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- An NGO built 100 tiny homes so small they can barely fit a bed - The area become an open air drug park - The NGO charges California $150 per night. That’s $4,500 per month, per unit - The NGO is making $450,000 PER MONTH - NOBODY IS EVEN SLEEPING IN THE HOMES, “Instead of people just sleeping in the tiny homes, drug dealing is being done by the tiny homes”
@Brookerteejones interview “Those tiny homes, they fit about a bed and a little bit more. So they built about maybe over 100 tiny homes. So when that started, all the drug dealers stormed its area.
So it's full, open air, drug dealing there every day. So of course it brings crime because they want the money for the drugs. Homes are broken into, robberies, looting, and of course, homeless camps around this whole area. So these tiny homes didn't really help any anything. It just hurt the whole neighborhood.
The owners of these tiny homes are charging $150 a night for the size of a car. Yeah.
So the city pays $150 a night for the homeless people to live in these tiny homes to a corporation who owns the tiny homes. But instead of people just sleeping in the tiny homes, drug dealing is being done by the tiny homes”
“Some nonprofits are operating the tiny homes, and they make a lot of money. They're paid by the city. Everything they do, they're paid.” minds.com/newsfeed/17765852938…
... An NGO built 100 tiny homes so small they can barely fit a bed
- The area become an open air drug park
- The NGO charges California $150 per night. That’s $4,500 per month, per unit
- The NGO i...
Got a letter from the IRS yesterday. I filed our taxes on time but never mailed in the payment. I can't imagine what sort of things might have distracted me, a transgender woman taking care of her disabled wife in a red state in the US of A under a nakedly fascist regime that hates us both. Hah hah, now I owe penalties and interest, too. Too bad I'm not rich enough to not have to pay taxes.
"... There is no way for me to know for sure if Biden is alive or dead. But at the same time, a good place to start is to at least consider that Trump really means what he says and everything he says isn’t always trolling. There is plenty of evidence that Trump has told us before that Biden is dead. It makes sense that Trump wouldn’t have willingly handed over the executive branch to the Deep ...
State in 2020. Lately, Trump has been talking about being in his third term. It makes sense that going public with Biden’s execution in 2020 would have caused mass chaos. It at least makes sense to consider the possibility that Biden is dead and the way the truth has been revealed to us was the least harmful way it could have occurred. ...
Scroll to 41:45 point at the link below and listen to the discussion of President Trump's repost about Biden being executed in 2020. Absolute and Stormy provides a montage of DJT talking about Biden not knowing he's alive, etc.
Join us for Episode 34 of Absolute Storm! In tonight’s episode: - RELEASE THE CURES - TROLLING IS FUN - FREEDOM CAUCUS - SAFEGUARDED BY A "BLACK EYE" - FLYNN/NOEM/MUSK - THE ARMOR OF GOD Tune in at 7:
I love how well these painted nettle cuttings from the one plant from last summer go with these red petunia. Also planted lots of it in the garden beds.
Also love the flower clay pots we painted and the huge night princess cactus that was just a leaf cutting last year. It's going to again live outside for the summer.
Monsteras will also move outside this year, but not yet.
And here is the tiny meadow we planted to the front of our apartment a year ago on what was just barren earth. Without asking permission from anyone (rental).
It is looking amazing, so much forget-me-not and lots of stuff coming up.
I escalated it this spring and sprinked more seeds all around it to similarly barren land. Give it a few years and it will be great.
So many bees and butterflies every day. We get to watch the visitors from our kitchen windown.
Hear, hear. There are thousands of ways to be a Jew. Once an antisemite told me “Fucking yid, when Hitler’s back you’ll burn in oven”. So I’m definitely a Jew, whatever my origins, my religion, my will, or my opinion about the matter. Everyone's somebody else's Jew, or Negro, or else. The day you get this, you can't be a racist anymore (unless your brain's dead).
#TheFediFiles 11 is back with perhaps the most infamous guest in ALL of Fedi: @ube or as you may have known her, Maija!
Do I even need to sell a Maija episode? Kicked off of over 109 instances, denies the existence of Russia, and... a racoon story (not to mention the Faggot Tourney top seed). Maija's fediverse history is something of legend, and that legend will be codified on this very special episode of The Fedi Files!
Stream starts at 8 Eastern 7 Central this Sunday the 8th. Don't miss it!
You think so? They have the very effect hyper sonic missile, that would limit collateral damage, without the stigma of using a nuclear devise. I agree with you that something dramatic is about happen, that could be a game changer. Since the west is coordinating the conflict, how does he deal with the west?
The dramatic action/activity is localized to Ukraine, but deliberately targetting NATO assets within the territory (thus limiting the effect of Article 5). Sends a very strong message to the collective West - "Back off or you'll be next and we dont give a fuck about the possibility of MAD.
Wall Street banks are reinforcing their calls that the dollar will weaken further, hit by interest-rate cuts, slowing economic growth and Trump’s trade and tax policies.
Morgan Stanley said the greenback will tumble to levels last seen during the Covid-19 pandemic by the middle of next year, while JPMorgan Chase & Co. remains bearish on the US currency.
After more than 21 years of distinguished service, Chief Warrant Officer Brandon Budge is now being kicked out of the Army because he refused to comply with a genetic injection mandate that has subsequently been declared illegal.
Szabo and a co-conspirator, 21-year-old Serbian national Nemanja Radovanovic, allegedly targeted about 100 people, including members of Congress, governors, cabinet-level executive branch officials…
🇫🇷 FLASH | 3 Serbes ont été INTERPELLÉS dans l'affaire des jets de peinture verte sur 3 synagogues et 1 restaurant juif à Paris dans la nuit de vendredi. La piste de l'ingérence étrangère est envisagée. (Le Figaro)
[ New York Magazine: Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? ] nymag.com/intelligencer/articl… Well, if my Birth Certificate, Social Security Card, Passport, Passport Card, and "Real ID" can't prove my citizenship then no. I guess I can't prove that I'm a citizen. Not in 2025. #USpol #Trump
Leur matinée est pleine de tristesse et de chagrin... « Publier est à nouveau autorisé » ! Il est vrai que la nouvelle a fuité dans la nuit, mais ils ne prennent des informations que de leur source militaire. Il y a quelques instants, la nouvelle choquante est tombée. Trois soldats ont été tués à Jabalia, deux autres sont dans un état critique. Les lamentations ont rapidement commencé. Netanyahou a ouvert la marche, suivi par d'autres. 20 mois qu'il s'extasie sur sa « victoire absolue » !
If LLMs are basing their outputs on what they've read, why don't they footnote every assertion of fact and provide a bibliography? That would get authors off their backs, and it would also enable LLMs to work as search engines.
I've heard that they don't because of a fundamental flaw in the basic design of LLMs that makes that impossible.
Is that correct?
And is that fundamental flaw also the cause of the bullshit (also euphemistically called "hallucinations") that LLMs often output?
À chaque fois la communauté musulmane est injustement pointée du doigt et à chaque fois il s'avère qu'il s'agit d'une opération sous faux drapeau avec une possible implication du Mossad.
https://www.pcbway.com - PCB fabrication, assembly, 3D printing, CNC machining & more!FydeOS is a project to take Google's ChromeOS offline... ish. With the ...
For the 10th Episode of The Fedi Files, CMD joins us to talk a little bit about himself, as well as introduce all the contestants in the 2025 Faggot Tourney!
We cover some of Fedi's most notorious users, infamous posts, and got all kinds of information from chat. This episode covers nearly every corner of Fedi that there is to cover.
The original air date(s) of this episode is 5/31 - 6/1 as the tournament was started live on the show at the stroke of midnight!
La star de Game of Thrones en route pour Gaza : « Nous briserons le siège de Gaza »
📌 Le célèbre acteur irlandais Liam Cunningham a annoncé qu'il avait quitté la ville italienne de Catane avec des militants cherchant à apporter de l'aide humanitaire à Gaza.
Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!
The note to make on this post is the domain. Fly is an hosting company so if “AI lets us go faster” and “AI makes bad code but we’re slowing down to make it usable” (paraphrased) is their self-contradictory policy, that puts a question mark on hosting with them
Also, going “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” is almost admirable as a douchebag move, but it’s also the norm in tech. There is no class solidarity to speak of in tech.
Underlining the point here: the fundamental argument of the pro-AI crowd in coding is that it makes you go faster and, after you’ve gone faster, you can go slower a little bit to catch the errors caused by going faster.
This has two problems
Because it’s harder to catch defects in code you didn’t write, the only realistic way of ensuring that you really do “go faster” is to let more defects through, unintentionally or no.
I think you mix the technology itself and the way people use it. Lots of bad things said about ai are actually meant for the people who use it as a useless shortcut to earn money. Personally i’m learning a lot with ChatGPT and find it great 😀
So, effectively “LLMs for coding” are largely a cover story for improving throughput by relaxing quality standards
The other issue is that “go faster” on coding without a corresponding increase in attention to other parts of software development and design seems to be just shifting the performance cost onto other parts of the org, at least in the cases and studies I’ve seen
you might be right about AI coding However, I disagree with your suggestion that it's harder to see errors in code you didn't write. I have always found I can see errors in other folks' codes, but I often need someone else's eyes to find the errors in mine. ???
@Baldur Bjarnason It's also fascinating to watch the whole industry scream "LLM Pricing Is Stable And Will Never Change! Surely OpenAI and Microsoft will never enshittify!", I can't imagine.
At first I wanted to answer all comments here with great examples but it’s really not that useful I realize… going back to coding and learning with ChatGPT ⚙️
Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting “NO” on everything, he thinks it’s good politics, but it’s not. The BBB is a big WINNER!!!
Si vous en avez marre des bots qui pourrissent votre serveur web, j’ai une solution qui va vous plaire. En effet, il est possible comme dans vos rêves les plus fous, de transformer chaque bot malveillant en kamikaze involontaire avec un simple fichier de 1MB. C’est ce que permet de faire une zip bomb et croyez-moi, c’est aussi jouissif que ça en a l’air.
D’abord, parlons du problème de fond. En 2024, d’après le dernier rapport Imperva, les bots représentaient environ 51% du trafic web total. Oui, y’a officiellement plus de robots que d’humains sur Internet. Et sur ces 51%, pas moins de 37% sont des bots malveillants, contre 32% en 2023. Ça fait donc un sacré paquet de nuisibles qui scannent, spamment et tentent d’exploiter la moindre faille. posted by pod_feeder
Das Dobrindt auch schon in der Vergangenheit ein eigenes Rechtsverständnis hat, sollte bekannt sein. Bisher hat er jedoch nur mit dem Geld der Bürger gespielt. Hier geht es aber um Grundfeste einer Demokratie.
Zurückweisungen von Asylbewerbern an deutschen Grenzen kann man gut, falsch, effektiv oder unsinnig finden. Aber hier geht es um den Stil, um das Wie. Ein Bundesinnenminister, der mit Ansage geltendes Recht bricht und der dann, als ein Gericht sein Vorgehen erwartungsgemäß stoppt, sagt: Egal, weiter so - so ein Innenminister bereitet Sorgen. Weil er das Recht, die Ordnung schleift.
.. und weiter
Dobrindt, der selbst kein Jurist ist, hat sich darüber einfach hinweggesetzt. Der Beschluss des Berliner Verwaltungsgerichts war für viele Juristen nun wirklich keine Überraschung. Auch Dobrindt muss damit gerechnet haben - und was macht er? Er tritt vor die Presse und sagt wörtlich: "Es gibt keinen Grund, aufgrund einer Gerichtsentscheidung, die heute hier erfolgt ist, in diesem Einzelfall unsere Praxis zu verändern."
.. zusammenfassend
Aber in einem Rechtsstaat sollte nicht das persönliche Rechtsverständnis eines Ministers oder seiner Partei entscheidend sein, sondern das geschriebene Gesetz und die Auslegung durch die unabhängige Justiz. Und wenn ein Innenminister - also der Mann, der auch die Polizei verantwortet - öffentlich erklärt, sich von Gerichtsentscheidungen nicht beeindrucken zu lassen, dann signalisiert er: Recht gilt nur, wie es mir passt.
libertytree.ca/quotes/Wendell.… "No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents."
-- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, lawyer Source: Liberty and the Great Libertarians (C. Spradling)
"No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
U..S..Privacy.Study.Commission.Quote.3121 "The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable."
"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either."
-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) US Founding father, author
A live performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1984. Taken from an old videotape.The sound on the tape has rather lost quality during the years. Still an ex...
Do all dreams have the same quality? What if some dreams need to be chased, but others only come condensed like dew on the unfaltering ground. How dare I equate dreams and some kind of state of remaining still? If stillness words, like peace and sleep are really the stuff that dreams are made of, then the dream is that which comes to us, and the other way around only as a reflection of those qualities we can lie down peacefully with.
As a value-oriented language, English has made "dreams" to be something you could dream about--select your dream and sleepwalk to win--rather than an inherent quality. As with all values, the activation under will realizes the limits of their constituting qualities. Again and again we become sleepwalkers for the sake of our wills' realization, the dream...and yet if there is a real meaning to this, then we can resurrect it by remaining still and letting the dream come to us. No one knows, because there are always hidden variables guaranteeing our freedom. But it would be hard to say "you are wrong" when I claim that sleep comes before dreams.
Wildfire smoke - now extra toxic plumes from sun UV
Did you know just one of the many fires burning in Quebec is the size of an entire Canadian province (PEI), or large enough to stretch between the cities of Ottawa and Montreal or Toronto to Niagara Falls? Read on to learn more about why the smoke now smells like plastic and the health impact. 🧵 1/
@jeffgilchrist: Wildfire smoke - now extra toxic plumes from sun UV Did you know just one of the many fires burning in Quebec is the size of an entire Canadian province (PEI), or large enough to...
You can see from this fire smoke map that tiny PM2.5 aerosols don't just drop 6 feet away but can travel all over the continent with the smoke from northern Quebec blanketing New York City and even producing hazy skies in Europe ( firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current… ). 2/
Instead of the classic smell of burning wood in a fireplace or campfire, things are starting to smell more like burned plastic so what is going on? It turns out that when smoke stays in the air for prolonged periods of time, the UV radiation from the sun interacts with all the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to form even more toxic gases. 3/
Now benzene and formaldehyde are being created in the atmosphere from the smoke + UV radiation which happen to smell like plastic but are toxic and can have very adverse effects on human/animal health ( theweathernetwork.com/en/news/… ). H/T: @lisa_iannattone
Besides the PM2.5 particles in the smoke that can get into your lungs and bloodstream, wildfires smoke it also full of various toxic gases in the form VOCs and by-products like formaldehyde and benzene as we saw above. 5/
Well fitting respirators like N95 masks will do a great job at filtering out the PM2.5 particles from the air if you are outside, but they are not designed to filter out all the smoke related gases. You can learn more about how filtration material in N95s and HEPA filters actually filter out the tiny PM2.5 particles despite them being smaller than the holes in the material ( mstdn.science/@jeffgilchrist/1… ). 6/
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00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: Kasm, the best remote desktop tool 01:22 What is NixOS? 04:20 Using the configuration file 08:58 Nix Package Manager 11:03 Updating and unstable channel 12:48 Nix is way more than that 14:53 Sponsor: get a PC made to run Linux 15:58 Support the channel
NixOS is a Linux distribution that is completely and entirely reproducible. Everything you use is defined in a configuration file that is used to build your system. All the services, packages, options, partition layout, hardware, everything, is in this config file.
If you're a developer, your eyes might be sparkling right now: that's right, one config file to exactly replicate your entire development environment.
You also can never get into dependency hell. Packages all declare exactly which versions of each library they need, and these versions are all installed side by side and kept, not erased by newer versions.
To create your configuration, there's a main configuration file in /etc/nixos, called configuration.nix.
This file uses its own specific syntax, that is entirely functional: it describes everything the system uses and with which options, from the hardware, the bootloader, the services, the packages, the apps, the users, everything.
This file is then used to build your operating system. Nix will read everything in there, and install, configure, and enable or disable everything, based on what the file contains. So, if you build a nixOS system with the same config file as someone else, you'll get exactly the same system.
Once you rebuild your system, there are now multiple entries in the boot loader: one for the new build, and one for the old one: you can always roll back to the previous configuration.
Of course, all of this requires root access to edit the main config of the system. But if you don't have root access, or if you don't want to add programs to your main reproducible config, but just test them out for now, you can also install packages as a regular user, using the nix package manager. Or you can add flatpak to your config file, or run appimages. But installing programs will be mainly done using the Nix package manager.
The Nix package manager works on any Linux distro, but also on macOS, WSL, and more. It's preverytty easy to use. If I want to install, for example, OBS, I'll just type
nix-env -iA nixos.obs-studio
The -i is the argument to install, and the capital A is to tell the package manager to install using the specific name of the package, instead of looking through the whole repo, which is way slower.
If I want to remove the package, I can use nix-env -e obs-studio, and it will be removed. Note that installing packages with nix-env doesn't add them to the config file.
NixOS works with channels. By default, you'll use the Stable channel, with tested packages that get security updates only, and major feature updates when there's a new release of NixOS, every 6 months.
To update, you can just run the command
sudo nix-channel --update
This will pull all the latest package versions from the channel your system uses.
Then you run the "nix-rebuild switch --upgrade" command, and your system will grab every new version of every package, and rebuild the system based on your configuration file.
Important to note, the new version of a package is installed alongside the old one. The new versions are the ones that will be used, thanks to a simple symbolic link system that always points to the newest version of a package, but you can rollback to an older one.
To get newer packages, at the risk of having a less stable system, you can switch to the unstable channel.
US military campaigns against Yemen failed to achieve their goals.The US, under President Biden, launched two military campaigns, Operation Prosperity Guardian and Operation Poseidon Archer. However, both operations were unsuccessful, with most coalition partners withdrawing and ships continuing to be hit.
America's preferred method of warfare, aerial warfare, is no longer cost-effective nor practical, and the US has no alternative modes of warfare to fall back on.
The purpose of US military contracts is to subsidize the War industry, not to win a war. Not exactly related to this, anti-war poet, Robert Bly stated in a new preface to one of his books, that the US no longer can rise to the ocassion as it did on the beaches of #Normandy - which is now the name of a #Google experiment on you. The techbros will not mention it, or #Nimbus though both are on github. The same #Nimbus of #Google #Israeli #Genocide
@indyradio I very much agree that the whole military industry in the US is really just a vehicle for funnelling taxes back into the pockets of the oligarchs.
@grumble209 that is the tragedy of the US isn't it. Whatever meager productive forces still remain in the country are predominantly directed towards producing weapons to murder poor people around the world.
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •Back when I was in educational IT I thought that dealing with children breaking things because why not was an industry-specific problem.
Now I know that I was young and foolish.
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