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    Florida, Florida, Florida

    That's because it hasn't escalated to the point where the clerk isn't allowed to have access to the undoctored photo, which in my dystopian future existed only briefly in the short-term memory of the camera, whose onboard AI did the doctoring itself before forwarding it to the cops.
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    Florida, Florida, Florida

    Hey, remember when I said some company was going to, any day now, start selling software with an AI-powered "zoom and enhance, just like on CSI" feature and that cops would start buying it en masse and using it to pin crimes on innocent people based on its hallucinations? I'm still not ready to...
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    Netflix's One Piece

    Far be it from me to criticize someone who never runs out of ideas or the energy to commit them to paper; it's a much better problem for a creator to have than the opposite. But there's something to be said for being aware that while you might be willing to make a single story your life's work...
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    Quotes

    "People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly...
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    Electrical questions (or, I don't THINK I cut a wire)

    So, here's what I've been able to dig up. First off, if you're worried that you cut the master ground wire that all the green wires inside your walls go into, you didn't. Despite the name, those wires actually lead back to the big fat cable that connects your house to the grid via the circuit...
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    AI don't trust techbros

    They wouldn't be doing that if it weren't for AI, though. Let's not both-sides this just because the cornered rats are biting back.
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    Ranting about quebec: newspark edition!

    Well now I'm dying to know what the connection is there.
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    The Official Allspark Bluey Thread

    Is My Little Pony the only animated series that managed to get away with releasing a theatrical film that wasn't CGI since like the early 2000s?
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    Building a new Gaming PC!

    I assume the insurance company will only cover your claim if you replace the entire computer with another one made from the exact same parts? Because there are definitely a few places you could cut corners if you had the freedom to; that 1000W power supply was overkill for example and, again, is...
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    Building a new Gaming PC!

    Are you sure it's not just the power supply that got fried? I would expect them to have some amount of buit-in surge protection these days.
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    Disney animation and related media

    It's the safest decision they could make, since it wouldn't require them to follow up on a single existing plot thread.
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    Disney animation and related media

    I'm more concerned about the fact that they're adapting a series that's still unfinished and shows no signs that it's ever going to be. So we'll probably end up with a Game of Thrones scenario where they're stuck coming up with their own way to wrap it up and it'll suck.
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    We live in a capitalist dystopia

    I'm not sure Trump cares, to be honest. A more ambitious fascist would have seized the opportunity to pivot to non-stop messaging about how the Evil Antifa has started their revolution and mobilized the military to crack down any way they can... but Trump did practically nothing, said...
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    AI don't trust techbros

    Not what the article is about, dude.
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    UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

    Are those "newspapers" as much a joke as the same-shaped ones we have in the US?
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    As usual, the campaign ads write themselves, but it's a toss up whether anyone will be smart enough to use them.
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    Weird little pop-up thing (ad?) at the bottom of the forum pages?

    Is the huge ad box near the top of the page no longer meant to be populated, now that we've switched to the slide-up-from-the-bottom kind? Because it'd save space to remove the empty space where it used to be.
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    AI don't trust techbros

    So basically they're now building this stuff on borrowed money that they'll never have to actually pay back, because they've caught on that the whole thing is a pump-and-dump scheme?
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    AI don't trust techbros

    Really? You don't think Amazon, a company that has nearly monopolized online retail in the wake of every single one of their competitors folding in the 2002 dot-com crash, and who also operates datacenters that power like half the internet, has ever been able to turn a real profit doing those...
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    AI don't trust techbros

    I sure am excited that megacorporations that have spent the past two decades ensuring the world can't survive without them are now risking their very existence on something stupid that's doomed to fail.
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