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Hot take: I know the edgy techno-left position on copyright is "intellectual property is property" but it's pretty lame for the techno-left to accept the narrative of capitalists abolishing the only type of property that can be produced by something everyone inherently owns, and no other property.
"Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written" Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, President of Signal @signal.org
Yet somehow this obvious fact escapes the gaze of the American press
The Rich benefit way more from: - the infrastructure - stability - military - the existence of a country than the average citizen. Why should they pay the tax at the same % as the average citizen? 95% tax on highest earners.
Another leftist political take proven right over the liberal political take.
Claude: I fixed your code! Also Claude: *strategically omits 2,000 lines where all your actual problems are*
Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
Gaza: Five Palestinian infants die from extreme cold amid Israeli siege - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/five-palestinian-infants-die-extreme-cold-gaza
Gaza: Five Palestinian infants die from extreme cold amid Israeli siege
Israel continues to delay enter of shelter aid as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, worsening the humanitarian crisis
middleeasteye.net
Here's how some politicians spent their weekends in the backdrop of fascism: ✊ Jill Stein organized "Fight The Rich" conference together with Workers Strike Back 💪 Bernie Sanders launched nationwide anti-oligarchy tour ✨ Kamala Harris signed up for Hollywood talent agency
I might switch from Claude back to OpenAI tooling. Claude served me well but Anthropic is falling behind. - April 2024 cutoff date on info - Great at coding, but reasoning models caught up at this point - Too limited token count in Sonnet - And minor stuff like lacking image/TTS/video gen etc
I had Influenza A for the past 10 days and it absolutely wrecked havoc in my household. 41°C fever, coughing blood, migraines, vomiting - we had it all. Is this year's flu strain on some sort of steroids or are our immunities completely f*cked since COVID?
new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE
Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
disruptionist.com
US TikTok ban linked to pro-Palestine content rather than China threat, insiders reveal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-tiktok-ban-linked-israel-china-insiders-reveal
US TikTok ban linked to pro-Palestine content rather than China threat, insiders reveal
US officials and lobbyists say the push to ban the Chinese-owned application gain momentum during the war on Gaza
middleeasteye.net
Breaking News | An Israeli sniper has shot and killed a 15-year old child in central Gaza's Al-Buraij Camp. The boy was reportedly trying to inspect his family home in an area from which the Israeli military recently withdrew.
the neoliberal era is *obviously* over and has been for a minute. you can stop calling things "the ultimate in internalization of the neoliberal order" or whatever now.
I love how every conservative argument at any point someone moved the Overton Window further right in the last 40 years is: "No matter what you think of the [insane policy or person], you should all agree that [an even insaner policy or person] is normal"
As pathetic as Elon is, and as depressing as this sounds for the US, this isn't unprecedented. The tide will turn. Sooner than you think. Tesla sales, Trump's dumbass crypto tokens' prices should give you an idea how popular they are. But more importantly, history tells us conservatism never works.
The few million Elon will save from government's science & weather administrations will be nicely compensated by the $1b aid to Israel. Congrats, you've been duped again.
I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do
Claude is down. Yesterday DeepSeek was down. Last week it was OpenAI.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2y agoDeepSeek has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3. The models are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro. They range in size from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters. Read more here: tcrn.ch/40Bc5Qm
DeepSeek finally reached early 20s thoughts when you text with a crush
Love to see UNESCO talking about “UBS” now. While I’ve never used that term, I’ve long disagreed with the idea of UBI on the grounds that the market will just adjust prices to retain the same kinds of barriers to access we see now. This is a foil to that. en.unesco.org/inclusivepol...
Move the debate from Universal Basic Income to Universal Basic
Many arguments have been made for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the debate of revovery from the pandemic. This think piece by Ian Gough makes the alternative case for Universal Basic Services (UBS)
en.unesco.org
Leftists have been incredibly skeptical of AI, and one thing they quoted often was how a day of 20 ChatGPT queries were equivalent to 30 mins of AC usage. I wonder if DeepSeek being 33x more efficient would change their mind.
