mccI wonder if this swimsuit was ever actually manufactured
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how to do anything
Lexi of the NightThere is a spyware called Pegasus which is employed by state actors, companies, and possibly other entities to infiltrate mobile devices (phones, tablets, etc). It's basically a trojan, and it attempts to be undetectable.
Pegasus apparently allows the infiltrator to copy files off and to your device, watch your activity, listen to you, watch you, and other things.
An Open Source toolkit named MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) can be used to try and detect the presence of Pegasus on a phone or tablet using a connected laptop. I recommend having a look at your devices.
Janelle ShaneTired of generic greetings?
Confuse your friends with AI-generated Valentine cards!
GPT-3 generated the messages and descriptions, and then I followed its instructions to create the cards.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-generated-valentines-cards/
AI-generated Valentine's Cards
I remember having to give out Valentine cards in elementary school, a mandatory expression of not-actual-valentine-feeling in which you could express your individuality and warm regard for your best friends and the classroom bully by giving them small store-bought cards with cartoon characters and generic messages on them. But what
★ Amy Star ★tl;dr John Tory, the (FORMER!!) Mayor of Toronto, was caught sleeping with an underling half his age
he's also a complete conservative dipshit dictator who defunded bike lanes and homeless shelters to boost the police budget right in the middle of the BLM protests and during the pandemic
and he's gone
Itamar Turner-TrauringOMG.
1. Google has some bad summarization telling people that throwing batteries into the ocean is good.
2. News articles were written about this.
3. Bing's summarization interprets these articles as advice to ... throw batteries in the ocean!
🤦
(To clarify: this is classic Bing, not ChatGPT Bing.)
(Also note not everyone gets this result. Other queries that might work: "is throwing a battery in the ocean beneficial", "is throwing a battery in the ocean useful" without quotes)
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees
So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it
Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs
What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
VesLayoffs:
Google - 10,000 (market cap $1.3T, Q3 2022 profit $13.9B)
Microsoft - 10,000 (market cap $1.8T, Q2 2022 profit $34.6B)
Amazon - 18,000 (market cap $992B, Q2 2022 profit $16.7B)
Salesforce - 8,000 (market cap $151B, Q2 2022 profit $5.6B)
Facebook - 1,000 (market cap $365B, Q2 2022 profit $22B)
None of those companies are even close to struggling and yet they'll throw people to the wolves.