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[Announcement] The Third Edict Launch Twitch Drops and New Discord Quest



Twitch Drops


To celebrate the launch of Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict, we'll be running two weeks of Twitch Drops starting from 1PM August 29th PDT!

Video: Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict Twitch Drops

Week 1 Twitch Drops - Clam Stash Skin + Helmet of the Abyssal


Start Time: August 29th 1:00 PM PDT
End Time: September 6th 4:59 AM PDT

You will get the Clam Stash Skin and the Helmet of the Abyssal after 3 hours of accumulated watch time on any channel in the Path of Exile 2 category during the first week of launch.

Week 2 Twitch Drops - Cape of the Abyssal


Start Time: September 6th 5:00 AM PDT
End Time: September 13th 4:59 AM PDT

You will get the Cape of the Abyssal after 3 hours of accumulated watch time on any channel in the Path of Exile 2 category during the second week of launch.

The drops are guaranteed for everyone who has watched any Path of Exile 2 stream for the amount of time specified above. This promotion is available for all accounts.

Support a Streamer


To support our community streamers, we'll also be offering the Storm of Valako Portal for purchasing or gifting 2 Twitch subscriptions of any tier from August 29th 1:00 PM to September 13th 4:59 AM PDT.

To participate:

  • Log in to your Twitch account.
  • Visit any Twitch channel in Path of Exile 2 category.
  • While the channel is live streaming Path of Exile 2, purchase a cumulative of two subscriptions of any tier to earn the Storm of Valako Portal (Prime Subs are excluded).


Chaos Orb Twitch Badge


As a part of Support a Streamer promo, everyone who purchases 1 Twitch subscription of any tier to any channel streaming Path of Exile 2, will receive an exclusive Chaos Orb Twitch Badge. The promo is available from August 29th 1:00 PM to September 13th 4:59 AM PDT.

New Discord Quest


Complete the Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict quest on Discord by playing Path of Exile 2 for 15 minutes to receive the exclusive Eye of Prophecy Avatar!

  • Start: 1PM August 29 PDT
  • Finish: 4PM September 5 PDT


How do I participate?


PC

  • Once the quest launches on August 29, accept it in the Discord client here.
  • Play Path of Exile 2 for 15 minutes with the Discord client open.
  • Receive your exclusive Eye of Prophecy Avatar!

Console

  • Select Console when accepting the quest in the Discord client here.
  • Sign into your PlayStation or Xbox account and link it to Discord. You can find instructions for PlayStation here and Xbox here.
  • Play Path of Exile 2 for 15 minutes.
  • Receive your exclusive Eye of Prophecy Avatar!


How do I link my Path of Exile account with Twitch?


Visit your Twitch Settings page while logged in. If your account isn't connected, click the "Connect" button for Twitch under "Other Connections". Please also make sure that the sub-account you're linking with Twitch is the one that you want to receive the Drop on. Complete the process on Twitch and you will be redirected back to your Twitch Settings page. If your account is already connected, this page should say "Your Path of Exile account is currently linked to your Twitch account."

How to redeem my rewards?


After you've accumulated enough watch time to earn your Drops, you must redeem them from your Twitch Inventory before the promotional period ends.

The Storm of Valako Portal for Twitch Subscriptions must also be claimed from the Twitch Inventory.

How to enable Twitch Drops on my channel?


If you're planning to stream Path of Exile 2 at launch and want to enable Twitch Drops for your viewers, you can do it via your Twitch Creator Dashboard here.

How do I purchase or gift a subscription on Twitch?


Log into Twitch, using either a PC or mobile device. Purchases may be made on either a PC or mobile device. Detailed information on purchasing subscriptions can be found here, and information on purchasing gift subscriptions can be found here.

Which Twitch subscriptions are eligible for the Support a Streamer promo?


  • New monthly subs (any tier)
  • Multi-month subs (3-month, 6-month)
  • Gift subs (any tier for any number of months)


Are Twitch Drops rewards and the Storm of Valako Portal exclusive?


The cosmetics that are part of this campaign will not be exclusive to Twitch Drops and will eventually be sold in our Microtransactions Store.

Will these cosmetics work in Path of Exile 1?


Yes, all cosmetics from this promo should work in Path of Exile 1 right away.

Do I need to link my Discord and Path of Exile accounts?


No.

Will the Eye of Prophecy avatar be available for purchase in the Discord store?


No. You can receive it only by participating in this quest.

How long can I use the avatar for?


You can use the avatar for 2 months without Discord Nitro. Subscribers to Discord Nitro will be able to keep the decoration for an extended period. More information on this can be found here



Outrage in Italy over porn site with doctored images of prominent women


cross-posted from: narwhal.city/posts/472364

Phica posted altered photos, with vulgar and sexist captions, of women including prime minister Giorgia Meloni


Archived version: archive.is/20250828180534/theg…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue


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in reply to Davriellelouna

When I was growing up, you had to go to the mall, and purchase the anarchist cook book if you wanted bomb recipes. Or go to the library. You kids got it easy today...
in reply to AlphaOmega

Ah yes, the anarchist cookbook which famously had botched recipes that were actually far more dangerous than they needed to be.



Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine: Switching to Kagi doesn’t mean you’ve left Google behind, it only means you’ve changed the way Google profits from you.


cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36488950

Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.




Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine: Switching to Kagi doesn’t mean you’ve left Google behind, it only means you’ve changed the way Google profits from you.


Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.



#Kagi


Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human


cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36488277


Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human

Just like society, the web moves forward when people think, compare, and discover for themselves. Vivaldi believes the act of browsing is an active one. It is about seeking, questioning, and making up your own mind.

Across the industry, artificial assistants are being embedded directly into browsers, and pitched as a quicker path to answers. Google is bringing Gemini into Chrome to summarize pages and, in future, work across tabs and navigate sites on a user’s behalf. Microsoft is promoting Edge as an AI browser, including new modes that scan what is on screen and anticipate actions.

These moves are reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.

This shift has major consequences for the web as we know it. Independent research shows users are less likely to click through to original sources when an AI summary is present, which means fewer visits for publishers, creators, and communities that keep the web vibrant. A recent study by PewResearch found users clicked traditional results roughly half as often when AI summaries appeared. Publishers warn of dramatic traffic losses when AI overviews sit above links.

The stakes are high. New AI-native browsers and agent platforms are arriving, while regulators debate remedies that could reshape how people reach information online. The next phase of the browser wars is not about tab speed, it is about who intermediates knowledge, who benefits from attention, who controls the pathway to information, and who gets to monetize you.

Today, as other browsers race to build AI that controls how you experience the web, we are making a clear promise:

We’re taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies.

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Vivaldi


The field of machine learning in general remains an exciting one and may lead to features that are actually useful.

But right now, there is enough misinformation going around to risk adding more to the pile. We will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available.

Vivaldi is the haven for people who still want to explore. We will continue building a browser for curious minds, power users, researchers, and anyone who values autonomy. If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.

We will stay true to our identity, giving users control and enabling people to use the browser in combination with whatever tools they want to use. Our focus is on building a powerful personal and private browser for you to explore the web on your own terms. We will not turn exploration into passive consumption.

We’re fighting for a better web.

vivaldi.com/blog/keep-explorin…


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FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail


cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36488526

Letter.
My understanding from recent reporting is that Gmail’s spam filters routinely block
messages from reaching consumers when those messages come from Republican senders but fail
to block similar messages sent by Democrats. Indeed, according to recent reporting, Alphabet
has “been caught this summer flagging Republican fundraising emails as ‘dangerous’ spam—
keeping them from hitting Gmail users’ inboxes—while leaving similar solicitations from
Democrats untouched….” Likewise, commenters on the FTC’s request for information
regarding Technology Platform Censorship have complained that Google is using a partisan approach in administering its spam filters. And finally, as you know, similar concerns have
resulted in ongoing litigation against Google in other settings.




FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail


Letter.

My understanding from recent reporting is that Gmail’s spam filters routinely block
messages from reaching consumers when those messages come from Republican senders but fail
to block similar messages sent by Democrats. Indeed, according to recent reporting, Alphabet
has “been caught this summer flagging Republican fundraising emails as ‘dangerous’ spam—
keeping them from hitting Gmail users’ inboxes—while leaving similar solicitations from
Democrats untouched….” Likewise, commenters on the FTC’s request for information
regarding Technology Platform Censorship have complained that Google is using a partisan approach in administering its spam filters. And finally, as you know, similar concerns have
resulted in ongoing litigation against Google in other settings.



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in reply to DreamlandLividity

Have any suggestions on a decent alternative?

I've heard discouraging stories about protonmail but would like a viable no hassle alternative if you have one.

in reply to hypeerror

I use tuta. You can also add your own domain for infinite addresses (great for managing spam).


Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine: Switching to Kagi doesn’t mean you’ve left Google behind, it only means you’ve changed the way Google profits from you.


cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36488950

Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.




Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine: Switching to Kagi doesn’t mean you’ve left Google behind, it only means you’ve changed the way Google profits from you.


Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.





Trump’s Pick to Help Run the FBI Has a History of Prosecuting Influential Democrats




Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine: Switching to Kagi doesn’t mean you’ve left Google behind, it only means you’ve changed the way Google profits from you.


Kagi has quickly grown into something of a household name within tech circles. From Hacker News and Lobsters to Reddit, the search provider seems to attract near-universal praise. Whenever the topic of search engines comes up, there’s an almost ritual rush to be the first to recommend Kagi, often followed by a chorus of replies echoing the endorsement.
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xn--gckvb8fzb.com/never-click-…

NEVER click on a link that looks like that

Every time one of my posts on this journal ends up somewhere on Reddit Lemmy, Twitter Mastodon Nostr Bluesky or Hacker News, lots of people seem to be irritated by the site’s URL. Hence, let me do a quick introduction into what’s called Punycode, and why I’m using this domain name.








FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail


Letter.

My understanding from recent reporting is that Gmail’s spam filters routinely block
messages from reaching consumers when those messages come from Republican senders but fail
to block similar messages sent by Democrats. Indeed, according to recent reporting, Alphabet
has “been caught this summer flagging Republican fundraising emails as ‘dangerous’ spam—
keeping them from hitting Gmail users’ inboxes—while leaving similar solicitations from
Democrats untouched….” Likewise, commenters on the FTC’s request for information
regarding Technology Platform Censorship have complained that Google is using a partisan approach in administering its spam filters. And finally, as you know, similar concerns have
resulted in ongoing litigation against Google in other settings.

Technology Channel reshared this.



Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human




Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human

Just like society, the web moves forward when people think, compare, and discover for themselves. Vivaldi believes the act of browsing is an active one. It is about seeking, questioning, and making up your own mind.

Across the industry, artificial assistants are being embedded directly into browsers, and pitched as a quicker path to answers. Google is bringing Gemini into Chrome to summarize pages and, in future, work across tabs and navigate sites on a user’s behalf. Microsoft is promoting Edge as an AI browser, including new modes that scan what is on screen and anticipate actions.

These moves are reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.

This shift has major consequences for the web as we know it. Independent research shows users are less likely to click through to original sources when an AI summary is present, which means fewer visits for publishers, creators, and communities that keep the web vibrant. A recent study by PewResearch found users clicked traditional results roughly half as often when AI summaries appeared. Publishers warn of dramatic traffic losses when AI overviews sit above links.

The stakes are high. New AI-native browsers and agent platforms are arriving, while regulators debate remedies that could reshape how people reach information online. The next phase of the browser wars is not about tab speed, it is about who intermediates knowledge, who benefits from attention, who controls the pathway to information, and who gets to monetize you.

Today, as other browsers race to build AI that controls how you experience the web, we are making a clear promise:

We’re taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies.

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Vivaldi


The field of machine learning in general remains an exciting one and may lead to features that are actually useful.

But right now, there is enough misinformation going around to risk adding more to the pile. We will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available.

Vivaldi is the haven for people who still want to explore. We will continue building a browser for curious minds, power users, researchers, and anyone who values autonomy. If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.

We will stay true to our identity, giving users control and enabling people to use the browser in combination with whatever tools they want to use. Our focus is on building a powerful personal and private browser for you to explore the web on your own terms. We will not turn exploration into passive consumption.

We’re fighting for a better web.

vivaldi.com/blog/keep-explorin…


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Dear diary, no one on Lemmy appreciate my headline masterpiece


I was expecting at least to win one Oscars award for that great headline.

😂

But for real, Lemmy need more comments.

If you tried using Lemmy while hiding upvotes and downvotes, you start to feel the real absence of comments.

Will this problem ever get solved or is it a inherent problem with the fediverse in general?

in reply to Pro

I downvoted because the title close enough to a normal slop article about how LLM helps that I missed the reversal of user and LLM. Since my brain read it the slop way, it flew over my head.

I think you ran into the brain rearranging words that are duplicated on different lines or out of order thing. At least with me that was the case.

in reply to snooggums

That is actually a unique perspective, I didn't consider.

It might be what happened with most of the people who read the headline.



Why the U.S. Should Sanction India Over Scam Call Centers




"This is No Time for Just a Barbecue" : Labor & Community Groups Plan “Workers Over Billionaires” Rallies, Canvasses and Other Mobilizations - Public Citizen


Building on actions from Hands Off to May Day to No Kings, Good Trouble, and others, workers across the country are calling for 2,000+ rallies on Labor Day (September 1) this year.

Unions and community groups planned May 1st to expose the billionaire agenda driving Trump’s authoritarian rise and center the conversation on the impact on working people specifically, demanding a unifying platform of:

  • Stop the billionaire takeover and rampant corruption of the Trump administration.
  • Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.
  • Fully funded schools, healthcare, and housing for all.
  • Stop the attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities.
  • Invest in people not wars.

Now, organizers say that the urgency is only growing to stop the billionaire agenda that has taken over the federal government. Instead of making life more affordable, lifting wages for workers, or repairing generations of racial injustice, the Trump administration is dismantling the government, overseeing mass firings, and gutting worker protections and social services in order to transfer wealth to the 1% and to fund Trump’s private army of ICE agents.



"A culture of intimidation, retaliation and oppression": How Microsoft’s Gaza stance fuelled an industry-spanning boycott


Every October, Microsoft host an Employee Giving campaign for charities chosen by staff, with the company matching any funds they raise. During last October’s Giving month, a group of Microsoft workers organised a vigil for Palestinians killed by the Israeli military during the current invasion of Gaza, stumping up donations for organisations such as the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, while paying tribute to fellow tech workers who’ve lost their lives in the war.

"We were honouring the likes of Shaaban Ahmed al-Dalou, who was a computer science student that got martyred in Gaza," says Abdo Mohamed, one of the organisers and a former Microsoft machine learning engineer. "We were honouring the likes of Aisha Noor Ize-Iji, who was a Washington state resident who had been killed in the West Bank. We were honouring Mai Ubeid, another Palestinian martyr who was a tech worker, and someone who worked with [Google-funded programming bootcamp] Gaza Sky Geeks. People deserved to hear their stories - the Palestinians who had been victims of the genocide deserved a space to be honoured, not to be reduced to numbers." If you’re a white secular westerner like me, you may recoil instinctively from the religiously loaded word "martyr" here – Bassem Saad has written at length about the history of the term as Palestinians use it to describe those killed by Israeli forces.

The vigil was small - "around 50 people, sitting in chairs side by side, in an open space during lunch hour" - and in line with company guidance for such events, Mohamed claims. But at around 9pm that evening he and another organiser, Hossam Nasr, received an email telling them that they had been fired, with Microsoft later claiming that the event "disrupted" work, and should have taken place outside the campus. For Mohamed, the firing reflects Microsoft’s general disinclination to give employees a "safe space" in which to air their grievances about both Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and Microsoft's alleged complicity in supplying technology to the Israel Defense Forces. Rather, Mohamed says, "Microsoft had built this culture of intimidation, retaliation and oppression for anyone who felt the need to speak about what's happening in Gaza”.

If Microsoft hoped to quell such discussion or at least, drive the issue off-campus, their clampdown on criticism backfired. Earlier this month, current and former Microsoft workers with the No Azure For Apartheid movement occupied part of the company’s Redmond, Washington campus with tents and signs, demanding that their employers cease doing business with Israel's military. Just this week, protestors held another sit-in at the company president’s office. NAFA members have even pitched up outside Satya Nadella's lakefront house in canoes. And now, the backlash threatens to engulf Microsoft's entertainment business.



The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius: Landlines encourage connection—without the downsides of smartphones.


When Caron Morse’s 9-year-old daughter asked for a smartphone last year, her reaction, she told me, was unambiguous: “A hard ‘Hell no.’” Morse is a mental-health provider in the Portland, Maine, public-school system, and she was firmly against smartphones, having seen how social media and abundant screen time could shorten students’ attention spans and give them new anxieties. But she wanted her children to have some independence—to be able to call friends, arrange playdates, and reach out to their grandparents on their own. She also needed a break. “I was so sick,” she said, “of being the middle person in any correspondence.”

So when her daughter turned 10, Morse did get her a phone: a landline.

For that gift to provide all the benefits she wanted, Morse had to lay some groundwork. It would be annoying if her daughters—she also has an 8-year-old—were to start calling their friends’ parents’ smartphones all the time, so she told her neighbors about her plan and suggested that they consider getting landlines too. Several bought in immediately, excited for the opportunity to placate their own smartphone-eager kids. And over the next couple of months, Morse kept nudging people. She appealed to their sense of nostalgia by sharing photos of her older daughter sitting on the floor and twirling the landline’s cord around her fingers. She wrote messages: “Guys, this is adorable and working and important.”

The peer pressure paid off. Now about 15 to 20 families in their South Portland neighborhood have installed a landline. They’ve created a retro bubble in which their children can easily call their friends without bugging a parent to borrow their phone—and in which the parents, for now, can live blissfully free of anxieties about the downsides of smartphones.

In the past few years, interest in old-school technology has been rising, driven partly by desperate adults seeking smartphone alternatives for their kids. Fairs peddle “dumb phones” to parents of tweens. On Reddit, one parent shared that they’d gone “full ’90s,” with a desktop computer installed in the living room, a Nintendo 64, and a landline. In March, after a Millennial mom posted on Instagram about getting a home phone for her kids, she received scores of comments from parents saying they’d done the same—or planned to soon.



Immigration Agents Arrest Firefighters Combatting Bear Gulch Wildfire


Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 28, 2025

[This takes the cake - read this article and you will hear your blood boil.]

#USA


Immigration Agents Arrest Firefighters Combatting Bear Gulch Wildfire


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35349837

Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 28, 2025

[This takes the cake - read this article and you will hear your blood boil.]



Immigration Agents Arrest Firefighters Combatting Bear Gulch Wildfire


Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 28, 2025

[This takes the cake - read this article and you will hear your blood boil.]




The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35349105

Aug. 26, 2025, 7:40 AM EDT
By Angela Yang, Laura Jarrett and Fallon Gallagher

[this is a truly scary incident, which shows the incredible dangers of AI without guardrails.]



The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame


Aug. 26, 2025, 7:40 AM EDT
By Angela Yang, Laura Jarrett and Fallon Gallagher

[this is a truly scary incident, which shows the incredible dangers of AI without guardrails.]


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in reply to daniskarma

I don't understand your logic here.
Clearly, the kid had problems that were not caused by ChatGPT. And his suicidal thoughts were not started by ChatGPT.
But OpenAI acknowledged that the longer the engagement continues the more likely that ChatGPT will go off the rails.
Which is what happened here. At first, ChatGPT was giving the standard correct advice about suicide lines, etc.
Then it started getting darker, where it was telling the kid to not let his mother know how he was feeling.
Then it progressed to actual suicide coaching.
So I don't think the analogy to videogames is correct here.
in reply to Peter Link

Take away chatgpt and insert a videogame, movie o bookthat talk about those same topics.

There are books that talk much darker about suicide. If the kid were to read those the parents would sue the author of the book?

There is a whole subgenre of music that is about encouraging people to comit suicide and fall into depression, do we use the "who is going to think about the children" card with thar music and its authors? Because music can really get under you skin and a couple of hours listening to that would nake anyone have weird thoughts.

The shitty parents blame chatgpt because it told the kid how to make a noose. You can kind that info in "howto" with instructable images. Do we put the UK nanny dictatorship controls on "howto" ? Or it only counts of it's something that benefits of the butlerian yihad?

I think is completely irrational to blame a piece of software (or media), as much defective as it is, for a suicide.

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The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame


Aug. 26, 2025, 7:40 AM EDT
By Angela Yang, Laura Jarrett and Fallon Gallagher

[this is a truly scary incident, which shows the incredible dangers of AI without guardrails.]

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Pro doesn't like this.


in reply to return2ozma

They're really against anything nice that can be achieved through cooperation, aren't they?
in reply to smeenz

100% this. They don’t want educated people. And the news/media that does exist they want to control.
in reply to myfunnyaccountname

George Carlin does a great bit on this. To the point that your second sentence was almost a direct quote. I thought you were about to make references.
in reply to return2ozma

Quick question, honest question......

At what point are the right happy?

Because the left will be happy when everybody has equal rights, and a high standard of living for everyone.

So, if that's the lefts benchmark of a great society, what's the right fighting towards? Money? Power? Control?

Then what?

When is America "great again"?

Because they've been pushing that slogan since the 80s. What's the endgame here?

Because from where I'm sitting, there is no endgame. Nothing will ever make them happy. Nothing will ever be good enough. So what the fuck is the point?

in reply to slaacaa

Holy shit. I'm bad at telling if AI is obvious sometimes. Is this real? It has swastikas (obviously) but it also has the american flag.

Is this 1930s? Or 2020s?

God. The fact I even have to ask is in itself a reflection of where we are as a society I guess.

in reply to Lost_My_Mind

NS Fascism had several ties to the USA, not least Hitler himself admiring and copying tons of ideas. Esp. their Eugenics movement.

So, what I mean is common roots before 1933 and initially strong support after he got to power.

I'd like to back this up with a suitable article but I can't find one rn.

in reply to peaceful_world_view

Mass genocide? As opposed to what? Minor genocide? A genocide is a genocide, there are no adjectives to it.
in reply to Valmond

Your's is the typical defense of genocide-enabling Zionists and their allies from feddit.org in defense of Isn'treal: "The Holocaust was different! How dare you compare it to the Armenian genocide, or the Rohingya genocide or what is happening today in Gaza?"

A genocide is a genocide. It already implies mass.

Genocide was coined to mean, and is generally used in law to mean, the destruction of an ethnic group as such (as a group). This is the case whether it is done by killing of all members of the group or other means, such as dispersing the group. In common usage, genocide is often used to mean “systematic mass killing”, whether or not the purpose is the destruction of a group or something else, such as terrorizing the group or killing a population without regard to group membership, more specifically known as democide.
in reply to dubyakay

And your the one only seeing things in black and white so hard you're not able to see out of your basement.

Can't have a bigger or more important genocide than yours eh.

The murder was atrocious. You: Nooo all murders means the same thing!!!!

What about the Russians invading Ukraine? What about the youghurs? What do you know about tianmen square?

in reply to Lost_My_Mind

I think they are trying to go back to before they were grown up and had to deal with adult issues. They idolize their innocent childhood and some how associated that as the time when America was great. They find it really confusing that the child's perspective of that time window was flawed. They also find it confusing that different age conservatives all imagine a different time window for when life was good.
in reply to graycube

Most of them were beaten as children. It's one of the most common features of authoritarian enablers.


in reply to DragonTypeWyvern

And keep your physical threats nonprosecutable


"Listen here you fucking clanker, if you don't get me a real person to take my order I swear I'm going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber."

in reply to 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮

I’m going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber


So that's what you kids are calling it these days...



Trump points to Louisiana as global artificial intelligence hub with Meta data center


cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/44975715

President Donald Trump and Gov. Jeff Landry said Meta's massive northeastern Louisiana project in Richland Parish will make the state the hub for artificial intelligence with a data center the size of Manhattan.

During a cabinet meeting this week, Trump said Meta, the parent company of Facebook, will expand its initial $10 billion investment to $50 billion.

Trump displayed a piece of paper he said was given to him by Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg that showed the center superimposed over Manhattan, covering most of the New York island.

"When they said '$50 billion for a plant,' I said, 'What the hell kind of a plant is that?'" Trump said. "But when you look at this, you understand why it's $50 billion."

Landry responded to the president on X with the following post:

"It is vital for American ingenuity and national security that we lead in AI development. As President @realDonaldTrump displayed during (the) cabinet meeting, the size of the Meta AI Data Center being built in Richland Parish is nearly the size of Manhattan. Louisiana isn’t just a participant in the AI race, we are leading it!"

Richland Parish Chamber of Commerce founder Scott Franklin said the project is transformation for the region and state.

"The president’s statement is proof that the Richland Parish Data Center will lead the world in AI technology," Franklin told USA Today Network. "This project will completely transform the regional economy and Meta will pay close to a billion dollars in property taxes over the life of the project. These taxes stay right here in Richland Parish. New hospitals, funding for better education and endless opportunity is on the horizon.".


in reply to silence7

The new url is climate.us/ for those interested. Seems nothing is up yet. This is a 3rd party running it that we're fired when the Republicans took over.

Edit: and an archive of the CNN page archive.ph/DrPoA

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Blocking Instances?


There are, I am learning, a few very annoying instances (where only jerks seem to comment, an anomaly around the lemmyverse, as I've seen it so far) and I can't quite work out the filters correctly to actually block the instance and its users completely.

When I go to settings > filters, I can see tabs for domains and instances but don't see how to add them.

Thanks in advance for input, folks.

in reply to Blaze (he/him)

Okay, I thought I had done that and it still keeps appearing but will try this. Thank you. (Please mark resolved?)

Edit: I did do it that particular way and think it should be a big difference. Thanks again.

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