Mithrandir

this is what instagram was supposed to be. we lost it to the algorithms and reels and ads and celebs.

@NOAHAN_101 @aestheticsguyy I so need it

@aestheticsguyy So basically a Pokémon game in the style of Octopath Traveler

Imagine a Pokémon game that actually looks like this

concepto de horror cósmico: dios se ha escapado de la cueva donde lo enterramos

Face through the straw holes

Liftoff of Artemis II

The Zero-G indicator for the Artemis II mission is a plushie named "Rise." Inspired by Apollo 8's famous Earthrise photo, "Rise" was designed by a second grader from California as part of a nationwide contest. Also traveling within "Rise" is an SD card with over 6.5 million names submitted by space fans around the world.

Following Netflix’s latest optimization round, which introduced Film Grain Synthesis (FGS) in their AV1 encoding pipeline, the service streams some movies at bitrates as low as 200 kbps: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… via Fabio @Sonnati

Brisket and cobbler and quiche, oh my! Curious what astronauts eat on a 10-day trip around the Moon? Read about how we design and prepare meal plans for Artemis II: go.nasa.gov/4ceYlSu

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

Israel is the first state which has a death penalty for one race but not another since Nazi Germany.

Hungarian banknotes concept with a security feature that reveals the skeleton of each animal under UV light, designed by Barbara Bernát for her MA degree project.

Did you just say "high-ratio, lossless data compression?"

O sea, otorgas acceso completo a tus archivos y le permites correr procesos sin intervención. A esto antes se le llamaba “troyano” y era una de las principales amenazas informáticas. Hoy se vende como un feature para aumentar la productividad.

Penguin who doesnt believe in aliens will be the next to be abducted

butterfly is calling. Will you answer?

dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic. and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic. humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.