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"Hey it's Alex Karp from Palantir. No no no I'm not calling you about the big data software that I sell to police, the intelligence community and the military, I really just want to chat about economic justice."
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the chemical spill has now been confirmed to have originated at the data centre used by Cohere. this happened when they had only received a quarter of a billion dollars, before last month’s announcement of an additional $1.6 billion of tax dollars lol
Chemical spill confirmed at Cambridge data centre weeks before ‘bacteria bloom’ was traced back to property therecord.com/news/waterloo-…
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There is an active outbreak of avian flu (H5 influenza) in dairy herds in Washington State, particularly the Yakima Valley. A number of dairy workers have been infected, with at least one death. Speaking with workers, we believe the official case numbers are a vast undercount. 1/
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NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.
30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.
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Don’t make me tap the sign.
Transport accounts for ~4.8% of total food system emissions.
Locally sourced meat causes more environmental damage than pretty much any plant-based food from anywhere in the world.
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Republicans have introduced a federal ‘catch kit’ bill that would require women to sift thru their blood to separate pregnancy remains from “other solid waste,” put it in a “brightly colored” bag labeled “HUMAN FETAL REMAINS,” and bring their doc.
It’s fucking deranged
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And this plays a key part in domestic violence.
People say “Just leave” but it’s hard to escape when you can’t find affordable housing to escape to.
DV victims make up 34% of all families entering NYC shelters—this is mostly women fleeing w their children
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“They’ve killed a lot of Americans” is one of these brainless cliches every blob stenographer cites. Iran has killed approximately zero US civilians in the past 40 years, the US, without provocation, killed 120+ school girls in a double tap strike 9 months ago.
Rep. Adam Hamawy tells a seemingly incredulous CNN anchor that, when it comes to Iran, the United States is “making adversaries when we should be making friends.”
@HamawyForNJ | @CNN
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Saw someone say, “The internet was once a library and they turned it into a store,” and if you’re young I don’t think you can imagine how different the web used to be.
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Ok let’s squash this permanently
1. Japan received BILLIONS in aid, tech transfers and debt forgiveness post WW2 to build it up as ah anti communist stronghold
2. Haiti has been plundered, invaded, financially sanctioned and sabotaged by the US AND FRANCE
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Deflecting its responsibility for Gaza flooding, Israel says it “does not control the weather.” But it does control everything that comes in and out of Gaza and the bombs that falls from its skies, destroying critical infrastructure.
electronicintifada.net/conte…
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A museum in the UK is returning the remains (mainly skulls) of 39 indigenous people to India. The remains were in public view until 2020 when public outcry forced the museum to move them. They still however have *2700* stolen human remains, because colonialism was spiritual too.
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Medicare for all Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities
Finally watched the director’s cut of Rebel Moon: Part Two. It’s a shame that so much of what gives character depth and makes the story not just another run-of-the-mill, by the numbers sci-fi fantasy isn’t in the regular cuts. Gotta leave room for all that slo-mo, I guess.
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look at these and memorize them. stop rt'ing from people with "goy" or "groyper" in their names. "⚡⚡" is frequently used as a standin for the ss bolts. these people are all over this site and too many of you are wayyy too willing to interact w them
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Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI system that could rewrite what people say during livestreams in real time. It could change words depending on who's watching, taking into account their age, location, and language.
The idea is to clean up broadcasts by removing filler words, censoring swearing, or even replacing certain words.
The AI could also adjust the speaker's lip movements so viewers wouldn't notice anything had been changed.
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If I upload a movie clip to YouTube, I get a copyright strike within hours.
If I burn a copy of an album for a friend, I'm a pirate.
But AI companies can feed millions of books, songs, articles, and photos into a model, and it's called "training."
The artists, writers, and photographers whose work went in weren't asked and weren't paid.
Courts are still sorting out whether that counts as fair use, and so far the rulings are mixed.
But watching it play out, I can't shake one question.
When an individual copies something, it's theft.
When a trillion-dollar company does it at scale, it's innovation.
Same material. Different size of bank account.