The University of Florida student won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. From there, the situation spiraled.
At least 140 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza over the past 24 hours as the confrontation between Israel and Iran teetered on the precipice of an even more dangerous conflagration.
Among those killed were people attempting to access aid being brought in by UN trucks in central Gaza.
Around 400 people have been killed while attempting to reach aid since the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing food on 27 May, and more than 3,000 injured, according to authorities in Gaza.
More than 55,600 people have been killed in Gaza and nearly 130,000 injured since Israel’s military assault began in October 2023, according to the Palestinian health ministry in the territory. More than 5,330 people have been killed and nearly 18,000 injured since Israel broke a two-month-old ceasefire on 18 March.
The UN human rights office called on the Israeli military “to immediately cease its use of lethal force around food distribution points in Gaza, following repeated instances of shooting and killing of Palestinians seeking to access food there.”
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The Zionist project is really on the “who gon stop me?” mode.
Be it internationally - Yemen? About the only nation actually trying. No one else wants to risk the bombs falling on them next.
Or domestically - it’s publicly unpopular but what are you gonna do? The two options of Republican or Democrat are both in favour, so what exactly are you going to do? Gripe and moan and then go to work on Monday.
Either way the empire continues its Zionist agenda with only a few stiff words against it.
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has broken ranks with other NATO leaders as he refused to commit to spending 5 percent of GDP on defense. It’s a welcome move, and a rare voice of dissent from Europe’s rush to remilitarize.
Jacobin not wanting EU to have increased military spending, checks out. Surely it has nothing to do with an increasing threat Europe is facing on the east
Hi there, We removed Dark and Darker from sale on the Epic Games Store on March 5 in consideration of a court decision in Korea between Nexon and the game's publisher, IRONMACE. On November 1, 2025, we will be removing Dark and Darker from your library, at which point it will no longer be playable via the Epic Games Store.
Effective immediately, players can no longer purchase Redstone Shards or the Legendary Status upgrades via the Epic Games Store. Players can continue to use the Redstone Shards that they have previously purchased until November 1, 2025.
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That is not universally true. On GOG for example you can download all your games, so things like this could not happen there. Sure, you still technically purchase a license and do not actually buy the games, but for all intents and purposes this is still the closest you get to actually owning the games.
Sure you get a DRM-free license on GOG, but for many games you are still dependent on online servers for authentication, which can be shut down at any time rendering your access null and void. The only recourse is technically "hacking" a game a creating local servers which is both against terms of service and against the law in some countries.
I am not aware of any game on GOG that requires an online server for authentication. I'm not saying no such thing exists - I don't own every single game on GOG, but that would go against the whole DRM free thing. Care to name a few games that do this? I don't mean games that have an online mode that require a server, but games that just require authentication against an online server to be able to play the game.
You are talking about always-on DRM, I was talking about dependence on the servers for connecting to the multiplayer. Most of GOG games lose partial funtionality when servers get shut down as GOG doesn't use/host their own servers.
You specifically said "online servers for authentication". That's what I understood as just that - a server required to be able to play the game, not a server required to use an actual online feature of a game. Don't get me wrong, I very much prefer when games allow multiplayer games without requiring a server run by the publisher. All that is very different from what the posts title is about, though.
By the way, there are still games on GOG that let you run local servers for multi player gaming.
You specifically said "online servers for authentication".
And then continued in the next sentence. In context it makes sense, without it I can understand your confusion.
And I'm not trying to attack GOG, just highlighting the reality of online "onwership" in general. GOG and Itch.io are the best we can get without real regulations.
There are some great open source games (like !bar@discuss.tchncs.de), but it's still very rare.
You do not own physical games either. It’s just harder for the publisher to revoke a license for a physical game but legally there is little difference.
No, when you own a game, you can make copies and sell them. That is because owning the game means you own the copyright to the game.
If you are not the owner of the IP (which you aren’t, unless you own the company that made the game), then the only way to legally play the game is for the actual owner to provide you with some kind of license. If you don’t have a license then the default copyright rules apply which means you aren’t legally allowed to have or play a copy.
Your license is also limited and doesn’t allow you to ‘do whatever you want’. Try selling copies and see how quickly you get sued. You can’t even do what you want with your single copy. Go buy a bunch of physical games and start a game rental business. Or buy a bunch of physical games and open a game cafe where people can play ‘your’ games. Your license doesn’t allow you to do that.
There are limitations of what you can do with your copy that you own, but the laws that apply to them are different than those of digital games. By design all the protections physical goods had were removed for digital goods by the same companies. That's why ownership is dead.
By law I can trade or sell my copy of a physical game to anyone I want because I own it. Read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sa…
First sale doctrine gives you some rights, but it doesn’t give all the same rights you would have for any other physical object that doesn’t include copyrighted work.
If I buy 100 chairs, I’m free to start a chair rental business. If I buy 100 copies of a game, I cannot start renting them out without permission from the actual owner of the game.
The fact that the law entitles you to a slightly broader license doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s still just a license and not ownership. The only thing you own is the physical media (e.g. the plastic disc) not the contents of that disc.
It's false equivalency. Do you own a chair design or just a physical chair? Do you own a physical painting you bought (protected by the same laws as physical games)?
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This week, we’re moving in next to anacondas, so watch your back and lock the henhouse. Then, parenthood tips from wild baboons, the “cognitive debt” of ChatGPT, a spaceflight symphony, and a bizarre galaxy that is finally coming into view.
Anacondas are one of the most spectacular animals in South America, inspiring countless myths and legends. But these iconic boas, which can grow to lengths of 30 feet, are also a pest to local populations in the Amazon basin, where they prey on livestock.
To better understand these nuanced perceptions of anacondas, researchers interviewed more than 200 residents of communities in the várzea regions of the lower Amazon River about their experiences with the animals. The resulting study is packed with amazing stories and insights about the snakes, which are widely reviled as thieves and feared for their predatory prowess.
“Fear of the anaconda (identified in 44.5% of the reports) is related to the belief that it is a treacherous and sly animal,” said co-authors led by Beatriz Nunes Cosendey of the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve and Juarez Carlos Brito Pezzuti of the Federal University of Pará.
“The interviewees convey that the anaconda is a silent creature that arrives without making any noise, causing them to feel uneasy and always vigilant during fishing…with the fear of having their canoe flooded in case of an attack,” the team added. “Some dwellers even reported being more afraid of an anaconda than of a crocodile because the latter warns when it is about to attack.”
One of the Amazonian riverine communities where the research was conducted. Image: Beatriz Cosendey.
But while anacondas are eerily stealthy, they also have their derpy moments. The snakes often break into chicken coops to feast on the poultry, but then get trapped because their engorged bodies are too big to escape through the same gaps they used to enter.
“Dwellers expressed frustration at having to invest time and money in raising chickens, and then lose part of their flock overnight,” the team said. “One interviewee even mentioned retrieving a chicken from inside an anaconda’s belly, as it had just been swallowed and was still fresh.”
Overall, the new study presents a captivating portrait of anaconda-human relations, and concludes that “the anaconda has lost its traditional role in folklore as a spiritual and mythological entity, now being perceived in a pragmatic way, primarily as an obstacle to free-range poultry farming.”
Coming off of Father’s Day, here is a story about the positive role that dads can play for their daughters—for baboons, as well as humans. A team tracked the lifespans of 216 wild female baboons in Amboseli, Kenya, and found that subjects who received more paternal care had significantly better outcomes than their peers.
Male baboon with infant in the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya. Image: Elizabeth Archie, professor at Notre Dame.
“We found that juvenile female baboons who had stronger paternal relationships, or who resided longer with their fathers, led adult lives that were 2–4 years longer than females with weak or short paternal relationships,” said researchers led by David Jansen of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease. “Because survival predicts female fitness, fathers and their daughters may experience selection to engage socially and stay close in daughters’ early lives.”
This all reminds me of that old episode of The Simpsons where . While Homer was clearly hurt, it turns out that baboons might not be the worst animal-based insult for a daughter to throw at her dad.
ChatGPT may hinder creativity and learning skills in students who use it to write essays, relative to those who didn’t, according to an exhaustive new preprint study posted on arXiv. This research has yet not been peer-reviewed, and has a relatively small sample size of 54 subjects, but it still contributes to rising concerns about the cognitive toll of AI assistants.
Researchers led by Nataliya Kosmya of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology divided the subjects — all between 18 and 39 years old — into three groups wrote SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT (LLM group), Google’s search engine, or with no assistance (dubbed “Brain-only”).
“As demonstrated over the course of 4 months, the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring,” the team said. “The LLM group also fell behind in their ability to quote from the essays they wrote just minutes prior.”
When I asked ChatGPT for its thoughts on the study, it commented that “these results are both interesting and plausible, though they should be interpreted cautiously given the early stage of the research and its limitations.” It later suggested that “cognitive offloading is not always bad.”
Even scientists can’t resist evocative language now and then—we’re all only human. Case in point: A new study likens the history of Asia’s space industry to “a musical concert” and then really runs with the metaphor.
“The region comprises a diverse patchwork of nations, each contributing different instruments to the regional space development orchestra,” said researchers led by Maximilien Berthet of the University of Tokyo. “Its history consists of three successive movements” starting with “the US and former USSR setting the tone for the global space exploration symphony” and culminating with modern Asian spaceflight as “a fast crescendo in multiple areas of the region driven in part by private initiative.”
Talk about a space opera. The rest of the study provides a comprehensive review of Asian space history, but I cannot wait for the musical adaptation.
In 2001, astronomer Bärbel Koribalski spotted a tiny galaxy peeking out from behind a bright foreground star that had obscured it for decades, earning it the nickname the “Peekaboo Galaxy.” Situated about 22 million light-years from the Milky Way, this strange galaxy is extremely young and metal-poor, resembling the universe’s earliest galaxies.
The Peekaboo galaxy to the right of the star TYC 7215-199-1. Image: NASA, ESA, Igor Karachentsev (SAO RAS); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
A new study confirms Peekaboo as “the lowest-metallicity dwarf in the Local Volume,” a group of roughly 500 galaxies within 36 million light-years of Earth.
“This makes the Peekaboo dwarf one of the most intriguing galaxies in the Local Volume,” said co-authors Alexei Kniazev of the South African Astronomical Observatory and Simon Pustilnik of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of the Sciences. “It deserves intensive, multi-method study and is expected to significantly advance our understanding of the early universe’s first building blocks.”
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
Update: The original headline for this piece was "Is ChatGPT Rotting Our Brains? New Study Suggests It Does." We've updated the headline to "ChatGPT May Create 'Cognitive Debt,' New Study Finds" to match the terminology used by the researchers.
Military spokesperson says most attack UAVs intercepted befor entering Israel; says percentage of successful interceptions high after a residential building in Beit Shean takes a direct hit
So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board. And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time. One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!! going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!
We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it
This proposed tax only applies to the ultra ultra ultra rich. Like it only applies to about 2000 people in the entirety of switzerland, which is a billionaire haven.
Both chambers of Swiss parliament plus the executive branch rejected it by large margins (unsurprisingly, parliament has a bourgeois majority).
(Also this financial times article is ludicrously biased, but it’s the financial times so no suprises there…)
NFC is an increasingly useful technology in the modern world, and now it’s getting a range boost as the standard will now operate at 2cm away, nearly four times the previous requirement in a change aimed at improving the reliability of actions such as tap to pay.
सोशल मीडिया धमकी: हिमाचल पुलिस ने डिप्टी सीएम और विधायक को धमकी देने वाला युवक गिरफ्तार
Himachal News: हिमाचल पुलिस ने सोशल मीडिया धमकी मामले में एक युवक को गिरफ्तार किया है। उसने फेसबुक पर डिप्टी सीएम मुकेश अग्निहोत्री और गगरेट विधायक राकेश कालिया को धमकी दी थी। हरोली यूथ कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष शुभम जोशी की शिकायत पर हरोली थाने में एफआईआर दर्ज हुई। डीएसपी मोहन रावत ने बताया कि युवक इंजीनियरिंग स्नातक है। पुलिस ने उसे हिरासत में लेकर जांच शुरू की।
धमकी की शुरुआत
पुलिस के अनुसार, युवक ने गैंगस्टर अमरीश राणा की गिरफ्तारी पर फेसबुक पोस्ट के कमेंट में धमकी दी। उसने लिखा, “लोग फिर से तलवार मांग रहे हैं,” और जवाब में कहा, “इस बार इसका इस्तेमाल राजनेता पर होगा।” सोशल मीडिया धमकी ने स्थानीय लोगों में दहशत पैदा की। हरोली निवासी अरुण कुमार ने पुलिस को सूचित किया, जिसके बाद कार्रवाई हुई।
पुलिस की त्वरित कार्रवाई
डीएसपी हरोली मोहन रावत ने बताया कि शिकायत के आधार पर युवक की पहचान की गई। उसे सरेंडर करने को कहा गया, जिसके बाद वह हरोली थाने पहुंचा। पुलिस ने उसे हिरासत में लिया। सोशल मीडिया धमकी की जांच में पुलिस यह पता लगा रही है कि क्या इसके पीछे कोई साजिश है। हिमाचल पुलिस इस मामले में गहन छानबीन कर रही है।
युवक ने मांगी माफी
गिरफ्तारी के बाद युवक ने फेसबुक पर माफी मांगी। उसने “शार्प शूटर नबाही वाला” नाम के अकाउंट से कहा कि उसने गलत टिप्पणी की थी। हालांकि, पुलिस ने पहले ही एफआईआर दर्ज कर ली थी। सोशल मीडिया धमकी ने हिमाचल में राजनेताओं की सुरक्षा पर सवाल उठाए। पुलिस अब यह जांच रही है कि युवक का कोई आपराधिक संबंध तो नहीं।
जांच में गहराई
पुलिस यह पता लगा रही है कि युवक ने धमकी स्वतंत्र रूप से दी या किसी साजिश का हिस्सा था। उसका गैंगस्टर अमरीश राणा से कोई संबंध है या नहीं, इसकी भी जांच हो रही है। हिमाचल में ऐसी घटनाएं चिंता का विषय बनी हैं। पुलिस ने कहा कि वह इस मामले को गंभीरता से ले रही है और जल्द पूरी सच्चाई सामने आएगी।
A youth has apologised for making threatening comments on his Facebook page against Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri and Congress MLA Rakesh Kalia.
I want to put together a stack for hobbyist midi music composition. I understand there are a few more components to it than one might expect, but I think VMPK and Qtracer are going to be part of it?
Here is my software set up for open source music making (I often use midi and audio input):
Core software: - Ardour as my DAW. - Liquid SFZ as my SFZ player. - SurgeXT as my soft synth.
For SFZ instruments: - Virtual Playing Orchesta (free full orchestra) - Versilion freeware instruments (mostly orchestra) - Blonde Bop drumkit
Raw samples: - samples.kb6.de for drum machine samples
For effects: - LSP plugins for my basics (eq, compression, etc) - Airwindows Plugins for fun effects (and some basics)
Ardour is supposed to have a midi related update for its next big release, so stay tuned.
From my perspective, the simplest set up would be Ardour and SFZ instruments. Mainly because I'm quite used to those two.
For set up you'd just open Ardour, make a new midi track, place liquidsfz as the first plugin on the track, then open liquidsfz and browse to the SFZ file you want to use.
Then you just draw in the midi notes you want using either the edit or draw tool.
I come from fl studio prod but I want to use ardour since I am trying to keep everything within linux now. What are the best synth instruments for ardour?
Whatever you end up using, have JACK sync 'em up. I used to have two Macs, one for recording with Nuendo and one for doing MIDI sequencing and programming. They synced via MIDI sync and there was always issues. Now I have everything on one Linux machine (Ardour records and mixes, Reaper sequences MIDI and Renoise does beats and other sampling related stuff) and with JACK the sync is seamless ❤
The new analysis contradicts the social media platform’s claims that exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased during Elon Musk’s tenure.
Speaking about AI-cheat students, Gary Ward, a teacher at Brookes Westshore High School in Victoria, British Columbia, told Business Insider, Some of the ones that I see...
New York City on Friday announced new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a smaller-than-proposed 5% increase following pushback from Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc.
The ice that makes up glaciers isn't 100% solid – it's actually full of air bubbles, some of which formed centuries ago. Inspired by this fact, scientists have developed a method of using bubbles to store coded data in ice. The technology could actually have some practical applications.
One of the Amazonian riverine communities where the research was conducted. Image: Beatriz Cosendey.
Male baboon with infant in the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya. Image: Elizabeth Archie, professor at Notre Dame.
The Peekaboo galaxy to the right of the star TYC 7215-199-1. Image: NASA, ESA, Igor Karachentsev (SAO RAS); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
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We no longer need to manufacture consent, we just do things.
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in reply to IttihadChe • • •The Zionist project is really on the “who gon stop me?” mode.
Be it internationally - Yemen? About the only nation actually trying. No one else wants to risk the bombs falling on them next.
Or domestically - it’s publicly unpopular but what are you gonna do? The two options of Republican or Democrat are both in favour, so what exactly are you going to do? Gripe and moan and then go to work on Monday.
Either way the empire continues its Zionist agenda with only a few stiff words against it.