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A Tennessee law that made threats of mass violence at school a felony, has led to students being arrested based on rumors and for noncredible threats.


In one case, a Hamilton County deputy arrested an autistic 13-year-old in August for saying his backpack would blow up, though the teen later said he just wanted to protect the stuffed bunny inside.

In the same county almost two months later, a deputy tracked down and arrested an 11-year-old student at a family birthday party. The child later explained he had overheard one student asking if another was going to shoot up the school tomorrow, and that he answered “yes” for him. Last month, the public charter school agreed to pay the student’s family $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming school officials wrongly reported him to police. The school also agreed to implement training on how to handle these types of incidents, including reporting only “valid” threats to police.

Despite the outcry over increased arrests in Tennessee, two states followed its lead by passing laws that will crack down harder on hoax threats. New Mexico and Georgia have laws, more states are in the process.




Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem


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Fixed link: phys.org/news/2025-03-mathemat…


ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit


A study from Profound of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity shows that while ChatGPT mostly sources its information from Wikipedia, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity mostly source their information from Reddit.
#AII


Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety. Deaths Have Skyrocketed.


But although the city spent roughly $200,000 per homeless resident throughout that time (2019-2023-5 years at most), deaths of homeless people recorded in the county quadrupled, climbing from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023, according to the most recent data from the Multnomah County Health Department. The rise in deaths far outpaces the growth in the homeless population, which was recorded at 6,300 by a 2023 county census, a number most agree is an undercount. The county began including newly available state death records in its 2022 report, which added about 60 deaths to the yearly tolls.

Homeless residents of Multnomah County now die at a higher rate than in any major West Coast county with available homeless mortality data: more than twice the rate of those in Los Angeles County and the Washington state county containing Seattle and Tacoma. Almost all the homeless population in Multnomah County lives within Portland city limits.



ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit


A study from Profound of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity shows that while ChatGPT mostly sources its information from Wikipedia, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity mostly source their information from Reddit.
in reply to Pro

I used ChatGPT on something and got a response sourced from Reddit. I told it I'd be more likely to believe the answer if it told me it had simply made up the answer. It then provided better references.

I don't remember what it was but it was definitely something that would be answered by an expert on Reddit, but would also be answered by idiots on Reddit and I didn't want to take chances.

in reply to Pro

I would be hesitant to use either as a primary source...


ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit


A study from Profound of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity shows that while ChatGPT mostly sources its information from Wikipedia, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity mostly source their information from Reddit.

in reply to daniel_callahan

The size of the riot doesn’t matter what matters is that LA County police plus the city and the fire department had the situation well in hand Trump is using this is an excuse to use the military to take control.

Makes me sick

in reply to daniel_callahan

It would be smaller if the police and federal government stop shooting at press and nonviolent protestors and making them move around.

It only gets violent when the aggressors(cops) become violent.



BBC: China's electric cars are cheaper, but at what cost? 🤣


#News


Rep. Moulton says many Marine junior officers are opposed to LA deployment


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in reply to silence7

Then refuse the order. It's literally their duty
in reply to silence7

Then disobey the unlawful order.

Is this whole nation just adverse to taking any action? I'm constantly hearing people complain, then do absolutely fuck all.



When analog restoration makes the past feel too real


Original text below by @versiqcontent@moist.catsweat.com

Lately I have been reflecting on how powerful old photos can become when they are carefully brought back to life. Not because of any specific image, but because of the strange feeling they create. You scan an old photo, adjust a few things, and suddenly it feels like the person is right there, alive and present.

It makes you pause. This is not just an old picture. This is memory coming back with full force.

I found a short article that expresses this feeling really well. It talks about how youth in vintage photos can feel unexpectedly modern and how that changes the way we look at the past.

Curious if anyone else here has felt something similar while working with old family pictures or film.


in reply to ByteOnBikes

This won’t be the last time this happens unfortunately. Spread the word stay safe everyone.




[Patch Notes] 0.2.1 Hotfix 2


0.2.1 Hotfix 2


  • Fixed a CPU performance issue affecting a wide range of players.

This fix is client-side and requires restarting your client to receive the fix. It's not yet deployed on consoles but will be later today.




Labour’s Centrism Is a Dead End


In an effort to appeal to the median voter, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, has accepted the Right’s talking points on immigration and economics. This experiment has been a disaster for Labour’s popularity.
in reply to BrikoX

JFC ya'll forgot real fast what it was like with the Tories in power.
in reply to finitebanjo

That's the point. It was happening under Tories and continues to happen under Labour. Either way, you seem to be very invested in supporting them as an outsider.
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Investors Are Pressing UnitedHealth Group to Deny More Care


UnitedHealth Group’s investors have profited from its sky-high coverage denial rates. Now, as the company faces mounting public pressure to approve more patient care, they are suing to stop the insurer from changing its “corporate practices.”
#USA


Crypto Owners May Get Priority in the Event of Bank Failures


The US Senate is poised to pass a financial deregulation bill ensuring that when a bank goes out of business, the savings of cryptocurrency owners would be made whole before those of other bank customers.
#USA

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

NYTrash always supporting imperialism, capitalism, fascism, etc.

Which is actually more threatening: a genocidal military empire or withholding minerals from a genocidal military empire? jfc.

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Tesla customers in France sue over brand becoming 'extreme right'


Around 10 French clients with leases on Teslas are suing the US carmaker, run by Elon Musk, because they consider the vehicles to be "extreme-right" symbols, the law firm representing them said on Wednesday.
in reply to kerthale

But also, please use deodorant and stop being so rude to American visitors in paris. I get that a lot of us are shitty tourists, but some of us are just regular people who are there for work (and not paid as well as you'd think to be there for that work).

Edit: said France when I meant Paris cause I'm a stupid American ;)

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in reply to TimmyDeanSausage

There no need to feel so special, people in Paris are rude to just about everyone. My condolences to anyone who has to work or live there 😬
in reply to TimmyDeanSausage

Furthermore, smoking is disgusting.
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in reply to Pro

I mean I can relate.

I sold my car at loss because I couldn't abide the fascist shit he was flinging around everywhere.

Despite loving the car itself, I couldn't love myself owning it and being a moving advertisement for him.

I still hate that I gave money to fund a person's decline into being a drug addled, woman hating, Russia supporting, stingy-assed, election rigging, right wing megalomaniac.


in reply to daniel_callahan

I've noticed a pattern of deception lately. This comment came after a comment saying he'd never call for such a thing so that edits can focus on that part and edit out the tar and feather. They do that with Trump all the time, too, like with the Epstein files comment. You'll get the full comment if you look for it, but you know damn well the GoP propaganda is going to select which part of the contradicting message to show.


Feddit.cl cumple dos años!


Hoy se cumple el segundo año desde la creación de Feddit.cl 🎉

Pueden ver el mensaje del año acá

La típica estadística de los usuarios que participan en c/chile está un poco difícil este año, ya que un post trajo mucha interacción de otros lados y tenemos 135 usuarios semanales (lo cual claramente se va a desinflar como entre 35-50 que es lo normal de esa comunidad). Eso no quita que el core de usuarios se ha mantenido constante, a pesar del desempeño de la instancia o la falta de nichos.

Que más puedo decir que agradecer a todos los que participan y colaboran con un posteo, un comentario o un cafecito.

Tal vez lo más interesante de este año son las mejoras en la instancia, lo que provocó una mejora en Feddit.cl y con ello ya casi ni se ven los típicos errores 504 que plagaron el primer año de Feddit.cl.

Siento que han estado llegando usuarios más allá de la migración masiva que hubo cuando se creó esto, y eso no deja de ser algo bonito al ver que Feddit.cl va tomando forma propia. Quien sabe como estarán las cosas el año que viene, pero ya vendrá su posteo anual (:

Solo me queda decir: gracias!

#meta




Which Video Game was most influential on you as a child, and why?


I saw this Lemmy post, but a huge list of games with no discussion isn't very interesting! Let's talk about why the games that influenced us had such a big impact - how they affected us as people.

For me, it was the PC game Creatures. It's a life simulation game featuring cute little beings called 'Norns' which you raise and teach.

You can almost think of it like a much cuter predecessor to The Sims, but which claimed to actually "simulate" their brains.

As a thirteen-year-old it was the first game that made me want to go online and seek out more info. What I discovered was a community of similar-interest nerds hanging out on IRC chat, and it felt like for the first time in my life I had "found my people" - others who weren't just friends, but whom I really resonated with.

I learned web development (PHP at the time!) so I could make a site for the game, which became the foundation for my job in software engineering.

And through that group I also discovered the Furry community, which was a wild ride in itself.

So yeah, Creatures. Without that game, I think I'd have become quite a different person.

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I think Warcraft III, it built a certain mixture of gameplay and lore that one way of another shaped all the games I regrettably sunk way too many hours into:

  • World of Warcraft
  • League of Legends
  • Dota

I would say Shufflepack which made me into a kid that wanted to played videogames all the time, but I feel that has not "influenced" me much, and any other title would have had the same effect.

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in reply to Tony Bark

What a surprise old "Pull up the ladder" Abbott is bowing before his king even asks. What sad state of affairs America has become, ready and eager to give up freedom to a self titled king for lols at half the country. Pathetic, traitorous buffoonery is just expected at this point. Tots and pears.




How To: Organize a Neighborhood Popular Assembly


A guide from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation about how to organize a popular assembly.

This is a basic guide on how and why to build structures for decision making and collective action at the neighborhood level, what we call popular assemblies. We emphasize the need for popular assemblies to be rooted in a defined geographic area and aimed at organizing the people who live, work, or stay there to develop the power to confront social problems together.

This guide draws directly on knowledge and experience of past experiments in building apopular assemblies.



Minnesota’s Labor Movement is Demanding an End to ICE Raids


On Monday, union members and leaders gathered at over 30 actions across the United States, calling for the release of SEIU California president David Huerta and an end to workplace raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Friday last week, federal agents detained Huerta, allegedly injuring him in the process, as he was observing an immigration raid on a garment warehouse outside of Los Angeles. Huerta was released on Monday evening after the solidarity actions and many unions including SEIU and the AFL-CIO published statements, but he still faces federal charges of conspiracy for allegedly obstructing federal agents.

In Saint Paul, Minn., more than one hundred people from multiple unions and community groups joined thousands across the U.S. in these actions. They gathered on the steps at the state capitol to demand Huerta’s release and an end to ICE raids on workers and immigrant communities.




Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years


gregs_gumption doesn't like this.

in reply to blackn1ght

Fair enough. Need to make space for all the disabled people Kier has sent to the streets.

[In all honesty this decriminalisation is a good thing but this government is still terrible]



Why I'm so Mad Right Now


Hank makes some good points here.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025


Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.


(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025


Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.


(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy Pride :3)


in reply to BlueMonday1984

My T-shirt: there's 0 good uses for self-driving taxis
Protesters: call self-driving taxis to block streets on the way of the police, then set the damn things on fire
My T-shirt: there's 1 good uses for self-driving taxis
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in reply to BlueMonday1984

Did you know there’s a new fork of xorg, called x11libre? I didn’t! I guess not everyone is happy with wayland, so this seems like a reasonable

It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies..

[snip]Together we'll make X great again!


Oh dear. Project members are of course being entirely normal about the whole thing.

Metux, one of the founding contributors, is Enrico Weigelt, who has reasonable opinions like everyone except the nazis were the real nazis in WW2, and also had an anti vax (and possibly eugenicist) rant on the linux kernel mailing list, as you do.

In sure it’ll be fine though. He’s a great coder.

(links were unashamedly pillaged from this mastodon thread: nondeterministic.computer/@mjg…)

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Poland's constitutional court rules EU energy policies breach national sovereignty


Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (TK) has ruled that European Union energy and climate regulations are incompatible with the Polish constitution and breach national sovereignty in determining energy policy.

The Tribunal found that EU institutions, including the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), had exceeded their competences by interpreting EU treaties in a way that significantly impacts Poland’s ability to choose its energy sources independently.

Interpretations of EU law “cannot mean that Poland loses control over the scope of its delegated competences, and thus that there are areas in which its sovereignty (here: energy) is not protected”, the court said in a statement announcing its decision.

However, the ruling is unlikely to have any real effect for now given that the current government, a coalition led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, does not recognise the TK’s legitimacy due to it containing judges unlawfully appointed by the former Law and Justice (PiS) administration.

The case was brought by a group of opposition lawmakers led by Sebastian Kaleta, a PiS MP and former deputy justice minister. The motion challenged the compatibility of EU climate rules – including Directive 2003/87/EC, which created the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) – with the Polish constitution.

The MPs argued that, although Poland had transferred some powers to Brussels, it should retain sovereignty over critical energy decisions. They claimed that mandatory participation in the EU ETS restricts economic freedom and undermines the state’s ability to ensure energy security.

They also warned that EU decision-making processes, which do not require unanimity in the European Council on issues affecting Poland’s energy mix, might breach the limits of competence conferred on the EU and undermine the primacy of the Polish constitution.

In its ruling, the TK agreed with the motion’s core arguments. It held that the CJEU had extended the interpretation of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union beyond the conferred competences, infringing on national sovereignty.

“Competences not conferred on the European Union belong to the member states themselves, and the EU can only act on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity, subject to the scrutiny of national parliaments at all times,” the court said.

Consequently, the TK found this interpretation of EU law to be incompatible with the Polish constitution, emphasising that Poland cannot lose control over the scope of delegated powers, especially in such a key area as energy sovereignty.

The TK, however, discontinued proceedings relating specifically to the ETS “due to the incomplete, from a formal point of view, definition of the object under verification”.

The TK concluded its statement by stating that it was now up to the Polish legislature and executive to take “appropriate public law measures” to implement the decision, which enters into force upon its publication.

However, it is the government that is responsible for publishing TK rulings, and it refuses to do so due to given that some of the tribunal’s judges were illegitimately appointed under PiS.

The ruling could still reverberate in Polish politics, however. The PiS-aligned president-elect, Karol Nawrocki, who takes office in August, said last month that the TK’s decision on this case could be a way to lower the electricity prices by 33% – one of his campaign promises.

He also pledged to hold a referendum on withdrawing from the EU’s Green Deal – a set of policies aimed at reaching climate neutrality by 2050 – and reaffirmed his support for coal, which remains Poland’s main source of electricity generation and is also widely used for heating homes.

PiS politicians welcomed the verdict, insisting that it means that Poland does not have to implement the Green Deal.

“The EU has not been given the competence to decide without the consent of Poland which energy sources we can use and what fiscal burdens may be imposed on individual sources,” Kaleta wrote on X. “This opens the path for a radical reduction in electricity and heating prices now.”

The former justice minister in the PiS government, Zbigniew Ziobro, meanwhile, challenged Tusk, asking if he would “break the law again and hide the verdict to drive Poles into poverty” or “will you behave as you should?”

The government has so far not commented on the TK’s ruling.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/06/11/polands-constitutional-court-rules-eu-energy-policies-breach-national-sovereignty/



Chinese police crackdown on writers of online erotic fiction


Police in northwestern China are cracking down on writers of online erotic fiction across the country, including many college students, according to RFA sources and media reports, amid concern that officers are punishing people outside their jurisdiction.

Police in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, have been summoning writers who don’t even live there. A report from Caixin media group said some have been referred to police for prosecution, and anecdotal evidence indicates writers are facing substantial fines.

A source who spoke to Radio Free Asia on condition of anonymity for safety reasons said the crackdown could involve 200-300 writers.

Their cases have also sparked a legal debate over the definition of “obscene materials” and renewed public discussion on the boundaries of creative freedom. Known as “Danmei,” the genre features romantic relationships between male characters. It originated in Japan and has become popular in China.

Amid tightened restrictions in China, many writers have turned to Haitang Culture, a Taiwanese-based adult fiction website established in 2015 to publish their work. The website on the democratic island doesn’t force censorship and allows explicit written content. Most readers are females.

Authorities in China have reacted. Last year, two China-based distributors affiliated with Haitang Culture were arrested for “assisting in information network criminal activities,” according to Shuiping Jiyuan, a news portal on the WeChat social media platform.

The recent police crackdown in Lanzhou followed similar moves in the eastern province of Anhui in June 2024, where authorities began arresting writers of online erotic fiction under the charge of “producing and distributing obscene materials for profit,” resulting in heavy fines and even prison sentences.

Police are seeking out writers even when they leave outside their jurisdiction - a practice that critics call “offshore fishing,” implying the motive of police is financial or political, rather than strictly legal.

“I don’t understand what they’re trying to do—are they pushing political correctness, or are they just desperate for money?” said Liu Yang, a veteran media professional in Lanzhou, told Radio Free Asia. “The police are short on funds, and now even arrests have become a way to make money.”

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in reply to peppers_ghost

they tried posting it on the grad first lol

probably a humiliation kink tbh