The question is, how much longer will it be possible to run a mainstream OS without agents running by default? How long after that until there isn't even a way to turn them off, because it's an "essential feature"?
Oh they're really saying the quiet part with their full throats now, huh
Link to the ruling. I am not sure I’ve seen a judicial opinion with this many tweet screenshots in it before storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
I am pretty much incapable of exercising at home or in a gym for the same reason. One of my solutions is doing things outdoors (biking, hiking, kayaking, etc.), and even better if I can combine that with going somewhere. The other is social dancing.
Not the only one, even, there's also www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... (previously introduced in 2021 and 2024), at least two others in the current session, and a bunch of past proposals too. None have made it out of committee.
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
A figure showing geographic ranges, skull photographs, and genetic clustering for Neotragus pygmaeus, N. batesi, and N. moschatus, with a cladogram of Bovidae placing the latter two in the genus Nesotragus, closest to Aepyceros (impalas) and not anywhere near Neotragus. The skull for pygmaeus has particularly large eye sockets relative to the size of the skull, has horns, and lacks upper canine teeth.
Found this figure in a paper about Neotragus (specifically about moving the two other species that used to be in it into a not closely related genus), and the pygmaeus skull does not closely resemble that one in several ways. Look at the eye sockets, for one.
Yep. And the acronym ignores that the motivation for the pattern is market manipulation. He's doing exactly what he planned, it's just that some people got advance notice so they could make profitable trades. It's war crimes for *profit*.
Will there be whole beans, too?
"The abrupt change was messy" is how the Washington Post is framing a decision that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, with millions more expected to die.
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
Back when I had a regular commute I seriously considered attempting to do it by kayak once just to do it, but it would have been twice as far as by bicycle and taken about ten times as long.
I have to assume that the Pope is already considering it, at least.
I went for a snowshoe hike there a few years ago, it's great. Just barely over the border from Massachusetts, too, not far at all.
Ooh, that looks fun. Should I play Neofeud I first?
(Either way I'll have to make it work in Porting Kit or something, but I suspect that won't be a problem.)
"...even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right."
I was going to say, what about the US citizens they've arrested, who very definitely do not have any immigration violations? I can't imagine that there aren't immigrant arrestees with none, too.
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Israel passed a law allowing the death penalty exclusively for Palestinians. It was written by the fascist Ben Gvir.
Israel is institutionalising genocide.
V disturbing to continue to see politicians and regular ppl try to play the “I’m a good person except I’m willing to sacrifice this one group” card.
Little reminder: someone who is willing to throw away one group of ppl is someone who will throw ANYONE away. All they need is the right incentive
Yeah, those exist; partly because filk is a small community and many people know each other, and partly because those are references that listeners would be expected to get. And because filk as a genre deals heavily in references in other ways. It's more a shared culture than a shared universe.
Chuck Schumer likes to imagine how his politics play with an imaginary middle-class middle-aged couple on Long Island, but I don't think he realizes that couple is currently constructing a guillotine in their suburban backyard and stockpiling Molotov cocktails.
No, filk long predates Star Trek. fanac.org/Fan_Historie... is a good summary of the history.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by a universe that most singers are referencing, either—there are certainly some allusions in some songs, but in filk as a whole those are a small minority.
Some folks don’t seem to understand the magnitude and immediacy of the threats that trans people are facing right now.
Idaho just made it a crime to use a bathroom other than the one designated for sex assigned at birth … the second offense is a felony with a 5 year prison term.
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And if someone doesn't have a specific target in mind, they could just be looking at everything that goes through a single relay for things that they can use, whether that's financial info, credentials to compromise other accounts, or info for further social engineering.
