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  • Ferrari marketing boss quits just weeks after EV launch backlash

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  • That reminds me of the Opel Ampera. The original 2013 model was a decent looking sedan.

    But every new model in that line has been a fugly hatchback…

  • The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentatio…

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  • What a fuckin’ clown circus…

  • Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities

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  • Its the 7-step AI leadership program:

    1. Create an AI model that can generate data.

    2. Brazenly and illicitly steal terabytes of copyrighted data to build a usable product.

    3. Publish said model on the internet.

    4. Get rich of stocks and user fees, without paying a dime to the actual data-owners. 

    5. Discover that your competitors brazenly and illicitly stole terabytes of your generated data to build their own product at a fraction of the cost.

    6. Watch them get rich of stocks and user fees, without paying you a dime. 

    7. Cry deeply.

  • If Phones Are Killing Pedestrians, Why Is It Only Happening in America?

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  • Automatic transmission has been standard for sports cars and luxury sedans for many years though. Not to mention the ever increasing number of electric cars.

    And smart brake assist has also been included in most option packages for several years now.

  • Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed again after US lifts blockade

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  • I’m confused… Are you hinting at the Iranian regime not being as bad as Iranians living abroad make it out to be?

  • Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed again after US lifts blockade

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  • To be fair, the regime’s response to the civil unrest was so unnecessarily bloody and violent that some sort of international response was almost inevitable.

    So yeah, crazy people who don’t give two cents about their people.

    And if you really want to muddy the waters, then consider the Iranian diaspora in the US, who are hardcore MAGA-supporters and who literally asked Trump to bomb ‘their’ country.

    Or the former prince of Iran asking Trump’s blessing to lead his country again, after spending the majority of his life achieving nothing and living of the fortunes his father stole from Iran.

    It really is narcissists all the way down…

  • Trump says there are ‘no limits’ to his power

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  • I’m not sure if Trump’s brain farts really count as ‘world news’…

  • Did anyone else note that emphasizes of tolerance/respect over merit, and this causes accumulation of degradation, corruption and Third world traits?

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  • Yes, absolutely. Its by no means scientific (at least I’m not aware of any research on the subject), but I have worked with colleagues from Mumbai for years and I have experienced many situations in which socials norms -especially adherence to hierarchy- strongly hampered results.

    In fact, this is by no means an issue limited to the Third world. In my experience this issue also pops up a lot in sectors of Western economies, such as banking, hospitals or construction. Companies that strongly value hierarchy tend to have persistent problems with things like workplace safety, compliance and innovation.

    In fact, we have an unique example of how values and beliefs can hamper effectiveness and results in the form of the Trump administration. Trump blatantly favors loyalty and obedience over competence. He has effectively purged nearly all offices of government of political opponents, but in doing so he has filled the ranks with unapologetic yes-men who are utterly incompetent at their assigned task. The speed with which this has degraded the US economy, military power, political influence etc. is absolutely astounding and is very similar to countries considered ‘Third World’.

  • Americans to be hit with record-high electricity bills this summer

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  • Ai, yai, yai…

  • Pentagon used Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says

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  • Is that why the US bombed a school?

  • Fuel storage tank cap is blasted into the air in Moscow after a UAV attack.

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  • Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse

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  • No, not at all. I was referring to LLM’s as ‘basic’ applications of AI.

    And I’m not talking about having ChatGPT write your dialogue, but more subtle applications like having your player enter their own questions or responses, running the input through a language model and then selecting the most appropriate (pre-defined) response.

    In other words, creating the illusion of a more authentic interaction even though you are still railroading the player.

  • Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse

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  • I beg to differ. Not every design choice is a creative one. There’s plenty of technical and/or repetitive work even in game development. And AI models are the sort of blunt tools that can help speed up some of the less glamorous work as well as lower the entry bar for people who’s creativity outweighs their technical prowess.

  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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  • Something…something…oil prices

  • Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse

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  • For once this is an AI application I’m actually rooting for.

    Imagine scripting, or texture design, or lighting, or terrain mapping made easy by advanced models.

    Heck, even something as basic as having NPC dialogue being powered by an LLM would be awesome.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

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  • How do you feel about financing a genocide?

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  • I get your point: by engaging in this social, economical and political system we are all complicit in the crimes perpetrated in Gaza. But moralism alone won’t actually get you far. The problem isn’t our collective lack of morals, it’s a lack of power.

    Case in point: I live in the Netherlands, and a lot of people I know actually do feel deeply uncomfortable by this. Some actually did take to the streets in mass for several weeks. Btw, I am talking about retirees and young mothers, so not your average leftist student either.

    However those that did protest quickly learned a lesson about class struggle in a Western democracy: our right-winged parlement didn’t budge an inch. Instead it turned the PR-machine on them, branding them as ‘troublemakers‘, ‘wokists’ and even ‘Islamic youths’. After building the narrative for several days, it started to deploy the riot police. And once they’d mopped up the demonstrators, they blamed the damages on the heartless, antisocial demonstrators who wreaked havoc on our peaceful society.

    When faced with state propaganda and state violence, most protesters eventually give up. Gaza is too distant an issue for them to risk sacrificing their social status, relationships or even personal safety. People nowadays are also deeply apolitical, so these protests typically aren’t part of any rooted and well organized opposition.

    Back in the 1960’s or 1970’s you had workers parties that would actually connect different groups and social issues to the wider narrative of class struggle and organize sustained and effective opposition. Workers parties could actually throw in in their weight to somewhat counterbalance the state narrative and even attempts at suppressing protests.

    But the fall of communism and the rise of neoliberalism effectively killed the political left. Conservatism and corporatism are now the leading ideologies in Western governments. Therefore solidarity with Gaza is quickly branded as extremism. And if the movement then doesn’t dissipate on its own, it is often actively suppressed.

  • Nvidia CEO: Society needs new 'new social norms' in the age of AI. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now

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  • Do these new social norms include taxing the ultra-rich, to help subsidize the retraining and re-employing of many people who’s jobs will lost due to AI?

  • Dutch transportation minister defends Tesla FSD approval

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  • To be fair, you’re talking about a country that has an almost exclusively flat terrain, a highly developed and well maintained road infrastructure, fine-meshed traffic rules and a culture that collectively values traffic safety.

    Out of all the countries in the world, if you had to pick the most controlled environment possible to safely test self-driving, it would probably be the Netherlands.

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    Russian frigate fires warning shots at British yacht in Channel – reports

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2026/jun/16/russian-frigate-fires-warning-shots-at-british-yacht-in-channel-reports
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    Furious Trump hits out as Iran leaks 'astonishing cave-in' details on peace deal

    www.mirror.co.uk /news/world-news/trump-iran-war-peace-deal-37287532
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    Rubio said he was unaware of any official U.S. delegation to the SPIEF

    ua.news /en/world/rubio-zaiaviv-shcho-ne-znaie-pro-ofitsiinu-amerikansku-delegatsiiu-na-pmef
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    US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2026/feb/19/us-builds-website-that-will-allow-europeans-to-view-blocked-content