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Pentagon chief Hegseth unable to answer where the Suwalki Corridor is located
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth was unable to answer Congressman Eugene Windman’s question about the location of the Suwalki Corridor. The video was posted on the congressman’s YouTube channel.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
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Anyways, now no one's buying any books.
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Impending destruction, oppressed minorities, runaway shapeshifters, and greedy carpark attendants … these are just a few of the things Lem and her dog, Spock, face in their new life in space.White Hart Fiction
#Iran #US
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine
9 min Lowkey video going viral.
To protect its genocide in Palestine, Israel in 600 days has bombed Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran and the coast of Malta.
"Israel has added Iranian children to the long list of children it kills"
The press forgets to mention that Israel has over 200 nuclear warhead that it does not declare. Israeli is being used by the US to regime change Iran, for daring to be independent.
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Why Israel REALLY Attacked Iran
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@MingueFRuiz Me la refanfinfla bastante que me tiiden de una cosa o de otra, la verdad. Y antes, también.
Y mas viendo de qué tipo de calaña vendrían las supuestas críticas, además.
Mentally ill adults, facing relocation from residential care facility, plead with SF Health Commission
San Francisco’s plan to add 90 locked psych beds at the Behavioral Health Center is facing pushback from nurses and families.
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‘Please reconsider,’ say residents of S.F. hospital center set for closure
San Francisco’s plan to add 90 psych beds at the Behavioral Health Center is facing pushback from nurses and families.Daniela Xitlaly Sandoval (Mission Local)
Patrick Lawrence: World’s Most Dangerous Man & His Enabler
Netanyahu has craved this war with Iran for decades, always justifying his psychotic lust by way of endless lies and an apparently bottomless paranoia.Consortium News
#Gaza #GazaMarch #Egypt
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Egypt's Crackdown on the Global March to Gaza
Instead of receiving permission from Egyptian authorities to march to the Rafah border crossing, participants have been subject to hotel raids, harassment, arrests, and deportations.Ahmed Dahaby (Drop Site News)
> its vast expansion of the Homeland Security budget, which will be used to build ICE into a huge national army of loyalists under Trump’s control... This is the Proud Boys, at national scale, with badges. It is a very dangerous prospect.
> [current] combined funding of the FBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service, and all other federal law enforcement is only half the size of the federal funding for immigration and border enforcement.
#USpol #immigration #police #fascism
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Building the American Brownshirts
New funding will make ICE an unaccountable army of Trump loyalists.Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)
Anarchist Communist Group: **Solidarity: French and Italian Dockers Remind Us What It Is**
"If the workers take a notion, They can stop all speeding trains Every ship upon the ocean They can tie with mighty chain, …"
UC San Francisco fired me for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician I could not remain silent
After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.Rupa Marya (Mondoweiss)
Your values are euros and cents. ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E…
Is UX/UI and marketing really the reason XMPP lags behind Signal/Matrix/Telegram?
Matrix is going Freemium and WhatsApp is adding ads, which is sparking the annual "time to leave [app]" threads.
Users don't care that much about privacy, but they do care about enshittification, so XMPP not being built for it shouldn't be a problem.
Meanwhile, I've heard for years that XMPP has solved a lot of the problems that lead more popular apps to fail.
Is it really just a marketing/UX/UI problem?
If XMPP had a killer app with all the features that Signal/Whatsapp/Telegram has, would it have as many users?
If not, why does it keep getting out-adopted by new apps and protocols?
Why not XMPP?
To be honest, I don’t quite understand why Matrix passes this hurdle and XMPP does not. Matrix is just as little designed for privacy as XMPP.Privacy Guides Community
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**Le soit disant dirigeant que l’Occident prépare pour l’Iran, il tombe dans le piège.
Animatrice de la BBC ? Stupéfaite et incrédule, elle demande à Reza Pahlavi :
« Êtes-vous vraiment en train de dire que le fait qu'Israël bombarde votre pays et tue des civils est une chose positive ? » **
Socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being “the Hitler of the 21st Century” in response to Israel’s airstrikes on Friday against Iran, a key ally of his authoritarian regime.
also... Claims He Is a ‘Real Jew,’ Unlike Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu
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Right-wing politician FINALLY condemns Israel's genocide in Gaza
Help Declassified expose the powerful by joining us: https://www.declassifieduk.org/join/Sir Roger Gale is a veteran Conservative MP, who once served as the ...YouTube
Considering putting out some #FediHire feelers. My current company seems to be turning more and more towards AI and my concerns are that this will be at the expense of stuff I want to focus on, like optimization, architecture and system work. I'd rather take this moment to grow my career towards what I originally imagined, biotechology, but honestly I'm open to any role that seems interesting and does good work.
I'm an excellent dev in Java, with significant experience in Go, Python and HTML5, and a degree in Bioinformatics from the medical research center at the local university hospital. Moreover, I'm really, really good at working in a team, especially asynchronously. I'm also looking to pivot from the role of a general lead developer into focussing more on backend, devops and security work
I'm at the GMT-0 to GMT+4 band and I'm looking for remote work! And I'm in South Africa, so if you're from the northern hemisphere you'll get to vicariously enjoy my summers while your fingers freeze off 😎
Any boosts or leads would be rad! But also making this post is me keeping myself honest too.
Now imagine IF tomorrow something happens in England.
Would it be a war act? Not terrorism? Is this what they are looking for?
Pd: and by "something" I mean moSSad doing what they do and blame "someone"else.
It’s all about regime change in Iran & the event that triggers a “reluctant” US to pile in on Israel’s behalf is called a “false flag” as I’m sure you know!
This ⤵️ is interesting/ scary in that respect:
“A Major False Flag on US Soil and Average Joe Will March to Kill 'Them Eye-rainians!'”
by BettBeat Media on Substack
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#Israel #US #iran #FalseFlag #RegimeChange
A Major False Flag on US Soil and Average Joe Will March to Kill 'Them Eye-rainians!'
Twenty Months of idly standing by has proven one truth: The world remains blind to imperial depravity. They have no conception of what's coming, and no framework to comprehend it when it arrives.BettBeat’s Newsletter
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Israel’s attack on Iranian broadcasting denounced - Prensa Latina
Tehran, June 16 (Prensa Latina) The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Corporation, Peyman Jebelli, today denounced the Israeli attack on the media's central building during a live broadcast.Ana Luisa Brown (Prensa Latina)
Europe must be ready to defend what it stands for: Our people. Our values.
We are proposing to support EU countries to invest €800 billion over the next four years by cutting red tape, including:
📄 Less paperwork, thus faster new defence technologies.
🛒 Faster and easier for countries to buy and share defence equipment.
⚡ Quicker permits for important defence projects
💶 Simpler rules to get more companies to invest in defence
Securing Europe's peace. 💪
Commission proposes simplification to speed up defence investments in the EU
Today, the European Commission proposes measures to speed up defence investments and production to make the EU more responsive to today\'s security challenges, as outlined in the Commission\'s White Paper for European Defence-Readiness 2030.European Commission - European Commission
Gen Z faces a challenging job market with disappearing entry-level jobs and uncertain career paths. Many graduates struggle to find work despite impressive academic records and internships. The economic slowdown, federal policy uncertainty, and emerging technologies are contributing to this trend. The unemployment rate for recent graduates is higher than the overall unemployment rate, and some sectors, like public service, are experiencing significant cuts.
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Gen Z is unemployed, struggling to get a job, despite college degrees
As entry-level jobs disappear and pathways to success for Gen Z shrink, the most rejected generation is in a tough spot.Allie Kelly (Business Insider)
The Terminal Question
I know this probably comes up a lot and is liable to spark some debate, but I'm curious what the good options are for terminals. I've skimmed some reddit/lemmy posts about it and looked at a few options and I dunno how to decide between them because they all seem like they're too narrowly focused on some particular use case. I'm just using it for general terminal stuff, nothing terribly fancy. I'm aware that there's not one terminal to rule them all or anything, so I'm curious: what do you folks use, and more importantly, why do you use that over the (many) other options available?
Personally I've just been using konsole since it's what came with kde and it seems nice and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on features I don't even know about. One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such where i'm doing the tinkering instead of constantly tabbing out to duck.ai or w/e.
I'm using st with tmux. It's in written in c, simple configuration can be done by editing the header file(s). More complex customization (such as visual bell or transparency) can be done via patch files.
Not the most beginner friendly terminal but super light weight and fast.
I was tinkering with ollama+deepseek and trying to integrate it into my bash functions, but gave up, because i could not supress that stupid "thinking..." prompt. Found it easyer to just have a browser window open (switching windows can become muscle memory in tiling wms like i3/sway or dwm).
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Mona and Her Children's Survival Fund
I am Mona Hijazi, a Palestinian mother of three children. From the depths of Gaza, from the depths of darkness, despair, hunger, fear and weakness, I tell you my story.Chuffed
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As far as the Indian and foreigner problem, we have been shown the first 4 and the How but what is missing in the discussion is the Why part. Does anyone really think that Indians and foreigners are invading America on their own. They are being used as pawns for a bigger Who that needs a Why understanding. I believe that a common thread is the lack of a heritage European and Christian culture ethos which is despised and to be actively eliminated\eradicated.
I heartily recommend reading or listening to the following 80 minute podcast reading to understand. It is in their own words. It will be the most enlightening hour that one spends this week. Without this knowledge, one has a huge blind spot through which anything can be and has been made to happen. Take it from the conspirators themselves to acquire Better Judgement.
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I have a feeling that the Mafia were always zionist aligned.
That first reading was impressive enough for another listen. So many things just magically connected into place and none of it was complicated at all. Suddenly the entire backstory behind Israel became clear as day which for me is a first as trying to figure it out from other sources somehow always had me going around in circles.
Netanyahu says assassination of Iran’s supreme leader would end, not escalate, conflict
Middle East Monitor
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The magic of through running
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The magic of through running
By weaving together existing railway lines, some cities can build the best transit in the worldBenedict Springbett (The Works in Progress Newsletter)
He compartido esto en #Instagram (sí, sigo teniendo una cuenta ahí, la vida es complicada...) con algo de éxito, así que lo pongo por aquí por si a alguien le es útil. #Signal #WhatsApp #Meta #technofascism #fuckZuckerberg
Edit: he escrito esto para explicarlo mejor: redesnuestras.net/2025/06/17/p…
>Pippa and Kirsche fan makes it on TV
>"described as autistic but highly functioning"
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Armed man arrested at Nashville's 'No Kings' protest had long fascination with Nazis, mass murder
An armed man arrested Saturday during Nashville’s “No Kings” protest has a long history of fascination with Nazis and mass murderers, NewsChannel 5 Investiga...YouTube
@Aldo2 I vaguely remember that survey, but I don't remember if they asked aoa. Like I said there's a difference between being attracted to prepubescent and pubescent features. While hebephilia seems to be to some extent a part of male sexuality, I see no reason why sexual attraction to someone unable to reproduce should be considered normal.
Probably over 50% of drivers, but it doesn't
@Aldo2 I wanted to make a point but fell asleep midway lol.
The point I wanted to make is that even though a large amount of people drive over the legal speed limit and that the speed limit and enforcement of it is to some extent arbitrary, it doesn't negate that driving at higher speeds is more dangerous.
I agree that Americans are retarded on sex (and other things) and push that retardation onto other places, but not everything they push is retarded.
I don't know the history of AoC but I do know that around the 70s pedophilia was a social justice cause so how was it before that? and I also know that in the past in Europe, while you could marry children, that was primarily done by nobles for power reasons and the average age for marriage was early 20s.
>"relationship doesn't equal reproduction"
No, but a sexual relationship does. Arousal is a feeling that we have to motivate reproduction. Being aroused by something/someone that can't reproduce isn't normal behavior.
Did the survey ask if the attraction is exclusive?
To answer your previous question about institutionalizing 20% of the population, no, just the ones who act.
Men have quite a strong propensity towards violence and often have violent fantasies, but we only lock up those who act on it in (usually harmful) ways.
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Had quite a few blackouts and brownouts here in #ABQ over the past couple days. It's only going to get worse for the next few months I'm afraid.
On Saturday we peaked at 106° where I'm at.
Yesterday we peaked at 102°.
Today is supposed to be a little cooler fortunately.
And people wonder why I've got so many UPSes!
(1) 20A for my desktop/ workstation
(1) 15A for both of my NASes
(1) 15A for my networking gear
I've got an automatic shut-off for my RV. When the voltage drops too low or gets too high it automatically kills power so some of these blackouts might be self-inflicted. Still, I'd much rather have no power than bad power.
Title: “Offsetting the societal and environmental costs of ChatGPT so that you can use it responsibly to power your next startup.”
The slide: “You can’t.”
Thank you for coming to my lightning talk.
And he said exactly what *he* needed to not be responsible for the losses when the bubble collapses.
Fabrice Epelboin sur X : "Les dessous sales de la startup nation... https://t.co/jKdQ9tM8gb" / X
#politique #souveraineté #corruption #lacorde #guillotine2025
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But doesn’t israel have the right to defend itself against the people it is starving?
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#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #Palestine #Gaza
At least 51 Palestinians killed in Gaza waiting for food trucks, says health ministry
Hundreds of others wounded as they waited for UN and commercial trucks with supplies, according to Gaza officialsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
'Moldovan authorities behave like EU colony' — priest on Orthodox protest crackdown
Orthodox priest and professor Darko Ristov Djogo reacts to footage from Chișinău, where peaceful Christian protesters — including priests — were violently thrown to the ground by police during an LGBT...Odysee
"Detienen a dos personas en Iruñerria vinculadas a protestas contra Vox en marzo"
Vuelveme a contar aquello de que en España no se persigue políticamente a las personas.
Vuelve a contarme aquello de que Europa se fundo sobre la idea del antifascismo después de la derrota a los nazis en la segunda guerra mundial.
Sobre todo contarme porque tengo que tener respeto democrático por una fuerza política nazi-fascista como VOX en España.
Aurrean izango gaituzue!
diariosocialista.net/2025/06/1…
Detienen a dos personas en Iruñerria vinculadas a protestas contra Vox en marzo | Diario Socialista
Las detenciones se producen en Berriozar y el Casco Viejo de Iruñea, relacionadas con manifestaciones contra la presencia del partido de extrema derecha.. (Diario Socialista)
Israel ha industrializado el terrorismo de Estado - mpr21
"Irán ya no es víctima de las incursiones israelíes, sino que se ha convertido en el trágico e implacable espejo de su política exterior. Es una consecuencia lógica y directa de décadas de provocaciones no autorizadas"
Se os acabo el monopolio de la violencia en oriente medio putos mierda sionistas, bienvenidos a la realidad cabrones, arde telaviv, haifa es un puto cráter y suma y sigue.
¡ VIVA LA RESISTENCIA !
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Israel ha industrializado el terrorismo de Estado - mpr21
Hubo una época, no hace mucho, en que Israel reivindicaba el monopolio de la violencia en Oriente Medio, exhibiendo su poderío tras su Cúpula de Hierro, sus armas estadounidenses y sus armas nucleares no declaradas, dictando su voluntad a los medios …Redacción (mpr21)
El final del articulo es de los que enamorados:
Israel ha invocado tanto el infierno que arde en él.
Sin olvidar las perlas como:
Irán ya no se conformará con ser la víctima silenciosa de provocaciones y ataques ilegales [...] sino el brutal regreso de la justicia histórica. [...] Israel está siendo devuelto al lugar que le corresponde, no por la diplomacia ni los tribunales internacionales, sino por la fuerza implacable de un Estado que se niega a permitir que lo humillen y aniquilen [...]
Recordad niños:
Siempre con los oprimidos, nunca con los opresores.
Viva la resistencia palestina, libanesa, yemení y ahora también la iraní.
Sin olvidar y gritar en la cara de los sionistas:
¡ GLORIA ETERNA A LOS CAÍDOS SIRIA, IRAQ Y LIBIA !
Ojalá yo pudiera ser tan optimista. Pero prefiero esperar a que muerdan el polvo.
Siria por ejemplo, resistió muchos años y hoy en la práctica, no existe. Y hay muchos otros ejemplos recientes.
@disisdeguey @xesfur
De acuerdo, pero las armas nucleares tienen dos nombres, uno que utilizan de cara a la sociedad y otro que responde a su propósito real.
El primero ws "armas de disuasión" y el real es "armas de venganza" ya que en realidad se diseñaron para que en caso de que alguien las use el otro bando también y se provoque una destrucción mutua.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: US prepares to join war against Iran
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Jeffrey Sachs: US Prepares to Join War Against Iran
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, an advisor to political leaders around the world, a bestselling author, and a global leader in s...YouTube
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
This seems contradictory. On the one hand you're saying that these works are wrongly locked behind paywalls, but on the other you're saying that scraping them is an "assault on the cornerstones of our public knowledge." Is this information supposed to be freely viewable or not?
IMO the ideal solution would be the one Wikimedia uses, which is to make the information available in an easily-downloadable archive file. That lets anyone who wants the whole thing to have it without having to "hammer" the servers. Meanwhile the servers can be protected by standard load-balancing and DDOS prevention systems.
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so every single repository should have to spend their time, energy, and resources on accommodating a bunch of venture funded companies that want to get all of this shit for free without contributing to these repositories at all themselves?
Was Aaron Schwartz wrong to scrape those repositories? He shouldn't have been accessing all those publicly-funded academic works? Making it easier for him to access that stuff would have been "capitulating to hackers?"
I think the problem here is that you don't actually believe that information should be free. You want to decide who and what gets to use that "publicly-funded academic work", and you have decided that some particular uses are allowable and others are not. Who made you that gatekeeper, though?
I think it's reasonable that information that's freely posted for public viewing should be freely viewable. As in anyone can view it. If they want to view all of it and that puts a load on the servers providing it, but there's an alternate way of providing it that doesn't put that load on the servers, what's wrong with doing that? It solves everyones' problems.
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I don’t understand why the burden is on the victims here.
They put the website up. Load balancing, rate limiting, and such go with the turf. It's their responsibility to make the site easy to use and hard to break. Putting up an archive of the content that the scrapers want is an easy and straightforward thing to do to accomplish this goal.
I think what's really going on here is that your concern isn't about ensuring that the site is up, and it's certainly not about ensuring that the data it's providing is readily available. It's that there are these specific companies you don't like and you just want to forbid them from accessing otherwise freely accessible data.
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That is absolutely ridiculous. The pressure AI scraping puts on sites vastly outstrips anything people built for, as evidenced by the fact that the systems are going down.
Yes. Which is why I'm suggesting providing an approach that doesn't require scraping the site.
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Perhaps be more succinct? You're really flooding the zone here.
You have tunnel vision on this issue.
No, I'm staying focused.
I haven't heard or read any such thing, and the EU passed legislation regarding AI regulation. Which seems like the opposite of those claims.
I really don't see how it's a dishonest question.
Israel Confronts Harsh Reality of War As Iranian Retaliation Shatters Illusions
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli analysts and military officials admit the regime miscalculated in launching aggression against Iran, acknowledging the Islamic Republic's deep-rooted strength, strategic deterrence, and ability to inflict unprecedented damag…Tasnim News Agency
Pinning this on my profile for anyone who wants to learn about #Palestine and the Palestinian cause.
Home | Decolonize Palestine
Welcome to Decolonize Palestine, a collection of resources for anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.rafeeq (Decolonize Palestine)
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Israel kills 56 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them desperately seeking aid
UN rights chief says Israel’s warfare methods are ‘inflicting horrifying, unconscionable suffering on Palestinians’.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
i genuinely feel as though i'm losing my mind.
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BinaryFormatter → ZIP → Base-64 → UTF-16 → Boost
Why?
After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers
After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers
Waymo has been in dozens of crashes. Most were not Waymo’s fault.Timothy B. Lee (Ars Technica)
I am once again begging journalists to be more critical ~~of tech companies~~.
But as this happens, it’s crucial to keep the denominator in mind. Since 2020, Waymo has reported roughly 60 crashes serious enough to trigger an airbag or cause an injury. But those crashes occurred over more than 50 million miles of driverless operations. If you randomly selected 50 million miles of human driving—that’s roughly 70 lifetimes behind the wheel—you would likely see far more serious crashes than Waymo has experienced to date.[...] Waymo knows exactly how many times its vehicles have crashed. What’s tricky is figuring out the appropriate human baseline, since human drivers don’t necessarily report every crash. Waymo has tried to address this by estimating human crash rates in its two biggest markets—Phoenix and San Francisco. Waymo’s analysis focused on the 44 million miles Waymo had driven in these cities through December, ignoring its smaller operations in Los Angeles and Austin.
This is the wrong comparison. These are taxis, which means they're driving taxi miles. They should be compared to taxis, not normal people who drive almost exclusively during their commutes (which is probably the most dangerous time to drive since it's precisely when they're all driving).
We also need to know how often Waymo intervenes in the supposedly autonomous operations. The latest we have from this, which was leaked a while back, is that Cruise (different company) cars are actually less autonomous than taxis, and require >1 employee per car.
edit: The leaked data on human interventions was from Cruise, not Waymo. I'm open to self-driving cars being safer than humans, but I don't believe a fucking word from tech companies until there's been an independent audit with full access to their facilities and data. So long as we rely on Waymo's own publishing without knowing how the sausage is made, they can spin their data however they want.
edit2: Updated to say that ournalists should be more critical in general, not just about tech companies.
to amplify the previous point, taps the sign as Joseph Weizenbaum turns over in his grave
A computer can never be held accountableTherefore a computer must never make a management decision
tl;dr A driverless car cannot possibly be "better" at driving than a human driver. The comparison is a category error and therefore nonsensical; it's also a distraction from important questions of morality and justice. More below.
Numerically, it may some day be the case that driverless cars have fewer wrecks than cars driven by people.(1) Even so, it will never be the case that when a driverless car hits and kills a child the moral situation will be the same as when a human driver hits and kills a child. In the former case the liability for the death would be absorbed into a vast system of amoral actors with no individuals standing out as responsible. In effect we'd amortize and therefore minimize death with such a structure, making it sociopathic by nature and thereby adding another dimension of injustice to every community where it's deployed.(2) Obviously we've continually done exactly this kind of thing since the rise of modern technological life, but it's been sociopathic every time and we all suffer for it despite rampant narratives about "progress" etc.
It will also never be the case that a driverless car can exercise the judgment humans have to decide whether one risk is more acceptable than another, and then be held to account for the consequences of their choice. This matters.
Please (re-re-)read Weizenbaum's book if you don't understand why I can state these things with such unqualified confidence.
Basically, we all know damn well that whenever driverless cars show some kind of numerical superiority to human drivers (3) and become widespread, every time one kills, let alone injures, a person no one will be held to account for it. Companies are angling to indemnify themselves from such liability, and even if they accept some of it no one is going to prison on a manslaughter charge if a driverless car kills a person. At that point it's much more likely to be treated as an unavoidable act of nature no matter how hard the victim's loved ones reject that framing. How high a body count do our capitalist systems need to register before we all internalize this basic fact of how they operate and stop apologizing for it?
(1) Pop quiz! Which seedy robber baron has been loudly claiming for decades now that full self driving is only a few years away, and depends on people believing in that fantasy for at least part of his fortune? We should all read Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil to see the more likely trajectory of "driverless" or "self-driving" cars.
(2) Knowing this, it is irresponsible to put these vehicles on the road, or for people with decision-making power to allow them on the road, until this new form of risk is understood and accepted by the community. Otherwise you're forcing a community to suffer a new form of risk without consent and without even a mitigation plan, let alone a plan to compensate or otherwise make them whole for their new form of loss.
(3) Incidentally, quantifying aspects of life and then using the numbers, instead of human judgement, to make decisions was a favorite mission of eugenicists, who stridently pushed statistics as the "right" way to reason to further their eugenic causes. Long before Zuckerberg's hot or not experiment turned into Facebook, eugenicist Francis Galton was creeping around the neighborhoods of London with a clicker hidden in his pocket counting the "attractive" women in each, to identify "good" and "bad" breeding and inform decisions about who was "deserving" of a good life and who was not. Old habits die hard.
Your feedback is frustrating because it seems like you almost have it, but then you fall back on technosolutionist logic.
The fact we can even say that human drivers are "negligent" is a very good thing. That means we are aware that human drivers are accountable for their (in)actions.
"Autonomous" vehicles cannot be called negligent. It wouldn't make sense to do so. It might be the case that their makers cannot be called negligent either. Perhaps every person involved puts every effort into making the vehicles safe, but they turn out not to be. That is a very bad thing. It is (meta)negligent to set up a system like this, where people can be severely harmed or killed and there is no one who takes responsibility. I dare say it is sociopathic to do so.
And still our craven European governments support genocidal, murderous, threat to humanity, Israel.
Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say - BBC News
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Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say
It is potentially the deadliest of the almost daily shootings that have been taking place recently near aid distribution sites.Sebastian Usher (BBC News)
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Starmer, our Prime Minister, supports this.
Our Labour Prime Minister actively supports killing innocent people.
I'm past caring as to why. Money, corruption, power, ideology.
Starmer is a monster and should not be our political leader. I do not want to be ruled by murderers.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al 1) The #Fediverse is not #Mastodon. It is vast, and it is wide. Mastodon may be the most *popular* platform that is part of the Fediverse, but that is only because of Marketing. Think Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD vs. every other operating system on the planet. Windows is #1 due to marketing only. Doesn't mean it's the best. 2) Even among Mastodon servers only the flagship server is in Germany. Anyone is free to run a Mastodon server and a lot of them are located outside of Germany. 3) Equating the Fediverse with Mastodon and a Zionist developer in Germany completely ignores the vibrant tapestry that is the Fediverse. 4) Just avoid Mastodon. Seriously. Find a different server. Find a different platform. Mastodon sucks monkey balls but 99% of people never know this because they happy to bitch, moan, and complain about Mastodon sucking when 99% of other Fedi platforms and instances have already solved all the crap they're complaining about Mastodon doing.
I was responding to your post about how Gargron (and mastodon.social) is anti-Palestine. Simply pointing out there are other alternatives out there, nothing more.
Appreciate your work.
Russia-Ukraine exchange of dead bodies: 78 Russians for 6060 Ukrainians Why the vast difference?
I am pleased that News X put this question to me in a brief interview yesterday.Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
ODF: An Analysis of the Adoption of the Open Document Format - The Document Foundation Blog
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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Fractional reserve is fine when properly managed. We can talk about how much reserves should be on hand but zero is incredibly inefficient.
As long as loans are actually paid back, it’s not inflatiionary over the long term since the dollars are returned (with interest) and that money is not chasing goods and services. Defaulted loans are different, so you need to have good risk management and keep those under control.
Wealth inequality is simply the result of freedom. People make choices, not all of those choices are good ones. If you started fresh and gave everyone the same amount of money, inequality will return as time goes on. It’s the natural order of things. Some people may not like it, but true equality == slavery. If you want a truly equal society, we have a place where everyone has the same housing, food, clothing, etc. We call that place prison because that’s what it takes to enforce that system.
@midway you're deeply misinformed. fractional reserve is not "fine" on any level, it's fraud. it's double-book accounting. it means the bank does not have your money. especially when combined with lending at interest, the bank creates money out of nothing, loans it out to people, then gets paid back plus interest, requiring perpetual, inflationary debt money creation that is mathematically impossible to ever repay. this is BY DEFINITION inflationary.
i don't expect everyone to be equal, or have equal outcome. i expect *** equal OPPORTUNITY*** meaning we don't have some rules for private bankers and others for private individuals, specifically that they control the creation of fake debt-money (counterfeit, essentially, with a power monopoly of the state, yet they're not answerable to the taxpayers) yet the rest of us can't create a competing currency.
what we have is socialized risk, and privatized profit. this level of wealth inequality isn't just a result of freedom, it's primarily a result of fraud, and lack of freedom
so i don't know what crack pot econ school you went to but you should ask for a refund
If a bank must keep all of your deposits on hand, it can’t loan money out and would therefore have to charge you fees to hold it. That is a very inefficient use of capital.
I never said that money should be loaned out that would be impossible to repay. That is the exact point I made…proper risk management is key. Some loans will default to be sure…it’s the real world. But money paid back isn’t inflation over the long term because you are taking money out of circulation by paying back a loan. That money is not chasing goods and services and acts as a demand suppressant to counteract the demand increase by the loan.
If you want to live in a world without a credit market, good luck to you. It is literally the basis of our entire modern society. Go live out in the woods and barter…there’s a ton of empty space out there.
This is, in no way, a defense of how every detail of our system today. But the underlying concepts are fine. It’s all in the risk management. I’m fine with there not being “too big to fail” banks…those are a bad idea. Reasonable regulation on what banks can do based on their balance sheet is important. Under that scheme, some banks can fail and their losses need not be socialized. This would change consumer as well as institutional behaviors that are the core issues with the system. Risk, like pain, can be a good thing…it helps prevent doing stupid things. There should be risk in the system. Trying to eliminate it is what leads to dumb policies.
@midway yes, a bank should keep all your deposits on hand unless it's an investment account and you explicitly authorize them to invest it on your behalf. if that costs money then so be it, there's value there. you should pay for it.
the fractional reserve system we have is beyond fraudulent ,there's zero reserve ratio, they create the money for loans out of nothing, so it's not like they actually loan out "your" money they loan out fake money that they litereally punched up on a computer out of nothing (this is one of the primary ways money is created in the """federal""" """reserve""" bank system, through loan origination. so to be absolutely clear, that's so far from the function of a savings bank- it's something completely different. again, the system is fraudulent.
and the taxpayers are on the hook for endless bailouts. this is how we ended up with 25% of our federal budget being interest on the debt. the system needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with sound money, imo a combination of constitutional gold and silver money, and non-fiat crypto like btc, and allowing other competing currencies.
giving a fraudulent private banking system credit for "how we've advanced" is idiotic. we've advanced IN SPITE OF the parasitic drain on society extracting such a massive amount of wealth out of the productive economy
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Monopoly Round-Up: The Luxury of War - BIG by Matt Stoller
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Monopoly Round-Up: The Luxury of War
The Israeli-Iranian conflict has lessons on market power and war. So does China's use of rare earth magnets. Plus Meta tries a big AI acquisition, and Warner-Discovery splits up after a dumb merger.Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)
Anti-Obesity Drugs Market Estimated to Experience a Hike in Growth by 2035
Anti-obesity drugs consist of various pharmaceutical treatments aimed at helping individuals manage obesity and related health issues.
The global anti-obesity drugs market size is projected to grow from $12.8 billion in 2024 to $104.9 billion in 2035, representing a CAGR of 21.1%, till 2035. The report has been segmented into Distribution by Type of Molecule (Biologics and Small Molecules), Active Compound Used (Tirzepatide, Semaglutide, Retatrutide, Survodutide, Cagrilintide and Semaglutide, Orforglipron, Liraglutide and Other Active Compounds), Mechanism of Action (GLP-1 Agonist / GIP Agonist, GLP-1 Agonist / GCGR Agonist, GLP-1 Agonist, GLP-1 Agonist / Amylin Analogue, GLP-1 / GCGR / GIP Agonist and Other Mechanisms of Action), Type of Agonist (Single-Agonist, Dual-Agonist and Tri-Agonist), Action Pathway (Centrally Acting, Peripherally Acting and Centrally Acting, and Peripherally Acting), Route of Administration (Oral and Parenteral), Geographical Regions (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America), Sales Forecast and Key Players.
Several developers have the necessary capabilities to develop anti-obesity drugs, across the world. During our research, we identified 225 anti-obesity / weight loss drugs developed by close to 120 drug developers, worldwide. The anti-obesity drugs market is experiencing a steady growth, owing to the increasing prevalence of obesity and heightened awareness about the adverse effects associated with obesity.
The anti-obesity drugs market is highly fragmented, featuring the presence of both established companies as well as emerging start-ups. Notable examples of companies having a strong foothold in this industry (in alphabetical order) include Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lily, Novo Nordisk and Pfizer Inc. Further, majority of the companies in the weight loss drugs market are presently headquartered in North America.
Interestingly, majority of the weight loss drug candidates are currently being evaluated in the clinical stages of development; of these, around 50% of the drugs are in Phase II of clinical trials. Notable examples of these drugs (in alphabetical order) include bremelanotide (developed by Palatin), eloralintide (LY3841136) (developed by Eli Lilly) and M1Pram (developed by Adocia). Further, close to 40% of the total weight loss drugs are in the discovery / preclinical stage of development.
Further, majority of the drugs in anti-obesity drugs market can be administered through oral and subcutaneous route of administration. This can be attributed to the increased patient ccompliance and enhanced absorption rate of drugs through these routes. Examples of drugs which can be administered through both oral and subcutaneous route of administration (in alphabetical order) include GZR18 (developed by Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals) and SCO-094 (developed by SCOHIA PHARMA).
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After Iraq There's No Excuse For Buying The War Lies About Iran
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After Iraq There's No Excuse For Buying The War Lies About Iran
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