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New study: The children of parents who endorse social hierarchies ("we" are superior to "them") and authoritarianism may be less capable of imagining how the world looks from another person's perspective, even holding constant the kids' language ability and the parent's level of education: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11…
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!
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.
Some 3,500 foreign fighters, mainly Uyghurs, who fought against the Assad regime, will join a newly formed unit under the plan, Syrian defense officials said
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.
While Russia and China have consistently developed mutually beneficial infrastructure and industrial projects with Mongolia, the United States focuses solely on access to cheap mineral resources, ignoring the Mongolian economy’s needs for diversifica…
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)
The United States has given Syria the green light to incorporate thousands of foreign Takfiri militants into the country’s new military, after the head of the HTS-led administration expressed readiness to normalize ties with the Israeli regime, a rep…
[ 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.
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!
📢 NAS quadrant of the #FaggotTourney has officially kicked off!
TODAY'S Match-ups:
If you heard @Wiz and @ceo_of_monoeye_dating 's podcast about the line up you'd know the gave both PNS and Cosmic a "literally who?" rating, and decided to throw them to the wolves!
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.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) revealed that ICE agents just aren’t killing themselves, despite being complete and utter dickbags with zero respect for human life.
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 ⚙️
#Palestine / Israeli military sources confirm deliberate strategy behind Gaza school strikes that killed 120+ civilians
The #Guardian reports that recent Israeli airstrikes on #Gaza school buildings sheltering displaced civilians are part of a deliberate military strategy. At least six schools have been struck in recent months, killing over 120 people, following loosened controls on targeting sites with large civilian presence. Military sources indicate four additional schools in northern Gaza have been marked as potential targets.
The strikes occurred after the Israeli military categorized schools, hospitals, and municipal buildings as "heavy centres" believed to be used by Hamas alongside civilians, with airstrikes authorized even when only low-ranking militants were present despite knowing civilians could be killed.
UN data shows 95% of Gaza's schools have sustained damage, with approximately 400 suffering direct hits.
According to international humanitarian law, deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure like schools - especially those serving as shelters for displaced people - constitutes war crimes under the Geneva Conventions and Rome Statute.
Images are available for free, with credit to Milo Chandler Activists from Palestine Action targeted CDW, tech suppliers for Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, in an anonymous, covert action at […]
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.
In der Süddeutschen erklärt Dr. jur. Ronen Steinke nochmal, weshalb die Behauptungen von Merzens Dobrindt BS sind, die Entscheidung des Verwaltungsgerichts Berlin sei nur "vorläufig" und Einzelfall-bezogen.
Bedauerlich, dass der Quatsch heute von DLF bis phoenix im ÖRR immer wieder verbreitet wird... &überdies in dem ganzen bösen Spiel das Wichtigste in Vergessenheit gerät: Dass es hier nicht um irgendwelche Zahlen geht, sondern Menschen mit Rechten & Menschenwürde.
Das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin entscheidet, dass Deutschland Asylsuchende aufnehmen muss, trotz Grenzschließungen. Was dafür die Gründe sind und welche Optionen Innenminister Dobrindt jetzt hat: Die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten.
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.
OCCUPIED PALESTINE, June 02 (YPA) - Israeli media outlets reported on Monday that sirens sounded heavily across occupied Palestine from the southern West Bank to “Tel Aviv” following the launch of a missile from Yemen, pushing millions of settlers in
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...
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory has revealed that the Israeli army has intensified the use of drones to intimidate and target civilians in the Gaza Strip. The observatory indicated that several cases of these planes stormed civilian
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.
A crusader for democracy in the Lone Star State: “I never believed that because you were a reporter you had to neuter yourself…and never allowed a false objectivity to censor me. I’ll be damned if anybody tells me what I can or can’t do.” @harrisondsmith washingtonpost.com/obituaries/…
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.
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
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in reply to monarchist • • •Depends on which social media pundit one follows I guess.
In all honesty, I can't keep up with who may be aligned anymore.
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