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I was playing with gpt-oss:20b, the new OpenAI model you can download and run yourself.
Thought I would do a quick experiment, ask it the same question about two different groups.
You don't have to read the whole thing. Just look at how much work the AI has to do to not say something insensitive about black people, vs how it treats white people.
Now imagine how much computer time this is wasting, just to give you a less-correct answer.
Another hellscape partly fuelled by America's current disinterest in anything other than 'America First'.
'The end of the liberal world order is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in conference rooms and university lecture halls in places like Washington and Brussels. But in al-Ahamdda, this theoretical idea has become reality.'
The arrival of the first echelon with Russian troops in Belarus caused "tension" in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine en.topwar.ru/269250-pribytie-p…
Russia has begun the transfer of troops to Belarus, the first echelon with equipment and personnel has already arrived at one of the stations of the Belarusian railway.
The "K-shape" economy is back. It's one of the most important charts to understand the state of the economy.
The wealthy are still spending, although there has been some moderation. Meanwhile the bottom 80% are tapped out. Their spending is basically in line w/inflation.
Whether the US ends up in a recession will depend almost entirely on whether the top 10 to 20% of earners keep spending.
I worked on the technical side of consumer packaged goods branding for most of my career, and this trend was the thing all the strategists seemed most eager not to see or think about, as the entire category was founded on the existence of a durable middle class. (Now I work on the technical side of high end spectacle-events, to my relief)
In October 16, 2005, Citigroup came out with a brochure for investors called “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances” urging investors to put money into a “Plutonomy Baske…
Holy shit I did not realize how much my HP 35s had appreciated in value until a colleague came in my office, saw me using it, and told me I had $400 in my hands.
Removing illegals from the census, and redistricting, could net the Republican party 40 seats in the House of Representatives. (P.S. I love Stephen Miller, but it is really hard to get a good screenshot of the dude. This was around my tenth take. lol) x.com/EricLDaugh/status/195343…
Are you planning a move? BEWARE! In this eye-opening video, we’re exposing the latest moving scam crisis sweeping the nation—where fake movers and fraudulent...
It sounds like money better spent to have your lawyer on the line and CCd when they give you your quote so if they tried it you would be filing your court docs the next day.
@MSP_SMIMSA I wasn't broke, but moving yourself is a great way to see all the shit you've accumulated that you don't need. Even after doing that I'm doing another purge a year after moving as I can see what I need and don't need. It helps that I bought all new furniture too, since I had no family heirlooms
Ho hum: I sent my walking boots off to be resoled the other day, just had a phone call saying that they need more work than I expected (meaning it’ll be less than £100 less than the cost of a new pair), and the membrane (which they can’t fix) is wearing thin around the big toe: “How often do you get wet feet?”
To which the answer is “never”, but the question suggests I will be soon. That plus a ten week lead time before they get to the top of the pile, and I’ve just ordered a new pair and told him to stick them in the recycling bin.
I figured if I retired from the university, I'd be game for a new career. I saw an advertisement for making chess set pieces. That seemed interesting, except I'd have to work knights. That's a better move than working in a pawn shop. However, I expect I'd get board.
Spain has abandoned plans to purchase American F-35 fighter jets. This was reported by the newspaper El Pais, citing unnamed government sources. The publication states that the Spanish government allocated $6.
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Launch of Vega-C VV27 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 25 July at 23:03 local time (03:03 BST/04:03 CEST on 26 July), carrying Airbus’s four CO3D satellites and the French space agency CNES MicroCarb mission.
"When the Texas House Democrats bolted from Austin in earlier this month, they did so with the swagger of martyrs. They cast their self-imposed exile as a noble stand against injustice, a heroic resistance to gerrymandering. But like most political theatre, the drama was better lit than written. What these Democrats inadvertently illuminated was not Republican overreach but their own decades-long monopoly on congressional cartography in the states they dominate. In trying to indict Texas, they put their own crimes on trial."
@rysiek@mstdn.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @davidgerard@circumstances.run so the use case for AI assistants is to do performative computing so the CEO actually finally understands why refusing their password is bad and you need to put pape…
N.b., "banning trade with Israeli settlements" isn't even technically a sanction that requires any kind of decision, it's already a mandatory legal obligation on the EU in international law that it's simply refusing to implement. todon.nl/@prolrage/11486229611…
ok #gm today we are making some important folded welded corner brackets that will be bolting everything in this project together. last minute i increased the thickness to make them stronger.
I don't like giant tits and I don't care about a slim figure. I just want a woman who's not crazy. I know my expectations are completely unrealistic. But that's just the way I am.
A novel way to prevent the spread of malaria by directly targeting the proteins that enable the infectious parasite to reproduce could soon be realized, thanks to scientists at WEHI in Australia.
❞ [F]or those living with chronic illness or disability in Gaza, hunger is not separate from their condition — it is made worse by it. Medications have disappeared. Treatments have stopped. And basic survival has become a daily battle. Under total blockade, diabetes or a thyroid condition can become a death sentence. … For diabetics, skipping meals without adjusting medication can trigger a dangerous cycle known as iatrogenic hypoglycemia — caused not just by the disease, but by inadequate care. ... “Thyroid patients need special nutrition — fish and eggs are vital to compensate for deficiencies in the body. But here, almost all we have access to are canned and preserved foods that don’t meet those needs.” ... “When I don’t eat enough, my heart acts up more,” she said. “Even when I take the pill, my body doesn’t respond the same. I get dizzy. I feel like I’m fading.”
Malnutrition weakens her body’s ability to absorb medicine. Dehydration and exhaustion trigger more episodes. She must ration what little food, medicine, and strength she has left. ❝
Outlets like the New York Times have downplayed the famine by pointing to underlying medical conditions. But these ailments only make the suffering worse.
I honestly can't even comprehend these censorious bastards these days. The internet was probably the biggest driving force of globalism. Everyone is aware that the lefties that are pushing these censorship laws and policies are globalists. They probably orgasm at the thought of one world government. But then they go and nerf the one tool that would have brought them globalism by itself, without them doing anything at all. I know these people are not particularly smart, but this really is a brain dead move.
@alyx Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a king in hell?
This is a famous question, that I used to consider ridiculous, but the way modern politicians treat it is outright schizophrenic. While they sing the glory of globalism, our politicians say we cannot leave the EU because "we get more money out of surrounding nations".
That is ridiculous, and when it comes to the internet, this split becomes even more obvious. They NEED to control all of the data on their territory, as if they didn't understand that lack of territory is the entire point.
I just realized this point, when I was thinking of the old Netflix. It had it's library so shattered, that a VPN was a requirement for you to use it in any meaningful way.
Well, from there.... We were already just a single step away from national nets being the only option.
I just concider the internet to be literally as important as the moon landing, when it comes to pushing the idea, that humanity could move on into the future.
I often joke, that as a child, I was politically a Star-trekkie. But that meant, that humanity could move on from racism and unite nations.
BLM completely disproved the first illusion, and it broke me for a decade. Now, they're about to break the 2nd illusion.
Commemoration Atomic Bomb Viewing Parties: A Fad Lost to Time by Steve Bombomarx Once upon a crisp Nevada dawn, when the roosters were irradiated and the martinis still glowed from the night before, Americans did what they do best: turned existential dread into spectacle and called it a party. Yes, friends and fallout-fetishists, there was a time—not so long ago—that people packed into convertibles and lounge chairs in the desert outside Las Vegas, wore sunglasses at night (because Ray-Bans weren’t just for style), and toasted the end of the world with highballs and optimism. These were the atomic bomb viewing parties: A peculiarly American pastime where the mushroom cloud wasn’t a warning—it was entertainment. “Pull up a chaise longue, Dorothy, they’re about to drop the 15-kiloton special!”
From the 1950s into the early '60s, tourists booked hotel rooms with "mushroom cloud views." The Desert Inn became the Ritz of Radioactivity. Guests would rise early, don sunglasses and silk robes, and line the windows for the main event—cocktails in hand, hangovers in progress. And for those seeking more than just a visual thrill, the high-rise honeymoon suites became launchpads of their own. Yes, the Mile High Club had a desert chapter—members living on the edge, chasing the thrill of a bang that came with a shock wave. Nothing like a little atmospheric detonation to put the boom in boom-boom.
The Logic Went Like This: • It’s for science! • It’s for national security! • It’s happening anyway, so we might as well have a ball.
One could imagine Plato, if dragged forward through time and handed a daiquiri, staring at the horizon and muttering, “These are not shadows on the cave wall. This is the cave wall melting.”
But Vegas leaned in. There were “Dawn Bomb” cocktails and Miss Atomic Blast pageants. One showgirl, adorned in a mushroom-cloud tutu, became the patron saint of American denial. Eventually, the party ended. Turns out, the best souvenirs were radioactive isotopes. Milk got a little spicy. Hair got a little thin. Children, a little too luminous. And the government—realizing the PR optics of glowing toddlers—began doing what it does best: Classifying. Disappearing. Disclaiming. Today, we speak in hushed tones of Chernobyl and Fukushima—but almost never of Yucca martinis at sunrise, or of that odd moment in time when the most destructive force in human history was the backdrop for a conga line. Steve Bombomarx’s Rule #47: If humanity finds a way to dress up annihilation with sequins and sell it with a side of fries, it will. And so it did. Coda, for the kids who never knew: Imagine TikTok with a tactical warhead filter. Imagine Coachella, but instead of a bass drop—it’s the crust of the earth rippling. Now imagine your grandparents applauding it from a chaise lounge while sipping a Sidecar. History is strange. Americans are stranger. And the bomb? Still ticking, somewhere deep in our collective psyche, where spectacle and shadow meet.
Elon watching oligarchs implicate themselves in heinous crimes against humanity, knowing that in another 3 decades, no place on earth will be safe for them, and he's gonna be selling tickets to Mars for 10 billion a seat.
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the moratorium on the deployment of ground-launched intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles english.10mehr.com/statement-b…
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