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I have never heard anyone ever say anything about Gavin Newsom like that. Just about French Laundry and letting Pasadena burn and letting the cities go to seed. Just that. Oh, and not passing the $100m of fire relief on to the actual homeowners who lost their homes to fire. Just that.
A new Harvard study looks into what determines sex at birth. One surprising finding: the older the mom, the more likely she is to have multiple children of the same sex.
Sony just revealed its first mouse and keyboard, part of a full set of PC peripherals
At a very warm Gamescom-adjacent event this Tuesday evening, Sony has unveiled some real firsts for their Inzone range of gaming peripherals. The gaming sub-brand first came to light in 2022 with a range of stylish gaming headsets, and this was joined by some impressively designed gaming monitors, including 2024's Inzone M10 S and M9 2 ...
Sony just unveiled a brand new range of Inzone peripherals, including brand new headsets and a couple of other key surprises. Reece has gone hands on with them.
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Everyone likes a hero! Watching the heroes fall, though — oh, they like that even more! Your courage, your death, just another product to be consumed...a few seconds of entertainment in a constant stream of bullshit! #MulletMadjack
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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 t…
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.
Trump’s brand is no new wars, bring troops home, deal not fight. Democrats, once anti-Vietnam doves, boxed themselves into the hawk corner—arming Ukraine, waving NATO flags, scolding Trump for “not standing up” to Russia. The anti-war party now owns the war drum. huffpost.com/entry/hillary-cli…
‘How dare you!’ isn’t debate, it’s theater. A tell that the speaker has no case, just outrage dressed up as moral authority. The louder it’s shouted, the clearer the weakness—outrage as argument is less persuasion, more confession of fragility.
Happy 14th birthday to my daily-driver laptop. While it's had a RAM upgrade (4→10) and a disk upgrade (HDD→SSD), 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 ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ 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 — did that person really just say "Stalin did nothing wrong"? — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — stops being a capitalist — 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 […]
Consumption is flourishing in immigration detention centers across the country, yet another sign that America is grinding its way through a second Gilded Age. It’s better known now by its other name, tuberculosis, and it’s the most deadly infectious disease in the world, the World Health Organization says, responsible for killing 1.5 million people each year, even though it’s 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 à y avoir des feuilles au sol en forêt. 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 despi…
The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s 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 tenants’ incomes in England, leading to demands from campaigners today to introduce urgent controls. 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. It’s 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 government’s plan to “annihilate everything” in Gaza.
In 1939, #Hitler began threatening the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.” We all know what that led to.
"17/08/2025 ExtraitJ’avais la même myopie à chaque œil, avant qu’un chien de Pétain ne me permette de faire des économies en lentilles correctrices. (…) Aucun éborgné par la police n’a…"
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, she’ll show up the US and Canada for $169.99 in Q1 2026. After that, she’ll appear in Japan for ￥26,800 in October 2026. While the original run of it did ...
‘Keir Starmer says hello’ – how readers view apparent attempt at intimidation Image: jonathan-cook.net British Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook, a tireless reporter on Isra…
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 I’ll be staying at a japanese style capsule hotel in honolulu.
right now I’m chilling at an airport speakeasy before I board my flight. pretty cool bar 👀
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.
¿Cuando van a tomar ejemplo de Dinamarca y eliminar la pension vitalicia a los diputados, senadores,... solo por pertenecer a la casta politica?
https://www.abc.
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 can’t 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.
“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 can’t 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”
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 called… 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.
I’ll never shit on 911 operators, the information they provide is always critical, but the info isn’t 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 wouldn’t necessarily kill people, but it would make the first responder’s 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, that’s still better than not getting through at all. But replacing 911 operators? I would not want to carry such a responsibility when these systems fail…
@CorinnaBaldauf AI: … 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."
Remplacer les opérateurs du 911 par des LLM (c'est à dire des machins qui sont programmés pour donner une réponse « probable » dans une conversation) : on ne voit pas du tout ce qui pourrait mal se passer !
"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."
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