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According to a call full of men who apparently all have college degrees, we have to both track a particular kind of process and also *NOT* track that kind of a process...
Now comes the two-hour process of explaining to both schools of thought that they are *both* wrong!
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Democracy can't work if we only elect idiots!
"Members of the Assembly Transportation Committee are very interested in regulating e-bikes, but don't fully grasp what the devices are, let alone understand existing legislation that already governs their use."
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"Federal immigration agents bashed open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press."
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"I’m a dictator,” Trump continued. “But sometimes you need a dictator!..."
If he lets the cat all the way out of the bag, do Trump and his fans still get to use the, "but it's out of context" argument?
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Some days, something really new happens!
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A 370 million-year-old fossil is an entirely new form of life which towered up to 26ft tall, scientists have confirmed.Editor OGN Daily (Only Good News Daily)
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What's next in the "Land Of The Free"???
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"Our officers know what the Constitution is, they know what right and wrong is, and they know when people are being targeted, and that's what they were."
I take this statement very seriously. I mean, if *anyone* knows what targeting people of color looks like, it sure as hell is the cops!
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Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.David Edwards (Raw Story)
Given the recent explosion in numbers of innocent citizens murdered by those who purport to be government in places like Iran, West Africa, Isreal, and Michigan, I wonder: Do the anti-gun nuts still think normal, innocent people shouldn't have any way to defend themselves?
Do you really think that ICE could possibly be this nonchalant about violating citizens' rights in a city with 80-90% gun ownership?
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Your phone spies on you. Your computer spies on you. Your TV spies on you. Your "assistant" spies on you. Your fucking vacuum robot and refrigerator spy on you! Sure there are technical solutions for many, but are *you* sure you caught them all? I'm sure as hell not!
Maybe encrypted mesh networks will work, I dunno... But if we don't stop this soon, we'll all exist in a dynamic hellscape designed to forcibly squeeze every last bit of money, attention, information, and life out of you!
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I guess it makes sense that native-son pride would cause the Brits to go all 1984 first...
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You’ve seen the footage. ICE Agents demand she gets out of the car. She accelerates the SUV. Shots fire, and within hours, the internet decides the verdict. ...YouTube
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"When officers are vilified, demonized, or used as political props, it fuels hostility, emboldens bad actors, and puts lives directly at risk." - Cool. Cool. And also, when officers do insane fucking things that anyone who isn't *trying* to excuse them can see, and people die or get permanently injured, that also puts lives directly at risk. But hey, I get it. The blue fraternity only actually gives a shit about officers. The rest is just a job
"Contempt of Congress"?!?!?
95% of Americans have contempt for Congress!
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Und zen ve vill stop asking for your papers und just shoot you!
🚨 Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act in Minnesota
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The East Wing was over a bunker. Excavation took way too long for the job. They switched to a "hardened infrastructure" architect during construction. The contractors are the ones who built underground datacenters in Israel...
He's building a Vault!
The Trump regime has declared themselves immune to prosecution for any law-breaking. They now have no controls at all on their behavior, paving the way for the inevitable fascist government they've been trying to build.
If you're stupid and you know it, write a bill.👏👏
If you're stupid and you know it, write a bill....
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Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida introduced a bill to annex Greenland and make it the 51st U.S. state.CBS News
Why do the worst people always look like just an average Joe? This murderous prick could be the Dad of one of my kids' friends, and I'd never have given him a second thought. Monsters need to come with signs...
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What do you call murder when it's organizational policy? Intentional Animation Extraction? Vitality Rendition? Motherfucking Murderous Animals?
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Weeks ago, I said ICE was going to kill people if they kept on like this.
For once, I wish I were incorrect...
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I have read that there are 9 or more instances just like this in the last physical year. This is not a new level of violence for them, it is their status quo. In fact the officer in question that murdered (in my opinion) this innocent lady also murdered (in my opinion) another victim in Chicago recently.
note: Be advised I have not fact checked this. There could be more or less events I am unaware of.
Well fuck. Microsoft decided I need a new OS, so now I can't log in to my account!
Motherfuckers...
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Dictator...
You know, when all those assassins failed to murder Trump, I thought it was for the best, what with murder being wrong and all. I'm beginning ro realize that the turmoil might have been worth it, if it meant we wouldn't have to live under this fascist dictator...
I just had to tell my son "Don't have a staring contest with a shark". It was not a metaphor.
OTOH, this may be the best metaphor ever!
In which the ignorant weasel in charge decides to eliminate actual heroes to prevent comparison, then does it the stupidest way possible as publicly as possible...
Pete Hegseth cuts the pension and strips Senator Mark Kelly of his military rank, because he — a democrat— had the audacity to disagree with the Trump regime.Freedom of speech, ladies and gentlemen.
Freedom of speech.
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Now that's style. techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hack…Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing, "Humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the new equilibrium of human nature."
If "the new equilibrium of human nature" is code for worthless, mind-numbing garbage that is clogging up any and all human interaction, then I guess we agree!
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It's two hours after the family's return from a week-long New Year's vacation. In thhat time, I've cleaned dog pee off the floor, both kids have had meltdowns and the entire contents of a jelly jar has filled a refrigerator shelf.
Ahh... Home Sweet Home...
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in reply to Blaise • •@Blaise
Okay, I am fine with disagreeing on topics. Let us keep this honest though. As predictive text solutions have been around for far longer than AI and does not have its roots in AI. Think Tree Sitter for instance. I would also not call a Science that has saved hundreds of millions of lives and increased the quality of so many more lives an existential threat.
So many people today want to point out how unregulated corporations are using AI in an inappropriate way but fail to mention that the issue is unregulated corporations and not the technology (AI).
I have worked with and on AI since the 80's, yes I am a new comer to an old science, long before artificial neural networks were a reality and were just a mathematical hypotheses yet to be implemented. I have seen AI grow in areas of Medicine, Driver Assistance (adaptive speed control, collision detection and warning systems to parallel parking) Traffic Control Syst
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Okay, I am fine with disagreeing on topics. Let us keep this honest though. As predictive text solutions have been around for far longer than AI and does not have its roots in AI. Think Tree Sitter for instance. I would also not call a Science that has saved hundreds of millions of lives and increased the quality of so many more lives an existential threat.
So many people today want to point out how unregulated corporations are using AI in an inappropriate way but fail to mention that the issue is unregulated corporations and not the technology (AI).
I have worked with and on AI since the 80's, yes I am a new comer to an old science, long before artificial neural networks were a reality and were just a mathematical hypotheses yet to be implemented. I have seen AI grow in areas of Medicine, Driver Assistance (adaptive speed control, collision detection and warning systems to parallel parking) Traffic Control System and so much more.
It is not a bad technology, it is being used poorly by unfettered capitalists that continue to go unregulated. Though people are not up in arms about the unregulated corporations misuse of one of our greatest technologies of the century, they are up in arms about the technology itself that they do not understand. I call it the Isaac Asimov syndrome (actually I just made that up).
You are a great guy based on what I have heard from you and appear, from what I have seen, to be a committed engineer. Yet, I strongly disagree with your stated issues with AI as I find them misplaced. Fire has burned down cities and kept people alive by its warmth. We should not judge a technology by its misuse or by its success when use appropriately. We should judge it by its own virtues or lack of them. I am sorry to see that you do not appear to believe that.
If something really needs fixing it is our policy of letting unfettered capitalism running amuk and our corporations having no realistic regulations.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •@Unus Nemo Well, a) it was in jest (you know, like there's an AI conspiracy, and they're controlling everything?), but OK? and b) you are incorrect.
I too have worked with AI, and in particular neural network simulations, also since the 1980s. The alignment problem has not been solved, and if we go on this way, we will likely soon all succumb to one paperclip maximizer or other!
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I am glad to hear you were just kidding . I will continue to agree to disagree on AI being broken. Do we have room for further improvement, yes, Is AI intrinsically and fundamentally broken, no.
I believe that those of us actually working on AI and not Chatbots are making a lot of significant improvements.
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Just curious, as you also developed AI solutions in the 80s, are you a proficient LISP programmer? I do not meet many LISP programmers these day 😉.
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