@sergi@mogwai_poet I ate at an all you can eat hot pot place in Malaysia that had whole shrimp. It was darkly amusing to see the huge pile of heads left after the meal
@demofox@aras Even before getting temporal: pre-sharpening before quantization, and using spatial error diffusion. And temporally, there is that interesting question of making it blue in time with fixed position, or blue in time with reprojected position (which is seriously hard, but would be fun to try on a GPU). Aras, it's inspirational to see blue 1-bit/pixel on that device, had been hoping others would have done that instead of fixed dither patterns :)
@georgetakei if your phone is off (i.e. on a plane), or you're out of service area (e.g. cave tour at Mt Shasta), there will be no missed call notification.
"I've done live fact-checking during breaking news events for years. But the sheer volume of viral misinformation today regarding Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash posted by fake osint accounts and blue tick grifters for engagement (on Twitter/X) has been something to behold," says Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist at BBC Verify.
Folks, I'd like to boost my Mastodon feed. What are some of your favorite active accounts? Not just Russia or world affairs related. Anything! I'm a sucker for consumer tech, but I'll consider all suggestions.
@arstechnica I hope the test subjects are being paid extremely well. I get the feeling they're just Musk devotees that are excited enough to be fooled into brain surgery though.
@arstechnica In a dystopian future, neuralink patients will "dream" with targeted ads, and when he is in a nearby neuralink clients, he will sense a compelling will to buy a product or visit determined stores.
They will be able to install adblockers and stop telemetry at all?
@arstechnica For the sake of clarity, we should really stop abbreviating BLM on headlines unless the Bureau of Land Management, Black Lives Matter, and any other organization with that acronym (Buxom Lemur Matadors 🐒🧣🐂) are all working together on one goal like coal regulation or something.