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AI = Fascism
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Methane turbines for power, not cooling.
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AI = Fascism
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Methane turbines for power, not cooling.
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Perfect Union investigated Uber and it's getting worse... they are taking up to 50% of the fees.
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I mean, it was only ever effective because it replaced existing taxi services with an unlicensed and unregulated alternative. I'm not sure those taxi services were exactly better than all these rideshare companies, but I doubt they were worse.
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Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch
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While not illegal to propose such a law, that would be a bill of attainder, and thus unconstitutional under article 1, section 9, clause 3.
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Fanfiction has never had a federated home: should we just potentially take over SquidgeWorld Archive (or fork the code)?
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Never done it myself, so I don't know for sure, but being able to do something like that was part of what I assumed was possible.
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This HAS to be satire
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I see three right hand lanes there (as in, the side of the road closest to the camera has three lanes for a single direction of traffic), which means that it's 6 lanes by default and widens to somewhere between 7 and 9 at the intersection, depending on turn lane configuration. That is unless you want to assume an unbalanced configuration where there are three lanes in one direction and only two lanes in the other, which frankly I consider unlikely.
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That's not how any intersection I've ever seen works, you don't have more outgoing lanes than incoming straight through lanes.
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Fanfiction has never had a federated home: should we just potentially take over SquidgeWorld Archive (or fork the code)?
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Re: backups, I think a large part of the idea is that users are theoretically able to back up and migrate their own data at will.
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You would still have cars in that case, and combustion engines aren't the only cause of air quality reduction from cars. Tire wear puts a lot of carcinogens into the air as well at the very least, and I'm sure there are other things.
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Any time I see the word quantum I am immediately skeptical. In this case a large part of the skepticism comes from the apparent assumption that quantum weirdness relies on or is in any way impacted by concious observation, when it definitely doesn't.
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FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks | Ars Technica
Every cent made is a fine I want to see more of. Anything less is going to be seen as just the cost of doing business and the behavior will continue.
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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Cool, I don't believe them.
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Unicorn cake
I really want this story to be true.
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Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader. How did it fall so far?
The marketing and advertising and sales teams took over management from the engineering team, and decided to cut all the corners. It's a classic tale at this point, same thing happened to Boeing and Apple and Google and etc. It's why everything sucks nowadays.
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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
Friendly reminder that, per the fifth amendment, you are not required to disclose your passwords to the authorities under any circumstances. This protection does not apply to biometric authentication, so don't enable those methods.
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'Without That Video, I Would Have Been in Jail': Black Father Accused of Assaulting Cops Who Barged Into Home Uses Son's Recording to Beat Charges
Police testimony should never be admissible as evidence without bodycam footage to back it up, not these days.
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In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
Cool, now how much power was consumed before even a single prompt was ran in training that model, and how much power is consumed on an ongoing basis adding new data to those AI models even without user prompts. Also how much power was consumed with each query before AI was shoved down our throats, and how many prompts does an average user make per day?
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Anyone else who used to be on Reddit in the early 2010s remember how it used to be a Wild West?
To be fair, people stopped after starting a witch hunt for the Boston bombers and identifying the completely wrong people. It may very well be the case that they over corrected, but there is at least a good reason for the change overall. (also corporate interests I suppose, fuck them though)
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Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi
So long as there's a proper primary I don't see the harm in this, not really. I can't see her running a good enough campaign to make it through the primaries, at least not without also having a good enough campaign to beat the fascist party after Trump.
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Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours
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Looks like it's not an issue fortunately.
Aida said the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt. Those components can then be further processed by naturally occurring bacteria, thereby avoiding generating microplastics that can harm aquatic life and enter the food chain.
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Kristi Noem Refuses To Answer Whether ICE Disarmed Alex Pretti Before Fatally Shooting Him
peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign.
Kyle Rittenhouse? At least by their own logic.