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Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

The report found that the proportion of children killed was higher than in previous conflicts. Between October 7, 2023 and October 7, 2025, at least 20,179 children were ​killed, around 30% of the overall death toll.

This is already a shocking number, but is the death count even accurate at this point? I thought the Palestinians weren't even able to keep count accurately because Israel destroyed the institution that kept track of that. So are these counts based off of what the UN estimate?

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Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools

This is going to all collapse so horrifically once AI companies change their payment model to token usage rather than a flat monthly fee. It's already starting with Microsoft and Google. Anthropic is the last (and most consequential) nail in the coffin.

Companies are building entire workflows around AI, but they are building them under the assumption that they won't ever be charged per token.

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Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

My SO works at a callcenter and they get dinged for the use of what they call "tragic phrases." These include, but aren't limited to:

  • "Unfortunately"
  • Words/phrases that imply uncertainty like "should"
  • Words/phrases that imply non-commitment like "I can't do that" or "that's against policy" or "that's not my dept"
  • So-called sloppy words/phrases like "No problem" or "hold on just a sec"

Its fucking ridiculous. They pay some outside vendor for training and guidelines.

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Mindustry: an extremely high quality (and difficulty) FOSS tower defense game

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The person you're replying to was just making a comment that alludes to the fact that people who like this genre get addicted to other games. It was a light-hearted comment and you're the one who got negative first. People asked you to elaborate on your negativity and you got defensive. Now you're doubling down on that defensiveness. I get it. I've been there. But come on, man. I think everyone's got the same interests in mind here.

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The Outer Worlds with ray tracing can't hit 60FPS at paltry 540p resolution with an RTX 5090 and 9800X3D - ray tracing 'performance' mirrors Borderlands 4 fiasco

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Many of us here aren't buying them. A core audience of people who don't know anything about hardware capabilities and aren't a part of niche gaming communities will keep buying them because they don't know better. Most people look at a game and say, "that looks fun" and they buy it without another thought. Your advice will never reach those people.

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VPN Comparison 2.0

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PIA was also purchased by the Israeli company, Kape Technologies, which is tied to Unit 8200. If your concern is privacy, I would recommend do against it.

The very first CEO of Crossrider, Koby Menachemi, happened to be once a part of Unit 8200 which is an Israeli Intelligence Unit in their military and has also been dubbed as “Israel’s NSA “.

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Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

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Zionism is not anti-semitism for a very simple reason, being against the apartheid state of Israel and its genocide of Palestinians has nothing to do with being against Jews or Judaism. They are seperate concepts period, end of story.

Judging by the rest of your comment, I think you meant anti-zionism is not anti-semitism.

With that said, I agree wholeheartedly.

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"look! the #signalapp income and salaries report for 2024 dropped!" #startpocketwatching #opentechnologyfund #usgovernmentsponsored

I'm really trying hard to see the point that's being made. Is it just the "high" salaries, or is there some other implication? The OP seems to be insinuating that Signal is a honeypot or something. I am going to need a lot more proof than, "hey, these guys work at a non-profit and they aren't underpaid!" Given that most tech jobs offer stock options in addition to normal salary, it would make sense that base salary should be higher at a non-profit (where stock options don't exist). Their salary structure also seems much flatter than other non-profits that I saw within the propublica link.

What am I missing here?

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Throughout most of my years of higher education as well as k-12, I was told that sourcing Wikipedia was forbidden. In fact, many professors/teachers would automatically fail an assignment if they felt you were using wikipedia. The claim was that the information was often inaccurate, or changing too frequently to be reliable. This reasoning, while irritating at times, always made sense to me.

Fast forward to my professional life today. I've been told on a number of occasions that I should trust LLMs to give me an accurate answer. I'm told that I will "be left behind" if I don't use ChatGPT to accomplish things faster. I'm told that my concerns of accuracy and ethics surrounding generative AI is simply "negativity."

These tools are (abstractly) referencing random users on the internet as well as Wikipedia and treating them both as legitimate sources of information. That seems crazy to me. How can we trust a technology that just references flawed sources from our past? I know there's ways to improve accuracy with things like RAG, but most people are hitting the LLM directly.

The culture around Generative AI should be scientific and cautious, but instead it feels like a cult with a good marketing team.