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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain ( www.forbes.com )

ChatGPT’s crawler GPTBot, which spiders the internet to capture information and turn it into knowledge, is the most-blocked bot on the internet, according to Cloudflare’s 2025 year in review. Meanwhile its biggest rival, Google, is the No. 1 most-allowed crawler. And perhaps even more interestingly, while ChatGPT is the ...

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It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn't make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.

Information already is knowledge, and that's not what gpt does.

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What the american people want has almost no bearing on what the elites who control the american empire decide to do.

No major policy has matched public opinion since the end of the civil rights era. In gender, ethnicity and wealth, our representatives are not representative of us either.

It's naive to think we live in a democracy.

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I don't think it's correct to say the people want trump. Only ~30% of US adults voted for him.

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I was gonna recommend Othan by Heilung, it sounds like casting a spell.

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I don't know that it's wise to trust what anthropic says about their own product. AI boosters tend to have an "all news is good news" approach to hype generation.

Anthropic have recently been pushing out a number of headline grabbing negative/caution/warning stories. Like claiming that AI models blackmail people when threatened with shutdown. I'm skeptical.

Muslim hero tackles Bondi Beach gunman - yet Netanyahu claimed he was Jewish ( www.thecanary.co )

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a heroic Jewish bystander saved Jewish lives during the Bondi Beach massacre by tackling one of the gunmen. In fact, the man who made the heroic intervention is a Muslim of Levantine descent who was shot twice in the process. ...

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The belief that that land is ours by right, promised to us by an angry man in the sky - aka zionism - is ideological fuel for the genocide we've been inflicting on the palestinian people.

If genocide is the problem, then zionism is a big part of the problem.

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elected him

Someone doesn't understand how our oligarchy's electoral system works.

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The little US person should be dressed in a fast food employee outfit or Revolutionary War era clothes, to fit with everyone else.

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There's a great story in i think the pseudepigrapha, where child jesus is playing with his friends and gets upset and turns one of his friends into a pillar of salt and mary comes and yells at him to turn the kid back.

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She's depicted here with dark hair, she's just wearing a yellow headdress.

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This this this. It's basically impossible to get that rich without having endangered others.

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That's so weird! What's terfy about green and lavender? And why have a three-part design when their whole deal is binary?

If i was designing a terf flag it would be blue and pink with a thin black line in between.

Don't get me wrong, i hate transphobia and oppose the insecure morons who can't cope with the diverse reality that is the human experience of gender. But i also hate bad flag design.

If you chose not to vote, the current state of things is partially your fault

I often see people say that the majority of America is against Trump. How did he come to be democratically elected if the majority are against him? I know technically he didn't get the majority of votes, he got just under 50%, but if all the non-voters cared enough, they could have stopped him from becoming president. I know ...

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Being angry at normal people because the rich have the ability to buy elections is not productive.

After decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo, foreign interference, dark money and legalized bribery, US elections just do not reflect the will of our population. A famous princeton study showed that no major policy initiative has reflected public opinion since the civil rights era. It's conclusion was that functionally we are an oligarchy and not a democracy.

The rich who run the show deserve the scorn and blaming anyone but them helps them.

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Single gene can directly cause mental illness

🙄 Sure, i believe you clickbait headline.

Children with null variants were 87 times more likely to develop a psychotic disorder and six times more likely to have an anxiety disorder by age 12, and around 12 times more likely to develop a mood disorder by age 11.

😮 Oh... well... fuck. Okay, that's a lot.

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Multiple genres of games are about doing mass killings for fun.

You know that bit when you get bored playing some open world game, go around killing everyone, then reload? Postal is That: The Game. Just without the reloading.

Or that was how i thought about postal 1&2.

Murrill: NOPD is breaking laws if it doesn’t ‘fully cooperate’ with ICE, Border Patrol | The Lens ( thelensnola.org )

Louisiana’s top criminal justice official has warned New Orleans’ police chief she risks breaking state and federal laws if her officers don’t actively support ongoing federal immigration enforcement efforts in the city. ...

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And fully co-operating with ice means breaking countless laws.

So, logically, all NOPD are criminals!

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You gotta say "nor-nor-east" instead, that's a blast.

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North and south are fundementally different, climate and biosphere -wise, so i don't think it would ever make sense to people to modify the same word to describe two very different things. East and west maybe less so, but dawn and dusk are pretty important differences.

Some polynesian cultures use two main direction words, which usually translate as something like mountain-ward and beach-ward.

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given the fossil and archeological evidence for the spread of H. sapiens into the Levant and Arabia during [the era 130,000 to 80,000 years ago] and absence of Homo neanderthalensis from the Levant at that time, we argue that H. sapiens was responsible for the tracks at Alathar.

Scientists: Since we already know H. Sapiens was here then, we think they did it.

Headline: Human footprints shouldn't be here then!

How chiropractors became the backbone of MAHA ( www.politico.com )

Many of Kennedy’s most ardent chiropractic supporters are now at the forefront of his Make America Healthy Again movement, posting on social media and finding TikTok virality in a bid to spread his agenda to a larger audience and recruit more disciples. Their passion for Kennedy is palpable. ...

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Chiropracty is 100% grifting, so a natural fit for our current regime of thieves and liars.

If a field of medicine was first pioneered by a ghost, it's not a field of medicine.

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La Troix

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There are several more. My favourite is proprioception - the sense of where your limbs are. Phantom limb syndrome exists because we have proprioception.

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This was just a top notch meme. Informative and a very clever arrested developement reference.

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So we all know that sleep is super important and that smart phones can impact sleep, but i wonder how much of the reported impact is because ofnsmart phones directly.

I would expect that time and resource poor families are more likely to allow kids to have smart phones earlier to keep them occupied, and that being from a poorer family correlates with worse mental health and greater chance of obesity.

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The rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

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I guess i don't really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge's potato? ("I just think they're neat")

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My italian friend overheard a woman on the bus craddling her crying baby and repeating in italian, "come, enough, come". Unfortunately this was in australia where "die, basta, die" sounds a lot like "die, bastard, die"

Ghost in the Shell TTRPG raises almost $500k (with $11k goal) on Kickstarter ( www.kickstarter.com )

This is an officially licensed TTRPG set in the GItS: Arise universe. The kickstarter just ended so I'm not trying to convince anyone to back it, I just think it's impressive that they only wanted ~$11k to fund the project and raised almost $500k. That's awesome!

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It's a custom system built using the forged in the dark engine, which is a stellar choice for any game where you play a series of daring missions.

The first game made with that engine - the game that launched the engine - was heavily inspired by Dishonored. Its particular flavour of steampunk is fairly close to cyberpunk.

This is all to say that they made a very good choice with the system - it's perfectly suited to the setting, well-designed, and powerful and flexible in play.

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Blades in the Dark, it's called.

The setting is quite different from Dishonoured, though you can see the influence clearly and it's mentioned by name as a media touchstone.

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In my day most goths would spend the entire night telling you why every single other person in the club was not a real goth.

The funniest one i remember was that only Liebach is true goth music, if you listen to anything else you're a poser.

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Beautiful.

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The fact this is can even be a sentence someone thought to utter is such a triumph of wealth over reality.

When you have a product that you know can and will be used harmfully, you can't just say "but if you use it harmfully, we're not responsible".

OpenAI is undeniably responsible for deaths they facilitated, like this one.

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This kind of useless performative busy-ness is one of the stupidest forms virtue signalling.

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Well I'm insured

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Dollhouse is weird though. I enjoyed it a lot but i don't think it's for everyone.

Plus the ending is not well done. They got cancelled and tried to pull together an impactful ending over a few episodes, when the original plan was to take a few seasons. I respect the urge to offer a real ending, but unsurprisingly it feels cheap and sudden.

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He financed a spoiler candidate for OR governor last election. That spoiler candidate was too obviously right wing to siphon enough votes, despite what she was being paid to say.

Phil knight is strongly opposed to democracy.

The United States should be 50 independent countries.

The more I think about things, and how well stuff works in other countries, i believe it’s due to the sheer size and demographic makeup of the country. I often times wonder if it would be better managed with more of an EU style system where certain standards are core across all states and then leave each country to truly ...

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It's just not true that the south is dead weight.

The mississippi-missouri river system is a vital transport corridor that enables cheaper exports and transport around the country. Breaking that up across multiple countries would make everyone poorer.

Large parts of the US would lose easy access to the gulf, the atlantic or the pacific.

The naturally defensible boundaries of the continent represent a massive advantage that would go away and drive up defense spending for all the nationlets.

All of us benefit from the US being a single country in huge ways.

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The rich don't want equality. They need people to be suffering and in dire want, so they have exploitable people to profit from.

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Another point he makes is that the safety net does catch people at the very bottom, but traps anyone who climbs out. For instance, at $45,000, they lose Medicaid eligibility; at $65,000, childcare subsidies vanish.
“In option terms, the government has sold a call option to the poor, but they’ve rigged the gamma. As you move ‘closer to the money’ (self-sufficiency), the delta collapses. For every dollar of effort you put in, the system confiscates 70 to 100 cents,” he says. “No rational trader would take that trade. Yet we wonder why labor force participation lags. It’s not a mystery. It’s math.”

What? How does the system take 70-100 cents of every dollar of effort put in by low income people? Medicaid and childcare subsidies going away isn't 70-100% of the income of a household earning 65k.

Obviously losing medicaid or childcare subsidies is a huge blow for anyone, but i don't understand where he's pulling 70-100% of the value of someone's labour from.

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Tiny states use pointless votes like this as a chance to curry favour. Sure, china or the us, we'll vote however you want on this purely symbolic question that will have zero real world impact. Now about that loan...

Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time ( www.pcgamer.com )

Edit: After I posted this, I found out there are serious questions about how true any of this is. See here for more info. But also, self-serving propaganda is pretty strongly on-brand for anything in the "aRtIfIcIaL iNtElLiGeNce"(tm) space.

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Hey remember that time christians sacked christian byzantium and finally ended the roman empire in the name of fighting islam, the great enemy of the christians and the roman empire?

Or all those decades where the omnipresent threat of instant nuclear annhilation was considered the main infrastructure of peace?

Things have been stupid before, and they'll be stupid again.

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Oxytosin? Not sure on the spelling

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Love is the ultimate painkiller?

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Edit: i didn't realize the watermark completely obscured the word conundrum 😭

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A large community of child predators is a great opportunity - to expand roblox into a prestige networking site for the republican party.

Hearing about the beauty of cooperation in Finland, it hits home.

A system that expects parties to listen, compromise and find common ground produces calmer politics and better decisions. ...

Graphic with a portrait of Sanna Marin, former Prime Minister of Finland, wearing a light gray turtleneck. Beside her is a quote about leading a five party coalition and valuing compromise, listening and consensus in Finland’s proportional representation system.
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Proportional representation is great. In australia we use it for one house of parliament with preferential voting for the other. It allows a wider range of popular opinion to be reflected than even preferential.

But both italy and israel have proportional representation, so let's not think that it magically turns you into a scandanavian social democracy.

Have you ever met a truly evil person? What happened?

So, considering this is Lemmy I'll clarify. I'm not talking about your neighbor who voted for Trump or your uncle who's always been a dick. I'm talking about coming in contact with a deep down evil scary human. I've only met one that I can think of. When I was 12 or 13 I spent a ton of time at my best friends house. He lived on ...

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She doesn't really go on about it though.

There's a kind of terminally online identity-yelling that's easy to spot and definitely a red flag, but she rarely talks about her personal life at work, other than mentioning samhain and yule.

I found out who she claims to be from coworkers who use mainstream socials and stalked her.

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loudly talking about the anal sex with a trans person they had over the weekend.

Oh that sounds lovely.

If you say it was problematic in context i have to believe you, but i would happily take that over the advice a psychic gave them, obviously made up trauma dumps, or how the eastern orthodox church is the one true faith - all real examples from my current coworkers.