I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
Oh no! How miserable! What happened?
… c’est une blague, ouais?
One of those facts about UBI that should be obvious to anyone who gives it any real thought is how significantly it will reduce domestic abuse. In Kenya, unconditional basic income cut domestic abuse in half. In Canada's Dauphin pilot, it dropped by about a third. Everyone needs the power to say NO.
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes
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New photo of Connor and Hudson with Megan Keller and Hilary Knight.
via rennaestubbs on Instagram
Searching drugs.com for penisomab. There is no result but the website offers to ask an AI agent.
The drugs.com AI claims that penisonomab is a medication used to treat DLBCL.
Asking the AI if penisomomab is a real. It responds that no, it is made up.
The drugs.com AI is working spectacularly well
I’m at 18.5 and same. I still kind of slow my walk past the admin desk in case they realized they DO need me to pay, actually …
This is a point I’ve heard a pro AI person make before and I don’t know how to explain to someone that putting a plagiarism machine on an equivalent moral value to a human life is something only an insane person can do
OpenAI should be and hopefully will get sued out of existence. honestly the only way it survives is if there’s shield legislation like gun manufactures have, and I wouldn’t put it past congress to do that.
Bluesky should not get into this idea that blocking you is a problem. You can be blocked for any reason. You can be blocked because your pfp is annoying. You can be blocked because your vibe sucks.
If you take this personally I think that’s also a reason you can be blocked.
Oh my god, the guy who left his girlfriend on a mountain to die had done the same thing to a different girlfriend on THE SAME MOUNTAIN.
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
Mikaela Shiffrin wins the slalom gold medal by 1.50 seconds
If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds
It's really great that an industry that can't figure out how to make substantial revenue, let alone make a profit, is ruining literally everything else.
One thing AI has revealed is that there are a whole lot of people who have neither interesting ideas nor the talent to express them, and apparently not even any real will or desire to cultvate either of these things… but still for some reason desperately want to be regarded as artists.
One of the under-stated signs that this is all a bubble and even the players know it is that they’re rushing to build data centres in places that make zero sense if you actually plan on operating a data centre. The Paluxy watershed just does not have the water supply, this is all smash-and-grab.
The ‘bel’ in ‘decibel’ is for Alexander Graham Bell.
Since the ‘B’ in 'dB' is a name-derived unit, it is capitalized when abbreviated.
I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
Today I saw a hummingbird chasing a full-on hummingbird-eating kestrel away from its favorite feeder and that is the kind of example and omen I would like the world to follow through on, thank you.
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is going on sale today! Snap it up for $1.99.
Gentleman/smuggler romance with awkward families, sinister secrets on the marsh, bugs.
It's on sale wide but I'm not going out to the shed in this weather so here's the kobo link
iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium
How does this bank still exist after all these scandals? Seriously, their motto seems to be “criminals bank here”.
no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.
All of the companies selling properties to ICE have names. For instance, the company who sold a warehouse in San Antonio to ICE for their concentration camp here is called Oakmont Industrial Group out of Atlanta, GA and the members of their board are publicly available on LinkedIn. Thanks.
it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children
I love that it backfired and now the whole neighborhood is SLATHERED in rainbows
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New economic research: "We estimate that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."
