i seem to have misunderstood. my reading was that they were tracking when selfies were being deleted from the user’s device itself (and not off the facebook platform).

if the article is about selfies being deleted from the user’s posts on meta platforms, otoh, i don’t understand why there’s a privacy brouhaha. surely their tos and privacy policy covers using your data and actions on their platforms for targeted advertising?

there is a conversation that needs to be had there about the morality of such a move, sure, but i don’t see a privacy violation.

if i had a cosmetic company, i would question the efficacy of this method. that’s not how i would like to allocate my targeted advertising budget.

what if they deleted the pics because they were just changing phones? what if it was because they ran out of space? what if they were degoogling? what if it was because they’re transforming?

there are other–more likely–scenarios why a person deletes their selfies than them reaching a nadir of self-loathing. i don’t see this move converting into buying actions.

plus i bet that guy wasn’t wearing briefs.

“let’s uproot all these trees and invade this space. and when the roots of the few remaining trees do what they are supposed to do, let’s blame them for ‘ruining’ human infrastructure!”

Proponents say detailed demographic information is crucial for the targeted implementation of India’s social justice programmes, including earmarking nearly half of all university seats and government jobs for socially disadvantaged communities.

some context: people of all the “lower” (sic) castes receive special privileges in the form of reservations for university and government jobs, as well as financial incentives to foster greater equity in society.

the purpose of such a census is to understand how best to administer such programs (rather than perpetuating the social ills of the caste system).

this is the AI model that truly passes the Turing Test.

what even rhymes with “luigi”?

blue squeegee?

the true irony of this post is OP"s understanding of irony.

and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else’s lips the first time?

screw googling. try saying it yourself without touching lips.

it comes out as “oen”.

And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US?

that’s technically what tariffs do. topologically, it’s the same thing: using policy to give a price advantage to domestic producers.

talk about shopping locally and so forth.

talk gets one only so far. when those numbers start to chomp into the household budget, everyone forsakes the “made in…” label in favour of the price tag.

they weren’t feeling lucky?

so is he then the father of tunnelling protocols?

awesome! so there is scope to literally piss all over AI! where does one sign up?

why can’t they use piss, instead, though?

but isn’t that just the most efficient arrangement in a crowded forest where each tree elbows its neighbours out of the way for whatever sunlight they can get?

why waste energy in making branches and leaves low down when they’ll forever be in the shade?

lichess.org is a fantastic online chess platform for players of all skill levels. it’s free and—what’s more–it’s ad-free (unlike the parasitic organisation that’s squatting on the chess.com domain).

it has one-on-one on-demand match-ups, tournaments, puzzles, user-published training courses, multiple chess variants, and so much more.

it’s one of only two online resources to which i deem donating regularly worthwhile (the other being wikipedia).

do check it out. chess is one really healthy mental habit to inculcate.

is this “found”?

why does a site that shows a static image need me to enable javascript to view it?