#SlopOfWar

Owning #AI tech, does not necessarily mean winning the #slop war: https://www.404media.co/iran-is-winning-the-ai-slop-propaganda-war/

#EpicGames has another big round of #layoffs. I was laid off in 2023 in the first round, and it was a bad time for me. I wish best to all former colleagues!

What made me really angry is that #Epic has (had?) a really generous holiday policy. Standard holidays as per country of employment plus 4 weeks additionally. In the 2023 round, abandoning this practice would have been mathematically equivalent to the layoffs 🙁

At least they aren't #AI-washing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/epic-games-to-cut-more-than-1000-jobs-as-fortnite-usage-falls/ar-AA1ZjVXf

#Gaming #Fortnite

Just seen on #amazon that some children's books are now advertised with a "without AI" tag. For me that indeed qualifies as a valid selling point these days.

#AI #NoAI

Manipulating images is an art that is, of course, way older than #DeepFakes, #AI and #Photoshop.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260216-10-early-photographic-fakes-that-trick-the-eye

#Photography #Art #History

A newborn is #Finland is welcomed with a #MaternityPackage that includes all types of useful things, and ships in a box that turns into a baby bed 🐣

A newborn in #Germany is welcomed with a tax number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package

#Parenting #TIL #depol #Welfare

Just a nice article on the #NormalDistribution and the #CentralLimitTheorem: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-explains-why-bell-curves-are-everywhere-20260316/

#Science #Statistics #Gauss

Black-and-white thinking - for example in the form of all-or-nothing or "your are either with us, or against us" - is usually a bad oversimplification.

Though, in our comprehension and communication of #ClimateChange we do need information more binary than continuous ⬛ ⬜.

We tend to miss the long-term trend due to our mental baseline shifting too quickly: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-binary-frozen-weather

Well, the same is probably true for other slowly deteriorating things such as #privacy and #democracy.