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Zuckerberg says Meta made 'mistakes' in AI workforce shift

3d 9h ago in technology from www.reuters.com

“…and we will make more”

Kind of misleading without the rest of the quote. Basically saying no more AI layoffs for now.

This is not a change of course, its a pause in the carnage.

Is 30,000 a lot for China? I feel like it might not be.

Also this is kind of the bottom line: "The LX 7G100 remains a poor buy for anyone chasing performance per dollar..."

We have an “occasional absence” policy where you can take a few hours in the middle of the day for a doctors appointment or such.

My red bird of happiness

7d 23h ago in birding

I feel like everyone already new this, but no one wants to admit it.

What's the worst that could happen?

10d 17h ago in historymemes@piefed.social from slrpnk.net

Thanks for the pointer to the series, looks super-interesting.

I am going off the book, "The Most Awful Responsibility" which is a detailed telling of the events around Truman, the decision to drop the bomb and the consequences for nuclear policy.

https://alexwellerstein.com/writing/books/the-most-awful-responsibility/

And he was so horrified at the results that he created the doctrine of civilian control of nuclear weapons.

New resident

10d 20h ago in pics

Finally poked their head out

The Projected Truth

11d 2h ago in science_memes@mander.xyz from mander.xyz

Science routinely solves problems like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51

In some sense this is the very heart of science: taking disparate views of the world and drawing likely conclusions that are testable and reproducible.

There are scientists who make their careers peddling shady results for big companies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

Its tragic

Nice view across the Potomac

1mon 19d ago in pics

Remap CAPSLOCK to F11

2mon 15d ago in linux@lemmy.ml

Candlestick from Abbey of Cluny

3mon 7d ago in historyartifacts@piefed.social

Charlemagne

3mon 8d ago in historyartifacts@piefed.social