This is perhaps the most 2025 hed I've seen in 2025. (and a bit misleading, given that the data show that "possibility" to be 0%)
That said, where on the packaging line was there just some Cs-137 hanging out? That's not the sort of thing you get at Cash-'n'-Carry. Grad student storing it there ahead of a trip to a lake?
At least 27 worshippers have been killed and several wounded when armed bandits stormed a mosque in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state during morning prayers, a village head and a hospital official said.
The gunmen opened fire inside a mosque as Muslims gathered to pray at around 04:00 GMT in the remote community of Unguwan Mantau in the Malumfashi local government area, residents said.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — President Trump, who typically travels with a full contingent of high-level protection, insinuated that he finally felt safe enough to go to dinner in the District of Columbia.
NBA star Kyrie Irving drew attention to the ongoing violence in Gaza by changing his Instagram profile photo to honor Yaqeen Hammad, an 11-year-old Palestinian child who was killed in an 'Israeli' airstrike.
Yaqeen, recognized as Gaza’s youngest media activist, was killed on May 24, 2025, during an airstrike in the besieged enclave. Her work documenting daily life under the aggression had gained her recognition for raising awareness of the situation facing children in Gaza.
Irving’s advocacy for Palestine is not new. The NBA star has consistently used his visibility to address the conflict, often at the cost of facing criticism.
Hatena Bookmark, a social bookmarking service by Hatena Inc. that launched on February 10, 2005, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
The service was launched as a Japanese alternative to del.icio.us, the world's number one social bookmarking service, and even now, 20 years later, it is still actively running, with hundreds of people bookmarking dozens of articles every day.
Incidentally, Hatena Inc., the company that operates this service, is world-famous for its work as the outsourced administrator of the social media portion of Nintendo Co., Ltd.'s Filipnote Studio, and for developing the "SplatNet" app for Nintendo's Splatoon series of games.
> House Speaker Dustin Burrows told lawmakers that members who broke quorum could only leave the House chamber upon agreeing in writing to be released into the custody of a Texas Department of Public Safety officer tasked with ensuring their return when the House reconvenes at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Collier, in a text message to the Star-Telegram, said she “did not agree to sign their permission slip to have a DPS officer assigned to follow me around” and said she is not free to leave the Capitol.
Technical staff were skeptical because they actually know what AI can and can't do reliably in production environments - it's good at generating content but terrible at logical reasoning and mission-critical tasks that require consistancy.
Costco partnered with a company founded by former SpaceX engineers to provide fast electric vehicle charging services to customers at one Florida location.
I have recently talked to a Chinese friend of mine who started talking about how smart Trump is etc. She previously only gained her knowledge through the Chinese media and not the “western propaganda”, so it was her first exposure to the non-CCP-controlled stuff. I told her “you sound like you read FOX news”. She replied with “hahah yes, how did you know?”
This made me realize that she is very prone to getting manipulated and not doing any fact-checking. However, this situation made me reflect on my own news-sourcing skills.
How do you deal with the issue and what can I do step-by-step to verify the news that I read myself and at the same time a way that I can recommend to my Chinese friend so that she doesn’t fall for the most obvious tricks so easily?
Understand that class war isn't something that might happen in the future - it's already happening. The moneyed class is already fighting it.
They will, given the chance, destroy us and everything we value to pay for their own undeserved privilege.
Mamdani represents an opportunity for we the people to direct some of the bounty of this nation beck to ourselves instead of all if it being stolen to pay for more mansions and bigger yachts for a handful of sociopaths, and they know it. They know that they're not going to be able to bask in the luxury for which they lust if we start electing politicians who actually represent our interests instead of theirs. And greedy, vicious, self-serving shitweasels that they are, they're going to do whatever they can to try to stop us.
An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behaviour has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” generate false medical information and help u…
An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behaviour has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” generate false medical information and help u…
Most of the applications I use host their code on GitHub. I'm actively looking for replacements for as many of them as possible, because it's just immoral to participate with Microsoft, IMO.
But that's a poor article. A more accurate headline might be "Concerns about GitHub's parent company, Microsoft". But that wouldn't generate the same attention.
In 2018, a woman named.... Reality Winner... yes for real, whistleblew the fact that Russian hackers got their hands on US voter rolls ahead of the 2016 election and was sent to prison for this.
So I'm pretty sure she won Reality already and we're all on the cutting room floor right now.
What an idiotic name change. There's absolutely no reason to keep a legacy Microsoft connection to a rebrand. News Opinion World sounds like it should be a late-stage Simpsons joke.
At a township hearing, a developer revealed the 350,000 chickens would be kept mostly separate from the solar panels and probably “don’t go outside much.”
The poultry project has been pitched as an integrated solar and chicken farm, a new land use practice known as agrivoltaics. But agrivoltaics projects typically pitch a vision somewhat resembling animals grazing underneath solar panels — not hundreds of thousands of confined chickens packed into sheds.
Just another developer trying to green wash their bullshit.
agrivoltaics projects typically envision animals grazing underneath solar panels — not hundreds of thousands of confined chickens packed into sheds.
I presume "free range cage free" means hundreds of thousands of confined chickens packed into shed because the law allows it.
There's a smaller operator near me that charges about twice the standard price for eggs to afford making things nicer for their birds. They keep hundreds of chickens (maybe a few thousand?) in big sheds/coops with roosts, nest boxes and screened retractable roofs that give the birds sunshine when it isn't raining. It isn't free range, but it is cage free and less crowded than typical commercial operations, and it costs more than just packing the birds in a warehouse.
Unfortunately, there's no obvious way for consumers to know how animals are treated without doing more research than practical for the average busy person. There's also a commercial egg factory near me (long windowless warehouses), so I checked and found cornucopia gives them a 3 out 5 score when I expe
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agrivoltaics projects typically envision animals grazing underneath solar panels — not hundreds of thousands of confined chickens packed into sheds.
I presume "free range cage free" means hundreds of thousands of confined chickens packed into shed because the law allows it.
There's a smaller operator near me that charges about twice the standard price for eggs to afford making things nicer for their birds. They keep hundreds of chickens (maybe a few thousand?) in big sheds/coops with roosts, nest boxes and screened retractable roofs that give the birds sunshine when it isn't raining. It isn't free range, but it is cage free and less crowded than typical commercial operations, and it costs more than just packing the birds in a warehouse.
Unfortunately, there's no obvious way for consumers to know how animals are treated without doing more research than practical for the average busy person. There's also a commercial egg factory near me (long windowless warehouses), so I checked and found cornucopia gives them a 3 out 5 score when I expected a 2 or less. The nicer place seems too small to even get listed. cornucopia.org/scorecard/eggs/
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The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.
I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).
E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure
It feels like this person was mad at the TESCREAL label and decided to make a blog post going "nuh-uh, I know you are but what am I"... except they have none of the academic ability of the TESCREAL authors so they just sort of pile on labels and ideologies without properly showing any causal or ideological relationship (like the TESCREAL authors do). Heck, they outright screw up words and definitions in a few places, (Orate sticks out to me).
So I know you were going for a snappy summary, but I think one of the important things to note is that the TESCREAL essay doesn't call them a singular cult, it draws connections between the letters of the acronym including inspirations, people in multiple letters of the acronym, common terminology, common ideological assumptions, and such.
I think a hypothetical more mature rationalist movement would acknowledge their historical and current influences and think critically about how they relate to them instead of just going nuh-uh. Like the relatively more reasonable EAs occasionally point out problematic trends in their movement and at least try to address them (not particularly effectually, but at least they aren't all in total denial).
Yeah i was just doing the meme from king of the hill. If I go indepth, I would sneer at stuff like: "Because if TESCREALism really is a secularized religion, then… so what?"
For being a misrepresentation, it is secularized eschatological Christianity (perhaps even Catholicism, but not Protestant enough to say that, counting the rich feels very knife in church door ish), not just a religion. Doesn't even represent the argument correctly. It is the rapture of the nerds, not the breaking of the Saṃsāra for nerds.
E: bonus points for after first generalizing religion then picking islam as some weird anti apostate example. Must have been an accident. E2: the apostate (yes, my word, he said 'shirkers', which is not a term I have ever seen used re religion) stuff is even funnier considering that Émile P. Torres (who for some reason is not mentioned in the opening, just later), is somebody who has written about “existential threats” for ages (more on his ideas on
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Yeah i was just doing the meme from king of the hill. If I go indepth, I would sneer at stuff like: "Because if TESCREALism really is a secularized religion, then… so what?"
For being a misrepresentation, it is secularized eschatological Christianity (perhaps even Catholicism, but not Protestant enough to say that, counting the rich feels very knife in church door ish), not just a religion. Doesn't even represent the argument correctly. It is the rapture of the nerds, not the breaking of the Saṃsāra for nerds.
E: bonus points for after first generalizing religion then picking islam as some weird anti apostate example. Must have been an accident. E2: the apostate (yes, my word, he said 'shirkers', which is not a term I have ever seen used re religion) stuff is even funnier considering that Émile P. Torres (who for some reason is not mentioned in the opening, just later), is somebody who has written about “existential threats” for ages (more on his ideas on this here which also has the bonus that it is way more readable than the main post), DavidG was a lesswronger, a lot of science fiction writers who are not positive about TESCREAL are people who wrote transhumanist sf, and see also the large group of sneerclubbers who used to read LW/SSC etc. (E3: forgot to mention, Gebru is a computer scientist).
Colchones en la azotea, hornillas de gas en la cocina, a la luz de las linternas... eso, en los mejores casos, para otros vecinos electrodependientes, vivir con constantes apagones es cuestión de "supervivencia"
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in reply to coyotino [he/him] • • •This is perhaps the most 2025 hed I've seen in 2025. (and a bit misleading, given that the data show that "possibility" to be 0%)
That said, where on the packaging line was there just some Cs-137 hanging out? That's not the sort of thing you get at Cash-'n'-Carry. Grad student storing it there ahead of a trip to a lake?