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WesternInfidels

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  • AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool

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  • The "old" clock app already had a Pomodoro feature (which I did not realize existed until recently) and you can argue this is a logical progression, I guess.

  • AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?

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  • Are there pornos out there with multi-day narratives that are longer than feature films?

    There are. Streaming has apparently freed lots of genres of media from formatting / scheduling expectations.

  • AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool

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  • A system prompt hints at local AI-powered productivity features, specifically optimized for students. For example, the Clock app’s Focus session will act as a ‘Productivity’ assistant that breaks down tasks into clear, actionable steps, and it works by inferring the task category, then referencing the coursework of the student.

    It would be great if there were a way to use AI to help people learn more effectively. But this feels like a way to train young people to become dependent on AI assistance for tasks/skills we humans used to be able to do well enough without AI. An addiction, rather than an assistant.

  • Trump says it’s ‘treasonous’ to say US not winning war in Iran

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  • The truth is treason. Lies are patriotism. War is peace. Freedom is slavery.

  • sunset

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  • I feel this happens to me a lot, that I see the best sunsets from some stupid parking lot.

    I think there may be actual geographical reasons. The land where I live is flat, the horizon is generally obscured by trees or buildings. But in the middle of the suburban Buy-n-Large parking lot, 10x bigger than it has any need to be, I can almost see the horizon for once. I can see so much more sky than I can from most other places.

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  • She's a doctor, so obviously this only applies to friends with benefits.

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    Heather Cox Richardson April 29, 2026 [Contrasting the sharp divide in the speeches before the US Congress between President Trump and King Charles III]

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  • There's a lot we could say. One thing that strikes me, now: In overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court delved way back into history, citing the non-binding legal opinions of a 17th century English lawyer (Matthew Hale). But in allowing ICE to run roughshod over the nation, they have ignored the Magna Carta (which is exactly why King Charles brought it up), which was actually English law, not just one lawyer's opinion, and which unquestionably was a tremendously important influence on American law.

    The Supreme Court has abandoned all pretext of being honest stewards of the law. They have no respect for the precedents set by their own judicial body. Their legal "reasoning" is just transparently awful cherry-picking and sea-lioning, and this is obvious even to amateurs and outsiders. They are legislating from the bench. They have discarded their own legitimacy.

  • China's new iron battery hits 99.4 percent efficiency over 6000 cycles

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  • First published: 01 April 2026

    Now, is that cause for worry or am I silly?

  • Wild Trump Rants Edited Out of 60 Minutes Interview After Shooting

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  • He thinks we should be grateful that his ballroom plan wasn't a hotel.

    And this has bulletproof glass. This has you know, this is the highest level of security. Also, very importantly, I could have built suites on top. I could have done a lot of things. I said, no, no, we have this has to be pure. This has to be where people stay off property and they go through one very impactful, very strong entrance, one very powerful entrance. There’s no games with this.

    And he refers to the ballroom that isn't there in the past tense, already done.

  • US will issue commemorative passports with Trump’s picture for America's 250th birthday

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  • What if he acquires a bespoke little toothbrush mustache and a forehead tattoo that says "pedo" all done in ink suspiciously similar to what's in my favorite pen?

  • "The stages of enshittification"

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  • We could say that "hate" isn't a complete accounting of the feelings in a complex situation, maybe.

  • Good luck trying to emulate a dumbass, dumbass.

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  • If the AI measures it wrong just the once, that is genuinely more efficient.

  • Trump Judge Says Some Women Are Just a “Warm, Wet Hole”

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  • This headline suggested to me that the judge said this in her new capacity as a judge. That's not the case, this is a statement she made in a different context years ago.

    Which doesn't make it normal or cool.

  • Anyone else use RSS?

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  • I've been paying for the cheapest tier of The Old Reader for years. I think its $25 per year. It's a lot like Google Reader. The basic web interface works fine for me in mobile browsers, like in Firefox on my phone. Which keeps things really simple.

  • Trump Erupts in ‘60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’

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  • "You news people are monsters! For thinking I might talk about the news, here on the news talk show."

  • After Security Scare, Trump Demands Approval for His White House Ballroom

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  • There should be a headline like "Journalists Endangered by Presidential Visit"

  • Peak of technology which was going to replace all of us

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  • LLMs are going to evolve into a position where being wrong sometimes and hallucinating sometimes won't matter, because organizations are already built to deal with it: managers.

  • Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename

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  • Are you aware of the "Multiple Clipboard" feature? Which is a deceptively simple productivity boost, a game-changer, a hidden gem in a sea of dark Windows patterns?

  • AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you. Some lawmakers are worried.

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  • I imagine that "lawmakers" are going to find themselves more scrutinized, more surveilled than anyone else, because extorting them for information, favors, bribes and so forth will be much, much more lucrative than trying the same thing with nobodies like you and me.

    This is an informal way of transferring state power from the people to "the cops," in the broadest sense of that term. It's the logic of the Mafia: If you have something on everyone, you have more opportunities to act through unwilling intermediaries.