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Russia's win in Ukraine is clear: keep territories and install a puppet government.

But what does it even mean for the USA to win a war against Iran?

10.03.2026 08:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For a minute I thought it will contains USB chargers, cords and such. Hardware store, eh.

10.03.2026 06:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An S&P 500 index fund ETF did 13% the last decade or so. Leave enough for inflation, you still have 10% annually so it's "only" 2.5M. Or did I get something wrong?

Of course it's still extremely curious how a journalist has 2.5M savings.

09.03.2026 22:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"But Via Rail runs on tracks owned by Canadian National Railways, and freight trains have priority. "

This is the bane of North American railways. Not just Canada, it kills so many good ideas in the US as well.

09.03.2026 11:47 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

idk about yall but i definitely had to read every single line of code on github dot com before i was able to write any of it myself

08.03.2026 19:46 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

come on now who amongst us doesn't slurp the entire creation of human species since the dawn of history consuming enough energy to power a middling sovereign country whenever they wanna pick up a new hobby

he who is without sin throw the first stick of ram

08.03.2026 19:35 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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tomorrow.

09.03.2026 03:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

08.03.2026 17:30 👍 7632 🔁 3242 💬 89 📌 159

I just saw a video where he walked out of the hospital free!

08.03.2026 17:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Today I resigned from the Torment Nexus Project: it turns out, they want to *torment* people with it!

Also, this is about the *principle*, I have absolute respect for the people who design, oversight, implement, market and lobby for the Torment Nexus"

08.03.2026 09:44 👍 75 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 1
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X

I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together.
This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

07.03.2026 19:05 👍 7126 🔁 2663 💬 141 📌 211
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When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.

07.03.2026 21:57 👍 15126 🔁 3232 💬 1321 📌 346

@davidgerard.co.uk seen on linkedin today: ‘when the subscription price goes up I’ll switch to a local model’.

Yeah? On what hardware? If you think GPU and RAM prices are bad now just wait until everyone is trying to wean themselves off Claude.

08.03.2026 14:48 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

* AI bubble pops
* All electronics prices go up 50-100%
* Private credit does a 2008
* War sends oil through the roof

what other exciting economic disasters are cooking right this moment to ready us for Great Depression 2?

07.03.2026 17:30 👍 63 🔁 14 💬 10 📌 2

btw Jay Powell finishes at the Fed in May and Trump's pick, Kevin Warsh is a bitcoiner into Austrian Econ goldbuggery

countries left Great Depression 1 as they got *off* the gold standard, Warsh is the perfect wrong man to have in the hot seat at the wrong time

's gonna be awesome

07.03.2026 17:32 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Being an AI evangelist where you have to spend all day attacking random tweets to say “ACTUALLY GOOD, R WORD” to keep stocks going up must be exhausting

07.03.2026 14:06 👍 84 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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People with the least political knowledge tend to be the most overconfident in their grasp of facts People often misjudge their understanding of verifiable political facts. A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied provides evidence that individuals with the least actu...

www.psypost.org/people-with-...

People with the least political knowledge tend to be the most overconfident in their grasp of facts [and they] lean conservative

07.03.2026 15:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Daily Show - Now That's What I Call Being Completely F**king Wrong About Iraq
The Daily Show - Now That's What I Call Being Completely F**king Wrong About Iraq YouTube video by Comedy Central

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqzz...

His sophisticated knowledge of the region unparalleled, in that it did not parallel with anybody who had knowledge of the region.

07.03.2026 15:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The level of incompetence is truly off the charts. Kristi Noem got the 4th amendment wrong in Congress, on live TV. One, I doubt any normal functioning American adult would get that wrong. Two, what is she *doing* if that doesn't come up her conversations these days??

07.03.2026 13:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Yes, they put the banal in banality of evil.

07.03.2026 05:02 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I realized what bugs me about Trump's appointees this term (beyond their outright naziism obviously).

It's their small-time venality and vanity. They're like the 26 year-old tech sales guy who made $400k last year and got promoted to "Regional VP" and started wearing bespoke suits to meetings.

07.03.2026 04:26 👍 601 🔁 52 💬 16 📌 0

Yeah his parents posted his wife is not allowed to see him and "legal counsel has also been denied access" but that's all we have.

OTOH the bile spouted at him because his wife is Palestinian is unbelievable. Musk really let that place fester.

07.03.2026 05:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The US billionaires look at the Russian system and say "this is what we want". White, Christian, violently homophobic, autocratic, good for oligarchs, checks every box.

07.03.2026 01:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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06.03.2026 13:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really hate this iteration of the world where people are unable to hold both notions that Iran was under a fundamentalist dictatorship which needed to go to benefit the people but the US attacking Iran was only to benefit western imperialism and not the Iranian people.

06.03.2026 09:34 👍 341 🔁 62 💬 13 📌 3
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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Every single human who has even 1% agreement with CPAC is a race (human) traitor and undeserving of any grace.

newrepublic.com/post/207415/...

06.03.2026 00:54 👍 134 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 5

dear cat, the russian troll doesn't deserve your precious time and attention

06.03.2026 00:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 2869 🔁 1549 💬 90 📌 383

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

05.03.2026 13:30 👍 428 🔁 210 💬 0 📌 7
I think one of the tangible difference (not sure it is exactly from december, I don't use LLMs) is that "agentic" models exploded the quantity, not quality, factor of LLMs.

Developers can now make the LLM run many more sequential queries without having to interact with the model and review the code, so the LLM can make something eventually "work" before the developer has to review anything and at that point there is so much code it overwhelms the human ability to review all the small details and identify the problems in the code.

End result seems to be that confidence in the model output sky rockets and they then spend all their extra time trying to convince everyone else that they aren't in the middle of some kind of psychosis.

I think one of the tangible difference (not sure it is exactly from december, I don't use LLMs) is that "agentic" models exploded the quantity, not quality, factor of LLMs. Developers can now make the LLM run many more sequential queries without having to interact with the model and review the code, so the LLM can make something eventually "work" before the developer has to review anything and at that point there is so much code it overwhelms the human ability to review all the small details and identify the problems in the code. End result seems to be that confidence in the model output sky rockets and they then spend all their extra time trying to convince everyone else that they aren't in the middle of some kind of psychosis.

This is very insightful, I shared the actual post in the alt text.

I find it also very interesting it's impossible to link to this. You can't. social.sound-city.dk/@rune/status... refuses to load. The only way to see it is to go to another Mastodon instance and put the URL into search.

05.03.2026 17:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0