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Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to 'vote'
Her disloyalty was accidentally telling the truth. What a fool.
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Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to 'vote'
Her disloyalty was accidentally telling the truth. What a fool.
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Father Of The Year PwNd
FFS, who is still delusional enough to get knocked up by this creep still? It seems like a 100% success rate in ruining lives is the only consistent outcome.
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A lot of Americans are Googling 'what is oligarchy?' after Biden's farewell speech
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I genuinely can't believe that there is any overlap at all with the maybe 500 people who actually listened to his speech or even read an article summarizing it and those who don't know what the meaning of "oligarchy" is.
How does anyone get engaged enough in the political process to watch a speech from Biden and not recall Bernie Sanders saying this every day of his life for the last 30 years?
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If the 90s smelled like sex and candy what did other decades smell like?
Before the 1990s, it was cigarettes all the way down.
1980s - cigarettes and hair spray.
70s - cigarettes and alternating body odor and heavy cologne/perfume.
60s - cigarettes and canned food.
50s - cigarettes and gasoline.
40s - cigarettes and either gunpowder or a machine shop.
30s - cigarettes and dust.
20s - cigarettes and bootleg whiskey
10s - cigarettes and bloody mud
1900-1909 - cigarettes and horse shit in the street.
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Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel
Not exactly a huge surprise as Switzerland is not part of the EU. I bet they don't follow India or Australia's government policies either! Such savages.
Switzerland has no shortage of cyber professionals, so either hardened and encrypted devices, or no one traveling with direct access to confidential data via their devices, likely both, is the obvious situation here.
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LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs
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It's not even that.
The technology never, ever works as well as it's hyped. It's a sales ploy, not a feature.
The purpose is always data collection, and the data is always leaked.
Vulnerabilities and the progression of tech make these kinds of bells and whistles age out of practical use faster, costing the consumer more over the long run.
F this kind of noise in particular, this is not progress.
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Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach
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"Treason" is the correct term.
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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife and dog found dead in their New Mexico home
Y'all, hundreds of people die every year from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, and tens of thousands are hospitalized annually. Weird Al Yankovic lost his elderly parents to CO poisoning in April 2004. It's winter time and Santa Fe is at 7,000 ft (2130 m) of elevation. Please don't rush to blame and conspiracy.
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Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
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I spent a decade living around Africa, and this kind of thinking is common. DDT was what everyone put on the tomatoes because pests mean loss of food. Who wants that?
Lack of relations is only about living in short-term survival thinking 24/7. Long term effects mean nothing.
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I posted about this exact thing over and over late last year. Always to tepid response from all but a few others that understand that in the US, privacy is a relic of the old world.
Glad at least Mother Jones got the memo.
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The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice
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It's not "falling apart." It's being intentionally dismantled.
Rubio's statement at his conformation hearing was basically "the Post WWII order isn't working for us, so we're ending it."
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Vapor dispersal.
"It's chemicals!"
"It's spider webs of chemicals!"
"It's microchips!"
"It's sun blocking special metallic smoke!"
"It's cancer seeds!"
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For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant
It's just a custom LLM for records management and regulatory compliance. Literally just for paperwork, one of the few things that LLMs are actually good at.
Does anyone read more than the headline? OP even said this in the summary.
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New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony
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If you read the bill, heavily sponsored by the MPA, part of it is about forcing ISPs (and presumably US based VPNs) to block the DNS/URLs of "foreign criminal" sites.
It's laying the groundwork for a Great American Firewall.
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Rebecca Shaw: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. But I didn't expect them to be such losers.
Because it's so much better when they're charismatic assholes?
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I reeeeally wish they would just embrace and find open source software as a public good and get it over with. The equally glacial pace of adoption of OSS to avoid vendor lock in with MS is not exactly giving the OSS world the boost it deserves.
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I don't see the problem. It's A tree. It's not THE tree.
OP, this is absolutely a Google Translate image of a French ABC book into English.
Arbre is tree
Cheval is horse
Etoille is star
Vache is cow
Gateau is cake
Roue is wheel
Edit: le typo
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Federal employees are told to name colleagues who work in DEI roles or risk 'adverse consequences'
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You're missing that this is a loyalty test.
It's not about finding out this info. It's about finding out who is willing to be the Reek in all the new House Bolton-style fiefdoms. That's why people only have 10 days to rat out colleagues, they want lists of trustworthy loyalists by the time mid-tier appointees get into the office.
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Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’
Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you'll be in for the rest of your life. That's not "child care," it's a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.
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Is DOGE just making up numbers and hoping no one notices?
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Why is this even a question?
Headline should read: "Musk, Trump, spouting BS numbers about budget, immigration, and literally everything else they do."
Change the date, you can run the same story every day.