Trump has suggested that "homegrown" criminals who have been convicted of certain crimes should be deported, but the idea raises significant legal questions.
If an immigrant who the government claims is a gang member can be deported to El Salvador without any due process rights, then why not a U.S. citizen?
That was the nightmarish scenario immigration advocates and constitutional law experts were considering on Monday after Donald Trump again pushed a provocative plan to deport U.S. citizens who have been convicted of unspecified crimes.
Trump discussed the issue in the White House with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has agreed to deposit people deported from the U.S. into a notorious prison.
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
Il nucleare iraniano non è solo al centro di dibattiti diplomatici, ma anche di incursioni militari portare dagli israeliani e dagli americani stessi contro i gruppi sostenuti da Teheran. Per adesso è una specie di guerriglia per procura, ma Washington e Tel Aviv minacciano quasi apertamente di voler attaccare direttamente le infrastrutture nucleari iraniane. Sarebbe un azzardo. Forse lo sanno, forse no, ma Mosca vuole togliere loro ogni dubbio e fa sapere in modo indiretto che non lascerebbe senza conseguenze un'azione del genere. E lo stesso governo iraniano ha comunicato tramite la diplomazia svizzera la sua determinazione a non abbassare la testa di fronte alle richieste o meglio alle imposizioni dei suoi avversari.
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South Korea said on Tuesday it will expand its financial support package for its crucial semiconductor industry to 33 trillion won (about €22.43 million) as part of efforts to address uncertainties posed by the Trump administration’s tariff hikes.
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President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history. The White House memo, which also suspended clearances for other security professionals at Krebs’s employer SentinelOne, comes as CISA is facing huge funding and staffing cuts.
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They have the most known reserves. China has subsidized the rare earth market for decades, so capitalism hasn't really bothered with their exploration elsewhere; there has been little incentive beyond "national security".
There will definitely be considerable reserves in Canada, US, Australia, Africa, probably Russia. The problem is infrastructure, expertise, and the volume of highly-toxic pollution that mining and refining them entail.
Everything electronic, and dependent on electronics (everything), is about to see a lot of inflation. Yay!
After sharing Ed Zitron's latest piece called "OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" I got a few responses arguing in a similar way: People agree that "AI" and especially "generative AI" is a massive bubble that does not really make much sense -
After sharing Ed Zitron’s latest piece called “OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry” I got a few responses arguing in a similar way: People agree that “AI” and especially “generative AI” is a massive bubble that does not really make much sense – if you imply rational decision making. Training the models, building the data centers, inference, inflated wages, potential licence costs and the costs of damages … economically the whole sector doesn’t make too much sense (Sequioa Capital agrees). Sure some people believe that they’ll find the machine god in old 4Chan posts but I also would not consider that to be rational in any way, shape or form. The singularity is just a weird ersatz-religion for rationalist nerds confronted with their own mortality.
But the argument goes on: There have always been bubbles but especially with technologically driven bubbles, something, usually infrastructure is left behind that the following generations can built on. The US railroad system for example or for ageing technologists such as myself maybe more present: The dotcom bubble.
The Internet we have today exists because the dotcom bubble lead to the infrastructure buildout of cables, some data centers, peering structures etc. that the next generation of Internet startups could be built upon. The death of the bubble fertilised or created the soil that all those social media platforms and UberForX things could flourish on. So while genAI might be a bubble, it will create all those models and integrations that will survive OpenAI’s (and Anthropic and whatever else those companies are called) financial shenanigans.
I think those things are not the same.
I do agree that something will be left behind: The data centers that have been built and that are still being built will still be there and I am quite sure someone will find new use cases for the NVIDIA cards everyone is buying or will replace those machines with standard server components to add to their hyperscaler infrastructure. But does that mean that the genAI stuff will survive?
Generative AI systems have a few unusual properties that make them very distinct from traditional digital services.
Digital services have a tendency to push marginal cost down: Adding another license to your database or even adding another account to your infrastructure costs you basically nothing when you’ve already got the systems running. Traditional digital goods and services scale really well: If your server maintains 1000 or 5000 accounts often doesn’t matter too much (depends a bit on the service of course), the cost does not scale up linearly, in fact the bigger you are the more of those scaling benefits you can reap for example by building caching infrastructures that save even more processing costs. This is how things work in the digital. But genAI is different.
OpenAI loses money on every user who pays them. They lose money on users with a 20$ subscription, they lose money on people with a 200$ subscription. Because genAI is inherently expensive to run. The optimizations that work for traditional services who can cluster certain kinds of processing (often by grouping users into a limited set of boxes and just treating them as the box assigned to them) do not apply to genAI. You keep having to heat up your NVIDIA cards and cool them and replace them. And people who do actually pay for your service will use it more. For for example Meta’s platforms or even Google Search more usage is good because it means more ad revenue. They make money by scaling up. OpenAI needs its users to use the service as little as possible to avoid losing even more money. For traditional digital platforms popularity is good. For OpenAI it’s poison.
So there is a structural reason why those companies probably can’t be economically valid: Digital spaces are built around winner-takes all scaling but for genAI providers that is economical suicide.
Let’s say OpenAI and Anthropic die. Let’s say the bubble bursts and the hype moves on to the next thing – whatever that will be. Will AI stick around?
Sure at first people will migrate to self-hosted stuff running on their machines. You can replace your coding assistant with some open weight model, it might be worse but still serviceable. But those models didn’t come from nowhere. Someone paid to develop them, someone had to pay electricity bills, NVIDIA’s bills, the bill of the private security firm that fought the demonstrations against your data center that took all the water people wanted to drink. So we’ll be stuck with whatever we at that point.
Which is exactly what happened with the dotcom bubble: We had the wires that were left by Pets.com exploding. But the wires had two advantages: They were agnostic to the data they carried, adding more of them or maintaining them was comparatively cheap and the marginal cost of adding more data to the wire was basically zero – until you reached capacity and needed to add another wire.
But AI models age like milk. Think of a coding assistant trained only up to right now, April 15th, 2025. Anything invented after this date, any breaking library update is not part of the training data and will lead to bad and false predictions by the model. AI models are conservative by definition, tied to the past of the moment they were trained on with no understanding of the future or even what kind of trajectories the future might take. In order to stay useful, to look “intelligent” and current AI models need to be constantly updated with new training material (and potentially removed older training material). Most AI models of the kind used today have very short shelf lives. (Smaller, specialized models often do not have that problem as much, think of models to do face detection or pose detection from video: The human body doesn’t change that much)
Something will be left by the AI crash, that is for sure. But I do not think it will be generative AI systems which – without constant expensive updates and maintenance – become useless at best and actively harmful at worst quickly. And that is the question we need to be asking: What will be left and who will that be used by?
When I see large data centers with a bunch of inference machines in them, there are clear uses but those probably won’t be the “cute” genAI some people use. The inference will shift to doing video processing and people classification because that’s where the money is: When a tech bubble bursts, the tech sector always turns to the state to either hold the bag or buy the remains. What will be left when OpenAI burns is infrastructure that players like Palantir will use because their problems fit the hardware and their business model can create the necessary money from governments all over the planet.
The AI crash won’t leave us with infrastructures that are useful to democratic and humane societies, with useful tools to do something productive with, but with infrastructures tailor-made to suppress it.
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world around us. But also about the levels of cruelty that humanity can be capable of – and how there still are grace and love even under those conditions. Studio Ghibli’s work is distinct. In the level of quality over the years, in their very recognisable art style.
Hayao Miyasaki also is know for his reaction to a few technologists showing him something we’d call “AI” today to generate “creepy” moving figures:
His reaction to the proud developers showing an animation of a thing using its head to move forward claiming “Artificial intelligence could present us grotesque movements that we humans can’t imagine.” is very telling:
“Every morning, not in recent days, I see my friend who has a disability. It’s so hard for him just to do a high five; his arm with stiff muscle can’t reach out to my hand. Now, thinking of him, I can’t watch this stuff and find it interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is.
I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it, but I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
Hayao Miyazaki
He capped that off with a scathing remark about what had happened:
“I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.”
Hayao Miyazaki
Now of course he wasn’t looking at modern “AI” systems like the ones Microsoft/OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. are trying (with little economic success) to sell. But his argument would apply just the same: “Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is.” Or joy. Or love. Or hunger. Or longing. Or need. Or want. All the parts of us that define our humanity and our way of interacting with the world. The things that make us care, that push us towards doing something, finding something out. Saying something and hearing something.
For the longest time OpenAI’s systems would try to block people from generating images in the style of certain artists. This was obviously for copyright reasons, the didn’t want to get sued (even more than they already are). Which is something they just changed very explicitly. You can now easily generate stuff in the style of Studio Ghibli and Sam Altman made his avatar on X-The Nazi Network a ghiblified version of himself.
This means OpenAI has to make more and more announcements so they look to the investors like they’re still cool and interesting. Any old garbage will do, like a literary fiction writer bot or something.
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But I do think it does go further. There is a reason they chose Studio Ghibli. Sure, its style is very cute, very distinct, but that is not the whole story. It’s not that they just picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates their whole approach from the bottom of its heart. OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach.
It is a display of power: You as an artist, an animator, an illustrator, a writer, any creative person are powerless. We will take what we want and do what we want. Because we can.
Because we can. This is the idea of might makes right. The banner that every totalitarian and fascist government rallied under. OpenAI luckily is no government but their ideas, their thinking has influenced many current governments all over the planet. “If we are not allowed to take everything we want without payment and against people’s will, we will never create the machine god to solve all our problems.”
OpenAI’s move is an attempt to see what the reaction to them explicitly, willingly, gleefully breaching another boundary, acting against the explicit and known will of the people they use their machines on. And many in the public seem to eat it up, turning their holiday pics into “Ghibli-style” images.
The scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder (who just left his position at Yale University going to Toronto in a very non-subtle reaction to growing Fascism in the US) write his book “On Tyranny” to give people 20 lessons about how to react to and resist tyrannical movements. The first rule is: “Do not obey in advance.“
This is what many are doing here. Submitting to this logic of injustice and domination in advance. Because it plays well on Instagram or because “it’s just pictures”. But this is submission to a logic of dominance by those who have power. It is a submission of democratic rights and understandings. It is a submission to a vulgar display of power.
And that is why the White House used that tech to [content warning about the following link: It’s a obscene display of violence] illustrate their cruelty against migrants. The cruelty is the point. But so are the other forms of violence displayed.
History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.
(this is a sarcastic post meant to highlight the absurdity of some of the “greater good” rhetoric we’ve been hearing, especially around leaving vulnerable populations like disabled people behind in case of revolution, basically accelerationism)
now that I think of it, it works both ways, you could use it to criticise people who vote for Harris as she obviously didn’t have great policies on things like Palestine.
Or you could use it to criticise people who don’t vote because then they let trump win which is far worse for minorities than Harris.
why would people ever vote for Biden/Harris when they established the legal basis for Palestinians getting deported and mask bans being enacted? they could vote for the proud fascists instead of the fascism-lite.
I also hate the rhetoric pushed by blue MAGA that equates not voting with letting Trump win. I can't recall a single time in history where voting has defeated fascism. Also the fact that the people most impacted by Trump can't vote or don't have accommodations in place to be able to vote.
"And in this case, the Venezuelan men were declared “alien enemies” and shipped to a prison with little or no opportunity to contest the allegations against them, according to migrants, their lawyers, court testimony, judges and interviews with dozens of prisoners’ families conducted by The New York Times.
The government’s public declaration of the act was made on March 15 at 3:53 p.m., according to court records. The migrants were all on flights to El Salvador by 7:36 p.m.
Yet most of the men do not have criminal records in the United States or elsewhere in the region, beyond immigration offenses, a New York Times investigation has found. And very few of them appear to have any clear, documented links to the Venezuelan gang. "
The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.
Honestly, for a community (lemmy) that wanted to get away from corporate stuff (reddit) it pains me to see how even the most basic thing to draw is being delegated to Ai (corporations).
I've come to the conclusion in the last couple weeks I simply can't identify AI images anymore. I have no clue what about this makes everyone call it out as AI, and there's have been many such instances of this happening with me lately. I'm going to get modern day Nigerian princed when I'm older I can feel it in my bones
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This is quite recent but I've been browsing Lemmy a bunch lately and quite often I see extreme grammatical errors.
I'm not talking about like, incorrect stylistic choices between commas and dashes, or an improper use of ellipses or missing commas or incorrect use of apostrophes in its/it's or in multiple posessive articles or just plain typos or any nitpicky grammar nazi shit like that, but just basic spelling specifically.
It's one thing when you can't spell some pretty uncommon words and you're too lazy to look it up and/or use autocorrect, but it's a completely different league to misspell very basic words, very recently I saw someone spell "extreme" as "extream" which is just kind of baffling, I actually can't even imagine how one would make such a mistake?
And it's not been an isolated thing either, I've seen several instances like that lately.
It's not a recent thing, but I would say there has been a decline over the last decade or so. Not only does it seem like spelling and grammar are getting worse but I feel it is much more likely these days to find comments defending improper English rather than correcting it.
I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?
Maybe they had just come from dealing with large quantities of paper? Or enlarging a bunch of holes?
Donald Trump is escalating a battle against institutions that challenge his strongman instincts, including the courts, the legal profession, elite education and the media. The administration is projecting presidential authority in a broader and more overt way than any modern White House.
Its expansive interpretation of statues and questionable interpretations of judges’ rulings is causing alarm about its impact on the rule of law, freedom of expression and the Constitution.
Trump’s own hardline aspirations were revealed through the prism of his increasingly ruthless deportation policy, raising profound questions about apparent abuses of due process and human rights.
The sense of a coming constitutional collision is growing impossible to ignore.
It's been ages since I've really done some deal hunting online with how ubiquitious Amazon is I've realized I'm not up to date with the current ecosystem for finding trustworthy online storefronts. Do you have any sources/tips for finding good quality products (especially with all the AI slop that exists nowadays)?
Idk, Aliexpress has plenty of the nonsensical names still. At least on the product listing, often the name isn't bothered to be put on the product itself. However, for American's Trump is wanting to handicap the de minimis for China.
Contro ogni previsione personale, nonché anche più in generale degli appassionati del #TIMfonino — di cui a questo punto non posso troppo biasimare un’eventuale perdita di interesse nell’argomento (cosa che mi renderebbe l’unica persona sul pianeta Terra a cui frega ancora qualcosa di questo merdaio telefonico, pensate che vita), ecco che ho appena finalmente rilasciato […]
Contro ogni previsione personale, nonché anche più in generale degli appassionati del #TIMfonino — di cui a questo punto non posso troppo biasimare un’eventuale perdita di interesse nell’argomento (cosa che mi renderebbe l’unica persona sul pianeta Terra a cui frega ancora qualcosa di questo merdaio telefonico, pensate che vita), ecco che ho appena finalmente rilasciato l’unboxing di questo smartphone dell’assoluta malora… 👹 (Stavolta senza fare troppi danni col taglierino, sto diventando bimba grande.)
Che dire a riguardo? Nulla di troppo buono. Né sul telefono in sé, che giustamente avendo avuto già da un mese (per quanto ancora non provato tantissimo, perché in questa vita saltano sempre fuori gli impedimenti e gli inconvenienti, al punto che aiuto non è possibile aiuto perché non riesco a trovare mai un minimo di pace e stare veramente bene senza distrarmi con le cose più assurde ed inumane di questo piano di realtà pur di poter resistere allo stesso e poter quindi evitare di passare definitivamente a quello etereo—) ho già potuto leggermente commentare in questo video, anche se è solo un #unboxing e primo avvio (altro che sbusto!)… e nemmeno roba troppo buona su di me che, qualcuno lo saprà, ho procrastinato per intere settimane il completamento del montaggio del video, nonostante ammontasse alla semplice scrittura a schermo dei sottotitoli (per non lasciare a secco di parole un #video che è altrimenti muto). 🤗
A parte il fatto che incredibilmente ha VoLTE (altro che JioPhone…), ma non so se funziona su Vodafone, per ora non ho nient’altro da dire su questo dispositivo… guardatevi il video, che dura una frazione del tempo che ci ho messo io a prepararlo. Anche perché, se dopo quasi 1 mese preciso alla fine l’ho caricato, vuol dire che è buono… il video, non il telefono. Godetevi i momenti #ASMR con sotto la lieve musica caricante-rilassante, e rallegratevi pensando che i 16 euro li ho buttati io per questo aggeggio, non voi… poi, se sarà il caso (se), uscirà una recensione. 💣
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Top Trump official Stephen Miller's recent declaration that anyone who "preaches hate for America" will face deportation has ignited alarm online, with critics warning the statement disregards First Amendment protections.
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Social media users and legal analysts raised immediate concerns, pointing out that expressing dissent or criticism of the government is protected under the First Amendment. Some worried the administration was veering into authoritarian territory.
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The backlash has reignited broader debates over the limits of free speech, especially as civil liberties fall under scrutiny. While immigration enforcement remains a core theme of President Donald Trump's platform, critics are increasingly questioning whether rhetoric like Miller's is a precursor to more aggressive suppression of dissent.
For us, yes. For Republicans, no. In Trump's first term:
He stacked the Supreme Court in his favor (2 of the 3 he appointed helped steal the 2000 election for Bush) He appointed a record number of federal judges (260, most of which come from the Federalist Society) He reversed a CFPB rule that made it easier to file class action lawsuits against banks for fucking us over He oversaw more federal executions of prisoners than any president in 120 years He cut corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%, the lowest rate since 1939 He pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and our spot was filled by China
There is so much more that he got done which set the stage for what is happening now. For example, he tried to pass about two thirds of the Heritage Foundation's 'Mandate for Leadership' policies in his first term, which is what inspired them to write 'Project 2025', another iteration of the Mandate on steroids.
The fact that Trump lost the election in 2020 is a total fluke, and it took a global pandemic that killed over a million Americans to make him lose.
His first term was far from a shit show in terms of making the current shit show possible.
As we all know, a person defines themselves through their actions. So does a country.
Imho, saying Trump(ism) isn't America is like people who do evil, but still think they are good people. Admitting you have a problem is the first step in getting better. You need to hate what America has become. Shifting the blame to the current administration just lets people feel good about themselves. They shouldn't. There is work to do.
The second step is meeting up with others in your community already working to fix it.
Yep. At least 30% of americans supported this maga crap while the majority did nothing to stop him. As a Canadian, I'm not going to distinguish between those who supported trump and those who didn't care enough to stop him. Both are equally responsible, and both must pay the price. Personally, i'm hoping the price will be so great that the US will split apart. Of course, Canada alone won't make the US disappear, but the world united against the US absolutely will.
Bigoted dipshit? You realise a country is represented by their government right, especially a democracy? Your people voted for him and if he decides to genocide others, torture them, start wars, annex other countries or do whatever the fk evil shit, it reflects your people as a whole. Why should other countries give you the GRACE of being spared your precious feelings when their people are being attacked and suffering the consequences of YOUR government's actions? You're a priviledged asshole if you think people should GRACE you with their fucking patience and goodwill when your government is attacking them!!!
Nobody said all Americans support their government you reading comprehension challenged moron, we said your government reflects your people. Since so many voted for him and still support him and since you lived in a DEMOCRACY your government represented your PEOPLE (that's literally what the word DEMOCRACY stands for); there is clearly something wrong with your people's fkin culture. Just like there was something wrong with German culture in the 1940s (DUH) and pointing it out and having unfavourable views of the current American culture and people is NOT bigotry. You live in a dictatorship and there's way too many people going with it to say it isn't supported on a wide scale. Wake the fk up. My husband is literally American and he understands this concept that people outside the US will see Americans a certain way, because so many are letting it happen. What is wrong with you?
Edit: That user has a history of getting their comments removed by mods AND telling others that they are "dumb" or lack reading comprehension when THEY are the ones misrepresenting what is being said (hence they get downvoted to hell when they do it). Talk about projection. What a joke. Blocked and forgotten.
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Le porte scorrevoli rappresentano una soluzione elegante e pratica per ottimizzare gli spazi, ideale per ambienti piccoli o open space. Consentono di eliminare l’ingombro dell’anta tradizionale, migliorando la funzionalità e l’estetica degli interni. Disponibili in vari materiali e stili, si adattano sia a case moderne che classiche, offrendo anche soluzioni personalizzate. Le porte scorrevoli, a scomparsa o esterno muro, coniugano design e comfort, valorizzando gli ambienti e migliorando la vivibilità degli spazi domestici.
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in reply to 0x01 • • •They are a finite resource. And China has the biggest reserves.
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Rare-Earth Reserves by Country 2025
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in reply to BrikoX • • •They have the most known reserves. China has subsidized the rare earth market for decades, so capitalism hasn't really bothered with their exploration elsewhere; there has been little incentive beyond "national security".
There will definitely be considerable reserves in Canada, US, Australia, Africa, probably Russia. The problem is infrastructure, expertise, and the volume of highly-toxic pollution that mining and refining them entail.
Everything electronic, and dependent on electronics (everything), is about to see a lot of inflation. Yay!
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