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ValueSubtracted, in In honor of the late William Anders, here's a really great video on the "Earthrise" photo and how improbable it is that we have it at all
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Could someone please adapt this video into a full-length stage musical? That’s the only type of content I consume so it’s only reasonable for someone to do this for me.

Corgana,
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Psychodelic,

This is a great comment! I appreciate you mentioning your favorite form of content!

I’m going to go ahead and let OP know what my preferred format is so they can keep in mind in the future, as well

JoMiran, in BBC extends their Mastodon social media trial
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My favorite part:

For some equivalent posts we’ve seen significantly larger engagement numbers for Mastodon compared to X/Twitter, particularly given the relative sizes of different platforms.

ValueSubtracted,
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Interesting, isn’t it? I saw a number of people making that same observation during one of the migration waves.

JoMiran,
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I don’t do “Twitter style” social media much but when I did use my Mastodon account I found significant engagement. On Twitter my posts were invisible, but on Mastodon people found, liked, and commented on them. Conversation were good as well.

I was a beta tester for BlueSky and I found the same “invisibility” problem there. Same posts on Mastodon, Twitter, and Blue Sky and only the Mastodon ones generated responses or any acknowledgement for that matter.

zifnab25, in Jon Stewart Returns to "The Daily Show" as Host and Executive Producer

They should have given it to Adam Friedland.

Sinistar,

I think that, with everybody else zigging, they should zag. Give it to Stavros and make it completely apolitical, just bring celebrities on to talk about their dicks.

ElderWendigo,

So, back to its Kilborn roots?

zifnab25,

How do we not have a Stavi emoji? God damn.

Well, anyway, I will see your Apolitical Stavros Dick Jokes With Celebrities show and raise you Bring Back Virgil.

huf,

nah. is bill o’reilly still alive? bring him back! papa bear hosting the daily show would be amazing. and bipartisan. what’s not to love here?

axont,

He’s been dead for a while

Edit: He’s alive? What

A_A, in I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy
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TLDR : Many post for various fake products on the Amazon website and many deceptive tweets on Twitter (now x) were generated using OpenAI and contained flagrant errors.

Deebster,
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It’s more that they all contain the same error message, caused by the AI safety rails being triggered.

A_A,
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You are absolutely right, although, I wanted to keep my tldr as short as possible.

OpenStars, in Survey reveals tough job market for Gen Z grads due to employer preferences
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It is a sad fact that for-profit universities and colleges sometimes hand out degrees like candy, making them not worth the paper they are printed on. In essence they trade on their past reputations, hoping that nobody will notice. Well, people noticed. Students, after they start interviewing, often BEG their professors to actually teach them what they need to know. But they cannot, b/c, and I cannot state this hard enough, the purpose of a for-profit education system is not to teach, but to… can you guess what I am about to say… say it with me now… “just make profits”.

gravitas_deficiency, (edited ) in "For All Mankind" season ending coming up - Star Trek fan thoughts?

I would love to see the show ultimately evolve into hard sci fi extra-solar c-fractional exploration and colonization, complete with relativistic time dilation and the personal, societal, and governmental consequences thereof.

I don’t think it would be a good idea to introduce FTL (or even artificial gravity beyond spin and thrust, as they do now) to the show at any point, and I hope they don’t eventually do that.

NovaPrime,
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Starting next season: Ed becomes a brain in a jar and gets a shiny new robot body. Proceeds to guide humanity into a golden era of galaxy exploration and cooperation. 20 seasons later, humanity has evolved to the point of no longer needing physical form. The entire universe has been explored and catalogued. Only Ed Baldwin-bot remains in corporeal form.

Rookeh,

A few thousand years later, Ed decides to create 20 18 superhuman clones of himself, and things start to get pretty grimdark.

ValueSubtracted, in ‘Warnamount’ Merger Talk Confounds Investors And Industry: “Why Would Any Company Try To Catch A Falling Knife?”
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While the business has reckoned with more seismic deals in recent years, among them Disney-Fox and AT&T-Time Warner, this time the reality seems to be dawning that bigger is not always better. Streaming platforms swim in red ink and legacy media assets (mainly linear TV) are eroding. Yes, Zaslav has hinted at opportunities to be had, but WBD was not really considered a buyer given its oft-stated focus on reducing its enormous debt. It’s not clear how trying to swallow a company with hefty debt of its own solves any problems.

LeylaLove,

Before I say anything, I am against the merger. However as far as streaming goes, having a monopoly on content makes a streaming platform inherently better. WBD isn’t betting on being the most successful streaming platform, it’s betting on every other streaming platform that can’t compete with Zaslav buying everything.

buckykat,

The best tv and movie streaming platform in history, Netflix circa mid-2010s, had no monopoly on content whatsoever. All these studios trying to monopolize their content onto their own streaming services has only made streaming worse.

ValueSubtracted,
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One could argue that Netflix fired the first shot when they opened their own studio. I think everyone shares the blame for the current hellscape.

buckykat,

Absolutely. I wasn’t saying Netflix was at any point morally right, and the rise of the Netflix original was definitely part of the beginning of the end of paid legal streaming being a good experience for the viewer.

LeylaLove,

the only streamers were Netflix and Hulu? When anything you wanted to stream was on one or the other? Otherwise known as a duopoly. It’s like how the PC gaming marketplace was objectively at it’s best when Steam had a monopoly on selling games. Having everything in one place is better.

Streaming will get better, everything else will get worse as the monopolies get to full power again.

buckykat,

Netflix had a near monopoly on the streaming but not on the actual shows and movies. All the studios still owned their shows and movies and could unilaterally pull them off Netflix and make their own services, evidenced by the fact that that’s exactly what they did. Importantly, the monopoly was not vertically integrated. Similarly, Valve makes very few of the games available on Steam.

Streaming will not get better as the studios fully monopolize it. Not without at the very least and most liberal an enforced ban on vertical integration in visual media and on exclusive licensing agreements. That won’t happen under capitalism though, so the only real improvement will be in the resurgence of piracy.

superb, in Merger Meeting?: WBD’s David Zaslav and Paramount Global’s Bob Bakish Sit Down To Talk Possible Deal, “Preliminary” Says Source
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I can’t wait for both companies to get worse!

ValueSubtracted, in [support] Has anyone else been having trouble interacting with Lemmy off and on these past few days?
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I can confirm that you’re not the only one experiencing intermittent sluggishness, and we’re aware of the issue.

We still need to determine whether it’s a problem within our control, but we are aware.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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Ok, thank you! And I really appreciate the work you guys put in to keep us up and running.

xusontha, in It’s Official: WGA Members Overwhelmingly Ratify New Three-Year Deal With Studios

Love to see success stories like this, hopefully this’ll kick things into motion for SAG-AFTRA’s success

One thing I noticed is no one from Paramount was mentioned to be at the negotiations starting on the 20th even though they’re in AMPTP, wonder why (then again a lot of other people in AMPTP wern’t there but they’re still pretty big so idk)

Starting on September 20, after a studio fumbled restart in August, Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley and Disney’s Bob Iger finally sat down directly with WGA chief negotiator Ellen Stutzman, as well as former guild presidents David Goodman and Chris Keyser and other members of the WGA Negotiating Committee in hopes of a breakthrough.

ValueSubtracted,
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Yeah, Paramount’s CEO, Bob Bakish, seems to have largely sat the strikes out, only popping up in the news once or twice to say he wanted to see them resolved. It’s interesting.

Stamets, in Getting a lot of blank pictures on Lemmy-UI (SOLVEDish-look at newest comment)
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stamets

stamets

stamets

I have a problem

xusontha,

Nah, posting Star Trek memes is like therapy or meditation, it centers you. A problem would be spending four and a half hours troubleshooting gif/webp compatibility for Lemmy-UI while having things to do and in the end getting neither done.

Stamets,
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Well I wish you luck on finding the solution, my friend.

xusontha,

I think I have a solution for the future, but who knows lol. I’m just gonna roll with it

but thank you, my friend

bobburger, in Announcement to non-StarTrek.website users: on July 10th, c/Quarks will change to "locals only". Thanks to the Lemmy devs for this new feature!

Good luck folks, I think each server having it's own identity and it's own place is something that makes the fediverse great.

Admin,
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Thanks, we do too!

ThunderclapSasquatch,

You should be here, making burgers of the day using the entire galaxy of ingredients

Tylerdurdon, in NASA's Voyager Has Made a Full Recovery After Glitch Nearly Ended the Historic Mission

It’s a testament to simplicity. Any of our current hardware infra would have just been fuuuuuucked out there.

Makeitstop, in Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

They are generating “reviews” which have absolutely no basis in reality, for products they have had 0 interaction with. They are deceiving consumers in order to gain a financial benefit. This is fraud, they belong in prison.

Imagine how quickly search results would improve if shitheads like this were getting sued and arrested on a regular basis.

Kaput, in Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

I can’t find product comparing article that are not ai anymore. I noticed it while shopping for a cellphone. Every site had not only 90% same text, they even had the same hallucinated specifications errors. Like non existent features or wrong RAM sizes. AI overuse sucks. Hopefully we figure out how to properly use it soon.

Eheran,

It is not like it was exactly the same 5 years ago… The lazy “journalists” are the issue.

superb,
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The problem isn’t lazy journalists, it’s copywriters and the fact they’re advertisement have been allowed to occupy the same space as articles

Veraxus,

100%z It’s a tool… one with specific ideal use-cases, all which involve human oversight, but it’s being treated as a panacea… and a way to replace skilled labor with worse-than-unskilled technology.

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