@taiwan_girl Situation in Ruanda is pretty stable. Situation in Eastern Congo however is very volatile: president Tsishekedi tried to eliminate his predecessor Kabila, bit killed a French national who worked for the UN. The drone used during the attack appears to be US-made...

Light can travel forever and still may never ever actually reach a certain point in space because space itself may expand faster than the speed of light.

@Axtremus said: Gambling by another pseudo-intellectual name is still gambling. Regulate accordingly. Agree. Not sure how it could not be called gambling.

https://www.wired.com/story/models-are-applying-to-be-the-face-of-ai-scams/ WHEN APPLYING FOR jobs, Angel talks up her language skills. “I can speak fluent English, I can speak good Chinese, I also speak Russian and Turkish,” the glamorous, 24-year-old Uzbekistani woman explains in a selfie-style video made for recruiters. Angel had arrived in the Cambodian city of Sihanoukville that day, she said, and was ready to start work immediately. Those impressive language skills, however, have likely been put to use as part of elaborate “pig-butchering” scams targeting Americans. That’s because, instead of applying for a conventional corporate job, Angel was putting herself forward to work as an “AI face model”—sitting in front of a computer all day and making deepfake video calls to manipulate potential scam victims. Her application, which also required her height and weight, says she has already clocked up “1 year as an AI model.” Angel is far from alone in this pursuit. A WIRED review of dozens of recruitment videos and job ads posted to Telegram show people from around the world—including Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and multiple Asian countries—applying to be AI models or “real face” models in Cambodia and Southeast Asia. The region has become home to vast, industrialized scamming operations that hold thousands of human trafficking victims captive and force them to run online cryptocurrency investment and romance scams. As well as tricking people into working in scam compounds, these high-tech, multibillion-dollar criminal enterprises can also attract people into seeking “work” as part of the operations. “In the past year until today, they are also hiring people doing AI modeling,” says Hieu Minh Ngo, a cybercrime investigator at the Vietnamese scam-fighting nonprofit ChongLuaDao. “They will give you the software so they can swap their face by using AI and they can do romance scams,” he says.

You know, I have never actually watched the real Tucker Carlson. I may have to watch some of his clips to see how accurate the above is.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2033686961626747040?s=46

Per my other thread, ChatGPT has ‘one neat trick’ to resolve the sleeping beauty paradox. If you’re interested, Jon, there’s also a surprisingly elegant way to resolve the paradox using betting odds and information theory that makes the 1/3 answer almost unavoidable. I can show that version—it’s much cleaner than the philosophical debate.

@89th said: Now it's hard to know which platform any given movie is on. I use Plex. It's a "free"--with ads streaming service. I don't think I ever watched a movie on the service but if you plug in the name of a movie you want to watch in its search engine it will tell you on what streaming service (if any) you can find it along with the year it was made, who was in it and a brief description. If there are more than one version of the movie it gives you them all (I recently looked up "Hamlet" and there were 30 versions.) It's a pretty handy feature.

This will fade in time. The results will show the folly.

Nice backwards hat

That sucks man. My best friend (who I stay with on my work trips) has the exact same setup. Townhouse community, 2 spots per house, crowded street parking. There's really no good solution. Although I think you are near Algonkian or the countryside trail? Those are really nice nature/path hikes I bet with Finley in all of your spare time. We have some nice trails here but absolutely nothing compared to what we had in Virginia where I'd take my kid on a walk nearly every day.

Can't have that temp drop without some crazy weather to transition it! Reminds me a bit of the April 28, 2011 super out break... had a ton of "fun" in the area that day, lots of tornado warnings (and an F-0 and F-1 I think in Maryland). Good luck, what a forecast, very rare... even shutting down schools early, etc.

@taiwan_girl said: 555 We used to think. Maybe he is on school holiday right now. What will happen when he comes back and the project is over? What I said was actually true. I imagined that I had developed the simulation (though I didn’t know to use that word yet) and that I like everyone else was playing a role in it. As part of this daydream I was still a kid in ‘real life’ and that after the simulation ended I would win some prize or accolades for having developed it. You’re welcome.

It does raise eyebrows and I have read and heard all sorts of speculation ranging from a brewing coup to a Stalinesque blood purge and national lockdown along the lines of NKPR. Whatever it is about it was sudden and apparently very methodical. Usually an indication of nothing good for the Russian people. Hopefully I’ll learn more during the course of the few days.

You like a little junk in the trunk?

@Andrea-B said: I need a facepalm emoji. :face_palm: