If that didn’t save Mahmoud Khalil, I’m not sure it’ll save Jerome Powell.
The courts are fully in thrall to this despotic presidency, the opposition party is nowhere to be found, and the federal law enforcement agencies are all full on MAGA.
angry Roomba noises
LLMs are excellent tools for mapping one set of words and phrases to another, which is more or less exactly what you need out of a language translator.
The former I’m still looking sideways at.
The latter, probably the only truly benevolent use of LLMs. And even then, you’ll get plenty of grumbling.
Pretty sure that was just Star Trek Beyond, the movie where the crew defeated a horde of ravenous space insects by blasting Beastie Boys hit single “Sabotage”.
In the early iterations of the 1960s smash hit Star Trek, audiences were shocked and titillated to see a white male officer in a romantic relationship with a black woman officer.
This continues to be shocking today, as modern audiences are not ready to see any (fully clothed) woman in any form of Sci-Fi media doing anything at all.
People have been called antisemitic for less
How many years ago did you conclude we’re all fucked?
Folks have been waving “The End Is Nigh” placards for a long while. Things change. Systems fail. Societies rise and fall.
This isn’t the end. It isn’t even the beginning of the end. Life will get a lot worse for a lot of people, so long as the engines of industry continue to be piloted by sociopaths. But tell that to someone in Kiev or Myanmar or Gaza, and they’ll wonder where you’ve been for the last five years.
Do the best you can with the information and opportunity you’re afforded. Don’t lose sleep over a problem your great grandchildren will be looking forward to if you’re not actually in a position to do something about it.
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I mean, if you want a lecture, YouTube has those in spades. I’ve got a few financial reports I listen to month-to-month. They’re very dry, info dense, and getting through them feels like dragging myself across sand paper.
I tend to prefer podcasts that mix in the history and the news with a few joking asides and tangents. Makes the show feel more human and less like I’m supposed to take an exam on it at the end of the week. And, frankly, I’ve found more hot tips in TrashFuture than anything UBS has dolled out.
Shout out to November Kelly, Devon, and the entire Nate Bethea extended universe. Producing the only good podcasts on the internet.
Iranian Diplomat: “No more killing us in the middle of negotiations.”
American Diplomat: “Seems reasonable.”
Israeli Diplomat: Storms out of the room, then calls in an airstrike
Three senior Israeli officials also said on Tuesday that, although Trump seemed determined to reach a deal, they viewed it as unlikely that Tehran would agree to U.S. demands, which they believed would include an end to Iran’s ballistic missile program
Israel: “We want you to give up your ability to hit us with conventional weapons. We will be reserving the ability to obliterate your entire country with a nuclear onslaught.”
Iran: “No”
Israel: “They’re being unreasonable. How are we supposed to negotiate with these fanatics?”
Alienation does drive people nuts.
Great news for anyone in solitary confinement.
Socializing isn’t romantic fulfilment
It is a necessary precondition
Complaining about being trapped in a sense of unfulfillment is a non sequitur.
No it isn’t
cat’s paw
“Cat’s paw”, an idiom, meaning “the dupe (or unwitting tool) of another”, derived from Jean de La Fontaine’s fable “The Monkey and the Cat”
It’s the same thing really, but without the “negative” connotations usually attributed to atheism or atheists.
Atheists and Agnostics would obviously disagree. There’s a core philosophical difference between being convinced in the negative and being unconvinced in the affirmative.
That said, what are the consequences of being a Theist, an Atheist, or an Agnostic? I might argue that Theists and Atheists have history of leveraging their confidence into an active policy of discrimination and bigotry. Whether you’re a Chinese Communist cracking down on under-18 church attendance or an Israeli Zionist conducting a pogrom against Palestinians, there’s a habit of imbuing your personal beliefs with political teeth.
“See, I’m not really an atheist but agnostic. It means I’m not to be expelled from this community as a heretic”
The flip side of this being, “I’m not expelling you from the community for excessive display of religious ferver”.
It’s easier to sympathize with avowed Atheists in nations where atheism is a disenfranchised minority. But as soon as you give someone like Christopher Hitchens or Sam Harris an ounce of political capital, they start cheer leading a genocide.
That, I think, is a real tangible difference. Agnostics tend not to begrudge other ideologies in the same way.
It is entirely true that all models from all manufacturers are compromised by spy agencies.
I think there’s a little bit of space between “spy agencies employ systems professionals that know the guts of a component’s security and tricks to bypass it” and “every device firmware has a double super secret protocol for sidestepping all of its security features”.
However the worst offender by far is Cisco even though they’re “American”.
Sure. I’m willing to believe that Cisco, specifically, has relationships with the Five Eyes network such that they make monitoring their traffic easier. Even then, there’s limits. One thing to say techniques exist to bypass security. Another entirely to know what those techniques are and whether they’re practical for application at universal scale.
One of the more chronic problems that big spy agencies have is sifting through all the spam and bullshit and empty chatter. Decryption takes time. And you can’t monitor everything, everywhere, all at once. The bigger sins of Cisco are in how they expedite access on behalf of their agency partners, not that they fail to produce perfectly hack-proof hardware.
because why the fuck the not?
In theory, you would have better things to do with your real estate.
But I guess I’m the idiot who threw my kit out six months ago to make the house a little less cluttered.
Smuggling? Setting up a factory in Florida that reboxes routers and slaps “Made In America” stickers on them? Resale/referb router prices going through the roof?
Take your pick.
Ukraine’s current main limitation appears to be funding, not troops or production capacity
That explains their lack of need for conscription and their air superiority.
I will never understand the knee-jerk insistence to play the Kamala Harris “We ran a perfect campaign” line against whatever Ukraine’s current defense policy happens to be. This was a country starved for equipment and experienced personal going back to before the '21 invasion even started. And now exporting equipment and manpower for some quick cash is the optimal play?
To assist in the invasion of another sovereign state, even?
Gearing up for a slew of “Fuck the CCP” posts in this thread.