*Great Aunt Beverly from Wisconsin voice*
Why don't you tell us again how competition is providing better healthcare outcomes at affordable price points, Ron? You can go eat in the yard.
#Healthcare #Capitalism #Socialism
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Sam Altman side by side with Aaron Swartz.
I can't stop thinking about it. One was prosecuted by the US for downloading copyrighted data from 1 source for noble purposes, and committed suicide to avoid prison. The other is widely celebrated for doing this on a much larger scale*.
Edited: *(and not for noble purposes)
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NEW: Crypto critic @molly0xfff received emails from a purported lawyer and someone working for a “reputation management company” offering bribes in exchange for the takedown of a blog post about the arrest of an alleged crypto fraudster.
The purported lawyer used a blog post made on a website apparently populated with the use of a service that offers "SEO optimized human-like content” using AI, claiming White infringed copyright.
White declined.
Prominent crypto critic says someone offered bribes to take down a blog post | TechCrunch
Crypto critic Molly White received emails from a purported lawyer and someone working for a “reputation management company” offering bribes in exchange for the takedown of a blog post about the arrest of an alleged crypto fraudster.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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TIL that despite being slightly smaller than our moon, Europa is thought to have twice the amount of water here on Earth.
https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/europa/europa-facts/
#til #todayilearned
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Europa: Facts - NASA Science
Europa’s ocean is considered one of the most promising places in the solar system to look for life beyond Earth.science.nasa.gov
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Exploring new horizons in victim-blaming, Jeff Tumlin claims the "walk sign [sic] said not to cross" at Parnassus and Stanyan when a driver killed an elderly pedestrian.
There are no walk signals at that intersection.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/26/man-killed-by-truck-was-likely-unavoidable-transit-boss-says/
#VisionZeroSF #SFpol
Pedestrian's killing by truck was likely unavoidable, transit boss says - The San Francisco Standard
The area where the man died cannot have speed humps or traffic cameras installed.Michael McLaughlin (The San Francisco Standard)
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Readers who’ve written to cancel their #WashingtonPost subscriptions have cited its decision not to endorse a presidential candidate, but they have also cited what they see as the paper’s general decline.
"The best thing those readers can do is cancel their $139 annual #AmazonPrime subscriptions, if they have them, and invest that money in the #journalism they say they want and need."
Cancel Amazon Prime, Not ‘The Washington Post’
The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.Ellen Cushing (The Atlantic)
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The bottom guide for our hanging closet door. I just put it in a few months back and it broke even though I didn't put any extra stress on it when opening the closet.
I ordered a stainless replacement that should last a bit longer. :3
Hopefully so.
These days there are some amazingly durable plastics, but also some real poor material, too.
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Hah! Musk was an illegal immigrant when he founded his first company, Zip2, in the US
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/26/anti-crusader-musk-illegally-overstayed-visa-when-moving-to-us/Anti-immigrant crusader Elon Musk illegally overstayed visa when moving to U.S.
Mass deportation-backing billionaire Elon Musk founded a company without authorization to work in the USSalon.com
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#ClimateChange has irreversible consequences and costs.
"Tech companies think they can reverse climate change with fancy new tools to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But new research throws cold water on the idea that cooling the planet after it has already heated beyond a key turning point can avoid serious damage. Much of the toll climate change takes — from rising seas to lost homes — can’t be undone, recent research published in the journal Nature warns."
Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn
Can tech companies reverse climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere? It would come at a cost, new research shows.Justine Calma (The Verge)
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Agreed. I think the takeaway of the study is that it's always far cheaper, and generally better, to prevent damage rather than try to clean up after the fact.
Relying on uncertain technology to reduce the effects of climate change is far less desirable than reducing the amount we produce in the first place. That said, removing carbon (particularly in ways that work with and benefit natural ecosystems) will certainly have a role to play.
Meanwhile, in Russia
U.S. Says North Korean Troops Are in Russia to Aid Fight Against Ukraine
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III called the situation “very, very serious,” though he said that what the soldiers were doing in Russia was “left to be seen.”
"For weeks, the Ukrainian and South Korean governments have fueled reports that more than 12,000 North Koreans were training to fight alongside Russian soldiers"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/us/politics/north-korea-russia-military-ukraine.html
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Repair YouTuber creates upgradable SSD storage modules for Apple Silicon MacBooks - 9to5Mac
Ever since the 2016 MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar, Apple has been soldering the SSD storage to the logic...Michael Burkhardt (9to5Mac)
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I’ll say it again for those at the back:
An ad-blocker is a security tool.
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AI Vision Explained (and How to Avoid Paying for It) — FortNine
Motorcycle AI Vision is coming. But what is it really worth?
#motorcycle #LLM #AI
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Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/networking/today-i-learned-f1-cars-can-have-their-engines-blown-up-wirelessly-via-ip-connection/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gclubf/today_i_learned_f1_cars_can_have_their_engines/
Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
Mr. Robot eat your heart out. No, wait… Vin Diesel, eat your heart out?Jacob Fox (PC Gamer)
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"Actual name of a political party in Australia"
submitted by u/paladisious
https://redd.it/1gbtsm0
#fuckcars
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Bring back art deco car designs. Especially if they're convertible.
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“Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said - ABC News”
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whispher is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence but it has a major flawGARANCE BURKE Associated Press (ABC News)
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> Got a Ninja 1000SX.
> Eventually got into regularly doing 100+ MPH on Eastern Washington Interstates.
> Downsized to a CBR650R because I realized that 100+ MPH is a bit TOO fast.
> Still ended up around 100 MPH sometimes.
> Was doing something around 80 MPH on a Western Washington State Route where the speed limit was 55 MPH, and Labor Day morning traffic was light.
> Got a speeding ticket and just paid it because I know what I did.
> Stopped going so fast.
🗑️ #motorcycle
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I have GPS proof of doing 155 in Nevada on a BMW K1200GT. When he pulled me over the only thing he wanted to see was the motorcycle endorsement on my license. After he saw it we chatted about bikes for about an hour and he wrote me for 5 over.
Right after that I got rid of that bike and now I ride dirt.
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Or cling to the speed limit. Hence no need for a speedier machine.....
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https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe
In Finland, global heating effects are damaging forests so much that they are no longer carbon sinks.
What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland
The natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But the land now emits more greenhouse gases than it storesPatrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
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Whisky - A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI
Run the latest DirectX 12 titles effortlessly on your Mac with Whisky!getwhisky.app
Game Porting Toolkit 2.0 - Games - Apple Developer
The Game Porting Toolkit makes it easier than ever to bring games to the unified gaming platform across Mac, iPad, and iPhone.Apple Developer
@frost they depreciated it in favor of Metal, their own multi-layered graphics api, which takes better advantage of the integrated GPU in Apple Silicon. OpenGL is still present and runs on top of Metal through a compatibility layer, but it’s forever locked at version 4.1 from 2010.
The reason they deprecated it is because very few developers were continuing to produce new games for OpenGL. Metal, however, has been pretty successful.
Graphene-Based Memristors Inch Towards Practical Production - Slashdot
Longtime Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes: Memristors are the long-sought 4th fundamental circuit element. They promise analog computing capability in hardware, the ability to hold state without power, and to work with less power.hardware.slashdot.org
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It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them
A new federal rule makes it legal to bypass software locks on commercial food equipment for the purposes of repair.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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