimes people are very loyal to a videogame franchise or a company because they loved a game they released years ago (Silent Hill/Konami with Silent Hill 2, Blizzard/Bethesda with their respective golden eras, some could argue this happens too with Pokémon and Final Fantasy, etc). Ethical/consumer reasons...
18+ Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap (www.tandfonline.com)
Reddit might have yet another ticking bomb at hand: r/nofap becoming breeding grounds for violence.
The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple (www.theguardian.com)
Sea Of Stars Developers To Release Patch That Removes The Completionist (noisypixel.net)
Sea of Stars devs remove The Completionist cameo amid charity controversy (www.dexerto.com)
Activision Blizzard settles sex discrimination lawsuit for £44m (www.eurogamer.net)
Best chiptune/gaming-inspired music?
I’m trying to expand my library of classic game/game-inspired music. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I’m including some music that I particularly enjoy for reference....
Twitch will now allow "Artistic Nudity" following the viral topless meta (www.dexerto.com)
Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:...
Zombie MMO The Day Before's player count drops 75% despite a day one patch (www.eurogamer.net)
Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win' (www.pcgamer.com)
"We know it's a necessary thing for us to hit our new and needed goals. So overall, good progress and we push on."
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters....
YouTuber The Completionist's Open Hand Foundation Accused of Keeping Charitable Donations - IGN (www.ign.com)
Karl Jobst’s video...
It’s Exhausting Trying To Read Video Game Website Headlines (aftermath.site)
Every day I wake up in the morning, get on the internet and feel increasingly like Batman trapped in an elaborate puzzle room by the Riddler.
U.S. spending on video game content, hardware and accessories fell 5% vs YA, to $4.0B. Declines were experienced across all categories. The dip was partially driven by Call of Duty shifting release (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/MatPiscatella/…/1724791428570857756...
Separated From Their Families, Hidden From The World: China’s Colonial Boarding Schools In Tibet Come Under UN Scrutiny (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5674446
White AI faces judged human more often than actual human faces (sh.itjust.works)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/09567976231207095
Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder. (crookedtimber.org)
How Bit Reactor's Star Wars game hopes to do for strategy what Baldur's Gate 3's done for RPGs (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Starfield's been left out to dry at The Game Awards—and even dedicated fans are 'not terribly surprised' (www.pcgamer.com)
Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars (www.space.com)
.io considered harmful (www.beep.blog)
This story really got my blood boiling. CW: involves a forced expulsion of people
Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code (monaspace.githubnext.com)
The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.
Humane’s AI Pin costs $699 and $24 a month with OpenAI and T-Mobile integration (www.theverge.com)
Back of the fridge supplies (lemmy.world)
StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS (www.pcgamer.com)
While Blizzard is very much focussed on its big money-makers like its various Warcraft games, from WoW to Hearthstone to Warcraft Rumble, as well as Diablo and the much-maligned Overwatch 2, he’s still open to StarCraft making a comeback. That said, RTS fans shouldn’t get their hopes up. While the series might return, that...
Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? (foundation.mozilla.org)
Microsofts new Terms and Service agreement is rather questionable. In short; It does not clarify if Microsoft will use your data to train it’s AI....
EU Tries To Slip In New Powers To Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic Without Anyone Noticing (www.techdirt.com)
So, turns out that nuclear-powered pacemakers were a thing (www.ans.org)
In today’s episode of “weird shit I stumbled onto on the internet”, I bring you: nuclear-powered pacemakers....
Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)
The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.
Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC (www.reuters.com)
Open Source Is Struggling And It’s Not Big Tech That Is To Blame (medium.com)
After a naked Chun Li scandalised a fighting game tournament, Capcom sounds the alarm about PC game modding: 'There are a number of mods that are offensive to public order and morals' (www.pcgamer.com)
Using voice analysis, AI diagnoses type 2 diabetes in 89% of women, 86% of men (www.diabetes.co.uk)
AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn (www.newscientist.com)
Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can identify a person’s age, location, gender and income with up to 85 per cent accuracy simply by analysing their posts on social media....
Bungie CEO Claims Layoffs Were Due to Destiny 2 Underperformance - IGN (www.ign.com)
In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept “the right people” to continue work on Destiny 2.
What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?
What I mean is… sometimes people are very loyal to a videogame franchise or a company because they loved a game they released years ago (Silent Hill/Konami with Silent Hill 2, Blizzard/Bethesda with their respective golden eras, some could argue this happens too with Pokémon and Final Fantasy, etc). Ethical/consumer reasons...