BakerBagel

@ BakerBagel @midwest.social

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8mo ago

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
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BakerBagel @midwest.social 8mo ago
"Why is the country founded on white supremacy acting like white supremecists?"

8mo ago

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Gibraltar is about the same latitude as the Virgina/North Carolina state line. So southern Europe essentially ends halfway down the US Eastern seaboard

8mo ago

I like to point out that New York to LA os essentially the same distance as Moscow to Lisbon, while Seattle to Miami os about the same as London to Baghdad. That's why St. Louis was the furthest west MLB team until the 50's. The logistics for US sports are insane

8mo ago

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 8mo ago

Which way? Because it gets incredibly hot in the Canadian prairie. There is no body of water to regulate temperature so the summers can get serious heat waves while the winter is absolutely frigid. Granted, Edmonton is still considerably further south than Stockholm.

8mo ago

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 8mo ago

That actually really fucked up the first French attempts to settle the St. Lawrence river. They knew it was a similar latitude as Paris so they were completely unprepared for their first winter in Quebec City.

8mo ago

Good old CEO

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 8mo ago

I saw once that the reason Kristen Stewart was so hated in the Twilight movies is because all the young women who grew up reading the books imagined themselves as Bella. They were never going to like whichever actress was cast into the role since they would no longer be able to project their own likeness onto the protagonist.

9mo ago

Dems eye new way to shake up 2028 primaries: ranked-choice voting

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

Ohio passed a law this year banning state funds to any municipality that implemented ranked choise voting. Only one or two representatives voted against it. The only bi-partisan bill they passed thos year

9mo ago

RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

They are going to pivot all that processing to the next snale oil scheme. Do you think its a coincidence that rhe AI hype came immediately after crypto crashed?

9mo ago

Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

There is work to be done rebuilding infrastructure to battle climate change. It would be a massive jobs program, but we have reached an era where governments are not allowed to do public works in the public interest, amd since their is no profit to be made in doing the right thing, we must instead all suffer.

9mo ago

Bailouts for the Soyboys: Soybean Farmers Surprised by the Trade War They Voted For

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

Most modern farming in the US isn't about food, it's about collecting government subsidies. Nearly all government farm subsidies go towards corn, which is mostly used for ethanol bio fuel, then it is used as livestock feed, then it's used for corn syrup as a sugar substitute in food and beverages. Meanwhile, states like California and Washington which grow most of the actual domestic produce we consume receive almost no federal agriculture subsidies. Subsidies should have been gradually rolled back 30 years ago with the money being used as grants and loans to help farmers transition to growing actual food for actual people to eat, but those are harder to farm, so farmers have demanded that their subsidies stay as is

9mo ago

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

Yeah, I only have my gmail accounts for logins to various websites. They will only have LLM generated spam emails to train on from this

9mo ago

Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt seemed to have done fine by dominating actually useful industries. Even JP Morgan made bank by loaning money to those guys doing cutthroat business and screwing over their workers. Because steel, oil, and shipping were useful industries for society. Modern tech firms are investing billions just for an excuse to layoff theor workforce.

9mo ago

Eminem sues Australian beach brand 'Swim Shady'

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

Poor guy probably lost big on Bored Ape Yacht Club

9mo ago

"I never thought they'd eat MY face!"

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

It's a Charlie Brown and the football situation. You can only fall for the same bait and switch so many times before you just give up. In a democracy it leads to voter apathy. And primaries are poorly run. If it isn't a prominent one, you likely won't find much information on the candidates prior to the primary election, and for the president, they sre pretty much decided by 4th one so if you're state does a later primary, chances are that your preferred candidate has already dropped out by the time you can actually vote for them.

9mo ago

"I never thought they'd eat MY face!"

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

Focusing on cannabis since the guy is complaining about his hemp farm.

The Democrats here in Ohio have done fuck all to protect the decriminalized cannabis that we voted in support of by 60% back in 2023 (same with abortion the same day). Republicans immediatly set to work to limit home growth and how much you can buy. Did the Democrats run ads in Ohio about how they were going to protect our right to grow and consume cannabis? Did they talk about how Republicans were going to roll back the provisions we all agreed on? No. They ran ads about how they were going to help Trump hurt trans kids and "secure the border" here in Ohio. The Democrats and Republicans have lost all credibility with everyone that isn't a die-hard supporter of the parties. People stop voting when they feel like neither party cares about their interests.

9mo ago

Michelle Obama says the country is ‘not ready for a woman’ president | CNN Politics

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

She was pretty popular when Tim ~~Kaine~~ Waltz was calling out Republicans forbeing eeird and heinous. But then they reigned that in and decided to focus on how great the economy actually was and started to bring out the most heinous Republicans from 20 years ago for rhe campaign.

9mo ago

'Um... WHAT?!' Internet erupts over Epstein email about Trump sex act with unknown 'Bubba'

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

It's from the 90's

9mo ago

Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

We are looking at the mistake of allowing capital to offshore everything in the 70's and 80's. China didn't force those companies to stop maintaining their existing infrastructure and outsource all their manufacturing overseas, they chose it in the interest of lower costs.

9mo ago

Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

See, my first thought would be to crack down on the tech parasites that are ruining out society instead of changing the law to accommodate them. But I'm just a dumb American who lives in a place where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want including killing whistleblowers, but I'm sure that the fascist parties taking power in Europe won't do that.

9mo ago

Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm

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BakerBagel @midwest.social 9mo ago

There is nothing stopping the EU from going the DeepSeek route and just stealing the finished LLM's from American companies. But the truth is that the EU shouldn't want to have all these data centers training generative models. The us is already dedicating 4% of our electricity production to them, with people in states along the Great Lakes and Eastern seaboard seeing massive increases in their electric bills to pay for them (~30% for me in Ohio, ~75% for my brother in Virginia). I can understand if you are a technocratic neoliberal in the EU parliament that is taking bribes from tech firms why you would want this, but for anyone paying attention, rhe promises tech companies are making to burn hundreds billions of euros while gutting privacy, 🔏IP, and consumer protections at the top of the bubble makes no sense.