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10 votes
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Matrix 2.0: The future of Matrix
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Denmark's parliament to introduce interpreters – Aki-Matilda Hoegh-Dam spoke and answered questions in Greenlandic, causing protests from some lawmakers
12 votes -
What games do you most wish had a remake, or a sequel or both?
Personally I would love a remake of Eternal Darkness or Jet Force Gemini.
59 votes -
Prince William warns against 'doom and gloom' in eco-debates
15 votes -
Who are your favorite Tiny Desk concert musicians? Bob Boilen - Tiny Desk founder is leaving National Public Radio
51 votes -
Sufjan Stevens is relearning to walk after Guillain-Barré Syndrome left him immobile, hospitalized
34 votes -
Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters
13 votes -
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives ‘favoured certain developers’ in controversial Greenbelt plan, auditor general finds in scathing report
27 votes -
Intel's next-gen Meteor Lake CPUs: A game-changing 40-year architectural shift to rival Apple
33 votes -
NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
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A24 partners with AMC Theatres for ‘Thrills & Chills’ film series
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Europe talks to itself in many languages. That’s why English is vital to its democracy
17 votes -
First private US passenger rail line in 100 years is about to link Miami and Orlando at high speed
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There's a belief that some form of cider was made by Vikings in Norway, and today, its growing popularity has people convinced it's the country's national drink
13 votes -
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (1978)
24 votes -
Strike and Robin return – but JK Rowling really needs an editor
6 votes -
I drive the Microlino for the first time. A reimagined electric Isetta.
7 votes -
Opinion by Brian Merchant: I’ve always loved tech. Now, I’m a Luddite. You should be one, too.
69 votes -
PostmodernJukebox ft. Tatum Langley - Die For You (The Weeknd cover, 2023)
7 votes -
Building the world's largest cruise ship 'Icon of the Seas' in Turku, Finland
6 votes -
Three die in South Africa navy submarine tragedy
5 votes -
French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims
16 votes -
Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp
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When using the wrong shell causes weird bug reports
26 votes -
Hakeem Olajuwon charges $50K to teach what cannot be taught — good for him
8 votes -
Checkmate in Nagorno-Karabakh? How Azerbaijan got Armenia to back down.
8 votes -
Prehistoric fish fills 100 million year gap in evolution of the skull
8 votes -
This is the first crash test dummy modelled on the female body. Will it make cars safer for women?
42 votes -
Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work. This maybe fine for PCs but could be bad for android.
26 votes -
US offers nearly half-a-million Venezuelan migrants legal status and work permits following demands from strained cities
16 votes -
Sweden is leading in a battle to be the first European space base outside Russia to launch a satellite into orbit
12 votes -
All of Us Strangers | Official trailer
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It’s not just Japan: Aging populations threaten several leading economies
35 votes -
How Santiago, Chile builds effective transit, the fastest in the Americas
11 votes -
My remix of Kx5's Eat Sleep
4 votes -
Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
21 votes -
India suspends visa services for Canadians amid heightened tensions
18 votes -
Tired, overworked and underpaid: Why doctors in Europe are going on strike
16 votes -
New York City pension funds sue Fox Corporation Board for breach of fiduciary duty in connection with defamatory broadcasts
21 votes -
Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
20 votes -
iOS 17 is available for iPhone users
39 votes -
Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold
48 votes -
'We are really struggling with space': Amsterdam pushes more cars off its streets but is it enough?
31 votes -
Widespread retreat of coastal habitat is likely at warming levels above 1.5 °C
16 votes -
Copying US president Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps
60 votes -
Signal adds quantum-resistant encryption to its E2EE messaging protocol
26 votes -
The ragtag team that saved Darryl Strawberry’s career
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In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’
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I just had a weird experience, one possible interpretation of which is that my iphone just read my mind
So I just finished Mission Impossible, latest movie, in the theater. I tend to avoid Mr. Cruise because of him personally, but darn it if he's not a decent actor and usually has a top notch crew....
So I just finished Mission Impossible, latest movie, in the theater. I tend to avoid Mr. Cruise because of him personally, but darn it if he's not a decent actor and usually has a top notch crew. Also, Simon Pegg filters some of the evil. I give it a B+. What's relevant to my tale is that the movie features an evil, possibly sentient, very pervasive AI that is very accurate in its predictions.
After the movie ended, I brought forth my iphone to look at while the credits rolled to a post-credits scene that never came. I glanced at a newsletter, which had "Pickleball" in the subject line. Now, I happen to think that pickleball is a sign of the apocalypse, and that the 1000 years of satan's rule will look a lot like Wall-E (who is obviously Christ). I was mulling posting a quip about that, and thought further that the quippiest way to do that was to talk about life on the ship in Wall-E. So I tapped the search bar and started typing "what is the name of the ship . . ." and, this where it gets freaky, before I could continue to tap out "in Wall-E" Siri suggested the fandom page for Wall-E.
Bzzz-wut? I checked my histories, I have not mentioned Wall-E or pickleball anywhere, to my recollection, I have never even mentioned it to anyone (I have probably complained abut pickleball in a general sense). As far as I know, the concept has only ever lived in my mind.
Now, I don't, as I sit here in this moment, believe that Siri can detect my thoughts. But it is a downright Fortean confluence of seemingly unconnected mental activity and external reality. I found (in my very short search) only one other mention, at hipinions.com of pickleball being related to Wall-e. If it is not merely coincidence, and not AI reading my mind, it is very peculiar and particularly well timed and specific predictive association by the AI, and one which I am certainly not entirely comfortable with, perhaps the first time I have ever had such a hmmm moment with technology.
It might be interesting what happens next, now that I have entered this datum into the AI's processing materials. Watch this space for further developments.
P.S. the ship in Wall-E is named "Axiom."
8 votes