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  • Migrants hope Trump mass deportations only 'for criminals'

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  • This idea that "criminal" is some kind of basic aspect of someone's being rather than being a status wholly controlled by the government, who can impose or remove it at will, is mind-boggling. And also probably explains a lot of how conservatives keep finding themselves in the jaws of the leopard.

  • Asking the real questions

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  • Anyone remember when Chrome had that issue with validating nested URL-encoded characters? Anyone for John%%80%80 Doe?

  • Despite everything, if you're in the US, you should still vote

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  • I didn't say anything about voting, I'm just trying to be realistic about who else is looking forward to the collapse of the current system. If you want to roll the dice on that then you should at least be honest about who else is sitting at the table.

  • Despite everything, if you're in the US, you should still vote

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  • So the neocons of the 2000s are the C'tan, providing neoliberals with unending life by running against fascists and also necrosteel bodies but at the cost of their souls. One day we will overthrow the gods and place their shards into our doomsday weapons.

  • Despite everything, if you're in the US, you should still vote

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  • Hey now, let's be fair. It's not just ashes, it's also going to be blood. And between 2 and 3 of the 4 cats are literal Nazis.

  • Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

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  • So when Ukrainians try to push for closer alignment with the EU it's a Washington-backed color revolution and thus is no different than Russia rolling into the literal tanks.

    Like, even if you're not a Russian troll you're still adopting a conspiracy theory that completely ignores any agency the Ukrainian people have.

  • Far left intellectualism

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  • I mean, if you want to trace it back that far you're talking about the bronze age Canaanites, and arguably through them the Phonecians and Carthaginians would be better successors than the Israelites. If that's the case then the land should either be under Tunisian administration (for maximum cultural continuity after the fall of Carthage during the Punic wars) or either Turkey or Italy for political continuity through right of successive conquests. Or maybe we want to go with one of the theories about just how far afield the Phonecian diaspora went and consider the state of Utah their most direct modern descendent.

    The ancient history of the levant is fascinating, but in the context of the current conflict over the nation of Israel it is relevant only in that it is a major part of Israeli nationalist mythmaking. If you want to actually trace who lived in the region thousands of years ago and where they ended up to determine who the "rightful" government should be you're going to end up in some really goofy places unless you already know what answer you want to get and are seeking justification rather than illumination. Hell, nationalism as a concept only dates back a few hundred years, and before then you're arguing about the competing claims of kings and empires through descent, conquest, oaths of fealty, and whatever else. Who ruled/owned/managed your land and who you were as a people were far less connected, and using that as a justification for modern government actions honestly sounds like they're out of actual justifications. It's just Putin ranting to Tucker Carlson about medieval maps for two hours while Russian troops shell Ukrainian cities.

  • Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating

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  • Republicans love DEI

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  • I'm sympathetic to the concept, but I think that the advantages that organized parties have in terms of coordination (e.g. people with broadly similar values and policy goals choosing one candidate to represent those goals to avoid splitting the vote and seeing someone antithetical to those shared goals elected) are sufficiently strong that you would just see the current primaries replaced immediately by a primary process run completely independent of government oversight and resources. I can't imagine that being good from a perspective of electoral legitimacy or reducing the influence of money in politics.

  • Postal worker parent of trans kid refused to deliver hateful flyers. She's being punished.

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  • I feel like there's a "law as it currently exists" thing versus the ideal. The law as it currently exists makes it illegal to discriminate based on content. This has historically been an important vector for, say, allowing civil rights activists to send essays to be published in newspapers. But much as it was illegal to deny a gay couple their marriage license, it ought be somehow made illegal to spread damaging lies about trans people in order to stir up a hate campaign.

    In this case I'd say that 5 days fully paid suspension is probably an appropriate consequence for this rule-breaking, and could only be made more appropriate if it actually included tickets to spend those days someplace warmer and friendlier than that part of Canada and a knowing wink from the postmaster general.

  • J.D. Vance offers ‘proof’ of pet-eating, but it’s proven false with 1 phone call

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  • I want to know when that report was filed. "I can't find my cat, therefore my Haitian neighbors stole it to eat" is the kind of statement dreamed up by the utterly deranged, unless the idea was already in the water supply because a vice presidential candidate was saying it in interviews ahead of a national debate.

  • Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code

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  • Possibly fair. I'm pretty sure I've seen that exact screenshot used in other articles about Doom, but I'm not enough of a Doom nerd to be sure.

    There's a decent writeup over at Pivot-to-AI that looks at the paper as a whole in more detail.

  • Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code

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  • Note that the image here isn't from the AI project, it's from actual Doom. Their own screenshots have weird glitches including a hit splat that looks like a butt in the image I've seen closest to this one.

    And when they say they've "run the game" they do not mean that there was a playable version that was publicly compared to the original. Rather they released short video clips of alleged gameplay and had their evaluators try to identify if they were from the AI recreation or from actual Doom.

    Even by the abysmal standards of generative AI projects this is a hell of a grift.

  • Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches

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  • Actually one of the few political pressures Putin has had to deal with internally has been preventing conscripts from fighting outside of Russian territory, which has included not sending them into the supposedly-annexed oblasts in the east. They've had to make do with massive signing bonuses, prison recruitment, stop loss, and PMCs to make up the manpower shortage. Definitely some high-pressure tactics in use, but no actual use of legal force. Unless this video was taken on the Kursk front then any Russian soldiers who this was targeting had signed contracts that they could have chosen not to.

  • Starlink tells Brazil regulator it will not comply with X suspension

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  • Yeah, mate. This is the most credible source I can find and it's literally about how impossible it is to actually use crypto without tying yourself to the wallet somehow.

  • Starlink tells Brazil regulator it will not comply with X suspension

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  • The exchange where you traded BTC for USD, which had to comply with AML and KYC laws in order to have access to the US banking system in the first place.

    Like, it's theoretically possible to work with perfect operational security and never ever link your Bitcoin address to the real world, but doing so basically precludes you from doing anything in the real world with it, including buying crypto in the first place.

  • Leopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopards

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  • Non-Nazis, shockingly, are capable of recognizing "sure, they're following the rules right now; but they're still Nazis" and deciding not to associate with them. The people who are willing to associate with Nazis... well, you know.

  • Putting the AI in 'reading rAInbow'

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    Yet another good recipe

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  • So first off, Ukraine couldn't have joined NATO because of the active territorial dispute re: Crimea, which had been ongoing since 2014. But more importantly, please for the love of God stop following the cold war colonial logic that only Great Powers have any agency in their own international affairs.

    Poland, Lithuania, and all the rest of the countries that Putin wants out of NATO are in there because they wanted to be, mostly because they wanted security against Russian invasion. Like, Poland basically blackmailed President Clinton into expanding NATO by threatening to support the Republicans in the next election.

    But why would anyone be worried about Russia invading them if they tried to exercise independent agency and leave Moscow 's sphere of influence? Oh wait, look at what's happening in Ukraine. Maybe those fears weren't so unfounded. Sweden and Finland certainly seem to think so, since the war led to the most significant expansion of NATO in decades and gave NATO a direct land border within spitting distance of Moscow.