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  • borrow checker?

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  • This is the new normal, it seems. My developer colleagues are bragging about how long it has been since they wrote a line of code.

  • Ga. teacher gets nearly $300K in settlement over Charlie Kirk social media post

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  • Archive link: https://archive.is/FpxaW

    On the day Kirk was shot and killed while onstage at an event at Utah Valley University, Mickens posted a quote from Kirk on her private social media account after work hours from her personal computer, according to the lawsuit.

    “‘I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. — Charlie Kirk,’” the post read. It did not include any commentary from Mickens.

  • Ga. teacher gets nearly $300K in settlement over Charlie Kirk social media post

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  • Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group

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  • So does the US Government. If you're in any way active in left-wing politics, or what the fascists would perceive to be left-wing politics, it's unwise to use Windows.

  • Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight

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  • It's great that umbrellas can now contain more toxic chemicals, rare minerals and disposable batteries, but can we also please make it depend on an app and a paid subscription, contain an AI assistant that tells you whether it's raining, and report in real time on all your movements and conversations?

  • Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium

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  • One single kind of bacterium.

  • Chuck Schumer popularity plummets amid calls for new Senate leadership, DSA surge

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  • Chuck Schumer had popularity?

  • A new Android malware from Google

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  • Or leave Android altogether and get a Linux phone. You'll have more control but it won't be as slick.

  • A new Android malware from Google

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  • At first Google does plan to offer something called "advanced flow" that will let you install what you want. But this doesn't address the chilling effect for developers (some are just getting out of Android rather than registering and paying Google), or the censorship power it hands to Google to make "undesirable" apps harder to obtain and install. And there's no guarantee they won't just withdraw "advanced flow" one day.

    https://developer.android.com//developer-verification/guides/faq#advanced-flow

    The best way to avoid it is by installing an OS that doesn't include the developer verification component.

  • Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI

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  • This the same sociopath whose excellent judgement tells him Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist.

  • AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money

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  • Do not expect it to raise your pay or your margin for you. The research is blunt: the gain goes to whoever deliberately banks it, and mostly no one does yet.

    I guess they're talking to CEOs and the like, because for many of us efficiency gains have not borne any relation to pay for 15 years or more. It's Hacker News after all, where the existence of people who work for pay tends to be forgotten.

  • Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI

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  • Peter Thiel is a nutjob with far too much power.

  • Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

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  • Maybe you're confusing tokens with the "credits" you pay for. Tokens have a technical meaning, but some companies are charging per AI credit, where they don't tell you the conversion rate of credits to tokens, so they can change this at any time, or vary it between models, etc.

  • Are Old People Ruining American Democracy?

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  • Billionaires are ruining it. Don't let the NYT shift the blame.

  • US PC shipments fell 7.0% in 1Q26, marking steepest decline since 2023

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  • No need for the /s. That's exactly what it is. It's a money grab and a bid for more control and surveillance we cannot dodge.

  • Air Force ties recruit’s death to flu outbreak

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  • And any vulnerable bystanders who can't be vaccinated and depend on herd immunity.

  • Stuart Russell: 'What Hitler Did, AI Could Do Faster, Better and More Efficiently'

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  • Stuart Russell: 'What Hitler Did, AI Could Do Faster, Better and More Efficiently'

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  • I think you've missed the point a bit. It's "better" only from the Nazis' point of view. Stuart Russell is not saying that it would be better. He thinks it would be worse, because people or AIs being better at Nazism is worse for the world overall. He's saying AI is a threat to the world because right now it's in the hands of people (many of them fascists) who ignore the dangers.

    Here's the whole thing without paywall:

    https://archive.is/dghny

  • The Supreme Court Is Building Its Own Massive Police Force

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  • "It's different when it's me" should be the slogan of right-wingers everywhere.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump Has Made the U.S. War Machine a Spectacle—And It’s Spectacularly Unpopular

    inthesetimes.com /article/trump-iran-war-bombing-israel
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too

    gizmodo.com /dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Competing Dem War Powers Resolution Would Give Trump a Monthlong Free Pass in Iran

    www.commondreams.org /news/war-powers-resolution-iran
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

    www.theregister.com /2026/02/28/open_source_opinion/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case

    apnews.com /article/greenpeace-energy-transfer-dakota-access-pipeline-30bfb9939dea06f1e9763cd2d662ae73
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Nasa announces Artemis III mission no longer aims to send humans to moon

    www.theguardian.com /science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

    www.anthropic.com /news/statement-comments-secretary-war
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump Cuts Off Anthropic, AI Firm That Stood Against Killer Robots and Mass Surveillance

    www.commondreams.org /news/anthropic-trump
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump Says He's 'Entitled' to Illegal Third Term as Allies Draft Voter Suppression Decree

    www.commondreams.org /news/trump-third-term
  • News @lemmy.world
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    ICE Abducts Then Releases Columbia Student After Mamdani Intervenes & Calls to Dismiss More Cases

    www.democracynow.org /2026/2/27/columbia_student
  • News @lemmy.world
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    "Abandoned By Border Patrol": Blind Refugee in Buffalo Dies in the Cold; Family Demands Answers

    www.democracynow.org /2026/2/27/nurul_amin_shah_alam
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État

    newrepublic.com /post/207138/trump-coup-detat-midterm-elections
  • News @lemmy.world
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    TN Hospital Denies Woman Sterilization Surgery, Citing Her “Sacred Fertility”

    truthout.org /articles/tn-hospital-denies-woman-sterilization-surgery-citing-her-sacred-fertility/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    FBI fires agents who worked on Trump classified document investigation, AP sources say

    apnews.com /article/trump-patel-fbi-firings-classified-documents-investigation-932c7c68e22cc36e01990659a8cc2807
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Turns out Generative AI was a scam

    garymarcus.substack.com /p/turns-out-generative-ai-was-a-scam
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Hundreds of American nurses choose Canada over the U.S. under Trump

    www.npr.org /2026/02/25/nx-s1-5725354/nurses-emigrate-us-canada-trump
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Who Is Kyle Bassinga? Missing Atlanta Man Found Hanging From Tree in Cobb County Park

    www.ibtimes.co.uk /kyle-bassinga-found-dead-georgia-park-1780698
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Woman Who ‘Credibly Accused’ Trump of Sex With a Minor Reportedly Had Her Records Removed From Epstein Files

    www.mediaite.com /media/news/woman-who-credibly-accused-trump-of-sex-with-a-minor-reportedly-had-her-records-removed-from-epstein-files/
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    Trump’s Response to Supreme Court Rejecting His Tariffs Is New Tariffs

    newrepublic.com /post/206867/donald-trump-new-tariffs-supreme-court-ruling
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    Trump Official’s Sons May Make Tons of Money After Supreme Court Ruling

    www.newsweek.com /howard-lutnick-sons-may-make-money-supreme-court-ruling-tariffs-11558345