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  • Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America

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  • Unless readers want street cred reading only books from publishers who observe the request. There will be a market for "authentic" publishers along with the more liberal slop-friendly ones.

  • We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent

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  • Edit: Huh. Lemmy automatically changed my three fulls stops to the Unicode character.

    Not on my phone it didn't. It looks as you intended it.

  • Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public

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  • Shouldn't the burner be the whiter one?

  • RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years

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  • Sometimes I want to buy juice that doesn’t have a shitload of sugar in it

    You haven't researched as well as you think you have. Even freshly squeezed juice is unhealthy. You need the pulp too in order to slow the sugar metabolism, in which case you may as well just eat fruit.

    Check Robert Lustig re sugars.

  • Russia frees REvil hackers after sentencing

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  • What makes even more sense is that they now might be secretly forced to hack for the government in exchange for bread and water and staying out of prison.

  • Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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  • Thanks, yeah someone else said similar here.

  • A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone

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  • Not so sure about Iran. I have looked for unambiguous quotes from them but can only find kooky religious stuff about Mahdism which is kind of like extremist Christians with their second coming madness.

    Well educated Iranians seem to be Atheist whereas even intellectuals in Israel can be right wing religious nuts.

    Certainly Iranian proxy groups like Hamas have unambiguously calked for a global caliphate

    “Hamas, which is widely recognized as an Iranian proxy, has leaders and official rhetoric that go beyond the goal of liberating Palestine and at times explicitly reference the ambition of establishing a global Islamic caliphate.“

    “On December 1, 2023, senior Hamas official Fathi Hammad declared on Al-Aqsa TV that the Palestinians are preparing to establish an Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. He and other Hamas leaders have repeatedly stated that the liberation of Palestine is just a prelude to bringing all Islamic countries—and eventually the entire world—under Islamic rule, referencing the conquest of Rome and America as future goals”

    https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leaders-our-goal-establishment-global-islamic-caliphate-not-just-liberation-palestine

    For the record, my housemate of two years in Australia is Iranian. I also make music with an Iranian in Mashhad via the Internet (we jam electronic music). He is an extreme loner but tells me what society is like there.

  • Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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  • Thanks.

    And I didn't know Signal had spam filters. It makes sense to not make that open source.

    In my circle of 20 there has only been one instance of spam over several years. 3 of us got the same message.

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • Wiki citation:

    86. The United Nations verified the recruitment and use of 4 Palestinian children (3 boys, 1 girl) by Israeli forces as human shields (3) and by the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades (1) as combatants in the occupied West Bank (3) and the Gaza Strip (1).

    So that's 4 examples of the IDF and 8 of the Palestinian militants. The numbers are not a scorecard though. These are just children and just the ones they had evidence of. Must happen a lot more, especially if you count adult shields.

    I expect better from IDF since they represent a democratic government and so we should be hearing of the rogue soldiers being disciplined (jailed even). We rarely hear that.

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • Got a citation for that claim?

    There are also claims of IDF sending civilians ahead of a raid in potentially booby trapped buildings.

    But why waste our time on hearsay? It is hard enough examining all the documented evidence from each side.

    In feel like there just aren't enough of us trying to get at the truth. It is more like a game of football from the comfort of our Western homes where we encourage our team to keep going regardless of losses (on the ProPal side the encouragement for Hamas to not surrender is especially buzaare).

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • Going by this very targeted attack video, I find those numbers difficult to believe.

    There just isn't much explosive you can secretly pack into a pager. The strategy relied on body proximity.

  • A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone

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  • Neither side seems interested in murdering everyone on the other side.

    Iran's intention is to eradicate a Jewish state in the Levant. Hamas have stated that they would repeat Oct 7 over and over (seems a stupid thing to say out loud even if one is on their side) and in fact their insane leadership called for world Islamist domination.

    "We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified"

    Whether we agree with the establishment of Israel in the first place or not, it aint going anywhere so to continue trying to eradicate it 77 years later exacerbates suffering.

    Aboriginal Australians got a raw deal but are still doing better than Gazans because they didn't continue warring. They are still fighting politically and rightly so.

  • Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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  • Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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  • They are monthly not daily popups. They are daily at the start kust to make sure you memorize your PIN, then they peter off.

    However if you ignore a monthly one then it doesn't disturb you until the next monthly reminder. What is the point of a PIN if it can be ignored?

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • The pager attack was pretty targeted. Very low percentage of civilians killed (unlike the percentages of Hezbollah attacks on Israel).

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  • Am not sure that any label can really work perfectly anyhow. I posed to an Australian Greens Senator in the pub the following:

    If Greens ever become one of the two major parties then the ruthless power seekers will gravitate towards your party instead of the current major parties. How will the party be able to spot the wolves in sheep's clothing?

    His answer was "I don't know. We discuss that often."

    Which struck me as the response of an honest and genuine person.

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  • My parents escaped Communist Yugoslavia to Australia. Even I started off right wing until about age 30. Therein I voted Greens (not like the dodgy US Greens BTW) and after a while convinced my parents too.

    I am still aware of how the extreme left can become authoritarian as happened in Yugoslavia. Tankies are oblivious. Need to be vigilant whichever party you side with.

  • Vibe coding your MFA

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  • Maximized efficiency at the expense of security. Can happen to anyone.

  • I feel so relieved!

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  • Gaza and Ukraine are completely different conflicts.

    Am just passing on what Ireland is doing.

    Ireland will not be asserting if genocide is being committed, but asserting its interpretation of the Genocide Convention.

    This is the same approach taken by Ireland in the Ukraine v Russia case.