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Google AI nails it again
  • Google fired a co-inventor of it.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru

    Following her departure, Google held a forum to discuss experiences with racism at the company, and employees reported to NBC News that half of it was spent discrediting Gebru, which they took as the company making an example of her for speaking out. The forum was followed up with a group psychotherapy session for Google's Black employees with a licensed therapist, which the employees said was dismissive

    It's a real fucking laugh. It seems Google's go to response to discrimination is to hire psychs to calm it's employees. Real cyberpunk corpo shit. "Let's fix your thinking."

    @timnitGebru@dair-community.social

  • Trump tariffs will make video game consoles up to 40% more expensive
  • I'm actually really excited about the smuggling opportunities such a high tariff presents. It's a real job creator. It's been a long time since we've had major smuggling operations on the great lakes. Will be a big boom for Chicago too, since that's the point where the smuggled goods get put on trains. Maybe even get the outfit back together.

  • Total burn on West Africa!
  • Yeah, I know the Nile and the Congo, but the Niger just ain't got enough colonialist adventure stories about traveling up it ala Stanley and Livingstone. Which makes sense, because as we can see you'll just be disappointed when you find the source of the Niger.

  • Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?
  • Its the trolley problem, but you just walk away from both tracks and the lever, and then claim that you did not consciously act to cause any harm, therefore you are guiltless.

    That's the fucking point of the trolley problem. How can so many people get here and not fucking understand it's supposed to present the dichotomy between utilitarianism and deontology. If you have a duty to not commit murder, and pulling a lever murders people, you can't pull the lever. It's a valid position.

    If deontology is wrong, we should immediately round up every depressed person, kill them, and harvest their organs.

  • Center-left in US sees a lesson in British election results

    >A center-left group in the U.S. sees a valuable lesson in the landslide victory of Britain’s Labour Party after nearly 15 years in the political wilderness.

    >The centrist Democrat think tank Third Way argues in a memo obtained Friday by POLITICO that Labour’s sweeping win shows that “centrism wins elections” and can undercut right-wing populism by appealing to the broadest segment of the population with a credible platform.

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    TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping

    Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to "throwing" and essentially threading a needle across the sea.

    Warp factor get you asses in the rowboat. Engage.

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    Modi loses ground in parliament, but his Hindu nationalist policies are here to stay

    For the first time since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in 2014, the party did not secure a majority on its own in 2024 national election. But the prime minister’s coalition is still expected to run the country for another five years.

    Modi’s allies generally support pro-Hindu legislation, but making new policies could be complicated by coalition politics and a slimmer majority.

    Despite a setback, many of the Hindu nationalist policies he’s instituted over the last 10 years remain locked in place

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    www.theverge.com How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed

    When TikTok mobilized its users to lobby Congress, it backfired spectacularly.

    How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed

    Interesting to note here: getting preteens to confusedly call Congress with threats of self harm and questions like "what is Congress" with a push notification is not the best plan

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    thehill.com Biden on hot mic: ‘Come-to-Jesus meeting’ with Netanyahu on the way

    President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come…

    Biden on hot mic: ‘Come-to-Jesus meeting’ with Netanyahu on the way

    President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come-to-Jesus meeting.”

    Biden’s comments, captured on a hot mic as he spoke with Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on the floor of the House chamber, came after Bennet congratulated the commander in chief on his speech and pressed him to keep pressure on Netanyahu over increasing humanitarian issues in Gaza.

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