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  • US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.«

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  • Like you can force the market with good industrial policy of subsidies and oversight pretty effectively. See East Asia in general. Problem comes when those you gave power with those actions start directing your government to do stupid things for their benefit and they capture the very oversight that made it work in the first place.

  • TIL that a man killed his daughter in Texas after arguing about Donald Trump. The local jury refused to indict him. He was immediatly released.

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  • Yeah. Now sometimes they don't want one because it's embarrassing to get an indictment and then later get a judge to grant a motion to dismiss with failure to state offense (actions do not match the crime charged) or a motion for judgment of acquittal(the facts in no way present this being the crime even in the best possible light) and then yell at you. That's part of why the Trump admin has regularly failed to get indictments(the other part is they'd have to directly lie about what happened in some of these cases to even convince a grand jury what happened meets the charge, which might break the seal on the Grand jury and actually get your ass sanctioned by the judge). They want their boss to think they're doing something but they really don't want to be shown to be incompetent in open court. But overall it's much much easier to survive a grand jury than a judge's probable cause hearing(because the judge will actually ask about exculpatory evidence that should be there), so if you're going that route it should be a slam dunk.

  • TIL that a man killed his daughter in Texas after arguing about Donald Trump. The local jury refused to indict him. He was immediatly released.

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  • I hope they were immediately released if you can't get an indictment. The reason they couldn't get an indictment is because the prosecutor didn't really want one. Grand juries only really hear what the prosecutor wants to tell them. That's why it's said you can get an indictment on a ham sandwich. If the prosecutor just said "he shot her after an argument" with no exculpatory evidence he would've gotten an indictment and that would've been okay and cool with the US supreme Court.

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • What do you mean? I favor synthetic aviation fuel derived from hydrolysis which is very lossy on energy and would largely kill most current air routes in favor of trains. I think a 40x price increase on fuel is likely, but the actual implementation is proven since it's essentially plug and play with existing infrastructure. I think the best way to make up for the subsequent loss of profitable air routes is electrified rail. This tech isn't for getting off oil though, it's for reducing use at best and if it actually does improve efficiency it would be used along with synthetic fuel.

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • I haven't really seen proposals for planes that are full electric beyond just toys for rich people to do short hops but you might be right that battery planes might make sense with future battery tech. I just don't see anything justifying it right now.

    On the subject of energy efficiency though, you're absolutely right. Synthetic aviation fuel is an order of magnitude more expensive than batteries.

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • I said I understood why it could potentially be useful in my original post for take off and landing. I'm curious why we keep retreading this after I've repeated it in every post I've made so far. I'm doubtful the extra weight is worth that one use case compared to just using extra fuel. I think we need to seriously invest in synthetic aviation fuel and price things fairly. Then how this sort of efficiency shakes out will likely be important with that new cost structure incorporated.

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • You want to know why I don't believe we'll get batteries with enough energy density for sustained long haul flight? I was responding to their last sentence. Ya know, acknowledging that batteries more dense than hydrocarbons isn't really on the radar so for that aspect of things synthetic aviation fuel is pretty much what you gotta accept to go for zero carbon. I had already agreed with them that it's potentially more efficient in takeoff in my initial post. They just expanded on why. I frankly am perplexed at what you think I'm dismissing since we largely agree.

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • I don't think you'll ever get there for flight personally. Just need to accept synthetic aviation fuel as the only real option for energy density (both volume and weight) and accept certain modalities being absolutely priced out of air transport.

    I guess my main issue is you're now flying around with those takeoff batteries and extra engine components. Is that really ever going to be worth it for anything but those short hop flights this is designed for? And if not why are we even investing in this because those short hop flights frankly need to be eliminated for trains anyway.

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • I can understand a hybrid train because of certain sections of track electrification issues and the fact that diesel electric is how even trains that run entirely on diesel operate so you're essentially just toting around a generator to operate your already electric engine. I understand hybrid cars with regenerative braking and range extension. I don't really understand hybrid planes.

    Like I can imagine electric is more efficient for takeoff because electric engines produce more initial power generally than what fossil can match per engine size(a big part of both hybrid trains and cars both using batteries for initial acceleration) and then you cruise with jet fuel. I'm just having a hard time imagining it is worth it from a defossil fuel perspective or from a straight efficiency perspective.

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    Google co-founder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million fighting a proposed wealth tax on billionaires in California

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  • I personally am not looking to join a shitting party and I thought popes only shit in the woods @popekingjoe@lemmy.world

  • A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

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  • Donut.

  • After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’: Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

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  • “There are Marxist overtones and undertones to our business,” he wrote in a letter to shareholders about Palantir’s outstanding quarter. “Others, including many of those building large language models, intend, knowingly or otherwise, to capture the means of production of their purported partners.”

    Stupid as shit. Amazon is Marxist because it replaces its top sellers with its own products too. Anything that isn't neofuedalisim with a network of obligations and gated resources is now Marxist. Dude is literally saying capital accumulation is somehow Marxist. The letter itself is more Marxist than the very behavior it's describing as Marxist.

  • Clyde's Demise

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  • Wakka wakka wakka

  • Fauci takes Fifth Amendment, refuses to answer Senate panel questions

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  • Yep, the 5th protects you against bullshit charges too believe it or not. Perfectly valid.

  • TIL World’s biggest beer, wine and spirits producers have collectively lost $830 billion in market value over just four years. Changing drinking habits and rising health concerns have hit earnings ac…

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  • What's the word? Thunderbird!

  • TIL World’s biggest beer, wine and spirits producers have collectively lost $830 billion in market value over just four years. Changing drinking habits and rising health concerns have hit earnings ac…

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  • Oh no, it's definitely the zoomers for this one. Millennials were big on cocktails.

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  • To be sure, the Murphy drip was used extensively in WW1. Kinda makes you wonder what those fucking WW2 coconut iv guys were doing when you had perfectly fine access from the bottom that could take boiled water full of pyrogens just fine. And if you're in enough of a volume depleted state where a Murphy drip can't help due to vasoconstriction then all that potassium from a volume infusion of coconut ivs is gonna kill ya anyway.

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  • It all comes from your digestive tract. Unless you're getting iv, subq or even more interesting io fluids. Though if you're getting io fluids your kidneys are likely getting fucked up enough to not produce urine for awhile and if you're getting subcutaneous fluids you're likely a cat or a dog or something.

  • Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

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  • Less unions in this case and more since nursing is governed by Boards that come from the profession it's very hard to have regulatory capture from outside the profession. There's places with strong unions and they're great but that's far from universal. And no BON is going to accept this shit as standard of care which means you really might lose your license once some "monitored" manic person goes off their meds with nobody paying attention and drives in circles in a city naked without drinking water all while you're charting that they're monitored. And no nurse wants to lose the ability to practice for some shit ass employer.

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    Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’

    www.cnn.com /2025/07/14/politics/obama-democrats-message
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that during the Prussian siege of Paris many balloons made one way trips out of the city

    www.the-low-countries.com /article/ballooning-over-bullets-and-other-escapes-from-the-siege-of-paris/
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    Better prep, Agent of Chaos's Ban Expires Tomorrow

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    Center-left in US sees a lesson in British election results

    www.politico.com /news/2024/07/05/center-left-in-us-sees-a-lesson-in-british-election-results-00166686
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    TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping

    en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warping_(sailing)
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    How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed

    www.theverge.com /2024/3/15/24102472/house-tiktok-ban-bill-staffers-calls-congress
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    Biden on hot mic: ‘Come-to-Jesus meeting’ with Netanyahu on the way

    thehill.com /policy/defense/4519288-biden-on-hot-mic-come-to-jesus-meeting-with-netanyahu-on-the-way/