I don't want automatic Chinese translation I want automatic 汉子 captioning with 拼音

Me after doing a Chinese lesson: hmmm, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this. maybe I can even read some actual Chinese text now!
Me going and looking at some native Chinese speakers writing: I've literally never even seen these characters put together this way. I have no idea what this means.

Except like everyone else that's ever touched audio engineering, the devs discovered that encoding microphone audio over the internet is a dark art only understood by 4 people in very expensive fursuits.

steam review rando tells it like it is

O brother, what is this shit?

NFC (near-feline communication)

it is pretty funny that the rebrand of "ai" that's supposed to be smart and got boy names for most of its projects is just running over the feminine coded old digital assistants with a truck to make more room. classic shit

A few more Morrowind sketches with wax pastels. I may have unlocked a new potential favourite medium. 😄
Don’t think it can beat gouache and coloured pencil but dang, it’s fun!
The Neocolor II ones in particular are wonderful since they’re water-soluble so you can achieve a great variety of effects.

#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #FantasyArt #Drawing #Mushtodon

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Reading: maḫ
Meaning: magnificent

#cuneiform #sumerology #civilisation #Mesopotamia #learning

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names.

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0

the perfect metaphor doesn't exis...

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The Danube river is so low that Nazi warships are emerging

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/danube-river-drought-reveals-ships-woolly-mammoth-energy-fears/106999692

really makes u think

Lithium mining is the new Gold Rush. They call it "white gold"

20 ton of poisoned earth for one gold ring

“It has been mandated by the United States government and the state of California to annihilate the California Indians since the Gold Rush. And I’m still watching it today.”
90-year-old Carmen Lucas, Kwaaymii tribe, California, protesting lithium mining
https://time.com/article/2026/08/04/critical-mining-america-photo-essay/

A standard EV uses 20 KG lithium; 40,000 liters of water

The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear

https://theonion.com/about-us/

pie friend for @DarteriRoo on Twitter! thank you! 💙

well that,s a bit of an overreaction for a de-listing, imho,

Found it: every LLM breakthrough story reads like this old erowid story of someone who was addicted to taking LSD with nitrous oxide because the feeling that induced for them was that they were discovering the secrets of the universe:

(C/w in the story for self harm and everything else you'd expect in an erowid story)
https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=79725

the more I explored the Nitrous reality the more sense it made - of everything. I was starting to feel that I understood the intrinsic nature of the universe ...

I devoted my life to this 'faith' of mine - and my quest was to bring back some of these truths, and to find a way to share them with others - which I did in fact accomplish. I have kind of built an environment that almost guarantees arriving at this place. There is technology involved - it's all very complicated.

Its always good when the 5 people who have invested significant proportions of their lives in your game are baffled and laughing at how broken everything is and need to constantly ask for a mods help to keep playing the game, the mod also being either confused or just an LLM itself