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  • California 'One Step Closer' to Taxing Billionaires With Enough Signatures to Make Ballot

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  • And children wouldn't be locked in cages, and random people wouldn't be sent to random countries, and probably the transfer of wealth to billionaires would have been slowed to the point it would have been possible to stop it. Epstein would have probably been investigated, and the child victims would have had an opportunity for justice. The people of Cuba's life would probably be improved and we would probably be making strides on international climate pacts. We wouldn't have accepted a foreign airbase in the Midwest, and the people of Ukraine would have had enough support to actually be doing more pushback against Russia.

    Less bad is better than perfect and it is a position of privilege to be able to minimize how much better Harris would have been.

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  • So this is actively in progress, and right now I'm having trouble getting my tesla P4's working in my proxmox environment. The P4 is supported for vgpu out of the box, allegedly, but the installer I used is forcing a kernel version pin which isn't making me happy:

    https://github.com/anomixer/proxmox-vgpu-installer/issues/16

    So at this time, I'm just connecting API's.

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  • I also try to participate in some of the farms, running zimit and mwoffliner to help make more archives. Feels like I'm helping.

  • California 'One Step Closer' to Taxing Billionaires With Enough Signatures to Make Ballot

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  • His policy on this sucks, but if he's the nominee, the effort is better spent trying to move his positions than poisoning him so we dive straight into a losing strategy in a 2-party system. I hate the game, but that doesn't mean backing a third party and convincing apathetic voters to stay home if he is the nominee would benefit vulnerable people. Rallying against Harris because she wasn't strong enough on Gaza explicitly harmed the people of Gaza. We need to learn from the lesson soaked in their blood.

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  • Yes, and I actually use it to train a local llm so I'm not hammering the internet. I have a ton of storage, and like to keep my kids in the sandbox, so we have wikipedia, project gutenberg, kahn academy, and a bunch of others all hosted behind an apache reverse proxy which is using mellon so there's LDAP auth.

  • Trump's spiritual advisor says that saying no to him is like saying no to God

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  • It is wild that this season of The Boys was filmed months before this.

  • America’s Largest Public Hospital System Says AI Could Replace Radiologists

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  • I see it as bulk imaging goes through the ML, which flags things, orders additional more detailed targeted scans, and those elevate to radiologists.

  • America’s Largest Public Hospital System Says AI Could Replace Radiologists

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  • Devil's advocate...this is one of the few good opportunities for ML. If you train a model on a specific dataset with expert validation, this has the opportunity to save lives.

    First, radiology isn't one thing; different radiologists with different expertise looking at the same imaging can see different things. Second, there are not enough radiologists; my wife is an ER doctor who only does overnights and her hospital network has a central radiology center that reviews all films from all the hospitals, and it's always backlogged and waiting on results impacts outcomes in a real way. Third, there are simply human limits to what we can visually perceive, take a look at this study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3964612/

    Radiological ML models could change healthcare. Imagine a world where part of your annual preventative care you go and get a full body CT. The ML model can compare your CT with references in your demographics AND your prior years, and find changes/issues before they're crises. That's simply not an amount of data analysis that could be done by an army of radiologists, and has the opportunity to spot things like tumors or organ swelling way earlier. I get that the late stage capitalism reality is "they'll use the data to farm money out of you" but from an actual technological standpoint, this could have real life-saving and improving implications for a lot of people and removes a huge bottleneck in healthcare.

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    surfrock66 @lemmy.world

    Have you ever been this lazy in your whole life?

  • Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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  • FYI, the kiwix foundation makes offline versions of wikimedia resources (though at pretty wide intervals, depending on the site, annually) which you can download via torrent and browse with a ZIM viewer. I use this as an offline resource on my home LAN, and have used other kiwix downloaded resources to train a local LLM without spamming the real internet: https://library.kiwix.org/

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    MyMiniFactory has acquired Thingiverse

    www.myminifactory.com /blog/myminifactory-has-acquired-thingiverse

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • "We progressives will hold the free world hostage analogous to a gun unless you give us what we want." Cool strategy, giving in to terroristic threats is deep in the American ethos and I am sure won't alienate anyone and quickly bring us to a progressive utopia.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • That's what I'm saying, I support a progressive in the primary. But I'm not willing to start painting Newsom as the devil, because if he's the nominee, I'm not gonna want to go to people I talk to and say "Well, I know I said he's the devil, but now you have to support him." This isn't hard. I don't know why there's so much arguing about telling people to not burn a bridge in case you're backed into a corner to vote for the lesser of two evils.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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    1. I'm mid 40's
    2. I have been a progressive my whole adult life, I canvassed for Bernie, I've been doing this for longer than many people on this platform have been able to vote. I worked for a labor union (SEIU Local 1000 in CA) and have spent countless hours and dollars promoting progressive causes. I was marching against the Iraq war and have never stopped.
    3. The majority of my adult life has been under the oppressive thumb of Republicans because progressives and liberals will do anything to justify not getting out and voting for the person with a D in front of their name.

    This isn't theory, this is real experience. Already digging "your" (not you, just the general opposition to this thought) heels in and declaring that if a progressive doesn't win we can't support the winning democrat is so self-defeating it makes me wonder if much of the online progressive left are Russian ops. All I'm saying is "this may be the guy, why turn him into the microblog-headline enemy" now when we NEED people to get out and go to the polls when the chips are down if he's the guy.

    Or not, whatever, there comes a point where it gets too depressing watching progressives angrily take the high road to dystopia. I'm so tired of arguing with people whose side I'm on. I never get yelled at by conservatives, even those I disagree with to their face. A progressive will accuse me of being a fascist within the first 10 minutes of meeting me. The progressive cause is self-defeating, and it's sad to watch.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • No one likes the 2 party system, it sucks. But in the 2 party system, that's the deal, you vote for the Dem or it's a +1 to the R. I don't like it either, but demonizing the Dems at this point to get people to stay home hands it to the R's. This rhetoric becomes dangerous. Saying you don't like the game doesn't mean you can sit it out without consequences.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • There's a flow here.

    1. Push for progressives in primaries.
    2. Get behind whoever gets past the primaries.

    If you spend all of part 1 poisoning the well on how terrible Newsom is, a lot of people will simply stay home if he's the nominee when it gets to 2. I hope 1 happens. If it doesn't, I hope all this rhetoric doesn't make 2 fail. This dangerous purity testing is what leads people to stay home instead of voting for "less bad." Even the suggestion of "be ready to vote for Newsom as a last resort" is too much for a lot of people, and THAT is how we get more Trump. This absurd copium fantasy that Harris/Newsom wouldn't be better than Trump is just a way for angry people to sustain the outrage that warms them at night, but real people across the planet are hurting.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • It would mean he does crappy AI things and doesn't upend all our international climate agreements, gleefully enable hostile foreign powers to oppress their people while gloating with AI generated videos, send the gestapo into American neighborhoods, profiteer from hostile foreign powers, pardon crimes from his friends in exchange for cash, and lots of other things. You are letting perfect get in the way of "less bad".

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • Politics in America is basically team sports, and language matters. "Newsom is bad" and "Khanna is better" are 2 different ways of speaking that have 2 different outcomes at the ballot box. It's time to not let outrage stack the deck against us.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • No, I think progressives need to push the party to the left, we need to get more progressive leadership into the DNC, and progressive results will grow the base to keep it sustainable.

    But the language and outrage at this stage poisons the view of candidates, and in a general election, having people say "why would I vote Newsom when I just spent 3 years thinking what an awful corporate shill he is" makes people stay home, which hands the victory to the fascists. And there's a lot of people out there whose entire living is outrage farming for superchats, and it moves the needle.

    If it's Ivanka vs. Newsom, you vote Newsom. This isn't a game.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • Running corporate centrists set the board up for a loss, demonizing them and getting people to stay home is how we executed the loss. It wasn't a sure bet, and the fantasy that Harris would be as bad as Trump only exists in the minds of people NOT victimized by the gestapo and people who make money keeping progressives glued to their streams giving tips.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • There is a spectrum. Trump/Maga/Conservatives are the worst and are actively marching us towards fascism. Corporate Democrats are the second worst. They're not making the change we need and are prioritizing the wrong people. Progressives would be the best.

    We have a 2 party system. If you spend cycles looking at #2 and saying why you shouldn't vote for them, you hurt everyone. If the choice in this 2-party system is #1 or #2, you vote for #2, you swallow the medicine and take the pill, you tell yourself it's a vote against #1.

    Newsom wouldn't be the best candidate, but all this psy-op crap about demonizing a Democrat front-runner is how you get the progressives to stay home and hand Trump (or his ilk) a third term. Low voter turnout for the left has to be fought. Sitting back and smugly criticizing why Democrats should do better literally killed Ukrainians, Palestinians, and American protesters. Getting people out to vote down-ballot is how we make the change we want and actually push to get a voting system that allows minority candidates to have a shot.

  • Is there a Chromecast equivalent?

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  • I have my hopes set on MatterCast, but it's not ready yet. If we could get to the point where it could be package installed on a kodi box running on a small PC, it'd be the solution.

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    Lazy Mittens watching her favorite show

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    Your Majesty

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    Mittens has become one with garbage

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    Seep.

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Queen Mittens approves of her first Christmas.

  • cats @lemmy.world
    surfrock66 @lemmy.world

    To the casual observer, it may appear Mittens is both physically and mentally irregular, but I assure you this is simply normal cat nonsense.

  • cats @lemmy.world
    surfrock66 @lemmy.world

    Has anyone located a spine? Mittens appears to have misplaced hers.

  • aww @lemmy.world
    surfrock66 @lemmy.world

    This is Mittens, hello Lemmy!

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    surfrock66 @lemmy.world

    Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line

    www.theverge.com /2024/8/6/24214471/google-chromecast-line-discontinued
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    surfrock66 @lemmy.world

    Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?