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BertramDitore

@ BertramDitore @lemm.ee

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  • MIT Shut Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research School’s Israel Ties

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  • “Come study with us! As a pillar of academia, we'll hide knowledge from you whenever it suits our political and financial interests. Higher education is all about close-mindedness and conservatism after all. We promise none of our students will be taught anything that makes them feel uncomfortable about reality. Welcome to college!”

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    Can you explain "romantic love" to someone like me?

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  • Hormones, joy, fear, security, anger, empathy, jealousy, warmth, anxiety, comfort.

    I haven’t been in a relationship for a long time, but it’s a combination of nearly every emotion you can think of. Then again I probably did it wrong.

  • How would you prioritize different subject matters if you were in charge of the education system?

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  • This right here. My parents utterly failed to teach me financial literacy, and it wasn’t mentioned once in grade school or high school. But I learned how to stuff a pillow (why?!) and definitely got a C for frying an omelet the way I like it during a totally antiquated home economics class.

    If financial literacy had been properly taught, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be a decade behind my contemporaries. It’s frankly a complete failure of our education system that this gap in critical knowledge hasn’t been filled.

  • Mike Johnson vows to hold aid to California hostage after deadly fires

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  • California might as well be in the G7. So go right ahead Johnson, be petty and watch what happens when we stop paying federal taxes. You better believe we’ll be able to fund this kind of shit ourselves if we don’t have to share…

  • Suggestions - App to Transfer Files Between Mobile Devices

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  • Yup! I use Mobius on iOS to sync everything I want, including random one off file transfers, but mostly to keep my Keepass database and Obsidian vault in sync across devices. It works really well, despite apple making it super difficult to run consistently in the background. As long as you open the app every so often, it’s seamless and reliable.

  • Suggestions - App to Transfer Files Between Mobile Devices

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  • Syncthing.

  • TIL a "Bachelor's Degree in Knitwear Design" is a thing.

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  • Yeah, it’s easy to lose the thread and end up embroidered in a yarns long scandal.

  • Zuckerberg Declares War on Censorship (Not Really Though)

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  • Community note: REPORTED!!!!! Mark, @heavydust@sh.itjust.works just called you ugly!! Ban them for their perfectly correct and valid opinion!!!

  • What day do you dislike?

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  • Yeah I hate Sunday evenings. I’m acutely aware I have to wake up super early the next day, and yet I still have energy from sleeping in an extra hour and just want to hang out. That means I almost always end up going to bed later than I plan, making Mondays suck more than they need to.

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    What are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?

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  • People who don’t vote don’t get to complain if things don’t go their way. I mean they can, but it’s pretty silly. It’s like writing a review for a restaurant that your friends have eaten at, but that you haven’t. No one should take that review seriously.

    I think voting should be mandatory for people who have registered to vote. I don’t think anyone should be required to register, but if you are registered you should have to vote or be fined, imo.

  • Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

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  • Yeah I feel you. It’s one of the few excellent apps that I’ve never felt the need to upgrade. I don’t think I need any of the extra features. I wish there were a lifetime option or something a little less expensive than their yearly. I might just subscribe for a few months to show my support for the devs, because it’s such a solid app. But their prices do seem really high.

  • Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

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  • Yeah, just search for 404 media with whatever app you use for podcasts. I don’t use Spotify or Apple and it came up straight away for me in PocketCasts.

  • Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

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  • 404 Media knocking it out of the park as usual. This is one of those independent outlets which has been doing consistently awesome journalism. I especially like it when they get targeted for their work, because they are never afraid to call out the hypocrisy or bullshit, they thrive on it.

    The silver lining here is that Facebook was already increasingly a waste of our time. The only reason we’re able to share our stories via our official Facebook page is that we’ve fully automated that process, because it is not actually worth our time to post our stories there organically. Since before we started 404 Media, we knew there was very little chance that Facebook would help us reach people, grow our audience, and make the case that people should support our journalism, so in a way we lost nothing because there’s nothing to lose. On the other hand, that perspective is based on us having already accepted Facebook’s rejection of our journalism years ago.

    Their podcast is also very solid, worth a listen.

  • Caption This

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  • You got me Dominos? I asked for PIZZA!

  • Divorcees of Lemmy, what was life like post split?

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  • Not a divorcee myself, but one of my close friends got divorced a few years ago, and when she told me, without thinking I said, “Congratulations! That must be a huge relief.” She was so thrilled by my response, and said I was the only friend who congratulated her, everyone else acted all sad and consoling. It was a difficult decision she made, so she felt like it should be celebrated.

    That’s been my response ever since, though gently of course, and only if I know the person well enough.

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    AI Agent Takes Action Without Being Told, To Be Released This Janaury

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  • “Book me a cheap flight to New York.”

    “All set, I’ve booked you a business class seat on a flight to Dubai, via Hawaii. Your MasterCard has been charged $14,572. Your flight leaves in 48 minutes, enjoy your trip!”

  • Blinken: When Hamas saw pressure on Israel, it backtracked from hostage deal

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  • For fucks sake, what a willfully blind genocide apologist.

    “There have been times when actions that Israel has taken have, yes, made it more difficult. But there’s been a rationale for those actions, even if they’ve sometimes made getting to a conclusion more difficult.”

    There’s been a rationale?! Seriously? There hasn’t been a real rationale other than terror and ethnic cleansing for a long time. Blinken continuing to try to justify Israel’s atrocities makes me sick.

  • Introducing AI News Summary Bot for Lemmy!

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  • I'm sure you know, but you're probably going to get a lot of grief for this. I'm deeply suspicious of any new AI tool, especially one that tries to get in between me and my news (looking at you Feedly), and I'm sure I'm not the only one. So if you're not already, I'd prepare yourself for a lot of strong emotions, and probably not in a good way.

    If you wanted to get ahead of that kind of thing, you might want to explain what kinds of safeties you're building into it. For example, on your roadmap you say want it to "Generate argument of for and against perspective then summarise the result of the 2 arguments." This kind of thing in particular is quite risky. Any time you try to introduce value statements into an LLM summary, you're in the danger zone. Even if you're just trying to summarize the actual perspective of the piece, you're basically just begging the LLM to hallucinate. But asking it to summarize hypothetical opposing arguments is just asking for trouble.

    I could go on, but I don't want to start a pile on. I appreciate when folks try to build cool stuff, you've just waded into some choppy waters...

  • Cybertruck blast suspect was a ‘Rambo type’ who loved Trump, family says

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  • Will do, I’m curious about it now. Tbh I’ve never found Stallone particularly compelling, but the more I think about it, the more I’m sure I only saw bits and pieces when I was young. Deserves a full watch.