Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI
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A fireside with Dr. Fei-Fei Li on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason....YouTube
As fascism burns across America, it's important to remember that Trump and his policies are *not popular*. Sure, the racism and cruelty excites a minority of (very broken) people, but every component of the Trump agenda is *extremely* unpopular with the American people, from tax cuts for billionaires to kidnapping our neighbors and shipping them to concentration camps.
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WFTU Working Women Committee realized a virtual seminar on June 27th, on the subject of ILO Convention 190/2019 on the elimination of violence and harassment in the workplace.central wftu (WFTU)
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Trump says the "Big Beautiful Bill" eliminates taxes on Social Security benefits. However, the bill's text shows that's not quite the case.Jordyn Bradley (Investopedia)
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Serbian police detain 79 protesters as dissent persists against populist president
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Denmark launches its EU presidency facing war in Ukraine and Trump tariff chaos
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Trump says the "Big Beautiful Bill" eliminates taxes on Social Security benefits. However, the bill's text shows that's not quite the case.Jordyn Bradley (Investopedia)
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Note: I wrote this poem yesterday in the haiku style of poetry and published it for the first time today, the 3rd of July, 2025. You came here to be human so be true to your humanity.
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Brave for Android is now available as an F-Droid repository! 📱🤖
This officially-supported repository allows you to install the browser and get automatic updates without using the Google Play app.
We're excited to make our browser available on a decentralized and account-free platform that's free of Big Tech restrictions and tracking.
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As the recent Hague NATO summit opened, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte held a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Antiwar.com
Liverpool player Diogo Jota and his brother killed in a car accident in Spain, police say
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The Figure-rise Standard Umamusume: Pretty Derby Tokai Teio model kit represents a character from the popular multimedia franchise "Umamusume: Pretty Derby," which features anthropomorphized versions of real-life racehorses portrayed as "horse girls.Gundam Extra-Your BEST Gunpla Supplier
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An investigation by The Guardian revealed that the Israeli military used a powerful 500-pound bomb, likely an MK-82, in its attack on Al-Baqa café by the #Gaza seaside.
This bomb, caused a massive explosion and scattered shrapnel over a wide area, leaving a large crater at the site. The use of such a weapon may amount to a war crime.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
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I used to say that Kissinger wasn't dying because Satan was afraid of him taking over.
Netanyahu have proven to be an even bigger evil than him.
If there is hell, there's a special level reserved for these monsters
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the greatest period of Spanish expansion to spread Christianity was about 1500 - 1800
so could we say the entire conquest of latin america by spain and the almost entire conquest of north america by the northern europeans were both symptoms of decline?
President Trump, to his credit, demanded a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Both countries agreed to it.Antiwar.com
Reprinted from CommonDreams. The attack by Israel and the U.S. on Iran had two significant effects. First, it once again exposed the root cause of turmoil in the region: Israel’s project to “reshape the Middle East” through regime change, aimed at ma…Antiwar.com
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On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The Pentagon announced yesterday that the regular supply of weapons sent to Ukraine would be halted.Antiwar.com Blog
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If the music's gotten boring, it's because of the people
Who want everyone to sound the same
Who drive the bright people out of our so-called scene
Till all that's left is just a meaningless fad
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#chickenshitconformist #DeadKennedys #music #punk #scene
If the music's gotten boring, it's because of the people Who want everyone to sound the same Who drive the bright people out of our so-called scene Till all that's left is just a meaningless fad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E0MdKJreSEUndead Blog
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Closely watched US jobs report likely to show hiring slowed in June
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JUNE poll results...
Who does better riots?
23% blacks
4% hispanics
62% EU "football" fans
12% other (specify)
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Casual thoughts about memory and our misconceptions about it, based on the last few weeks of seeing a LOT of lay mental models about memory and cognition:
- it is well known in the psychological and cognitive sciences that memory is not like a man-made recording device. Your memory is not a tape recorder, or analogous to computer memory. Nevertheless people will insist on constantly using computer metaphors for memory. Just know this is widely regarded as inaccurate
HOT REPOST FROM JUNE:
@PNS goes to his job. He's a busy little Canadian guy.
But he WILL hit 80K posts by the end of the year. 🤣
CBS and PNS... the same autistic coin, heads and tails. 😀
I'm rooting for my little buddy.
HOT REPOST FROM JUNE:
It ain't NWA (Niggaz with Attitude) Compton no more.
Now who went and changed Compton on me?
#engineering #technology #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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SANAA, July 02 (YPA) - A Yemeni researcher interested in tracking and monitoring smuggled Yemeni antiquities, Abdullah Mohsen, revealed on Tuesday that "Israel" was negotiating to obtain a bronze statue from Yemen.in a post on X, Mohsen confirmed thaاحسن (Yemen Press Agency)
Gespräch mit Esther Bejarano. Über den Rechtsruck in Europa, die jüdische »Welt von Gestern«, Zionismus und Israel heute, das Großmachtstreben Deutschlands und seine neuen KriegeSusann Witt-Stahl (junge Welt)
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More sanctions will only ever embolden Russia to keep fighting rather than making peace. Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Russia can…Strategic Culture Foundation
International initiatives #GlobalMarchToGaza #AlSoumoudConvoy and #FreedomFlotilla join the many voices, factory #blockades #directaction demonstrations #encampments musicians calling for an end to the siege on #Gaza and a future for #Palestine liberation, dignity and freedom.
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#antimilitarism #BobVylan #KneeCap #militaryindustrialcomplex #PalestineAction
Delegates and international activists with the Global March to Gaza, Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Al-Soumoud Convoy met in Tunisia to chart a collective path forward for Palestinian liberation ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ Over the past two weeks, thousa…katamansha (Freedom Press)
Chinese aircraft carrier sails into Hong Kong to boost patriotism
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Live Updates: Israel has been bombarding Gaza, killing thousands of Palestinians, since Hamas launched a deadly offensive on Oct 7, 2023.DAWN.COM
Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Jacinta Bowler (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Israel kills more than 300 Palestinians in 48 hours as ceasefire in balance
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Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel has committed ’26 bloody massacres’ in the last two days.Al Jazeera
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued a decree on the suspension of the country's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.Sputnik International
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I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets
Link: trufflesecurity.com/blog/guest…
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GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever.trufflesecurity.com
Young Tricolor Heron looking at you
#Birds #photography #wildphotography #birdphotography #WIldlifePhotography #Wildlife
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Jacinta Bowler (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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I've noticed that many former astronauts are exceedingly long-lived. John Glenn was 95yo when he died. Michael Collins was 90yo when he died. Buzz Aldrin is very much still with us at 95yo, as is Jim Lovell (pictured) at 97yo.
I wonder if anyone has researched the reasons for their longevity.
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Authorities foil British-German drug gang’s €30m smuggling bid after sophisticated surveillance and sea pursuitCormac O’Keeffe, Eoin English and Liz Dunphy (IrishExaminer.com)
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Insomniacs know.
Rumble should just be renamed "serious streaming service problem" for a couple weeks and everyone fired.
“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter
Florida can put 5000 beds together in under a month if it's to build a concentration camp, but can't house their 31,000 homeless citizens.
These are policy choices, and not just on the right. Dems could be using emergency powers to house people in blue states.
We have a party of fascism and a party of the status quo.
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Peter Putnam was a promising student of John Wheeler who became obsessed with a computational model of the mind, was tormented by a pathological relationship with his wealthy mother, and ended up contributing to community politics while working blue collar jobs.
Science writer Amanda Gefter spent more than a decade tracking down the people who knew him, and diving into a vast store of his unpublished work and private papers.
A long read, but fascinating and moving.
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The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mindAmanda Gefter (Nautilus)
Just in time for summer, Vivaldi 7.5 is here! This release is about sharper control, cleaner interaction, and stronger privacy.Jon von Tetzchner (Vivaldi Technologies)
AP spoke to the two contractors for UG Solutions, an American outfit subcontracted to hire security personnel for the distribution sites. They said bullets, stun grenades and pepper spray were used at nearly every distribution, even if there was no threat.In one video, what appear to be heavily armed American security contractors at one of the sites in Gaza discuss how to disperse Palestinians nearby. One is heard saying he has arranged for a “show of force” by Israeli tanks.
“I don’t want this to be too aggressive,” he adds, “because this is calming down.” At that moment, bursts of gunfire erupt close by, at least 15 shots. “Whoo! Whoo!” one contractor yelps. “I think you hit one,” one says. Then comes a shout: “Hell, yeah, boy!”
House GOP clears key hurdle on Trump's big bill, pushing it closer to vote
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Pluralistic: Trump’s not gonna protect workers from forced labor (03 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Keeping this fact in mind is essential if we are to nurture hope's embers, and fan them into the flames of change. Trumpism is a coalition of people who hate each other, who agree on almost nothing, whose fracture lines are one deft tap away from shattering:
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The vast unpopularity of Trumpism presents endless opportunities for breaking off parts of his coalition.
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Pluralistic: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 (14 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Take noncompete "agreements": contractual clauses that ban workers from taking a job with any of their employers' competitors for *years*. One in 18 Americans has been captured by a noncompete, and the median noncompete victim is a minimum-wage fast-food worker whose small business tyrant boss wants to be sure that she doesn't quit working the register at Wendy's and start making $0.25/hour more flipping burgers at McDonald's.
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The story of noncompetes is bullshit from top to bottom. The argument goes, "Your boss invests heavily in training you, and lets you in on all his valuable trade-secrets. When you walk out the door and go to work for a competitor, you're *stealing* all that training and knowledge. Without noncompetes, no boss will invest in the knowledge-intensive industries that are the future of our economy."
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Now, like I said, the *vast* majority of people under noncompetes are working low-waged, menial jobs with little to no training, and no proprietary trade secrets to speak of. Which makes sense: workers with less bargaining power end up signing worse contracts. That's half the case against noncompetes.
Here's the other half: the *most* IP-intensive, profitable, knowledge-based industries in America operate without *any* noncompetes.
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California's state constitution *bans* noncompetes, which means that every worker in Hollywood *and* Silicon Valley is free to quit their job and walk across the street and join a rival.
If Hollywood and tech are examples of industries that "can't attract investment," then we should be shooting for every sector of the American economy to be so starved for capital.
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Silicon Valley's origin story is based on the ability of key workers at knowledge-intensive firms to quit their jobs and go to work for a direct competitor: the first Silicon Valley company was Shockley Semiconductors, founded by William Shockley, who won the Nobel Prize for inventing silicon transistors.
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Shockley literally put the "silicon" in Silicon Valley, but he never shipped a working chip, because he was a deranged, paranoid eugenicist who ran such a dysfunctional company that eight of his top engineers quit to found a rival company, Fairchild Semiconductor. Then two of the "Traitorous Eight" quit the Fairchild to start Intel, and the year after, another Fairchild employee quit to start AMD:
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This never stopped. Woz quit HP and Jobs quit Atari to start Apple and the tradition of extremely well-capitalized companies being founded by key employees who quit market-leading firms to compete with their old bosses continues to this day. There are many things we can say about AI, but *no one* will claim that AI companies - especially not those in California, where noncompetes are banned - have trouble attracting investment.
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Half of the leading AI companies were founded by people who couldn't stand working for Sam Altman at Openai and quit to found a competitor. Just last week, Altman flipped out because Mark Zuckerberg poached his key scientists to work on competing products at Meta:
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Knowledge-intensive industries are provably compatible with a system of free labor where workers can work for anyone they want.
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Meta taps four OpenAI researchers for Superintelligence team
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You know who understands this? The lawyers who draw up employment contracts with noncompete clauses in them: the American Bar Association bans noncompetes for lawyers! *Every law firm in America operates without noncompetes!*
Everyone hates noncompetes. They are *bullshit*, and only get worse with time, as the largest companies in America metastasize into sprawling conglomerates, they compete with *everyone*. Who isn't a competitor of Amazon's?
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Biden's antitrust enforcers hated noncompetes, too. Former FTC chair Lina Khan held listening tours and solicited comments to hear workers stories about noncompetes, developing a record that she used to create a rule that banned noncompetes nationwide:
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Pluralistic: Antitrust is a labor issue (25 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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America's oligarchs weren't happy. They sued to overturn the rule, and got a nationwide injunction (you know, those things that Trump's illegitimate Supreme Court claims are unenforceable) that suspended the FTC rule pending a full hearing.
It's clear that Trump's FTC is going to walk away from this fight and let the rule die. Trumpism is wildly unpopular, and this is no exception.
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Americans overwhelmingly support banning noncompetes, but Trump's richest donors are terrified of another Great Resignation and want to keep us indentured to their shitty companies, so Trump's FTC will sell us all out.
But that's not the end of things. As David Dayen writes for *The American Prospect*, states and local governments can pass their own noncompete bans, and they are:
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States Take the Lead on Banning Noncompete Agreements
David Dayen (The American Prospect)Cory Doctorow
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Take NYC mayor-in-waiting Zohran Mamdani: unlike Trump (and the Democratic Party's billionaire wing), Mamdani campaigned by offering to create policies that are *popular*, including a ban on noncompetes. New York City has two distinct groups of workers who are screwed over by noncompetes.
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One of those groups is Wall Street finance bros, who work for some of the most legendarily toxic assholes to ever draw breath, and are overwhelming bound by noncompetes that will all become null and void the day Mamdani dons his sash.
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The other group of workers Mamdani will liberate are those at the very bottom of the income distribution, from fast food workers to gig workers to doormen, who are victims of some of the dirtiest noncompete clauses in America, including "bondage fees":
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Big cities are filled with workers who are getting screwed by noncompetes and every city government has it in their power to liberate every one of those workers (who are also voters).
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Pluralistic: How workers get trapped by “bondage fees”; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part five (21 Apr 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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States can do even better. There are already four states that ban noncompetes, two of them blood red: California, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Other states place significant restrictions on noncompetes, including Washington, Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine.
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Nevada bans noncompetes for hourly workers, Idaho only allows them for "key employees"; Louisiana limits noncompetes to two years, and NJ bans noncompetes for domestic workers.
Up and down the country, in states blue and red, noncompetes are unpopular, and banning noncompetes is popular:
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Oregon just banned noncompetes for doctors and other health workers, as part of a sweeping, bipartisan law that banned the "corporate practice of medicine":
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Oregon's in good company: noncompetes are banned in the health sector in 32 states, including Arkansas, Indiana and Colorado.
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Pluralistic: Oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine (20 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Lina Khan's FTC developed an irrefutable record about the abusive nature of noncompetes, proving industries can attract capital and field successful companies without them. States have it in their power to step in where Trump has betrayed American workers. This isn't the most efficient way to protect workers - that would be a federal ban on noncompetes - but it will still get the job done, and it will weaken the Trump coalition, which is barely holding together as it is.
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re “scientists”
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •IF THE MAGA POLICIES ARE NOT POPULAR WHY ARE AMERICANS QUIET.
STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR THE CONSTITUTION, FOR THE LAND OF THE FREE, FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I believe there is a difference between polling and voting.
During a poll (talking to a human being), people pretend to a better version of themselves. You know, the version who isn’t a racist?
When they secretly vote, they let their true feelings out.
So 45’s policies are more popular than a lot of people admit. Of the 77 million who voted for this, how many did NOT see the “Mass Deportation” signs?
I guess we will find out in 2026 how many of the people being polled now are lying.