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A federal agent pointed a gun at a combat veteran’s face and said “
"bang, bang” and
“you’re dead, liberal”
during an immigration raid last week in Chicago,
the veteran is alleging in a new court filing.
https://…

Federal Agent Told Combat Veteran ‘You’re Dead, Liberal’ At Little Village Encounter, Attorneys Say
The allegation comes as ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly facing pushback for using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and other measures against peaceful protesters and bystanders.

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em: Ecologists Combat Invasive Lionfish with Local Cuisine https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/if-you-cant-beat-em-eat-em-ecologists-combat-invasive-lionfish-with-local-cuisine/

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Eat 'Em: Ecologists Combat Invasive Lionfish with Local Cuisine
The economics of the food supply chain and fishing industries could prove to be the fatal sting for the poisonous invader. 

My kingdom for competent defending. Asking unseriously if Konate is match fixing.
#LFC

In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5.
They talked about MIT, the pressures facing America’s research enterprise, the importance of science, that Congressional hearing on antisemitism in 2023, and more
With new financial pressures facing universities,
increased competition for talented students and scholars from outside the U.S.,
as we…

“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio
MIT faculty join The Curiosity Desk to discuss football, math, Olympic figure skating, AI and the quest to cure ovarian cancer.

Illinois man pleads guilty to hacking hundreds of Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos https://therecord.media/illinois-man-pleads-guilty-snapchat-nude-photo-hacks

It's so fucking sad that this guy who wrote some of the most classic computer books in the 70s and 80s now has gone off the deep end and pooped AI-generated imagery all over his website that _misspells the names of his own books_.
https://mitchwaite.com

Y'know, I don't really need daily emails from the place I buy water filters from.
I hate how every fucking company out there is like, "oh you ordered something from us, that means we'll add you to our spam list. DID YOU KNOW WE'RE HAVING A 20% SALE ON THIS THING THAT ISN'T EVEN COMPATIBLE WITH THE THING YOU BOUGHT?? HURRY AND SAVE NOW!"

Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈
I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way…

The real problem here is that I was born to be on the Watcher's Council or a Man of Letters or in the Talamasca or on the tenure track at Miskatonic in a world where I make more money fixing your damn computer and also those societies don't actually exist
.......but, and hear me out on this....could they?

I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯