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Kiev Regime Can Only Be Described as Neo-Nazi
Need to learn more words then
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Kiev Regime Can Only Be Described as Neo-Nazi
Need to learn more words then
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Federal prosecutors charge 15 people with impeding agents during Minnesota immigration crackdown
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True, and we already see this with the Executive and Legislative branches, and even the Judicial branch (especially the Supreme Court)
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Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages
In the same vein, Musk didn't make billions. Tesla workers did.
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Trump Threatens Additional 50% China Tariff Over Retaliation
There is a Bloomberg opinion piece (https://archive.ph/JKT85) that stated argues that China is so-called trade wars proof. TLDR: almost no day-to-day goods are imported from the US. The imports from the US are mainly things like cars, phones, etc. That is, tariffs will have a very small effect on the lower and middle classes in China. Compare this to the situation in the US: China is the main source for cheap items at Walmart, Amazon, etc. Tariffs can absolutely devestate the lower classes in the US.
So, it seems that China can easily win the attrition war against the US.
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Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event
Whether they are appealing or not, this sounds like the administration is breaking the law. The ruling to allow AP doesn't stop taking effect if an appeal is in process.
The Trump Administration keeps abusing that. They appeal something, and just do whatever they want until the appeal is processed.
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Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding
This is irrelevant because Meta should not be tried for this the same as a private individual would be.
The case for torrenting being illegal for private individuals is one or both of:
For corporations, a lot change. Firstly, a corporation downloading a torrent is necessarily making unauthorized material available for some people of the company. It's like a group of 20 friends all downloaded and uploaded to each other. Secondly, they used this copyrighted material commercially (like playing pirated music in a public night club). Both should be illegal.
However, all of this is still a distraction. The real issue is using copyrighted materials to train commercial AI. Does Meta require permission from copyright holders to make AI based on their work? The law is grey on this, and desperately needs regulations.
Just my thoughts.
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GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed
Generated AI CP should be illegalized even if its creation did not technically harm anyone. The reason is, presumably it looks too close to real CP, so close that it: 1) normalizes consumption of CP, 2) grows a market for CP, and 3) Real CP could get off the hook by claiming it is AI.
While there are similar reasons to be against clearly not real CP (e.g. hentai), this type at least does not have problem #3. For example, there doesnt need to be an investigation into whether a picture is real or not.
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Trump Freaks Out After Tucker Carlson Implies He’s the Antichrist
God I cannot stand Carlson. He always has this "Im asking tough questions" vibe, pausing every 3 words. But his statements are always simultaneously the most ridiculous uninsightful shit ever.
"Theres a rumor that Trump didnt put his hand on the bible. Is it because that... (pause for 5 secs)... perhaps... (pause for 5 seconds)... sees himself as God?" (Pauses for 10 secs now as if he said something even remotely profound)
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Man posts his incorrect opinion online
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Rookie mistake. You sleep with your shoes on.
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Man Lights 1.2 Million Square Foot Warehouse on Fire for Not Paying Him Enough
What a hero
He apparently caused around $200 million in damages.
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Old treatment just dropped.
It is true, it seems, that Nicotine treats ADHD. There is at least one study that showed nicotine patches (18h and 24h ones) provide a mild to moderate relief for ADHD in people that do not use nicotine otherwise (e.g. nonsmokers). So, it doesn't just treat the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.
Cigarette smoke is known to contain a clinically significant amount of MAO inhibiters that are not nicotine. MAO inhibiters are regularly used to treat depression and anxiety, and theoretically could treat ADHD since MAOI's generally prevent breakdown of dopamine. There is some nuance here.*
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Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testing
No, its not too powerful. Its too chaotic. You cant control it.
EDIT: It seems I have misunderstood. I thought containment here referred to the harness, but they meant VM type of containment. I am still quite skeptical, but it looks like this model is quite good at finding and utilizing security flaws in software.
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Storage, DoGE, and cognitive biases against tape
Keep in mind that tapes are still the most efficient storage medium, in terms of both cost and physical space used. What they lack is speed. These characteristics make them the perfect medium for archiving and backup.
To add: there's no way money can be saved by switching to another medium. Switching to HDDs, SSDs, etc will be many times more expensive, and switching to cloud would be much more expensive over the long run. It's unclear whether he wants to move existing data to other mediums (very expensive and stupid - the tapes are already there and have almost no upkeep) or just new data (slightly less stupid).
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Trump threatens to bar the new US-Canada bridge from opening, demands talks with Ottawa
Such unhingedness:
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to bar the new $4.7 billion bridge ...
[as reasons] Trump cited Canada's ownership of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, ...
The bridge was financed by Canada because the U.S. refused to pay for it and is set to open in the coming months.
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Bluesky already doing enshittification
Even if it didn't go to bluesky.app first before the actual link, clicks on it can still be made to be tracked. It's trivial to do it much more discreetly.
It is definitely tracked, but I would guess that turning it into a bluesky link has other uses, not all nefarious, such as: link previews, caching, dealing with dead links.
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US warns they will send fighter jets into Canadian airspace if F-35 deal doesn’t go through | The Independent
Basically: you are getting those F-35's whether you want them or not.
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Judge permits Trump administration to deport Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil
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Oh. Actually that clarifies alot.
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You know what China should do? Ban all exports to the US. Wtf you gonna tariff now, bitch?
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Within a year, RFK wants to help you treat depression with psychedelics, LSD and ecstasy
Wait till RFK hears that "mainstream" medicine is exploring psychedelic treatments as well - then he has ro disavow them to stay a contrarian.
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It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.
A few years back, I was speaking to a roommate. I complained that the (then) new Star Trek had forced diversity. He immediately shut me down, "Star Trek has ALWAYS been like that". He was a huge fan of Star Trek