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1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
The quarter trick to check if your food is safe to eat after a prolonged evacuation: Freeze a cup of water and, once frozen, place a quarter on top of the ice. If your freezer thaws and refreezes while youâre away, the quarter will be frozen at the bottom of the cup & itâs time to toss your food.
The âcurrent publishing model assumes that authors, even âsuccessfulâ authors, already have means. Publishers donât pay authors for their labor. They assume we survive by inherited wealth⌠a supporting partner⌠a job teaching in academia ⌠or a day job in some other industry.â
It was generous for this author to break this down and to be transparent because the publishing industry is NOT transparent and people trying to publish books are in the dark about everything. monicacatherine.com/2024/05/16/q...
~ free public post ~ The general population is slowly getting the message that things are really hard for traditionally published authors right now, in ways it was not hard twenty or even five yearâŚ
A kid once asked me if I was born in the âlate 1900sâ and I immediately got Osteoporosis
if you can't vote for the lesser evil if you can't vote for your own survival if you can't vote for the second Black and first female President if you can't vote for the candidate who will objectively harm people in Gaza the least vote for Elon Musk to suffer
Man shot in the head by NYPD cops aiming at a guy who didn't pay the $2.90 fare is suing the city for $80 million. gothamist.com/news/family-...
An attorney said the legal claim is the first step toward filing a lawsuit on behalf of the 49-year-old bystander injured in the shooting.