Future generations will have to read this shit in history class.

Surely the US won’t freak about this like massive hypocrites, right?

Malware analysis and deobfuscation videos. Sometimes I just like to look at code but have someone else do all the thinking for me. Malware is also often obfuscated using a lot of esoteric features of different scripting languages, things you either know exist but likely have never had a reason to use in legitimate software development, or you’ll learn about an interesting feature that you can use in your own code. The way seemingly complete nonsense slowly comes together into a readable script is really satisfying. It’s also something I would never personally do because I don’t want to accidentally infect myself or someone else with it, so it’s cool to watch an actual cybersecurity expert do it.

Shoutout to John Hammond on YouTube.

The attitude change around free speech is the most damning. Really shows how they never cared about it to begin with.

If science journalists can stop dumbing down the titles to the point of being misleading that’d be great.

A study found that the sea anemone, a member of the Cnidarian phylum, uses bilaterian-like techniques to form its body.

This suggests that these techniques likely evolved before these two phyla separated evolutionarily some 600 to 700 million years ago, though it can’t be ruled out that these techniques evolved independently.

Ok, so say that in the title. A blueprint implies instructions for making a human, which is not what they found.

So it’s surprising that this species in the phylum Cnidarians (along with jellyfish, corals, and other sea creatures) contains an ancient blueprint for bilaterians, of which Homo sapiens are a card-carrying member.

[sea anemones] use a technique commonly associated with bilaterians, known as bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) shuttling, to build their bodies.

Again, this is not a “blueprint” for a human body. Just say they use the same mechanism as us to accomplish a similar task, it’s surprising enough on its own without needing to reach for a comparison to a human construct.

A better title would be “sea anemones have been found to use the same molecular mechanisms for growth as bilaterians like mammals”

Locally run models use a fraction of the energy. Less than playing a game with heavy graphics.

War is peace I guess

What about unbound?

Goldielocks

Not warning shot, this is THE SHOT, one of many.

“I don’t know.”

So when someone asks for your password, you can just say I don’t know and trick them.

“Eat plants or draw 25”

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Broke (cause you have to pay): Win11

Woke: Wine11

Because US/Western regime changes always, always result in society in that country progressing, right? Never gets worse for anyone especially not minority groups, that would be un-American.

Don’t blame fentanyl for cop psychopathy.

And that’s not a defense of fentanyl.

Giving the ICE a platform to cry about how they’re “threatened” by the public for things the public has every right to be enraged over is peak manufacturing consent. Who gives a shit what they think or how they feel after they kidnap and murder people?

Imagine if a German newspaper published an article like this about the SS during the holocaust, just letting the fucking extermination camp commanders vent about how everyone hates them now. Oh wait, that probably happened.

This is why I laugh when alternative medicine people sell special rocks that “give off invisible cosmic energy.”

If that’s true, you’re going to need real medicine real soon after getting it.

Jesus Christ this fucking article. Just rename yourself The Daily Bootlicker for god sake.

ICE agents are living in fear as the public turns against them in record numbers after one of their colleagues shot a mom dead in the street.

So they have no problems with the murder itself, but the public backlash in response to the murder. Got it.

Agents fear the public revulsion toward the heavy-handed approach of ICE under President Donald Trump, and the administration’s efforts to cover its own tracks as it did in the wake of Good’s shooting, is already causing problems securing criminal convictions. One former agent told the Daily Beast that he and his colleagues fear it has become more common for juries not to believe evidence they are presenting to the court.

Yeah, just ignore the blatant and documented perjury and contempt of court ICE commits every day. THIS is what gets juries to not believe you, not that.

Separately, according to a report published Monday, Border Patrol—the agency working with ICE on the ground—is struggling to find agents willing to join the administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis, which was promised by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in response to last Wednesday’s deadly incident.

Oh no the American SS is having trouble finding new Nazis! How terrible!

Now, two agents who decided to leave ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in the past six months due to the changing nature of their job under Trump have told the Beast that they are terrified of the impact this is having on the force and their former colleagues.

So you didn’t leave after seeing the crimes against humanity your organization commits, but now that you’re potentially in danger it’s time to go.

“Talking to colleagues in Minneapolis, they say it is not uncommon for people to drive past them and make gun signs with their fingers,”

Freedom of speech. Stop being a triggered snowflake.

this could eventually translate into real violence like the fatal shooting of an ICE agent in Dallas in September.

And there it is. They’re afraid of someone doing to them what they do to others.

Another said: “We used to be respected and liked by the public, who understood the role we played in a functioning society and appreciated that we investigated and deported criminal illegals. That’s gone now.

You’re making it seem like it was taken away and not squandered hundreds of times over.

“If this situation continues, many of us fear that when the Dems get back in, they will dissolve ICE altogether,”

Don’t worry, they won’t. When have the Dems ever done the right thing?

“For those of us who care about the good work ICE has done in the past three decades, that’s a very sad state of affairs.”

You’re a very sad state of humanity.

As one senior Homeland Security official told Klippenstein: “There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy-handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”

Damn, said the quiet part out loud, actually admitted ICE intends to threaten lives. At least one brownie point for the honesty.

But you’re mentioning “ICE’s heavy-handedness” like it’s out of your control and you’re not in charge of the ICE so I’m going to have to take away those brownie points.

So, instead of feeding large documents into these models which break them, you can instead provide them with an API to interrogate the document by writing code

Kind of off topic, but this reminded me about something I really don’t like about the current paradigm of “intelligence” and “knowledge” being parts of a single monolithic model.

Why aren’t we training models on how to search any generic dataset for information, find patterns, draw conclusions, etc, rather than baking the knowledge itself into the model? 8 or so GB of pure abstract reasoning strategies would probably be way more intelligent and efficient than even a much larger model we have now. Imagine if you can just give it an arbitrarily sized database whose content you control, which you can then fill with the highest quality, ethically obtained, human expert moderated data complete with attributions to original creators, and have it base all its decisions from that. It would even be able to cite what it used with identifiers in the database, which can then be manually verified. You get a concrete foundation of where it’s getting its information from, and you only need to load what it currently needs into memory, whereas right now you have to load all the AI’s “knowledge,” relevant or not, into your precious and limited RAM. You would also be able to update the individual data separately from the model itself, and have it produce updated results from the new data. That would actually be what I consider an artificial “intelligence” and not a fancy statistical prediction mechanism.

You heard it folks, invalidate all US patents and copyright because written treaties are irrelevant!