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And the flip side of this is every racist caught on tape being racist will claim it was AI. Trump’s already blamed AI for things he’s actually said.

Such a good poem, however I sometimes wonder how much damage has been wrought by strong men who refused to go gently into that good night.

euronews French far-right candidate kicks off campaign but dodges questions Just hours after Macron's Europe speech on Thursday, the head of the French far-right party, Jordan Bardella, unveiled his campaign for the European elections… but refused to answer questions.

Kilkrazy: I expect Elon thought it would be cool to have some of the controls above your head, so you could pretend to be a helicopter gunship pilot. Something like that. The entire Cybertruck is an example of Rule of Cool (or what Musk thinks is cool) applied to a real thing. TV Tropes Rule of Cool - TV Tropes The limit of the...

News – 26 Apr 24 Nokia, Nasa aim for the moon with pioneering 4G project If all goes well, the network will send audio and video back to earth, and will also be instrumental in searching for evidence of ice on the lunar surface.

News – 26 Apr 24 Would you pass the YKI test? Try Yle's learning pack and find out Passing the YKI test and obtaining the language certificate is a mandatory step on the road to Finnish citizenship.

Salon – 4 Nov 22 Elon Musk's "blue check" debacle: His brain has been broken by whiny incels For Twitter's angry nerds, the blue check is like a girlfriend — it's infuriating because you can't buy it

Proof of routine childhood vaccinations would no longer be required before kids are enrolled in child care if this NH bill becomes law.

Tate’s issue with “recreational sex” is that it is widely understood as involving both the consent and the enjoyment of both parties.

Thanks for pointing me to SoundPrint! I have the same issues that the creator mentions, even if it’s not as useful to me outside of the US it’s nice to know about it.

Dasylupe: Most organized crime operations have transitioned to online/telephone scams these days “Or so I hear from a friend”.

fuzzyfungus: a masters in burglary administration This should be a thing. fuzzyfungus: crab launderers Feeling bad now that this career option was never suggested by the Vocational Guidance advisor at my school.

Arkitekturupproret is a difficult beast. On the one hand I agree with some of their core tenets, on the other hand it (predictably) attracts the sort of people one doesn’t want to be associated with (the far right, but also just every contrarian ever).

He’s right about precisely one thing. Malicious prosecution of political enemies would be a problem. It can be a behaviour that can make a peaceful handover of power more difficult, and cause would-be tyrants to become more desperate. This has underpinned a lot of American policy - arguably to its detriment, given that perfectly healthy democracies have histories of prosecuting former leaders and it...

BBC News BBC Verify examines reported strikes on Russian oil depots The reported strikes have been geolocated to the Smolensk region of western Russia.

It’s unclear to me if it’s actual noticeable yet - some simple alterations to the system have caused certain functionality to get worse all on their own. I get the impression there’s not enough LLM vomit-eating to make much of a difference yet, but that could change quickly as the internet becomes overrun with LLM garbage.

AI is about to take the job of this guy: en.wikipedia.org MLBPA Baseball MLBPA Baseball, known in Japan as Fighting Baseball (ファイティングベースボール, Faitingu Besuboru, "Fighting Baseball"), is a baseball video game for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Game Gear. The game included the 1993 season's major league players and stats thanks to its MLBPA license, but could not use team names for lack...

Exclusive: China harbors ship tied to North Korea-Russia arms transfers, satellite images show WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - China is providing moorage for a U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to satellite images obtained by Reuters, as U.S. concerns grow over Beijing’s support for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/world/china-harbors-ship-tied-north-korea-russia-arms-transfers-satellite-images-show-2024-04-25/

sqlrob: Oh No, There’s an Orb Shortage en.wikipedia.org The Orb discography The discography of European electronic music group The Orb includes seventeen studio albums, one live album, six compilation albums, four remix albums, four mix albums, two video albums, ten extended plays, fifteen singles and twenty-two music videos. Founded by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty in 1988, the group's first release was the extended...

April 24, 2024 (Wednesday) This morning, President Joe Biden signed into law the $95 billion national security supplemental bill providing military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, as well as humanitarian aid to Gaza and other peoples suffering humanitarian crises. The Pentagon immediately sent about a billion dollars worth of ammunition, air defense munitions, and artillery rounds, as well as weapons and armored...

You can’t fight fascism with fascism. Andrew Tate is a lot of negative things but he is not subhuman.

BBC News Humza Yousaf leads minority Scottish government as he ends power deal with... The Scottish Greens have walked out of a Scottish cabinet meeting as their power-sharing agreenment with the SNP is scrapped.

Yeah, Comedy Central was the old show. I catch it on youtube the next day, they break it up by commercial break so the whole episode doesn’t drag as much as the hour on the air. And for the Drew Carey ep, they have a supercut of all the Phish at the Sphere stuff. It’s great.

Um… It’s on CBS at 12:37, after Colbert. Produced by him as well. The show has it’s moments and the host Taylor Tomlinson is doing a great job. Maybe 60 minutes is a bit long, but… The Weird Al/Drew/Tom episode should go in the TV hall of fame. It’s on my DVR and saved as never erase.

“Fellas, is it gay to be straight?” is some powerful doublethink alchemy I’m not sure I’m equipped to parse this early in the day.

I know trolley baiting when I see it Stop giving nobodies the attention they crave, stop giving them space and notoriety Every time he gets mentioned, every time he is linked, the algorithm gets refined and frankly I don’t want to start seeing this type of content as suggestion in my feed because Boing Boing is posting it Just ignore and move on, let...

As President Joe Biden and Donald Trump step up their campaigning in swing states, a quieter battle is taking place in the shadows of their White House rematch.

The Hollywood Reporter – 24 Apr 24 Podcast Workers File Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against iHeartMedia Staffers who are unionized with the Writers Guild of America East are alleging that management has engaged in intimidating behavior and encroached on their rights to discuss their working conditions and their union during break periods.

I finally perfected the motion of the Video Feedback Device by using anodized aluminum shafts and linear bearings (more info at LightHerder.com) Making of the HD Fractal Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture Here’s Practice #1 with this new build, using just one camera and one monitor: The Most Intricate Analog Video Feedback Yet: A Hypnotic Interplay Between Color and Luminance And Practice #2 with the...