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DC's Gunn Hasn't Read "Constantine 2" Yet


in reply to TheImpressiveX

there was disagreement over the scripts with the studio wanting over-the-top action while Reeves reportedly wanted something much more akin to the original film.

I think they’re talented, but I have not read any script yet.


So there isn't a script yet? It sounds like previous scripts went to previous studio heads who wanted to change it. But it also sounds like whatever happened with that resulted in no script being ready for Gunn to read.



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Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? - Ars Technica


For more than a decade, researchers have wondered whether artificial intelligence could help predict what incapacitated patients might want when doctors must make life-or-death decisions on their behalf.

It remains one of the most high-stakes questions in health care AI today. But as AI improves, some experts increasingly see it as inevitable that digital “clones” of patients could one day aid family members, doctors, and ethics boards in making end-of-life decisions that are aligned with a patient’s values and goals.

Ars spoke with experts conducting or closely monitoring this research who confirmed that no hospital has yet deployed so-called “AI surrogates.” But AI researcher Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is aiming to change that, taking the first steps toward piloting AI surrogates at a US medical facility.




Context deletion vs. Removal brainstorming


Currently I am grappling with the specifics behind how to federate out the deletion of a topic in a category (or in ForumWG terms, the deletion of a context from an audience.) For those unaware, a context is essentially an OrderedCollection containing al
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in reply to julian

yes, this is an area where AP actually contradicts AS2 for no good reason. semantically it should be origin, but the side effects of AP are defined wrt target.
in reply to infinite love ⴳ

mastodon has a level between "followers-only" and "mentioned-only", which represents exactly this case -- "limited". this means that there are addressees who are not are not accounts, and who are not your followers. to mastodon, these are basically "unknown recipients", and it records the fact that they were addressed but not who they are (its database model doesn't support this)

but activitypub only has actors and collections (while overlooking that the same thing might be both)


in reply to Chris Remington

So, Price is Right rules, how long until he gets pardoned again?
in reply to SteevyT

That depends on whether this is treated as a state or federal crime. State? Probably never. Federal? I'd give it two weeks.
in reply to TehPers

Nah, Trump likes to make them stew for a while. Santos went 84 days.
in reply to Chris Remington

It would be incredibly ironic if a crazy insurrectionist fought back against "the left" by going after the centrist obstructionists currently failing the party. They should be thanking the fates that in this time of crisis inertia and corruption have saddled is with such losers as Jeffries and Schumer.
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‘Rogue president’: growing number of US judges push back against Trump




Fears of heat-rationing for millions in US as shutdown delays energy aid


Bootstraps, people! The economy is working just fine for the rulers; any inability to afford life is your fucking problem. If you thought SNAP would be your only problem, have we got news for you!

Millions of Americans face having to ration heating this winter as the US federal government shutdown and mass layoffs by the Trump administration cause unprecedented delays in getting energy assistance aid to low-income households, a group that helps people pay energy bills has warned.

Congress approved about $4bn for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (Liheap), after Trump’s proposal to cancel the life-saving heating and cooling scheme in this year’s budget was ultimately unsuccessful.

But with winter fast approaching, lawmakers have failed to reach a funding deal and appropriations remain stalled, which threaten to leave the most vulnerable families without critical energy aid as electricity and gas bills surge.

in reply to Sunforged

Why not put data centers next to cities to provide district heating?
in reply to Powderhorn

"We've built too many data centers."

"Why not build more, but this time they will be even better data centers with strategic locations."

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in reply to Powderhorn

Definitely good thinking with incorporating this heat source for a thermal energy network (TEN). It can't be too close to residentially zoned areas due to noise, but in theory, it's a massive source of waste heat that can be connected to neighborhoods and business instead.
in reply to ninjaphysics

Doesn't necessarily need to be homes ... commercial heating is similarly needed.


in reply to along_the_road

Many have video intercoms that let the pilots buzz flight attendants in. Unfortunately, when I searched for websites that could inform on this, the results were polluted by this story in dozens of news websites.




”Esperanto estas por mi fenestro al la mondo”

Por kio utilas Esperanto? Juna esperantisto en Kabulo, respondas: ”Mi esperas, ke Esperanto helpos al mi lerni pri aliaj kulturoj kaj komuniki kun homoj ekster mia lando. Ĝi donas al mi senton, ke mi ne estas tute izolita.” Sed dum li mesaĝadis kun Libera Folio, la retligo kun la ekstera mondo estis interrompita de la talibanoj.

liberafolio.org/2025/10/21/esp…



Documentary: The full chain of responsibility behind the murder of 6-year-old Hind Rajab


The #HindRajabFoundation and Al Jazeera Channel - قناة الجزيرة reveal the full chain of responsibility behind the murder of 6-year-old Hind Rajab — uncovering who gave the orders and who carried them out.
Watch the documentary (Arabic with English subtitles)

in reply to Aeao

Yes but if everyone is doing 70 there won’t be impacts between the cars.

Speed is also not part of force. That’s acceleration times mass. Sudden stops and starts are deadly because of acceleration, not speed.

Obviously any road where people are doing 55 shouldn’t have pedestrians or cyclists.

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in reply to Toes♀

Gah ... "tragically passes away" is just ... "Buy an obit."


Photos: More ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the U.S.


in reply to alyaza [they/she]

it was a great vibe! personally i'm all for these inflatable animal costumes, I think they are perfect for this kind of "protest". The whole thing has a playful, celebratory nature that brings in children and elderly folks that would never attend a more focused protest. The smaller protests are just as important, if not more important, but I cannot deny that these huge, infrequent No Kings protests are doing a decent job of inviting more people into the tent, and showing them that they are "antifa" too.


minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶


cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/38935539

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Holy fucking shit. I almost was exposed to a swear word on the Internet by some asshole cunt. That bitch didn't know it's fucking illegal to swear on the Internet. Thank fucking god someone blurred a very small part of there of five letters making it impossible to read the word "shit". I was about to shit a fucking brick.

fuck


edit: @TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world took the time to edit it to remove the censor, so I changed the image in the post to that. Thanks!

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in reply to SnokenKeekaGuard

the only answer is to minimise death. any other answer is mindless slaughter.

the reason is that there is no sentimentality that can ever supercede reason. that would not be a life worth living. it would be a life of evil.

in reply to millennial fulcrum

sorry for answering sincerely when the point is the joke. in my defense I find it interesting not funny.



Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines Event, California Officials Say


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/shell-interstate-5-marines-california.html

in reply to sp3ctr4l

Deadly weapons are not toys. They are for killing, not for playing with. Anyone who doesn't understand this should not have access to deadly weapons of any kind period. They especially should not be in command of the actual military. Back to kindergarten for anyone on the chain of command who OK'd this.
in reply to Kwakigra

I wholly agree, and the craziest amount of firepower I've ever handled is uh ...7mm, 30.06, 30-30 rifles?

I'm trying to imagine a recreational, long distance firing range for rifles that uh, shoots over/across I5.

For some reason, I'm having trouble picturing this.

Hoiiii yeah, yep, this is completely unacceptable, unfortunately, the pertinent question is:

What is anybody gonna actually do about this?



Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School


Maria Heavener had opened the windows of her first-grade classroom to let in the unusually warm October breeze when the sound of helicopters, sirens, and a flood of notifications compelled her to slam them shut. During a raid on a nearby grocery store, U.

in reply to Icarus

No, that's alt text. Totally different from a cutline.



What Are Your Thoughts On This Interpretation Of The Story Of The Garden Of Eden?




What Are Your Thoughts On This Interpretation Of The Story of The Garden Of Eden?




Food Stamp Benefits May Run Out in November, Officials Warn


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/food-stamps-agriculture-department.html

in reply to sp3ctr4l

Effrctively, the Republican party is now going to starve ~40 million people to protect wealthy pedophiles.


As Jesus intended.

These folks really couldn't get any more Snidely Whiplash, and their base still eats it up. I'm very curious how much of MAGA is on food stamps ... they don't tend to be the best and brightest, and the wealthy are only along for the ride for the tax cuts; they don't care about the political red meat and essentially cosplay as MAGA to claw buck a few billion more from taxpayers.

in reply to Powderhorn

Quite a lot of MAGA is on food stamps.

Its uh... difficult to get an accurate number, what with the BEA and BLS and all that fucking shut down...

But anecdotally, you can see a lot of this on Tiktok or youtube compilations of tiktoks.

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Vermont Republican lawmaker resigns over racist and antisemitic group chat


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in reply to Powderhorn

In my humble opinion, I will add that had these "edgy" bs comments that "kids" say, as Vance defended, been uttered by a person of color or another marginalized group, there would be the absolute hardest-line response. They would bring the hammer down on these 'r@dical d0mestic terr0rists', and they wouldn't stop until their whole network of family and friends felt pain for this misstep, leaving them as an infamous example. Do we see that happening in this case? Will we see similar consequences? This double standard tires me to no end, and it's seemingly always okay when the "good ol' boys (and girls') club" conveniently step out of the spotlight and into comfortable silence. I find this injustice unacceptable.
in reply to ninjaphysics

This country was made for miserable White folk, and god dammit, we're going to force what the Founders intended. No freedom without oppression!



Minnesota tribal nations have legal sovereignty. They want energy sovereignty.





Wind and solar aren't politically popular, but they've been profitable for 2 Indiana counties


in reply to alyaza [they/she]

The politically popular thing is so dumb. Like quit sucking oil baron dick you fuckwipes. Wind and solar are… fucking free and come from the damn sky? Oil destroys the planet and is increasingly difficult to obtain? Fuck off repubes, eat shit and die.


Major highway in California to shut down as US marines fire live artillery over it


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in reply to Powderhorn

The same day as the No Kings protest. Can't make this shit up.
in reply to Midnitte

But, but, but ... correlation is not causation! FAKE NEWS!!!!!


Goldman chief credit strategist Karoui exits after 18 years | Fortune