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Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start tā¦
The European Commission is tabling the suspension of Israel's access to the EU's Horizon Research fund as a consequence of the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Trumpās brand is no new wars, bring troops home, deal not fight. Democrats, once anti-Vietnam doves, boxed themselves into the hawk cornerāarming Ukraine, waving NATO flags, scolding Trump for ānot standing upā to Russia. The anti-war party now owns the war drum. huffpost.com/entry/hillary-cliā¦
āHow dare you!ā isnāt debate, itās theater. A tell that the speaker has no case, just outrage dressed up as moral authority. The louder itās shouted, the clearer the weaknessāoutrage as argument is less persuasion, more confession of fragility.
Happy 14th birthday to my daily-driver laptop. While it's had a RAM upgrade (4ā10) and a disk upgrade (HDDāSSD), it continues to run #FreeBSD like a champ and do what I need.
It also makes me kinda sad about all the perfectly cromulent hardware that #Win11 is obsolescing,
A Marx reading group has been found to be anti-constitutional by a Hamburg court. As capitalist crisis continues to worsen, attempts to limit knowledge will get more and more intensive.
The founders of the Tea app tried to recruit a female co-founder and face for the app, telling her "Tea has all the safety measures that Facebook lacked and more to ensure that only women are in the group."
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the āwomen dating safetyā app, tried to hire a female āfaceā for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
If you're a self-described moderate, there's something you will notice when you sit down to consider the media put out by reactionaries, versus the media put out by the radical left.
Reactionary content is blatantly harmful. It provokes fear, either directly or indirectly encourages hatred, and support of hateful and damaging people. It's what their ideology (or, technically, lack thereof) is built on.
Radical progressive, #communist, etc. content may offend your sensibilities ā did that person really just say "Stalin did nothing wrong"? ā but it isn't dangerous. You might think I'm completely out of my mind for my support of North Korea, but that isn't hurting people: Even if you fully believe that the DPRK is imprisoning and torturing its citizens en masse, my support for the 'regime' couldn't possibly make that any better or any worse. The most I could do is convince you that that isn't the truth, and redirect your outrage onto more pressing (and real) matters ā onto creating a better world by caring about people.
So while I may inspire the same kinds of feelings in you as a fascist might, if you're a centrist, that's where the similarities end: I think we should forcibly depose our capitalist oligarchs. They think that we should defend those capitalist oligarchs (via the system they have created) to the death ā that is, the death of all the minorities they fear and hate. It won't hurt you, or anyone else, to read with your eyes what I have to say, or even share my media, even if you vehemently disagree with it; but sharing reactionary media does direct and measurable harm ā unless you count the bottom line of a billionaire.
And you might be thinking: But Ferret, don't I see you posting stuff about killing the ruling class?
Sure. It's a small group of people who are defined by the power that they wield and refuse to surrender. The difference between that and reactionary celebrations of genocide is that the ruling class can simply stop being the ruling class. You'll never meet a socialist who says that if a capitalist gives up their capital ā stops being a capitalist Āā then they still get the wall.
Indeed, when the Communist Party of China overthrew the emperor, they just had him join the working class as a normal person. Though he of course was not initially happy about this, he ended up becoming quite a celebrated communist himself.
Do you think, if the fascists got everything they wanted, they would give you any such opportunity? You can't give up being black, or trans, or being of Islamic or Jewish heritage like you can give up being a capitalist; and for that, you simply become the next target of fear and hatred.
STEPHEN MILLER CALLS OUT NEWSOM & BASS and states that they are guilty of child sex trafficking and crimes against humanity.
Why does California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass continue to allow the largest open-air sex trafficking ring in the U.S. to continue to operate, especially when it's known to traffick children?
What is the connection officials in California have with the cartels when it comes to
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 2:45 a.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 24, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA. Filled with more than 5,000 pounds of supplies, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on [ā¦]
Consumption is flourishing in immigration detention centers across the country, yet another sign that America is grinding its way through a second Gilded Age. Itās better known now by its other name, tuberculosis, and itās the most deadly infectious disease in the world, the World Health Organization says, responsible for killing 1.5 million people each year, even though itās both preventable and curable.
Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.
The thing that the third reich somehow also made worse for everyone is the understanding why a concentration camp is deadly even without gas chambers and furnaces.
Faut vraiment qu'il flotte. Les arbres sont en souffrance, il commence Ć y avoir des feuilles au sol en forĆŖt. je n'ose pas imaginer les animaux sauvages.
Resilience and tragedy of Palestinian children and their teachers on show in heartbreaking video Yesterday, more than a thousand orphans graduated school at the Al-Wafa Orphan Village in Gaza despiā¦
The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MITās NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, 95% of the initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.
RIP-OFF rents are devouring more than a third of tenantsā incomes in England, leading to demands from campaigners today to introduce urgent controls.Ā People earning a median salary spent 36.
Following talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders in Washington, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that security guarantees for Kiev could be finalized within the next 10 days.
Just sounds like another mob shakedown of an American company or institution. Similar scenarios are everywhere with this fascist-cult-mob-regime. Itās what they are.
This regime intends to skim and launder money to themselves from every citizen, company, and institution in America. Except, of course, for a cult mob hierarchy of oligarchs, kleptocrats, sycophants, henchmen, and enforcers.
From the post of Jewish Voices for Peace on #BlueSky: Yesterday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel #Smotrich described the Israeli governmentās plan to āannihilate everythingā in Gaza.
In 1939, #Hitler began threatening the āannihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.ā We all know what that led to.
A figure based on Mihono Bourbon, the Umamusume: Pretty Derby character with cyborg and robotic design elements, will return worldwide. Mihobo Bourbon: the Chestnut Cyborg will be available everywhere in 2026. First, sheāll show up the US and Canada for $169.99 in Q1 2026. After that, sheāll appear in Japan for ļæ„26,800 in October 2026. While the original run of it did ...
āKeir Starmer says helloā ā how readers view apparent attempt at intimidation Image: jonathan-cook.net British Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook, a tireless reporter on Israā¦
on a whim I decided to use the airline credit for my canceled ontario flights on a travel package to hawaii. was insanely cheap because Iāll be staying at a japanese style capsule hotel in honolulu.
right now Iām chilling at an airport speakeasy before I board my flight. pretty cool bar š
Now, in a situation where the working class has practically disintegrated, the possibility of an expropriation of the means of production no longer exists. -- Alfredo Bonanno
Los recortes deberian de estar en sus privilegios de casta, no en recortes sociales.
ĀæCuando van a tomar ejemplo de Dinamarca y eliminar la pension vitalicia a los diputados, senadores,... solo por pertenecer a la casta politica?
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Just got contacted by a recruiter for a venture-backed startup looking to replace 911 operators with LLMs to triage emergency calls and boy I canāt express how much A) no I do not want to join your company, and B) how much I do not want to live in the world where 911 calls are handled by LLMs operated by for-profit companies
"Faster response is available for a one-time charge of $79.95, or you can purchase an annual membership to our 'Ride or Die' RoboAmbulance service for $799. That's a savings of over fifteen percent!
Please have your credit card ready, and press 3 now to purchase, otherwise please stay on the line as long as you can remain conscious."
I'm concerned enough about the push to use AI (in particular LLMs, of course) in our National Health Service even if they were being run internally. LLMs misfire enough even if they are being managed by people not trying to make a profit but simply trying (perhaps mistakenly) to drive down costs.
āJust got contacted by a recruiter for a venture-backed startup looking to replace 911 operators with LLMs to triage emergency calls and boy I canāt express how much A) no I do not want to join your company, and B) how much I do not want to live in the world where 911 calls are handled by LLMs operated by for-profit companiesā
An AI LLM 911 operator is still superior to a diversity nigger 911 operator.
I tried to do some digging to figure out what this company is calledā¦ Turns out there are several startups in this space. Lord have mercy on our souls. This is one of them: callhyper.com/
I am sure health insurance / medical industry would not want to push people to one hospital or another based on their insurance status / social score / whatever.
This is one of those situations where life should be like a cartoon in that as soon as somebody proposes an asinine idea like this a long red and white striped crook cane shoots in from the side and yanks them out of the frame to points unknown.
Iāll never shit on 911 operators, the information they provide is always critical, but the info isnāt always accurate because humans under stress are poor narrators. Sometimes you get a full accurate history, sometimes not one detail is right. LLMs replacing humans here wouldnāt necessarily kill people, but it would make the first responderās job a lot harder. An LLM triaging (at any time) would absolutely kill people.
If this would only be for cases where 911 lines are overloaded with too many emergency calls for on-call staff to handle, sure, thatās still better than not getting through at all. But replacing 911 operators? I would not want to carry such a responsibility when these systems failā¦
@CorinnaBaldauf AI: ā¦ sorry, you are correct; in fact, I didn't find a 911 number in your area so I called the one in Buffalo. AI: Anything else I can do for you?
ems/911 systems have been already doing a lot of work with automatic dispatch and intake over the last 5-10 years. lots of state-machines, crow fly and turn by turn algorithms have been in play. even the intake call with live triage is automated to where any layman can dispatch and coordinate.
llms in my view are not a good fit for this sort of thing, but countless people have poor operators when seconds matter.
I think this would be the point at which I'd start asking the recruiters about their poor life choices and if they realize they can just quit their soul-crushing jobs and find something less evil to do.
Just like most hotlines already are llm driven. But hey, its super nice to bee in a "I want to talk to a human" discussion for several minutes before getting actual help.
"911, how may I help you" .. "unfortunately you only have the basic coverage and we can not send help for 'there is a murderer in my house' kind of assistance. Payment options to expidite the assistance after a word from our sponsors."
"You say that someone has been following you in your Tesla truck for the last 10 miles, taking every turn the same as you, and you feel it might be a stalker? Have you considered washing your Cybertruck with a combination of lemon juice and kosher salt?"
Eliza911: I am here to help you. Say whatever is in your mind freely, our conversation will be kept in strict confidence. Memory contents will be wiped off after you leave, so, tell me about your problems.
Caller: There's an intruder in the house and he's armed
Eliza911: How does an intruder in the house make you feel?
Caller: Scared
Eliza911: What could you do to help rectify this?
Caller: I could hide or try to leave the house.
Eliza911: Please give me more information about it.
Agentic AI Bot: "I'm sorry, but you appear to be speaking too softly for me to understand your issue. I think you said either a burglar or a kidnapper is still in the house. Please speak louder? Wait, I cannot interpret a scream. And now all I hear is a gurgling sound."
Having spent almost 28 years in Medicine, i have come to the following conclusions:
I believe that the healthcare industry rarely ever provides healthcare. Instead it provides disease management by using expensive and potentially harmful pills to mask symptoms
Secondly I believe people come to see doctors to be engaged, educated and
I am Dr Sanjay Gupta. I am a Consultant heart specialist in York, UK and I believe that high quality reliable jargon-free information about health should be available at no cost to everyone in the world.
empowered rather than being given a set of pills before being shown the door.
I think lifestyle management is perhaps the single most effective therapy in medicine and yet largely ignored because it is boring and not as profitable as promoting the newest and often most expensive tablet.
I do believe that high quality reliable jargon-free information about health should be available at no cost to everyone in the world. Unfortunately many people rely on google to answer
their questions and are often left confused and anxious because of the unreliability and variability of the quality of information
I think the media, the pharmaceutical industry and often the healthcare industry profit by promoting fear rather tan providing reassurance and empathy.
Women don't want biological males in their bathroom and trans-identified individuals don't like being reminded they were born a certain sex. The disabled restroom is the only place that doesn't care for sex/gender politics.
While I've enjoyed Gavin Newsom trolling Trump, I'm getting really sick of people defending him as a presidential candidate when he thought it was a great idea to embrace MAGA on his podcast and throw trans people under the bus.
The South Park guys tore Charlie Kirk a new one for being a piece of human detritus, a real-life version of Cartman. Gavin thought it would be fun to have Charlie Kirk on his podcast where they trashed trans athletes together.
There's nothing good about transphobia, sorry. We need to collectively fight for the rights of all marginalized groups, not compromise with MAGA and decide trans people aren't worth protecting.
@violetmadder More people need to realize this. Nothing short of a nationwide hostile takeover of the party by genuine leftists is going to fix it. @bascule
i do kinda feel like cleaning up trump's mess is shitty peoples' responsibility though, as the least they can do, so i welcome diversity of tactics in that regard. but fascism lite that doesn't protect trans people isn't good enough for actual leadership
Gavin's main talent is identifying a cause people belive in and getting out in front of it to make it look like he's leading the movement. But everything he does is ultimately about him and his success. That can make him useful politically and help us achieve goals, but I wouldn't ever trust him to do the right thing. But politics make strange bedfellows, and if he's the one standing up to the fascist takeover, I'm going to cheer for him to win that fight the whole way. Then I'll fight him over respecting trans rights and means-testing Medi-Cal. That's apparently the best we can get these days.
Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarketās mission sinceĀ we published our first book,Ā The Struggle for Palestine,Ā in 2001.
Gears Of War Creator Says It āDoesnāt Feel Strangeā To See It Ported To PS5
Former Epic Games design director and Gears creator Cliff Bleszinski is just happy more people get to play the game The post Gears Of War Creator Says It āDoesnāt Feel Strangeā To See It Ported To PS5 appeared first on Kotaku.
I just read that there is a push by the FDA to discontinue the animal based (natural) medicines like this. They have already told the manufacturers to stop production as their products will not be approved any longer.
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