Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children,
and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more
—all through surrogates.
When called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023,
he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing.
The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking …
"Western man" is code for
"white man,"
and one of the most popular racist books in these subcultures is
"Which Way Western Man",
which has been featured in a [Department of Homeland Security] post celebrating manifest destiny.
The 1978 book is essential reading among the American far right
and was written by the late white nationalist #William
I’ve tried different ways in the past to manage my phone and social media addiction, but what’s finally started working for me, especially now that I’ve been living in my own apartment since October 2024, is deleting social media altogether and setting up network firewalls to block those sites, including federated addresses.
Moving forward, I know I’ll have to cut even more of my online life. I’ve been using my Pi-hole to block distracting domains at the network level, and since I’m to…
RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115718897611725214
Indeed. Same here.
But no death penalty. If you murder me, rot in prison.
I was fed up with Matrix and tried coming up with my own federated chat protocol. It got really complex really quickly.
In order to resist enshittification it needs to be decentralised. It can't be P2P because that would drain phone batteries. It must be federated. But that means that your admin could read your messages. So it must be federated and encrypted. And that's where it starts to get real tricky.
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#StrangersDeepThoughts
Zoom says its "federated AI" model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools (Xuedong Huang/Zoom)
https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/humanitys-last-exam-zoom-ai-breakthrough/
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#ScandalousFoods
Time For Christmas o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @….
#ChristmasParadeAnything