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Question: How to Calculate Just Pay for Work
How would one actually calculate the full "fruit of labor" in work that includes several people doing different tasks?...
xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas ( xkcd.com )
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Edward Snowden releases new message: "You have been warned" ( www.newsweek.com )
Edward Snowden wrote on social media to his nearly 6 million followers, "Do not ever trust @OpenAI ... You have been warned," following the appointment of retired U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone to the board of the artificial intelligence technology company....
'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement ( www.theatlantic.com )
As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...
People who refuse to learn how to drive a car, why?
M. 34...
Series: Conservatives of Lemmy: What do you think has gone awry in modern society and how might it be constructively addressed?
I'd like to start a series seeking viewpoints from across the political spectrum in general discussions about modern society and where everyone stands on what is not working, what is working, and where we see things going in the future....
Conservatism is Brain Damage ( lemmy.world )
An Albany expression ( lemmy.world )
Robert De Niro has award withdrawn after calling Donald Trump 'monster' outside trial ( news.sky.com )
Robert De Niro has been denied a prestigious award after making a speech calling Donald Trump a "clown" and a "dictator "outside the former president's trial....
JUST ( lemmy.world )
Netanyahu and Putin are both waiting for Trump ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Netanyahu reportedly met this month with three foreign policy envoys working with former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump — who could yet win the election despite being convicted Thursday on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York state hush money case....
How the GOP learned to hate divorce, again ( www.motherjones.com )
Anti-Nazi resistance fighters in the Netherlands, WW2, 1944 ( media.kbin.social )
6 Reasons So Many Movies Are Struggling At The Box Office In 2024 ( screenrant.com )
With ticket sales down and newly released movies hitting streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) services in record time, it's not surprising that films are struggling to make it big in theaters. For comparison, 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road grossed a whopping $45 million over a non-holiday opening weekend, which ultimately led to an...
AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they're people | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
The level of engagement on Reddit these days
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/179560d9-e33b-4e1e-83a9-7507868d46d4.png...
Reminder... ( lemmy.world )
Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...
A cool guide about which citizens around the world are fighting on Russian side in Ukraine ( i.redd.it )
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1cqc1wq/a_cool_guide_about_which_citizens_around_the/...
If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...
As a little background, I didn't actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I'm never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter)....
Soup ( mander.xyz )
You make the line go up or get fired ( ttrpg.network )
Oh no, Anarchists! ( slrpnk.net )
What is the deal with Graphical User Interface/app psychology?
Like where is the goto psych/CS UI 101 class/book/YT that over simplifies but grounds someone with no background or previous knowledge? Maybe something like the "Blender Doughnut" of great UI design?...
Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar ( windowscopilot.news )
The Supreme Court abortion pill case is based on imaginary patients and shoddy science ( www.motherjones.com )
Lemmy Babies of the Rexodus - it's been 9 months, how has Lemmy changed you?
Biden signs $1.2tn spending package as government shutdown is averted ( www.theguardian.com )
Package passed Senate late Friday night by vote of 74-24, narrowly averting shutdown and banning Gaza aid through March 2025...
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones ( www.theverge.com )
The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.
Trump’s 'astounding' SCOTUS Jan. 6 immunity brief blasted by legal experts ( www.alternet.org )
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/10069687
Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter ( medium.com )
How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed ( www.theverge.com )
Interesting to note here: getting preteens to confusedly call Congress with threats of self harm and questions like "what is Congress" with a push notification is not the best plan
Cory Doctorow gets scammed ( pluralistic.net )
I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.
Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power ( disconnect.blog )
Former federal judge: Supreme Court ‘dangerously betrayed’ democracy with Trump disqualification decision ( thehill.com )
Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023 ( www.gizmochina.com )
YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service....
Browse safely on corporate laptop ( lemmy.ml )
I work on a corporate laptop that has an infamous root CA certicate installed, which allows the company to intercept all my browser traffic and perform a MITM attack....
Why are Denis Villeneuve's Dune movies loved by audience and critics?
When watching movies, I always try to differentiate between my personal enjoyment and the inherent merits of the movies. There are a lot of bad movies, which I totally and thoroughly enjoy watching, and some really great movies, which I don't enjoy that much, but still can respect/appreciate....
Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car ( www.itf-oecd.org )
Source
‘It will be the end of democracy’: Bernie Sanders on what happens if Trump wins – and how to stop him ( www.theguardian.com )
Are people more enlightened today than they were 100 years ago?
If I drive speeding past a cop, but didn't get a ticket, did I break the law?
This is a semantic question, but I want to get a feel for what you guys think.
There has never been an energy transition ( hipcrime.substack.com )
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time ( www.404media.co )
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.