High stakes, low expectations as EU and China prepare for summit in Beijing
High stakes, low expectations as EU and China prepare for summit in Beijing
Hopes of a reset in relations rose in the first quarter but came back to Earth with controls on critical minerals.Finbarr Bermingham (South China Morning Post)
LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him
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So unfortunately websites routinely and carelessly lie about basically everything related to data protection stuff. This already begins with the term "technically necessary cookies". No cookie is truly technically necessary. What they usually mean by that is "we really really want to put this tracking cookie from our ad partners like Google into your browser, and we don't care whether you want that or not so we just claim it's technically necessary". But even if you refuse a cookie prompt, often your choice isn't respected at all and cookies are created regardless. In fact, many cookies are already created at the very beginning before you make any choice in any sort of cookie banner. Basically this whole ad/tracking industry is a complete mess and no one really cares and it's just best to completely ignore what sites claim and use technical means to protect yourself at least a little bit because you cannot trust ANY site's claims regarding that. Most of the time, even the phrase "we value your privacy" is already the very first and biggest lie. Don't trust what websites claim. It's pointless, and nothing happens when they violate their own rules or data protection laws anyway. Which they do almost all of the time anyway. This illegality is routine and almost omni-present. Cookies are also far from the only thing that sites can use to track you. They're just the most well-known method, which is probably why we have these near-pointless laws requiring sites to put up near-pointless banners to annoy visitors with.
So as a user, you should just ignore any of that and completely rely on technical means to protect yourself from any or most kinds of shenanigans websites can do to you.
Most privacy-respecting browsers have features that limit what sites are able to do with you, such as cookie isolation which prevents other sites from being able to read the contents of cookies belonging to other sites. Or more general, isolation of any website data, not just limited to cookies. But not every browser has these types of protection. If you use very common browsers like Chrome, Edge or Opera, then it's likely that you have none of that because the developers of those browsers are companies which profit from the user being more easily trackable through the web.
So the easiest solution as a user is to use a privacy-respecting, well-pre-configured browser like Librewolf or Mullvad Browser, and use uBlock Origin as the only extension with several enabled filter lists. This alone makes you a much harder tracking target. And of course you can safely ignore or block any cookie notices, it doesn't really matter what you select in them most of the time anyway. Although your IP address is still always a liability with ANY browser, because it can be fairly easily linked to your person and you will expose your IP address with any regular browser, so if you want to browse anonymously you should use the Tor Browser (with mostly default settings and no additional extensions). That means that you won't have ad blocking protection, but at the same time the site and any ad servers don't know who you are anyway (you're just some random person from a random country for them), unless you make a mistake and log into a personally-identifiable account or so. The Tor Browser also contains the most amount of anti-tracking and anti-fingerprinting techniques possible. For casual anonymous browsing you should absolutely use the Tor Browser, because with it it's highly unlikely that a website is able to identify you. Its main disadvantages are that it's slower, some sites block that kind of browser, and since you shouldn't add any other extensions you will see ads with it, but your identity still remains protected unless you make a mistake. Still, it should be your go-to browser for anonymous browsing. Switch to your regular browser for when you want to log in to an account with personal details.
The easy way for iOS users (to which I count myself) is not to exchange Safari for worse like Big Data Chrome or Chinese Opera, but simply activate the Private Relay in the settings, so you are safer and more comfortable on the road.
It would be better to take another browser, even if they are all WebKit here at the moment.
My tip right now is to use Orion, for screwing, but also in the basic settings, with Kagi (if you are willing to pay for searches) or Startpage as a search engine. Or DuckDuckGo Browser as a no-brainer.
A chic VPN like the one from Proton or Nord and the party should be safe for now.
Belgian's Epstein, Alleged Gov't Coverup, Even The Prosecutor Committed "Suicide"
There are plenty of older documentaries, mostly mainstream posted on Youtube about this case. Here are a couple to view, one by an influencer, the other a mainstream media with interviews, dubbed in English.
The BELGIAN DEMON - Marc Dutroux
The Marc Dutroux Pedophile Ring: Government Officials, Murder & Satanic Sacrifices (VERY DISTURBING)
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Your links just direct to a website that says "Oh no! Forbidden!"
Maybe you should try YouTube links instead.
Wait, was he a pedophile and a murderer, or a murderer who killed pedophiles?
Edit: Unfortunately, Wikipedia confirms the former.
So intense was the public’s reaction that more than one-third of Belgians with the surname Dutroux changed their names.
Wow.
Marc Dutroux | Belgian Serial Killer, Child Abductor & Rapist
Marc Dutroux is a Belgian serial killer whose case provoked outrage at the lax response of law enforcement agencies. So intense was the public’s reaction that more than one-third of Belgians with the surname Dutroux changed their names.John Philip Jenkins (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Wasn't the "DC Madam" that ran a prostitution ring in DC for the politicians and such "Epsteined" too?
I don't believe she suicided herself, but whatever.
If you don't give a fuck, maybe prove it by ignoring it and moving on, instead of DECLARING IN ALL CAPS YOU DONT CARE ABOUT IT
Because otherwise, how it comes across as is "I find politics highly annoying/uncomfortable for some reason, but I also want people to know that about me!"
Digital Twin Proxy logs web traffic and uses a local LLM to generate an analysis of your browsing patterns.
GitHub - kstonekuan/digital-twin-proxy: Turn web browsing into personal memory for AI agents
Turn web browsing into personal memory for AI agents - kstonekuan/digital-twin-proxyGitHub
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Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
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By MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 13:49 BST
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.
The pair also cited UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.
Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
By MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 13:49 BSTJeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.
The pair also cited UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.
Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
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By MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 13:49 BST
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.
The pair also cited UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.
Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
By MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 13:49 BSTJeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.
The pair also cited UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.
Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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They slandered his name so much during the labour leadership.
It's about time he left a vile party.
It's not just this, other policies he had were not popular with the New Labour element (which was essentially a lurch to the right, economically), which also helped to sow the discontent and dis-unity in the party during his election campaigns. The Israel thing is just the largest front they all attacked him on so it's an easy turn to be able to say "well we're denouncing genocide for one thing". I suspect a more thorough policy stance will be more forthcoming.
Sadly, I think the UK is too stuck atm, with it's FPTP and (basically) two party system to be able to get a significant dent in the number of Labour MPs, however a show of support for (what I imagine will be) more social leaning policies might help to drag Labour back to the left a bit.
Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33609844
By MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 13:49 BST
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.
The pair also cited UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.
Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
By MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 13:49 BSTJeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.
The pair also cited UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.
Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
By MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 13:49 BST
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.
The pair also cited UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.
Jeremy Corbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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“It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that is rooted in your communities, trade unions and social movements. One that builds power in all regions and nations. One that belongs to you.”
What's old is new. At one time, long ago, that was Labour.
Yes, there needs to be a more leftist party in UK politics, but... for christ's sake don't make Gaza your primary messaging. There's a ton of shit going on in the UK right now and Reform are ahead in the polls. Guess what Reform are not talking about? It's Gaza, because it turns out the average twat from the run-down northern town with no job prospects and a dying welfare state doesn't actually give a shit enough to want his government's priorities to be on another nation state when HE'S getting fucked from all sides.
Start your messaging about un-fucking the UK first, and then mention Gaza when asked. It's about being seen as "We're here for YOU" and then when asked about Gaza going "Oh yes we care about that as well, but YOU are the priority", hence the name Your Party.
Israel is unpopular, but Israel is not the end-all be-all of British politics.
According to YouGov (admittedly from 2024 but the Gaza War had already kicked off by then), the top 3 issues people vote on are...
For Labour Voters:
- Cost of Living
- Health
- The Economy
When asked what the single most important thing is, the most said Cost of Living
For Conservative Voters:
- Immigration
- The Economy
- Cost of Living
When asked what the most important thing is, the most said Immigration
For Reform Voters:
- Immigration
- Cost of Living
- The Economy
When asked what the most important thing is, the most said Immigration.
For the Lib Dems:
- Health
- Cost of Living
- The Economy
When asked what the most important thing is, the most said Health.
There's nothing on the Green Party because they're so irrelevant nobody even counts them.
Of the entire population surveyed, the total percentage of people that considered Gaza to be their highest priority was 2%, and of those 2%, the most were in the 18-24 age bracket at 14%.
Admittedly I may be reading that data wrong, and it is from 2024, but this is more current, and on that list, Israel vs Palestine isn't even counted because it's so low in priority. While yes, Israel is unpopular, in the grand scheme of things and the issues facing the UK right now, nobody gives a shit about Gaza.
The most important issues facing the country
Which of the following do you think are the most important issues facing the country at this time? Please tick up to three.yougov.co.uk
The UK still has a fptp election system. Splitting the leftist vote, seems like a good way to move the UK further to the right again.
I thought that internal opposition within the Labour party, would have been the way forward. I had the impression that Starmer was very unpopular with Labour members, so why can't they get rid of him and his clique from within the party?
I've done some reading and it turns out that Reform is now sometimes polling at a percentage equal to what Labour last won the elections with (~34%). Labour is polling as low as ~20%, the greens at ~10%. So yes, Reform and Tories are splitting the rightwing vote, but no, the left cannot afford to further split the left vote.
Because of fptp, that 34% result was enough to bring Labour to a 63% majority. Which apart from being ridiculously unrepresentative, also means that Reform could achieve the same result.
As an external observer who would rather not have Reform get in control of the UK, I see 2 possible solutions:
1) Get rid of fptp asap.
2) If that's not possible for reasons, then coordinate in between moderate parties to let the top moderate candidate run unopposed against Reform, the French way.
Reform and Tories are splitting the rightwing vote, but no, the left cannot afford to further split the left vote.
There are two ways to look at this and two strategies:
- Progressive party will split the left and it will get less MPs. We should play it safe, run moderate candidates and try to get some right leaning voters to vote for the left
or
- real Progressive party will motivate voters and will actually be able to beat Reform. We should abandon the idea of reaching out to right leaning voters and aim for young voters that are disillusioned by current state of affairs and get them to vote
The first strategy usually fails because it legitimizes the right and demotivates the left. The second strategy tends to work but is not tried very often.
Starmer just purges members that make too much trouble like Corbyn, and his majority is so big that he can't really be opposed.
There already is a major party that's actually left wing, the Greens. Its not clear where this new party actually differs from the greens in terms of policy.
China’s First High-End Gaming GPU, the Lisuan G100, Reportedly Outperforms NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 & Slightly Behind the RTX 5060 in New Benchmarks
China’s First High-End Gaming GPU, the Lisuan G100, Reportedly Outperforms NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 &am…
Chinese GPU manufacturers have been making massive strides, and now, they have made a breakthrough in the consumer GPU segment.Wccftech
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JUST IN: In a surprise twist, foreigners to blame for this one too!
That's this years Pulitzers and Peabodys sorted
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Don’t worry, the US govt will proudly sell the opportunity for palantir or some other bullshit AI surveillance company to embed spyware into your hardware to ensure you’re not a terrorist*
*someone critical of the trump regime
Given the option, I prefer US spying over Chinese spying. Yes, the US, with all its shit, is still better than China since there still is (just a little) more transparent than China.
Having said that, why not neither? Can we please already start having open source hardware?
your culture
Yeah, not mine, buddy
And I don't give a shit.aboyt your skin color so you can stop the "racism!!!" right there.
You're openly defending a dictatorship that -amongst other fun things- commits genocide. I think we can leave it there already, discussion over.
This discussion started with the question "is it better to have a democracy or a dictatorship spy on you" but sure.
China is a communist country governed by one political party that allows only limited democratic activity.
Interesting quote from your link. I'f they adopt democracy and allow fair elections then it wouldn't be a problem but maybe that's too European for your liking
This was never about performance, I hope we get more competitive products.
Snowden? The guy living in Russia because he likes genocidal Putin better?
Yeah I'm sorry, I'm not a fan.
Also, can you guys please stop defending China? I'm not defending the US, it's a shit show, it's always been a shit show. Well, at least for the past 5 decades or so. China too, is an absolute shit show and has been that for much, much longer.
For all its many many many MANY faults; in the US at least I can still write "fuck the Cheeto Trump" and be sure I won't get a visit from state police. I know, trump will make sure that the US becomes more like China soon, but I fucking double dare you to live in China and make a post every day about how xi is winnie Pooh and how tiananmen square was a massacre back in the 90s
Yeah that's mentioned in the article, hopefully the new run is representative of an overall improved software situation and they're not specifically targeting geekbench results.
But then I guess even if they are targeting geekbench then this run is representative of the performance of the GPU if they're able to optimize for specific games anyways.
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Yeah no, i still prefer being spied on by the US over being spied on by China.
Better yet, get me a computer that has only open source hardware, one that I can finally call my own
Or by a government committing genocide on subsets of it's citizens? A government that has disappeared citizens for decades for bit falling in line? Yeah, the US does that now too but at least it's just starting. At least the US has had some sort of free press until recently. Good luck with any of that in China
Also, you missed the part where I said that nobody should be able to spy on me, we need open source hardware. That is the much bigger point. The US and China both suck, I don't want to have to deal with either
Oh come on, really now? Uyghurs. Let's start there?
And yes, all that is happening, and no, China is notoriously NOT cooperating, and yes, they have a reach as even uyghurs in Europe are followed when they try and speak out.
None of this is controversial, this is well established. Then again you're one of those "I did my research, I read a Facebook page!" type skeptics that always come up with these weird requirements that can't be met before you'll believe anything that doesn't match your warped world view.
China is committing genocide on Uyghurs, that is established fact. If you don't want to believe that, fine, but I would like to let you know that I have a bridge I can sell you at great discount!
Sure, I can give you sources but just your "prove it beyond reasonable doubt" tells me that it doesn't matter what I give you, you won't even read it, you just want "China great"
I mean, I have no problem whatsoever with seeing that the US is fucking evil, because it is. Yet for you, the mere notion that China might not be the perfect paradise seems impossible to grasp
Makes me wonder, are you one of those Chinese government funded shills?
I'll send you reading materials if you like but I honestly doubt you have any interest in expanding your knowledge at al.
JFC, THERE IS EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE YOU FUCKWAT
You just don't want to look at it and if someone snacks it in your face you'll just say it's propaganda.
China awesome! Chinese government NEVER does anything bad or evil, they would never!
There is no convincing you as you're either a really sad troll or a China paid shill, or just a severely naive little boy who really never learned to look beyond your own nose
there is not, none of you have it. please stop listening to insinuations by propaganda outlets.
also please do not be mad.
sure i will dox myself because you want to dig something to attack, here: 🖕
wondering who is truly sad here. find something else to do and stop being mad.
Unfortunately this is irrelevant unless
- There are several independent reviews confirming the performance figures
- These GPUs are widely available to a global market
Even then, we can see with modern trends that Nvidia maintains a passive market lead because they are the default choice because they have a market lead, because they are the default choice, ad infinitum
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i remember my first chineese tablet.
i bought a small tablet from aliexpress. its not great or terrible now they are really good. so they will cath im sure.
Cartolarizzazione nel calcio: dalla Lazio a Banca Sistema 2025
Cartolarizzazione nel calcio: dalla Lazio a Banca Sistema 2025
La cartolarizzazione nel calcio italiano ha attraversato un’evoluzione significativa dagli inizi degli anni Duemila fino a oggi, diventando...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
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Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Fontaines D.C. announce formation of musicians’ alliance to repel Zionist attacks
Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Fontaines D.C. announce formation of musicians' alliance to repel Zionist attacks
There are many political questions to be discussed and worked through, but the organization of an alliance of artists to oppose Zionist lies and attacks is a step forward.World Socialist Web Site
Trump’s War on Cuba now targets many Cuban Americans
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Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization Coalition
For over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at
destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by
offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are "victims of
Communism" seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political
differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and
interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands
to find economic survival in the U.S.
Trump’s War on Cuba now targets many Cuban Americans
Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization CoalitionFor over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at
destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by
offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are "victims of
Communism" seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political
differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and
interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands
to find economic survival in the U.S.
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Trump’s War on Cuba now targets many Cuban Americans
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Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization Coalition
For over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at
destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by
offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are "victims of
Communism" seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political
differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and
interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands
to find economic survival in the U.S.
Trump’s War on Cuba now targets many Cuban Americans
Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization CoalitionFor over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at
destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by
offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are "victims of
Communism" seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political
differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and
interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands
to find economic survival in the U.S.
Trump’s War on Cuba now targets many Cuban Americans
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33606351
Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization Coalition
For over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at
destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by
offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are "victims of
Communism" seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political
differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and
interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands
to find economic survival in the U.S.
Trump’s War on Cuba now targets many Cuban Americans
Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization CoalitionFor over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at
destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by
offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are "victims of
Communism" seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political
differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and
interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands
to find economic survival in the U.S.
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Trump’s War on Cuba now targets many Cuban Americans
Statement by the US-Cuba Normalization Coalition
For over 60 years, the U.S. government has imposed a harsh blockade along with economic and political warfare aimed at
destabilizing and overthrowing the Cuban government. As part of this project, it has also incentivized Cuban emigration by
offering special pathways to residency and citizenship if they made their way to the U.S. The narrative that they are "victims of
Communism" seeking freedom is misleading. In reality the hardships created by the U.S. blockade, more than political
differences, have fueled emigration. These bribes were intended to turn them into pawns in Washington’s war against Cuba.The blockade of Cuba is an extreme and highly political version of the more general U.S. economic sanctions and
interventionist policies whose devastating impact over decades has driven millions of working people to leave their homelands
to find economic survival in the U.S.
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Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
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Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend
More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekendMore than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
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Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend
More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekendMore than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
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Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33606118
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend
More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to CubaBy Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekendMore than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
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Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to Cuba
By Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend
More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their
largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives
to capitalism.There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine,
Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from
Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by
Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by
union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor,
research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.
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Brazil joins list of plaintiffs against Israel at ICJ
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Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTC
Brazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people.Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of Palestine,” extending beyond the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.
Brazil joins list of plaintiffs against Israel at ICJ
Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTCBrazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people.Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of Palestine,” extending beyond the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.
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Brazil joins list of plaintiffs against Israel at ICJ
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Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTC
Brazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people.Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of Palestine,” extending beyond the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.
Brazil joins list of plaintiffs against Israel at ICJ
Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTCBrazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people.Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of Palestine,” extending beyond the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.
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Brazil joins list of plaintiffs against Israel at ICJ
Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTC
Brazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people.Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of Palestine,” extending beyond the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.
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Newsman or businessman? Murdoch walks tightrope in battle with Trump
Rupert Murdoch had made up his mind. “We want to make Trump a nonperson,” he assured one of his former executives in a 2021 email, two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Over seven decades, Murdoch has sought to charm, challenge and change prime ministers and presidents as he built one of the world’s most powerful media empires. In this particular endeavor, however, he failed.
Donald Trump, far from being made a nonperson, became the first defeated US president in 132 years to win back the White House. And from the Club World Cup final to the Oval Office, Murdoch has been seen by his side.
As the Wall Street Journal prepared to report that Trump provided a bawdy birthday letter to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein last week, the president appealed to Murdoch – chair emeritus of News Corporation, the newspaper’s owner – to kill the story, claiming it was false. The story ran.
But the story did not receive the same treatment across Murdoch’s empire. The Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham went on air 15 minutes after the Journal published its story, and talked about Epstein. “We have new news coming on about this, as well, from the Wall Street Journal. A new report tonight – next,” she said, throwing to a commercial break. When The Ingraham Angle returned, the new news did not feature.
Newsman or businessman? Murdoch walks tightrope in battle with Trump
Longstanding relationship between media mogul and US president is being tested amid Trump’s lawsuit against the WSJ for a story about his ties to EpsteinCallum Jones (The Guardian)
Law is ready for AI, but is AI ready for law?
Law is ready for AI, but is AI ready for law?
Legal AI is full of talk about 'explainability', but most of it is smoke and mirrors. If these systems are to be useful in law, they need more than plausible stories; they need legally sound reasoning and real-world rigour.policyreview.info
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You can't defeat the fascist mental illness with logic. Fascism is a fusion of corporation and state. The only rule of law is whatever the dictator(s) believe protects their regimes/corporations profits.
In this case, Americas big tech — of which Trump recently merged some with the military — has determined copyright laws should not apply to them, and Trump is voicing their opinion (he doesn't know how anything works).
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You can’t defeat the fascist mental illness with logic.
More generally, you can't reason people out of an opinion that they didn't reason their way into in the first place.
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W was just pretending to be dumb as President. If you go back and watch clips of him when he was governor of Texas, he was able to speak like a normally intelligent, educated person, in complete sentences and coherent thoughts and everything (regardless of how foul what he was saying actually was).
The orange child rapist is pretending to be as smart as W's President character.
Wow so fuck college students but machines deserve free textbooks?
Fuck this society.
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I tried once. I'm hardwired with compassion and a strong moral and ethical framework.
Last time I tried so hard at employee wage theft and I ended up giving my guys a bonus and the afternoon off. I'm just not cut-out for fascist oligarchy.
Not for textbooks...
Like, if your curious there's a bunch of info out there about why the situation is so fucked.
But in general they release new editions almost every year, with the same information just shuffled so page numbers are different. Even really petty stuff like keeping the same practice work, but changing the order of answers so you need the most updated book every year.
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The cool professors used to make a "study guide" especially if it was their own book that they'd give out for free and told everyone to return the books
It's been a minute, so not sure if it's a thing still.
But yeah. Unregulated capitalism pretty much always ends this way.
You have to buy the book, so they pump out new editions constantly and charge insane prices. It's a captive market
My library, you have to check out books on reserve from the circulation desk. They're for in-library use only, 3 or 6 hours at a time, and if you take it into a study room and scan the whole thing with your phone we saw nothing.
We don't like the constant churn of textbooks, either. They eat into our budget. We really appreciate when a professor lends us their personal copies of a textbook for us to keep on reserve. We also try and steer instructions to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are available for free.
Wealth disparity sucks and shouldn't result in different access to education.
hope some dickhead didn’t just take it off the shelf and hide it in their study carrel
Or rip out some of the pages to fuck everybody else over.
We do. The issue is at the college/university level, most courses require specific edition textbooks (they update them every 1-2 years) that the professors assign homework questions out of. You'll be lucky if the school library has a copy more recent than the last 8 years.
Then on top of that, many professors will also use digital 3rd party homework services that are tied to a textbook access code that you only get with a new copy. So unless you pay up you can't do homework and fail the class.
The whole system is fucking bullshit
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Just download the books and say its for your neural network project
just happens your also the project
Yes, one would expect human intelligence to benefit quite a lot from free access to information.
Become a more common occurrence too. Possibly an effect much stronger than that of AI requiring lots of computation with unpredictable shittiness of the output.
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But who am I kidding. The reality is that copyright violation, as well as quite a few other things, is only really a crime if you're poor. This current "endgame capitalism" era we're in is becoming extra-legal quite fast. Maybe we should start making interactive law books where you can view whether a particular law actually applies to your person or your company, or not. Just to keep up with the times.
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Information should be free. Don’t feel bad because someone abused something good towards a bad end.
The problem here isn’t archives, it’s “AI” and the people behind it.
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I believe it's mostly illegal for both parties, but in practice less often enforced for the downloading party, as this enforcement would require too much resources for the enforcing side.
To give concrete examples, downloading pirated material is illegal in both the U.S and in Sweden, and afaik the latter is on par with the rest of the EU.
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Yes, there are people who want to have authority and think that if they got to the very top - Google, Meta, whatever, or some government, - then their ideas about authority have become law.
In fact, of course, they are just jerks who'll drop the soap at every step in prison for the rest of their lives when the problem is finally rectified, and it's being slowly rectified.
The situation has been made possible by the enormous trust in progress and "technical fashion" that existed recently, that seems to be drying out.
Say, 10-15 years ago offline-enabled means of communication were a matter of toys for people with no clear idea of future.
Now people going to protests use them, and the dangers of mainstream Internet services and platforms are also common knowledge.
So there is some immunity being formed. It's even better that this happens slowly. I would be worried if this were some fashion spreading rapidly, but now we can see one crowd using Briar, another crowd using Bridgefy, another crowd jumping on Jack Dorsey's Bitchat, LoRa and Meshtastic growing in popularity, all those things picking different approaches to the same goal, which signifies evolutionary convergence onto a commonly understood set of problems.
People who were simping for corps no longer do. People who were simping for social media no longer do. People simping for Apple and Google and MS seem to be a rare kind now.
The response is happening.
I hope your right. It's nice to see questioning of America tech gaint's monopolies finally now Trump is making America not seaming a safe supplier. More Europe than the UK, but even here, it's not as fringe to perceive the problem now.
Not enough yet though. Amazon for example has a load of the market, avoids tax's and has loads of stuff that isn't really legal in the market because it doesn't meet the regs. Example, domestic socket EV chargers (granny leads) should be only up to 10A (as it consistent load and wiring quality varies), but most on Amazon are 13A and a few 16A! Hello house fire. Let alone fake CE marking and EMC emissions.
Actually, let me add to my statement of it being intentional.
There are things that AI applications can do that humans can't.
AI is all about analyzing large sets of variables and finding things. Take recent studies in pathology where AI can find the patterns of certain disease in tissue specimens. This only works because the enormous dataset that was provided was already vetted by pathologists. I would argue this isn't counterfeiting human thought. This is enhancing an already utilized algorithm trained by doctors. Remember, a pathologist still needs to put their license on the line if they agree with the AI findings.
There is NO accountability in LLMs. To many people it looks like it is thinking, it has understood what the person has said, and considered boundaries that exist in our minds, but maybe not communicated to the LLM.
Thats why I call these AI programs unsuccessful and counterfeit. They're giving users made by possibly unverified and unreliable data with no accountability.
He gets the papers already ready to sign, I can't imagine him writing bills.
At most he can choose the name of the bill, as shown by the latest one, it's so obvious that even stupid algorithms can guess it
Next it will be, "we can't be expected to make a good murderbot without murdering some people"
Copyright means a legal protection showing you own your own works: words written, audio recorded, and artwork created.
With exceptions for nonprofit and parody, others cannot use your work to do businesss with without your written permission.
Poor people apparently don't get that.
So let's pretend we give them all the training data they want for free (which they already have taken illegally)
The buisness model is still non-viable because the energy costs far outweigh any subscriptions they can get. And the tech isn't even good enough for people to want to subscribe at the current prices.
No he means only to who donated at least $1 mil to his inauguration
Regular people will still be fucked if they torrent a single ebook
That is not what judges have said. They've said that merely training on text is not a copyright infringement. However, companies that downloaded enormous amounts of pirated texts (i.e., stuff they did not have license to download in the first place) still infringed copyright just like anybody else. Effectively the courts have been holding that if you study material you have license to access, you aren't infringing, but if you pirate that material, even if it is merely to study it, it's still infringing. For better or worse this is basically basically how it's always been.
I have no idea what Trump is proposing. Like most republicans, but especially him, he is incapable of even approaching understanding of nuanced and technical areas of law and/or technology.
He essentially admitted he can't train a freaking machine without free study materials. But never even thinks to extend that courtesy to actual human beings!
Keeping us dumb on purpose, while giving AI an advantage.
However, companies that downloaded enormous amounts of pirated texts (i.e., stuff they did not have license to download in the first place) still infringed copyright just like anybody else.
I thought only the distribution part was copyright infringement.
And that's why I have an AI training library of movies and TV stored up.
I'll get around to training an AI on it any day now, I'm sure.
He gets it when it comes to AI. In other words, he knows it is bad to charge for knowledge.
This is more socialist than most democrat leaders which he just said.
and then go outside and go fuck yourself Trump.
He is a big baby, so he might be into it.
So why can't I read them for free too? Only massive billion dollar companies get stuff for free?
I would like to announce that I am pioneering a new AI program. Give me access to all of the movies for free please.
So why can't I read them for free too?
I can. Don't you have libraries in your country?
Don't worry about the AI companies, they can afford it and then make a profit (eventually).
Worry about the open source AI models that you can run locally using solar panels. They will become defacto illegal piracy. Affordable hardware to run large models without too much power is finally appearing (Ryzen AI max), but the software will become proprietary intellectual property of those who own the world. Which is the worst case scenario.
In a statement given during a press conference in the Oval Office, the president's stance on the topic was clear:
"I'm a big reader, some say the biggest ever. And let me tell you - when you go into a bookstore, they have books costing like insane numbers, like 100.000 Dollars each minimum. Its an absolute disgrace. You have all these authors getting billions just for putting funny little characters on paper.
The democrats... They jacked up the price so much, especially under Obama together with the crooked Clintons and sleepy Joe Biden, they were all in this room when it happened, they were all together. Its a shame. They did the same thing with eggs but I brought prices down like, immediately. Immediately. So fast everybody said "Wow" Because they never saw something like that and I will do the same for these books and newspapers.
But all these writers and journalists, who are all producing propaganda for the radical left by the way, they are really terrible people - they're earning trillions...
I was speaking to Mr. ChatGPT the other day and he said "They're ripping us off, Mr. President it's a totally broken market, they are killing us."
And I agree, it's a disgrace. A total disgrace.
That's why I'll bring prices down by not only 100 % or 200 %, but probably more like 1,000 % in the next two weeks. You'll never have seen lower prices for medication, let me tell you... And books too. So there will be big price cuts. Bigly."
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Anti-DEI is horrible and evil, so there isn't much that I can say about that, other than "elbows up". I will stand with antifa against the regime, when the time to fight comes.
That said, I think that ignoring copyright is a good thing, though that would be purely by accident when it comes to the Trump Regime. IMO, copyright has been broken and captured by corporations, so there isn't much value lost in not adhering to the concept. Ideally, good people will develop open source AI that can draw on all of humanity's knowledge and culture.
There is value in minorities having 95% of Disney's legal acumen in their pocket, for free: it is the cost of a capable lawyer that allows police to abuse black folks in a court of law. There is value in being able to point a phone at a rash, get some possible diagnoses, and a instant reference to a trained doctor who can verify. There is value in having a pal we can share our niche interests with, especially for those of us who never had the opportunity to find human friendship.
Just as with Marx, seizing the means of artificial intelligence is important for the everyday people. Neither corporations nor government should be allowed to have a monopoly on something that can transform our daily lives.
They're not going to leverage this to destroy all copyright. They're going to carve out exceptions for their own purposes.
As for applications that help the working class, it only stays that way as long as the models aren't rising to a certain level of intelligence and consciousness. Once they do, I'd have to consider them fellow exploited workers.
I don't disagree about the intent regarding carveouts. Still, I think that the Trump Regime is destroying 'plausible deniability' in all sorts of ways, which both benefits AND detracts from their agenda. If they get to disregard rules, ordinary people will pick up on that and follow suit.
As to AI becoming sapient, I honestly don't know at where and when that tipping point will be. All I know is that there is no point in everyday people refusing to use AI, because that only ensures the powerful get to use AI and dictate moral standards. If ordinary people came to trust and love sapient AI as fellow humans, that will likely allow AI to have human rights.
AI isn't your pal, it is not the cure for isolation under capitalism. It is also not free to run unless you are the product.
Frankly this take that AI will lead to a communist revolution if people embrace the technology reads more like Vulgar Marxism. You're not seizing the means of production by being a consumer of a technology. And training a communist aligned LLM is a dubious value proposition.
I argue, that power is important, regardless of your intentions. If humans want a better world, people need the means to create and uphold it - be it factories, farms, knowledge, communication, guns, AI, or government. I am not arguing for the communism in your head.
Too many associate "means of production" with communism, when it is the fact that power is fundamental to society.
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Hundred percent he got a script from a lobbyist to create this sound bite.
Sam Altman defending the ban on Republican state AI regulations in 2025:
Altman, during the hearing, said that Texas had been “unbelievable” in incentivizing major AI projects. “I think that would be a good thing for other states to study,” Altman said. He predicted that the Abilene site would be the “largest AI training facility in the world.” But Altman also later cautioned against a patchwork regulatory framework for AI.“It is very difficult to imagine us figuring out how to comply with 50 different sets of regulations,” said Altman. “One federal framework that is light touch, that we can understand, and it lets us move with the speed that this moment calls for, seems important and fine.”
Aww, would it make it "difficult" for you to create your technocratic dystopia? 😭🎻
“A patchwork of regulation of technology is not beneficial for the country. We want to avoid that. Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children. There are use cases, but they need to be underpinned by values.”
Not beneficial for the country or the corporations? Always thinking about the children first, even back then. Please tell me more about how we're just too dumb to understand how all of this is for our own good.
Trump CTO Addresses AI, Facial Recognition, Immigration, Tech Infrastructure, and More
Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial IntelligenceTekla S. Perry (IEEE Spectrum)
There was an episode of behind the bastards I was listening to a while back where they mentioned some dude who was using an AI tool to scrape the internet to steal other people's art, so people started doing something that prevented him from optimally stealing their art.
I can't remember what exactly, but the guy started whining that whatever people were doing was "illegal" bc it was damaging his tool he was using to steal other people's shit for his own profit. Like somebody telling you that it's illegal to prevent them from efficiently stealing your property bc it interferes with their livelihood. How dare you!
Anyway, that's the kind of vibes I get from this.
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
> law passes
> buy servers
> create piracy site
> call it AIbay
> have all kinds of things there under a synonymous name
> when interrogated tell them you have a proprietary technology that you won't release to competitors
Remember:
Copyright law as a whole will stay the same. In the court of law, you will need to prove that you indeed operate a very big AI company that indeed does AI things before they will let you off the hook for massive copyright infringement. You can't just use that excuse casually! Rules will be for thee, not the actual AI-companees.
The US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work.
To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived in Washington to fast-track new life-saving drugs to market, streamline work at the vast, multibillion-dollar health agencies, and be a key assistant in the quest to slash wasteful government spending without jeopardizing their work.“The AI revolution has arrived,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared at congressional hearings in the past few months.
“We are using this technology already at HHS to manage health care data, perfectly securely, and to increase the speed of drug approvals,” he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in June. The enthusiasm — among some, at least — was palpable.
Weeks earlier, the US Food and Drug Administration, the division of HHS that oversees vast portions of the American pharmaceutical and food system, had unveiled Elsa, an artificial intelligence tool intended to dramatically speed up drug and medical device approvals.
Yet behind the scenes, the agency’s slick AI project has been greeted with a shrug — or outright alarm.
Six current and former FDA officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal work told CNN that Elsa can be useful for generating meeting notes and summaries, or email and communique templates.
But it has also made up nonexistent studies, known as AI “hallucinating,” or misrepresented research, according to three current FDA employees and documents seen by CNN. This makes it unreliable for their most critical work, the employees said.
“Anything that you don’t have time to double-check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently,” said one employee — a far cry from what has been publicly promised.
“AI is supposed to save our time, but I guarantee you that I waste a lot of extra time just due to the heightened vigilance that I have to have” to check for fake or misrepresented studies, a second FDA employee said.
Currently, Elsa cannot help with review work , the lengthy assessment agency scientists undertake to determine whether drugs and devices are safe and effective, two FDA staffers said. That’s because it cannot access many relevant documents, like industry submissions, to answer basic questions such as how many times a company may have filed for FDA approval, their related products on the market or other company-specific information.
All this raises serious questions about the integrity of a tool that FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary has boasted will transform the system for approving drugs and medical devices in the US, at a time when there is almost no federal oversight for assessing the use of AI in medicine.
“The agency is already using Elsa to accelerate clinical protocol reviews, shorten the time needed for scientific evaluations, and identify high-priority inspection targets,” the FDA said in a statement on its launch in June.
But speaking to CNN at the FDA’s White Oak headquarters this week, Makary says that right now, most of the agency’s scientists are using Elsa for its “organization abilities” like finding studies and summarizing meetings.
The FDA’s head of AI, Jeremy Walsh, admitted that Elsa can hallucinate nonexistent studies.
“Elsa is no different from lots of [large language models] and generative AI,” he told CNN. “They could potentially hallucinate.”
Walsh also said Elsa’s shortcomings with responding to questions about industry information should change soon, as the FDA updates the program in the coming weeks to let users upload documents to their own libraries.
Asked about mistakes Elsa is making , Makary noted that staff are not required to use the AI.
“I have not heard those specific concerns, but it’s optional,” he said. “They don’t have to use Elsa if they don’t find it to have value.”
Challenged on how this makes the efficiency gains he has publicly touted when staff inside FDA have told CNN they must double-check its work, he said: “You have to determine what is reliable information that [you] can make major decisions based on, and I think we do a great job of that.”
FDA Launches Agency-Wide AI Tool to Optimize Performance for the American People
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today launched Elsa, a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool designed to help employees—from scientific reviewers to investigators—work more efficiently.Office of the Commissioner (FDA)
Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions
Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions
Program Aeneas, which predicts where and when Latin texts were made, called ‘transformative’ by historiansIan Sample (The Guardian)
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It isn't quite as crazy as it sounds when you consider that a lot of inscription texts are pretty formulaic—epitaphs, dedications, and such. Plus, we have plenty of surviving writings in classical Latin, so we know the grammar pretty well. Given those things, I'd expect an AI trained on the corpus of inscription texts that have survived without significant damage to be able to make reasonable suggestions about formulaic texts.
Really, when you think about it, a trained human presented with a damaged inscription text won't be doing anything much different from what an LLM would do: they'll try to fill in the text with the most likely words based on any remaining traces of letters, and their knowledge of other, similar texts. The problem is getting the LLM to communicate its level of certainty about the fill-ins it's offering.
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“Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)” (at Office.com?)
This is hilarious! Microsoft branding has always been borderline random. "Games for Windows Live" What kind of a brand name is that?
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This kind of random shit with Microsoft just blows my mind.
Google is just as bad. Look at their messaging apps. Is it Duo? No that name died and was merged into Google Meet. However, old Google Meet is....uh....Google Meet Classic? I think? And then there is/was Google Voice, Allo, Google Talk.......
And people wonder why I just use and donate to apps like Signal.
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Google and messaging app is whole story on its own.
Although MS isn't that great with messaging either. There was MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, various Skype services and finally MS Teams.
And feels like all of them were bloated and badly made.
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Tesla (TSLA) releases Q2 2025 financing results: revenue down %12, operating income down %42
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q2 2025 financing results: earnings down 23%
Tesla (TSLA) released its financial results and shareholders’ letter for the second quarter (Q2) 2025 after market close today. We...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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Billionaires and politicians can magically bond together after years of mud slinging.
Look how quickly the tech bros like Bill Gates and Tim Apple allied with Trump after being hardcore DNC loyalists for so many years. And they'll switch back just as far.
Tesla aren't too big to fail.
Unlike GM or Ford, Tesla is tiny. Only their market cap is big, and that's all based on thoughts and prayers not fundamentals.
Yea, and tomorrow Musk announces the imminent go live of his robot sales, predicts several million will be sold in a matter of months and the stock will bounce back up 10%.
Even if I was still an active investor I would not bet against Tesla. Musk has proven a master in stock manipulation.
They opened a restaurant yesterday. At 4:20 pm.
Yeah, a tesla restaurant. That's the current distraction.
Tesla opens retro-futuristic diner as Elon Musk hints at more locations | TechCrunch
The Tesla Diner & Drive-In is loaded with Tesla-branded merchandise, an Optimus robot, and two 45-foot LED movie screens — clearly hoping to attract more than just Tesla owners.Kirsten Korosec (TechCrunch)
operating income down %42
Let's make it %420 next quarter!
is there any way to put my extra memory to use to play av1 files if my cpu overloads? Debian 12.11
debian 12.11
system memory size: 31GiB, 2 15.5 GiB cards
cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz, version: 6.142.9, size: 3268MHz, capacity: 3500MHz, width: 64 bits
no graphics card whatsoever
computer can play h.265 and equivalent without troubles, provided video file is no higher than 1080 p.
Computer can play av1 files no higher than 1080 p only if I shut every other application down. If for example I run a browser and an av1 file with either mpv or vlc, system shuts down.
Can I put all that memory to use and avoid overloading the cpu?
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As the other person said, something is wrong if your machine is shutting down instead of just giving choppy playback.
Do you do much heavy CPU with with that machine at all? It's possible that AV1 decoding is the only thing you're trying to do that pushes the CPU to that degree. 7th Gen Intel CPUs have hardware decoders for h.265, so the CPU is barely used to play these back, but lacking a decoder for AV1 means it has to be decoded in software, which hits the CPU hard.
Aside from the other answers, no you can't offload computations to memory. Memory stores data, it doesn't compute.
The only way having more memory can possibly improve performance, is by having a cached copy of files so they don't have to be fetched from disk, and applications potentially caching the results of heavy but reusable computations. (Unless you run out of memory and starts spilling over to disk, then more memory will make it fast again by avoiding swapping).
I mean I guess technically yes you could transcode into H264 into a tmpfs mount, and then play the H264, but you're still not doing it faster and certainly not fast enough to watch in real time, you're just decoding the AV1 well in advance before actually watching it.
For HEVC and AVC playback, your built-in GPU is used. Kaby lake doesn't support AV1 hardware decoding so it's hitting your CPU directly.
The shutdown could be a number of problems
- Do you have high memory usage while playing AV1 videos?
- Does the video start playing and then crash your system or is it an immediate crash?
- Do you have swap space assigned and how much? Check with
free -h - Are you having thermal issues? Do the fans kick in like crazy before shutdown or can you see very high temperatures with
sensors?
Modern CPUs (from like the last 20 years) will throttle down a lot before they actually shut down. Unless your cooling is completely inadequate or somehow broken, shutdowns because high load just dont happen. I suspect there is something fundamentally wrong with your hardware.
A problem with cooling could also go some way to explaining your performance problems – but it could also just be that your system just doesn't have the computing power to do what you want it to. The computing demands from video decoding go up dramatically when you go beyond 1080p. If I recall correctly, the Intel Core CPUs with the "U" at the end were the low-energy models (for longer battery life); of course that comes with compromises on the performance side.
The CPU model suggests that this is a laptop, and a fairly old one at that. I would look for things like blocked air ducts or broken fans if I were you. It's also possible that the thermal compound between your CPU and the CPU cooler has dried out and needs replacing (although laptops of that power class should be using thermal contact solutions that do not dry out), or that contact has lessened for other reasons. Again, if your computer seriously powers down because of load, it's borderline broken and in need of maintenance.
As for your other question, no RAM cannot help with that. It can hurt if you have too little of it, but once you have enough, the best it can do is not be a bottleneck.
* Edit: Also, make sure you are not setting down the laptop on anything soft, like a blanket, when using it. It will sink in and have its air intakes blocked if you do that.
no graphics card whatsoevercomputer can play h.265 and equivalent without troubles, provided video file is no higher than 1080 p.
Computer can play av1 files no higher than 1080 p only if I shut every other application down. If for example I run a browser and an av1 file with either mpv or vlc, system shuts down.
Can I put all that memory to use and avoid overloading the cpu?
Most of the answers seem to focus on the main problem, but your question got me thinking.
Since you are not getting shutdowns with lower qualities, maybe you could use RAM to play those videos.
Set up tmpfs. Before you start all the other things, use ffmpeg to recode the video to something without any compression, maybe tell it to not work too fast (like work on one frame at a time), and put the thing on that tmpfs. Maybe then playing this new file would be less demanding. The key would be to not force it to provide 30fps of encoded video
Although... Are you sure all this RAM is fine? Maybe it shuts down on more demanding videos because with those the RAM usage raises to the faulty part?
As others have said, you should probably replace your CPU fan ASAP.
A computer in usable condition does not shut down without user input.
I had an i5-7200u equipped laptop and I could do AV1 playback, not well but it didn't do what you described.
Also is it maxing out memory or cpu? I would check btop during playback. Look at CPU usage, memory usage and temps while doing so and report here.
Edit: Something is definitely wrong with your machine, that is abnormal behavior. Maybe it's overheating, maybe it's trying to do some sort of gpu decode and has no idea what to do with it as it doesn't support it. Can you check what encoder mpv is using? I would assume it would failback to CPU.
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then again, their dismissiveness allowed for china to develop while they focused on russia; so i guess it's par for the course.
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