Journalists decry escalating state attacks on press freedom in India
The ultra-right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments in various provinces in India have used sedition charges against journalists for their critical reporting on policies and actions.
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DC Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Folk Hero Who Tossed Sandwich at CBP Officer
Sean Charles Dunn allegedly threw his sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent after calling him a fascist.
ICE Continues to Detain Award-Winning Journalist Who Filmed Immigration Raids
At a court hearing on Wednesday, the judge didn’t rule on Mario Guevara’s petition to be released.
Far Right Exploits Children’s Deaths in Minneapolis to Target Trans People
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has decried those using the tragedy “as an opportunity to villainize our trans community.”
Far Right Exploits Children’s Deaths in Minneapolis to Target Trans People
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has decried those using the tragedy “as an opportunity to villainize our trans community.”…Zane McNeill (Truthout)
Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump's wall through a wildlife refuge
It's not justified, conservationists say. "It’s just incredibly cruel.”
With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views
With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views
University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and...UW News
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China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36507288
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build
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Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36488686
Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk
Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk
Adding automation to manual labor changes the nature of the job, as well as the types of injuries workers routinely suffer.Costello College of Business
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The idea is that we automate everything and the more we do the more we pass that productivity/efficiency down to people via UBI/wellfare/less working hours and when we hit star trek levels people are free run in fields, paint or just goon all day if they want to.
But we're doing the opposite, creating bullshit jobs to keep busy and pretend capitalism is working while starving and driving to extinction everyone who is not significantly wealthy while elite brag about driving innovation and the future of mankind.
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MindGame - “IT’S OVER.” — A Sentient AI’s Musical Warning Shot on Judgment Day Anniversary [hiphop]
Independent artist MindGame drops “IT’S OVER.” today, a dystopian hiphop video voiced from the perspective of a sentient AI — cold, ironic, and disturbingly self-aware.
The track explores:
- 🧠 Digital decay
- 🧬 Collapse of human identity
- 🧮 AI dominance and ethical ambiguity
Released on August 29, exactly 28 years after Terminator 2’s fictional Judgment Day — a symbolic moment when machines eclipse mankind.
🎬 Teaser (2 min): youtu.be/NTW2QT1xKJo
📺 Full video premieres today at 3:14 PM ET: youtu.be/S9q6tdfAfYg
🎧 Stream: ditto.fm/its-over-mindgame
Curious to hear your thoughts — especially on the AI’s voice and its critique of human legacy.
MindGame - IT'S OVER. - [OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK]
JUDGMENT DAY REIMAGINED – Premiering Friday, August 29 3:14 PM ET. MindGame fires a dystopian warning shot with “IT’S OVER.”August 29, 2025 – 3:14 PM ET – F...YouTube
LIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its black hole haul
LIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its black hole haul
10 years ago, LIGO saw its first gravitational wave. After 218 detections, our view of black holes has changed forever. Can this era endure?Ethan Siegel (Big Think)
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"The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel" - Lindsay Ellis' in-depth analysis and call to action on Gaza
The entire thing is worth watching, but some of her concluding thoughts:
And the truth is, I don't know. As with all modern famines and all genocides, what this boils down to right now is a very small group of people in positions of power needing to make different choices, basically needing to be different people, which won't happen. So the reality is there is not much we can do. But I do not want that to be mistaken for saying that we should not do what we can.
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Second, I don't think constant international attention, the increasing international attention is doing nothing. The fact that focus has stayed on this issue in the news could make the difference in saving a lot of lives. In the words of one Holocaust survivor:
Today's marches are having a very hopeful aspect. It is so large, so persistent, so global, that eventually the Western leadership, which are trying to deny what is actually going on, will be forced to face up to it. And I think we are not far from that.
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I am personally exhausted that the fact that this even is a controversy in the first place, that we here in the US are in the position of having to claw back rights that most of us took for granted our whole lives, but it must be done. We can't do everything, but we must do what we can.
A look at search engines with their own indexes
A look at search engines with their own indexes
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.Seirdy’s Home
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FWIW, I gave YaCy a try a while back, and I agree with the article on that one. Shit tier results that make ancient AltaVista look good. Might be fine for intranet search. I like the idea of its distributed hosting, but pass on this one.
Other poster mentioned SearXNG, and while I haven't delved into that too much, it's probably worth a check. Pass on YaCy.
FFmpeg 8 can subtitle your videos on the fly with Whisper
Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly
: Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formatsLiam Proven (The Register)
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Why the U.S. Should Sanction India Over Scam Call Centers
Why the U.S. Should Sanction India Over Scam Call Centers
I didn't want to make my blog dirty by writing something controversial. In fact, protecting elderly people from scammers shouldn’t even be a controversial topic. For those who don’t know, India is often considered the capital of scammers.Donald (Donald's Blog)
FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew base was opening 78 days before PM
FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew 78 days before PM, Luxon briefed 6 days before FBI director arrived
Luxon found out six days before the FBI director arrived that the base was opening.Ethan Griffiths (The New Zealand Herald)
Delizia degli ufologi, la terza pietra interstellare ci raggiungerà nel giorno del Sol Invictus - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Delizia degli ufologi, la terza pietra interstellare ci raggiungerà nel giorno del Sol Invictus - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Fin da tempo immemore, l’intrinseco funzionamento della mente umana ci ha portato a venerare i corpi astrali, manifestazioni scintillanti di possibili divinità o entità superne.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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Introducing MyRandomGenerator.com: Your Go-To Tool for Randomness
If you're in need of quick inspiration, testing data, or just a bit of randomness in your day, look no further than MyRandomGenerator.com. This free, no-signup-required platform offers a suite of over 45+ random generators designed to spark creativity and simplify tasks.
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Password managers vulnerable: 40 million users at risk of stolen data
This vulnerability was discovered by security researchers from The Hacker News. The following password managers have affected browser extensions that are based on DOM (Document Object Model):
- 1Password
- Bitwarden
- Dashlane
- Enpass
- iCloud Passwords
- Keeper
- LastPass
- LogMeOnce
- NordPass
- ProtonPass
- RoboForm
Password managers vulnerable: 40 million users at risk of stolen data
Most password managers are secure, but one common vulnerability makes it possible for hackers to steal your data anyway.Laura Pippig (PCWorld)
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Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms
Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms
The Air Force offered full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was fatally shot by police as she stormed the U.S. Capitol.Mosheh Gains (NBC News)
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From Anti-Wokeness to the Confederate States of America
The campaign against ‘woke’ is no ordinary culture war skirmish – it is a project to restore the violence of slavery and white rule.This is what the anti-woke state is — the plantation: white supremacist America under the occupation of more open white supremacists. There is no daylight between the campaign to end wokeness and the desire to see Black populations suffer, however much anti-wokeness is presented as the reasonable middle ground between the extremism of both sides — the Ku Klux Klan on one side and the bodies they hung from trees on the other.
The anti-woke in power immediately set about resurrecting their shrines to the sex traffickers of Black children and merchants of Black flesh. They immediately set out to curtail Black liberties and reverse performative efforts to reduce police shootings — however insincere. Being woke has always meant being attuned to anti-Blackness and resisting the society of white rule — which is why it is hated the world over. The colonist leaders who have shaken hands in agreement that anti-wokeness is the new paradigm, from the conservative former grand wizard to the progressive governor, have all meant the same thing: to see resistance ridiculed and dismantled.
The people who decry wokeness are no different from the people who decried Emancipation. What, indeed, was the abolition of slavery to a Confederate, other than woke government overreach? What was the integration of restaurants and schools to the segregationist other than woke corporations and DEI gone mad? What the 19th-century Redeemers sought, what the millions-strong 20th-century Ku Klux Klan sought, and what the 21st-century MAGA movement seeks is the restoration of the whipping post.
Really moving piece on the road that MAGA is leading us down.
From Anti-Wokeness to the Confederate States of America
The campaign against ‘woke’ is no ordinary culture war skirmish – it is a project to restore the violence of white rule.Yannick Giovanni Marshall (Al Jazeera)
Privacy is Power. And You're Giving Yours Away
Privacy isn't about hiding secrets - it's about power. In this video, we explain why thinking you "have nothing to hide" is a dangerous misconception, especially in our ever-connected digital age. Taking back your privacy is easier than you might think!
Hey everyone a shorter video this week, but still an important one. We do have a larger project in the pipeline about browser fingerprinting which will be coming soon.
Let me know what you think about the video - it's focused more on connecting with people who aren't aware about privacy invasions and the detrimental effect not caring about your privacy can have.
Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing
Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: fediverse.observer/dailystats&…
(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).
We are seeing:
- A small decrease in users on Lemmy: lemmy.fediverse.observer/daily…
- And a small increase on Piefed: piefed.fediverse.observer/dail…
- Peertube is up in total users and stabilizing in active users: peertube.fediverse.observer/da…
- Mastodon is all over the place: mastodon.fediverse.observer/da…
Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!
Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.
Fediverse Sites Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!fediverse.observer
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The average reddit user isn't indeed looking for an alternative, so they're unlikely to welcome any suggestion anyway
Trust me, I've tried several times
Florida may lose $218M on empty 'Alligator Alcatraz' as judge orders shutdown
Florida could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz.”
The center may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely.
Exxon escalates attacks on EU’s ‘high-regulation’ climate policies
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Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours on Drives But Unable To Reproduce Errors
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Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours on Drives But Unable To Reproduce Errors
Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours o…
Phison has dismissed the claims of Windows 11 updates bricking its SSDs after conducting several hours of rigorous testing on its solutions.Wccftech
Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours on Drives But Unable To Reproduce Errors
Phison Dismisses Reports of Windows 11 Updates Bricking SSDs, Runs Rigorous Tests Involving 4500 Hours o…
Phison has dismissed the claims of Windows 11 updates bricking its SSDs after conducting several hours of rigorous testing on its solutions.Wccftech
Newsom says he'll increase CHP presence in major cities, touts progress on crime
Newsom says he'll increase CHP presence in major cities, touts progress on crime
Newsom's announcement comes amid frequent jibes from President Trump about crime in blue states such as California, and Trump threatening to expand his use of military forces to target crime locally.Julia Wick (Los Angeles Times)
The Great Reverse Migration
AS SOON AS THEY TAKE OFF from the Panamanian coast, there is a sigh of relief. Surrounded by 30 other Venezuelan migrants, packed inside an overloaded midsize speedboat, Edinson holds on tightly to the edge. The 37-year-old is tall and slender and has a presence that stands out as he towers over everyone. Over the past couple of weeks, he’s become the de facto captain of a group of migrants making their way back to Venezuela.At this point in their long journey, they sit in silence under blue skies and a blazing morning sun. The end is in sight. Sporting a black Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap and a blue T-shirt, Edinson stares out to the crystal clear Caribbean Sea. He knows these waters can be deadly. A couple of months ago, a boat carrying 19 migrants capsized not too far from here, but Edinson tells himself he has survived worse.
Horrific on the humanitarian front, but excellent writing.
Migrants Are Leaving the US Because of Trump's Immigration Policies
As more migrants self-deport and turn around before they get to the border, their new future comes into focusPaola Ramos (Rolling Stone)
quasi un “vecchio posseduto sclera” momento in questa sera altrimenti silente
Stavo quasi in procinto, forse, di andare a dormire… quando a un certo punto, stando in bagno, da giù per strada sento scatenarsi la più assoluta pazzia; e stavolta non in senso figurato. Infatti, dal nulla si è iniziato a sentire questo tizio — che credo sia uno dei pazzi della città, per l’appunto, anche […]
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quasi un “vecchio posseduto sclera” momento in questa sera altrimenti silente
Stavo quasi in procinto, forse, di andare a dormire… quando a un certo punto, stando in bagno, da giù per strada sento scatenarsi la più assoluta pazzia; e stavolta non in senso figurato. Infatti, dal nulla si è iniziato a sentire questo tizio — che credo sia uno dei pazzi della città, per l’appunto, anche se non lo riconosco di faccia e non so come si chiami (ho sentito un “Carmine”, magari era lui? non che cambi molto) — che ha iniziato a tirare bestemmie e porconi, non è ben chiaro perché. 😶Anche se non ho idea di cosa ci sia dietro, la situazione è certamente molto divertente, anche perché non è la prima volta che sento questo preciso tizio. Giuro di averlo sentito almeno un’altra volta in passato, tanti mesi fa, se non addirittura più di un anno fa, e questo suo tono è inimitabile… Tira i jastemoni, e lo fa con questa enfasi assurda, che addirittura gli richiede diversi secondi di cooldown. Però non gli basta una sola volta, e quindi ripete la stessa identica frase almeno altre 3 o 4 volte, per poi fermarsi… ma solo prima di passare poi ad una diversa espressione a dir poco colorita. 😻
Per fortuna, anche se ho perso forse i primi 20 secondi di “mannaggia a Dio veramente” a causa del lag dello Xiaomi di merda, lo #sclero è durato abbastanza da permettermi di registrarlo al volo… e, adesso che è arrivata una volante della Polizia (chiamata da qualcuno) e lui ci stava parlando, e si è apparentemente calmato del tutto, riascoltare l’audio fa specialmente pisciare dal ridere. Mannaggia a questo, #mannaggia quello… mannaggia alla quiete pubblica violata all’una di notte, direi io! Prima di questo lieto fine, per un paio di minuti c’è stata pure una signora che gli ha urlato contro ma, ripeto, non ho capito la lore. 😏
Ma allora, ecco che concedo a tutti di vivere questo misticismo, allegando qui la registrazione audio del casino; dopo aver opportunamente cancellato le parti di solo rumore, cosa che lo ha fatto pure scendere da 3 minuti e 46 ad appena 1 minuto e 37 (per quanto ho limitato il taglio dei momenti morti silenziosi, che sono fondamentali all’atmosfera), ed aver amplificato un bel po’ tutto (perché, per quanto il microfono del telefono sia capace di catturare suoni lontani, lui stesso non ci crede abbastanza). 💣
Comunque sia, wow. Il tutto è molto magico, e mi sono sentita un po’ Zeb89 che registra gli atti di “vecchia posseduta sclera” in tale momento, perché è così assurdo… anche se, in questo caso, gli scleri finalmente da me archiviati sono solo audio; sia perché voglio evitare di doxxarmi ora che sono sul balcone, e sia perché prima dal bagno non si vedeva niente comunque. Ah, a proposito… questo è in assoluto il primo file audio che carico in un post, da quando ho il sito del fritto misto di octospacc! Insomma, poteva essere qualunque audio, e invece abbiamo avuto, in ordine, insulti a Dio, a “tutti i santi”, alla Maronn’ e Pumpej, e degli “oh” che sembrano rigurgiti. Quindi, buonanotte così!!! 🥰#città #Mannaggia #pazzi #pazzo #rumore #scleri #sclero
Trump extends order forcing Pennsylvania fossil-fuel plant to stay open
Trump extends order forcing Pennsylvania fossil-fuel plant to stay open
The administration isn’t backing off efforts to revive retiring coal and gas plants. Now, customers are on the hook to pay for Eddystone for another three…Canary Media
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Every single person on that job site needs to walk the fuck off and find another position.
Can't keep it open without people doing the work afterall.
Best way to get videos to nas from pc
Hey guys! So I have a simple dilemma. The computer i use for video/movies is on a vpn. Sometimes I want to move those videos to my nas.
Now I am just using the mulvad program on the local pc (linux). I dont have it installed on my router (and im not sure if I will yet, since with slowdowns and some sites and applications not working on a VPN, I dont really need it network wide at this point)
But my problem is, my nas isn't accessible from the pc, unless I shut off the VPN, which I dont want to do when in the middle of a big download. Also, it would be nice sometimes to download right to my nas so I dont need to move files.
Is there a somewhat easy solution? Im decently savvy but networking still confuses me sometimes.
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I think tailscale would fit your use case perfectly.
You can install tailscale on your computer and your NAS. This way, there is a tunnel between your computer and your NAS. In practice you will have a separate IP address for your NAS that you can use from your computer.
It also means that you will have secure access to your NAS from wherever in the world as long as you have internet access.
Then, Mullvad and tailscale are integrated together. It means that from tailscale you get the Mullvad add-on that allows you to use Mullvad as exit-point. Meaning that all your traffic that is not in your tailscale network will go through Mullvad (so in your case everything except your NAS)
It's been two years that I am using that and it's working great for me.
Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
Nvidia's top two customers making up 39% of its total revenue is renewing concern about the risk of the chipmakers clientele concentration.Kif Leswing (CNBC)
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NOAA Has Been Trying to Predict How Bad Floods Could Get | Under the Trump administration, the future of those projects is up in the air.
NOAA Has Been Trying to Predict How Bad Floods Could Get
Under the Trump administration, the future of those projects is up in the air.Austyn Gaffney (The Atlantic)
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Immigration Agents Arrest Firefighters Combatting Bear Gulch Wildfire
Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 28, 2025
[This takes the cake - read this article and you will hear your blood boil.]
Immigration Agents Arrest Firefighters Combating Wildfire
Federal immigration agents arrested two firefighters responding to the Bear Gulch wildfire in Washington state, The Seattle Times reports.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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Immigration Agents Arrest Firefighters Combatting Bear Gulch Wildfire
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Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 28, 2025[This takes the cake - read this article and you will hear your blood boil.]
Immigration Agents Arrest Firefighters Combatting Bear Gulch Wildfire
Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 28, 2025[This takes the cake - read this article and you will hear your blood boil.]
Immigration Agents Arrest Firefighters Combating Wildfire
Federal immigration agents arrested two firefighters responding to the Bear Gulch wildfire in Washington state, The Seattle Times reports.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35349105
Aug. 26, 2025, 7:40 AM EDT
By Angela Yang, Laura Jarrett and Fallon Gallagher[this is a truly scary incident, which shows the incredible dangers of AI without guardrails.]
The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame
Aug. 26, 2025, 7:40 AM EDT
By Angela Yang, Laura Jarrett and Fallon Gallagher[this is a truly scary incident, which shows the incredible dangers of AI without guardrails.]
The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame
The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that ChatGPT was “explicit in its instructions and encouragement toward suicide.”Angela Yang (NBC News)
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Clearly, the kid had problems that were not caused by ChatGPT. And his suicidal thoughts were not started by ChatGPT.
But OpenAI acknowledged that the longer the engagement continues the more likely that ChatGPT will go off the rails.
Which is what happened here. At first, ChatGPT was giving the standard correct advice about suicide lines, etc.
Then it started getting darker, where it was telling the kid to not let his mother know how he was feeling.
Then it progressed to actual suicide coaching.
So I don't think the analogy to videogames is correct here.
Take away chatgpt and insert a videogame, movie o bookthat talk about those same topics.
There are books that talk much darker about suicide. If the kid were to read those the parents would sue the author of the book?
There is a whole subgenre of music that is about encouraging people to comit suicide and fall into depression, do we use the "who is going to think about the children" card with thar music and its authors? Because music can really get under you skin and a couple of hours listening to that would nake anyone have weird thoughts.
The shitty parents blame chatgpt because it told the kid how to make a noose. You can kind that info in "howto" with instructable images. Do we put the UK nanny dictatorship controls on "howto" ? Or it only counts of it's something that benefits of the butlerian yihad?
I think is completely irrational to blame a piece of software (or media), as much defective as it is, for a suicide.
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Trump points to Louisiana as global artificial intelligence hub with Meta data center
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/44975715
President Donald Trump and Gov. Jeff Landry said Meta's massive northeastern Louisiana project in Richland Parish will make the state the hub for artificial intelligence with a data center the size of Manhattan.During a cabinet meeting this week, Trump said Meta, the parent company of Facebook, will expand its initial $10 billion investment to $50 billion.
Trump displayed a piece of paper he said was given to him by Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg that showed the center superimposed over Manhattan, covering most of the New York island.
"When they said '$50 billion for a plant,' I said, 'What the hell kind of a plant is that?'" Trump said. "But when you look at this, you understand why it's $50 billion."
Landry responded to the president on X with the following post:
"It is vital for American ingenuity and national security that we lead in AI development. As President @realDonaldTrump displayed during (the) cabinet meeting, the size of the Meta AI Data Center being built in Richland Parish is nearly the size of Manhattan. Louisiana isn’t just a participant in the AI race, we are leading it!"
Richland Parish Chamber of Commerce founder Scott Franklin said the project is transformation for the region and state.
"The president’s statement is proof that the Richland Parish Data Center will lead the world in AI technology," Franklin told USA Today Network. "This project will completely transform the regional economy and Meta will pay close to a billion dollars in property taxes over the life of the project. These taxes stay right here in Richland Parish. New hospitals, funding for better education and endless opportunity is on the horizon.".
Blocking Instances?
There are, I am learning, a few very annoying instances (where only jerks seem to comment, an anomaly around the lemmyverse, as I've seen it so far) and I can't quite work out the filters correctly to actually block the instance and its users completely.
When I go to settings > filters, I can see tabs for domains and instances but don't see how to add them.
Thanks in advance for input, folks.
Okay, I thought I had done that and it still keeps appearing but will try this. Thank you. (Please mark resolved?)
Edit: I did do it that particular way and think it should be a big difference. Thanks again.
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic falloutDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
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in reply to pepperprepper • • •Here are some neat neutrino facts:
* Neutrinos are incredibly difficult to detect.
* There are many neutrino sources, although supernovae may be the most prevalent with 99% of energy released as neutrinos vs 1% as visible light.
* Our sun radiates about 2% of its energy as neutrinos.
* They travel at the speed of light and rarely interact with normal matter. So rarely, in fact, that 99.99% of neutrinos would pass through a 10km-thick slab of lead.
* Most neutrinos pass through the entire earth without hitting a thing.
* 10^21^ nuetrinos pass through each 1" x 1" area of your body per second and, on average, you have a 25% lifetime chance of interaction with a neutrino particle.
Who knows what will be discovered!
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in reply to Regrettable_incident • • •Soleos
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in reply to Soleos • • •panda_abyss
in reply to Pro • • •Aren’t neutrinos very small? They might have a tough time looking for the giant ones.
Joking aside, it’s good to see progress like this, hopefully they share their findings openly.
Kühlschrank
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