Early in May, a court ordered OpenAI to retain all its chat logs — even the ones that it promised users wouldn't be kept.
This is one of the risks of using something with a perfect memory designed to answer to your every whim but that doesn't belong to you
I Went to 50 Different Dentists and Almost All of Them Gave Me a Different Diagnosis | Reader's Digest
https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/
This article originally ran in the February 1997 issue of Reader’s Digest, but I suspect it’s just as true today. Last year, one of my kids “graduated“ from their pediatric dentist, and the new dentist declared that we needed thousands of dollars of work done.
First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
Holy forking shirt! (And according to the summary, room temperature is 400°K, which translates to 260°F!)
For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor ($T_c \ge 400$ K, 127$^\circ$C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure. The superconductivity of LK-99 is proved with the Critical temperature ($T_c$), Zero-resistivity, Critical current ($I_c$), Critical magnetic field ($H_c$), and the Meissner effect. The superconductivity of LK-99 originates from minute structural distortion by a slight volume shrinkage (0.48 %), not by external factors such as temperature and pressure. The shrinkage is caused by Cu$^{2+}$ substitution of Pb$^{2+}$(2) ions in the insulating network of Pb(2)-phosphate and it generates the stress. It concurrently transfers to Pb(1) of the cylindrical column resulting in distortion of the cylindrical column interface, which creates superconducting quantum wells (SQWs) in the interface. The heat capacity results indicated that the new model is suitable for explaining the superconductivity of LK-99. The unique structure of LK-99 that allows the minute distorted structure to be maintained in the interfaces is the most important factor that LK-99 maintains and exhibits superconductivity at room temperatures and ambient pressure.
“Twitter isn't letting users view the site without logging in”
I deleted the Twitter app from my phone years ago. When I’d read something that linked to Twitter, I follow the link on a web browser. I’ve never felt the need to login when doing this, and I still don’t feel the need.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/tech/twitter-public-access-restricted/index.html
I know this feeling:
"Geeks write scripts to take apart dull, repetitive tasks. They'll
spend 10h writing a script that will save 11h -- because writing
scripts is interesting and doing dull stuff isn't."
... from live blogging of a 2004 tech conference, by @pluralistic:
The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.
Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.
Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.
Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.
👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.
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Mark Reid
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