some_guy Now • 100%
Is this the same guy who flipped out about the word “weird” with tons of posts about trans people like a demented moron? Looks similar.
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"If these same hearings, through their publicity, help prevent other women from having to go through this, then she will find meaning in her suffering," one of Ms Pelicot's lawyers, Stéphane Babonneau, said.
What a badass. I have so much respect for the ways she’s been handling this. A real “fuck you” to her abusers. Repeatedly.
some_guy Now • 100%
Gosh, I really hope so. Too much is on the line.
some_guy Now • 100%
I’d respect it more if it was just said right up front, “funding to the god-emperor by stealing from our children’s education.”
some_guy Now • 100%
It’s batshit crazy that we let this batshit crazy individual own guns.
some_guy Now • 100%
I enjoyed this idea more than one might expect.
some_guy Now • 100%
Yeah, I just got home and switched to loose running shorts (it's hot here at the moment). Why would I wanna stay wearing jeans when I can relax?
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Thanks!
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I tried reading, then simply skimming, but this is over my head and I didn’t think I could get through it comfortably. I was hoping for a paragraph that summed up a simple explanation, but if there was one, it was further in than I got. Can anyone summarize for dummies what this means for our understanding of physics?
some_guy Now • 100%
Garbage, Bob. Fucking garbage.
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TSMC's upcoming N2 fabrication process is set to offer several improvements compared to the current N3E manufacturing technology. It is projected to deliver performance gains of 10% to 15% (at the same power and complexity), while also cutting power consumption by 25% to 30% (at the same clocks and complexity). Furthermore, the shift to the N2 node will likely enhance transistor density by about 15% on average. In general, transition from N3E to N2 brings similar improvements as transition to N3B from N5.
I don’t know how much longer we can keep going before physics ends advancement. Guess this is why quantum computing has been in development for most of my life, but I’m not sure how far off that is given that, as I said, we’ve been pursuing it most of my life and I don’t have a quantum computer. Maybe we’ll discover other breakthrough ways of doing math (I mean, undoubtedly). I’m just not educated enough to fathom the reality of what is possible in these areas.
some_guy Now • 100%
Double check that you haven’t been kicked off by ridiculous lawsuits from the GOP. They’re mass-unenrolling people to silence their competition.
some_guy Now • 100%
Tim Sweeney is an asshole.
some_guy Now • 100%
This guy needs to be added to the other cases for trying to steal the election.
some_guy Now • 100%
Peters remained unrepentant and unapologetic during and after the trial, asserted that she did nothing wrong. Law enforcement investigators, prosecutors, a jury and a judge disagreed. After she was convicted, she claimed that the Deep State rigged her trial because the judge didn't allow her to present evidence that people in Serbia rigged our 2020 election.
Where's your rich pillow idiot now?
Peters called a Pastor from California as her first witness who asked the court to sentence her to a program run by a church. He likely annoyed the court by weaving into his plea the suggestion that she was unjustly convicted and prosecuted for political reasons.
It always helps to accuse the judge of being biased.
Peters next called Douglas Frank ("Dr. Frank"), who Mike Lindell made a movie about based on his "findings" about the machines called, "Scientific Proof." He likely did Peters no favors by defiantly suggesting that Peters was a "patriot," and that officials with the state government are to blame for the entire case and are covering up their misconduct. The judge interrupted him at one point and made it clear that he could continue to make that argument but it wasn't helping. He concluded by saying that the whole case should be thrown out.
It's not the person who cheated at fault but the system that made them cheat!
Alex Schroeder testified next for Peters. He was a former clerk in another county and current County Commissioner. He claimed that there was a government conspiracy in Colorado to prosecute Peters to send a message to try and intimidate other clerks around the state to keep them from coming forward with evidence of fraud. He complained about Dominion voting machines and said they should have never been certified. When the judge asked him why the hand recount showed exactly the same results as the machines, Schroeder said that didn't matter to him and clerks should still have to right to conduct their own forensic examination of the voting machine software.
We don't need to base our conclusions on facts; we just know how we feel and that's a rational way to live our lives.
Seriously, this lady got the hard time that she deserves. It took a long fucking time to come about but I'm happy with this outcome other than her raising money off the celebrity of it. Hopefully, she is forgotten by the maga crowd once she is out of sight.
some_guy Now • 100%
Sleaze here.
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Bonta’s office stressed that time is of the essence in this case because Mad River Community Hospital, where Nusslock was able to receive life-saving treatment after being denied by Providence, is set to shutter its labor and delivery unit this month. This will leave Providence as the only hospital with a labor and delivery unit in the entire county: “The next person in Anna’s situation will face an agonizing choice of risking a multi-hour drive to another hospital or waiting until they are close enough to death for Providence to intervene,” Bonta’s office said in a press release.
That's horrifying.
some_guy Now • 88%
No thank you.
Poor little buddy just keeps getting hammered by the deep state… Sad pillow
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> When faced with these requests, DoorDash customer service reps would ask for some form of verification. The indictment states that the men would use the personal information of the Dasher, such as their phone number, date of birth, recent transactions, or even the last four digits of their driver’s license, to authenticate themselves.
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Built on unearned hype.
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This is a pile of suck. Christian was the creator of Apollo, as many here might recognize. Fuck off, Google.
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> Clearview AI is a facial recognition company that can take a photo of the face of the target, and run it against the company’s database of around 30 billion faces. Clearview AI obtained many of these images by scraping the web, including sites and services like Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo. When the New York Times first reported on Clearview in January 2020, a researcher who provided documents to the Times said Clearview “appears to be crossing the Rubicon on facial recognition technology.” Often the tool is used in the form of an app installed on customers’ phones.
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You know, the same thing happens to me every time the FBI takes my phones.
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Apologies for posting a pay walled article. Consider subscribing to 404. They’re a journalist-founded org, so you could do worse for supporting quality journalism. > Trained repair professionals at hospitals are regularly unable to fix medical devices because of manufacturer lockout codes or the inability to obtain repair parts. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, broken ventilators sat unrepaired for weeks or months as manufacturers were overwhelmed with repair requests and independent repair professionals were locked out of them. At the time, I reported that independent repair techs had resorted to creating DIY dongles loaded with jailbroken Ukrainian firmware to fix ventilators without manufacturer permission. Medical device manufacturers also threatened iFixit because it posted ventilator repair manuals on its website. I have also written about people with sleep apnea who have hacked their CPAP machines to improve their basic functionality and to repair them. PS: he got it repaired.
First four paragraphs (cause paywall won't let most people see this). > Chip giant Qualcomm made a takeover approach to rival Intel in recent days, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be one of the largest and most consequential deals in recent years. > > A deal for Intel, which has a market value of roughly $90 billion, would come as the chip maker has been suffering through one of the most significant crises in its five-decade history. > > A deal is far from certain, the people cautioned. Even if Intel is receptive, a deal of that size is all but certain to attract antitrust scrutiny, though it is also possible it could be seen as an opportunity to strengthen the U.S.’s competitive edge in chips. To get the deal done, Qualcomm could intend to sell assets or parts of Intel to other buyers. > > Intel—once the world’s most valuable chip company—had seen its shares drop roughly 60% so far this year before The Wall Street Journal reported on the approach. As recently as 2020, the company had a market value above $290 billion. The stock closed up over 3% Friday after the Journal’s report.
Tough guy from 80s action movies had a kinda wimpy name when you stop and think about it.
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Don’t worry, everybody. It was just AI. What a relief! I almost thought this guy was a terrible person.
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> It's possible that Kohls' concerns about AB 2839 are unwarranted. Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon told Politico that Kohls' parody label on X was good enough to clear him of liability under the law.
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> Lustery’s announcement says the company’s new contract clause was inspired by recent agreements between Hollywood studios and two unions, the Writers Guild of America and the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, which introduced limitations last year on how studios can use AI for scriptwriting and for generating performances.
> Both Wiens and MG said a supply-chain attack in which a remote-triggered explosive was surreptitiously placed into the pagers before they were distributed is more likely. There is precedent for this: in 1996, Israel put a bomb inside of a cell phone and used it to kill Yahya Ayyash, who was then a bomb maker for Hamas.
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> Snapchat is reserving the right to put its users’ faces in ads, according to terms of service related to its “My Selfie” tool (formerly “AI Selfies”), which allows users and their friends to create AI-generated images trained on their selfies. > > Users have the option to opt out of this by toggling off a “feature” in the app called “See My Selfie in Ads,” but according to 404 Media’s testing this feature is on by default.
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> For most people, an extinct species is an abstraction, a set of bones they might have seen on display in a museum. For Gennady Boeskorov, they are things he has interacted with directly, studying their fur, their skin, their internal organs—experiencing these animals much as they existed thousands of years ago. Some of the well-preserved Pleistocene animals he has worked with include the mummified remains of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), an extinct form of rabbit (Lepus tanaiticus), and cave lion cubs (Panthera spelaea). > > His latest paper also makes it clear that woolly rhinoceroses belong on this list. Boeskorov is a senior researcher at the Diamond and Precious Metals Geology Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as a professor at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. This July, he and his colleagues described the relatively recent discovery of three woolly rhinoceros mummies, one of which is new to science, in a paper published in the journal Doklady Earth Sciences.