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"People just need to remember the reason Trump pardoned the J6rs was because he was actually pardoning himself. If the whole thing had nothing to do with him, he wouldn’t have cared at all. To him, part of his “innocence” MUST be reflected through them being innocent." (from the comments)

So yeah, as @… is perhaps implying, part of the reason you don’t see it is that the mainstream press is under-covering everything that’s happening in Minneapolis.
BUT! There’s a second reason you might not know about this activity, equally important: the activity that followed the murder of George Floyd — rallies, protests, marches, police riots — was of a highly visible sort. What I see now is much more community infrastructure work: neighborhood organizing, watching for ICE, delivering food. That happened in 2020 too, but the scale of it now…!
https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115857252713224712

Guardian repeats story that Venezuela's oil production low due to corruption and lack of investment.
Actually, the Maracaibo basin is beyond peak extraction so costs rising. And Orinoco oil is heavy, tarry, and hard to get (deep under the rainforest).
Of course the blockade is also part of the reason, and maybe flight of technical staff.
Oil prices fall after Trump says Venezuela will send up to 50m barrels to US | Oil | The Guardian

I grew up w/ stories about the #RACIST PRISONS the govt called "#Japanese internment camps" but this is diabolical.
Even scarier are the losers that still think putting people in prison without any reason other than RACE "in the name of security" is perfectly acceptable.

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built https://www.

I grew up w/ stories about the #RACIST PRISONS the govt called "#Japanese internment camps" but this is diabolical.
Even scarier are the losers that still think putting people in prison without any reason other than RACE "in the name of security" is perfectly acceptable.

The reason Grok so easily can generate nudes of children is because it is trained on that type of content. It is not using "imagination".

Too few are saying this part aloud. Any face generated using image-gens can be from a situation of abuse.

Some people now argue that LLMs are useless. I disagree; they can be very useful if you take them as what they are: models of language that generate text on the basis of some given text. As such, they can be useful for a wide range of text-related tasks, including assisting with writing. And the more formulaic the genre, the better they work obviously. This is part of the reason why they are so popular with students, and in academia more generally.
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Some people now argue that LLMs are useless. I disagree; they can be very useful if you take them as what they are: models of language that generate text on the basis of some given text. As such, they can be useful for a wide range of text-related tasks, including assisting with writing. And the more formulaic the genre, the better they work obviously. This is part of the reason why they are so popular with students, and in academia more generally.
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If you still develop your software with the “--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia” mindset you’re part of the reason so many people have the “--my-next-os-will-be-windows” mindset.
Stop being a clown and understand that when choosing a GPU people ask themselves about features, performance, quality and price. They don’t ask themselves “will this gpu work with this shitty wm library?”.

Got the 750 started, pulled around within reach of an extension cord, and fired up the ozone generator inside it. Looks like I have a dead lighting control module, which is just fucking awesome, given it was working when parked and it's an expensive part. I hope I don't have a sunroof drain issue dumping water in the passenger footwell. I don't see any obvious signs of that, but it's a common reason for LCM mortality.

@… Thanks, they are in California.

My primary reason for searching for an EU-based service is to support services closer to home. In terms of privacy/security, the email part really renders that null and void so I could essentially go with anyone as long as I agree with their values and ethics 😁

@… it's also a large part of the reason for me thanking people a few weeks ago. I chose to refrain from giving reasons at the time:
<https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperri<…

"Trump Reveals Real Reason He Wants Greenland In Wild Letter To PM Of Norway"
And the greatest part is we all got to enjoy reading it. What a timeline 😄

5 most disappointing Dallas Cowboys players entering Week 16 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/5-most-disappointing-dallas-cowboys-players-nfl-week-16

I wonder if part of the reason that Mozilla are so confused about what their actual user-base want is that all the people who want to turn off the AI bullshit are also the ones who turn off telemetry so the bulk of people with
also have telemetry turned off so are invisible to Mozilla.
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