Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world
Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world
The White House is hosting tech CEOs for an event on AI education.Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
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GitHub - gajananpp/bendernet: An AI-powered data query assistant featuring Bender from Futurama - completely client-side with WebLLM
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WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed
WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed - News
Engineers prove their technique is effective even with the lowest-cost WiFi devicesEmily Cerf (News)
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Damn. “TikTok would like to access WiFi”
We need new permissions for this shit. WiFi can do presence detection and now heart rate? What next? Eye tracking?
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Apps watch how we move/rotate devices to understand whether we’re walking, resting, lying down, etc., I assume? (The most popular apps I mean with large data teams)
Wish that stuff could be turned off unless it was e.g. a game that made legitimate use of the accelerometer.
I'm pretty sure applications can only send and receive data, with the finer details being handled by the OS.
But yes, there should be a specific permission to access biometric information.
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We already live in a world with existing, functional mind-reading devices. There is even a device designed to help people that are suffering from ALS communicate by reading their thoughts, and has a privacy feature where the user can activate and deactivate the device by thinking a password in their mind, in order to allow them to still have private thoughts.
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Phones are not fMRIs though.
New Brain Device Is First to Read Out Inner Speech
A new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping people with ALS and brain stem stroke communicate fast and comfortablyEmma R. Hasson (Scientific American)
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robo voice: There are 352 hot, single women in your area.
robo voice: 350
of them have a pulse.
People do not have that distinct cardiac ECG profiles, and it would be wrong after one coffee.
Holy shit the US state paranoia in the sub. Buy more guns.
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I wouldn't be as sure about that as you are
Biometric Recognition: A Systematic Review on Electrocardiogram Data Acquisition Methods - PMC
In the last decades, researchers have shown the potential of using Electrocardiogram (ECG) as a biometric trait due to its uniqueness and hidden nature. However, despite the great number of approaches found in the literature, no agreement exists on .pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Hm I'm not sure I'd say it's perfect? I thought 70-80 was?
My cardiologist said it isn't really "danger zone", but if it were like 100+ it might be concerning.
I have had all the scans done, including a close look at my hearteries, and everything came back (surprisingly) clean.
I was referencing digital price labels that retailers are installing.
This technology is being touted by the companies putting them in place to be a cost saving measure as staff no longer need to print new labels and manually replace them for products on the shelf. This is true in that it is a benefit of digital labelling, however there are many other usage options that could be implemented after installation.
- alter prices around lunch hour for ready meals and snacks at retailers in walking distance to secondary schools
- automatic increases for products being purchased more rapidly than historical averages to capitalize on a yet unknown trend
- increases simply as stock begins running low
Imagine in a few years when this technology is combined with network snooping of phone identification, loyalty rewards card purchase histories, and automatic buying of customer information from data brokers, all to create a profile that predicts when a person would be likely to be menstruating and the moment they walk in the store, the hygienic products they buy every month raise in price by 30%.
It's a bleak future I'm afraid.
Good point. A US department store chain -- Kohl's -- has been using electronic shelf labels that change several times per day. Not sure how they handle the discrepancies.
How do I prove the product was prices $1 when I picked it up if the label now says $2? Is it my responsibility to notice the register price was different?
I more or less avoided Kohl's, so I'm not sure how that was handled.
The only solution for that which I see is taking photos of the labels for every product taken off the shelf, but that's quite the imposition obviously. Trouble is there are no laws guiding these practices, and the result is going to be quite the mess for customers to understand.
In my opinion, the best purchasing experience for this type of shopping is using a handheld device with which you both scan the product as you take it off the shelf, and also process payment on your way to the exit. No cashier lines, and even better, no more unloading and repacking of your items just to purchase them. From the shelf into your bag, only back out again in your kitchen.
On another note, it boggles my mind to see the square footage used by all these self checkout machines when these terminal systems exist. Sadly I've never used one in North America. This is an aspect of shopping that could make me loyal to a single vendor. I would actually install the vendor's phone app if they built in this functionality instead of having these terminals.
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I would actually install the vendor’s phone app if they built in this functionality instead of having these terminals.
I think you’re right, but I dread it. I avoid installing apps. The thought of installing even more tracking for multiple vendors annoys me.
Although I am resistant, your point about bagging once is a true benefit.
One downside, that system doesn’t seem to support cash.
I didn't give the privacy concern much thought in the moment, mainly thinking how useless and poorly designed those apps usually are, but I do agree.
Considering it now, I do have loyalty cards in my company vehicle for certain things, primarily fuel, and those of course remain in that vehicle as they serve no other purpose. Perhaps keeping an old phone for purposes of doing this scanning thing might be ideal. Though ideally I'd imagine a few dedicated handheld terminals kept in store for redundancy purposes.
Speaking of redundancy, you're right about paying in cash. Perhaps as easy as a 'cash' button and it would send the purchase total to a customer service desk. Around here, all grocers have a 'cashier' desk where you get lottery tickets and gift cards and such.
Though it would be funny to see these handheld terminals have a compartment to accept notes and coins haha.
Perhaps keeping an old phone for purposes of doing this scanning thing might be ideal.
That’s an excellent idea!all grocers have a ‘cashier’ desk where you get lottery tickets.
Ha! Great observation. There’s no way in hell stores are going to give up on gambling cash. 😀
This tech scares the hell out of me.
Great if we can make MRI quality imaging eventually available, but being able to monitor where people are in their homes remotely and their health status in our world is fucking dangerous.
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Real question: how do you stop this?
I don't use wifi at all in my home but I live in an apartment and all my neighbours obviously do.
How in the hell do I stop this from getting into my home?
So if you don't want someone to measure your heartbeat and to physically know where you are at all times your only option is to cover your entire living area, including the windows, in aluminum foil?
I guess what I'm getting at here is that this situation is deeply, deeply fucked.
Your neighbors WIFI signals are too weak to matter in this case. Even if they were strong enough, this is a receiver-transmitter setup, so it would still be impossible to do unless you connect to their network. Even then, they’d have to assume you’re the only person present between the transmitter and the receiver.
Presence detection through WIFI was already garbage enough, this one is plain unusable.
Good to know.
The stuff I've read about recently tracking movements using wifi - would this need more powerful radio waves than most people use or no?
In a world where private health care is the norm, yes. It’s scary.
In a world where Public health care is the main provider of health it isn’t.
Yeah I'm with you.
"Using this technological advancement to improve health care is good"
"Not in countries where health care is publicly run"
"What" is the correct response here.
If we think about the applications of the technology to the benefit of someone’s health I think it’s really cool.
Needless to say it does pose a risk to our privacy and data security if used with an intention to monitor ones health without their consent.
Fiber that runs into your house can work with any fiber-ready router. So, yes, it's a modem in a sense, but also does the router/wifi job as well.
However, if you have Verizon or Huawei device on the end of your fiber line, your ISP can likely connect to that device, specifically for things like seeing if anyone is home. They don't need to do that, as it's only data for them to collect to work out advertising profiles.
Once your data leaves your house and goes into their network, then it's just your data on their network. Yes, they can see the data being routed, unless you use a VPN. So your options are going from your ISP able to see when you're home, to not giving them access to anything and just paying the bill every month.
Home Awareness | Verizon Internet Support
Home Awareness is a new service only available to Fios Customers, that once enabled provides a feeling of safety and security for your Home.Verizon
Inb4 the cops starts doing nonconsensual "polygraph tests" using wifi
Those 5G Conspiracy Theorists probably feel vindicated after reading this lol
Those 5G Conspiracy Theorists probably feel vindicated after reading this lol
I rather think they will be let down, given we're on wifi 7, not 5G, and also no injected nanites were involved.
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This is very cool and useful, but at the same time very concerning. While I see a lot of good use cases for this ranging from hospitals to stress recognition in animals I Am also quite scared, that big corporations will use this to spy on us. Luckily currently it is only possible to measure the pulse at about 3m, but it should be possible to increase the range. It may fall short when multiple persons are in detection range, but as far as I have read from the paper they did not test this.
Pulse-Fi: A Low-Cost System for Accurate Heart Rate Monitoring Using Wi-Fi Channel State Information
Non-intrusive monitoring of vital signs has become increasingly important in various healthcare settings.ieeexplore.ieee.org
And there's a lot of someones.
Article is paywalled for me.
Does it describe the methodology of how they use the transmitter and receiver?
What specifically are they transmitting? Is it actually wifi signals within the 802.11 protocols, or is "wifi" just shorthand for emitting radio waves in the same spectrum bands as wifi?
Yeah sadly it is paywalled, but I have been lucky enough to get access to it through my university.
Heres what I found regarding your question in the article:
Fig 1 illustrates Pulse-Fi's system architecture which consists of three main components: data collection using commodity Wi-Fi devices, a CSI signal processing pipeline, and a custom lightweight Long Short Term Memory neural network for heart rate estimation.
Fig 1:
And this is the Setup they used to collect the ESP-HR-CSI Dataset (left site) and the one that other researchers used to collect the E-Health Dataset (right side):
The parts on how they collected the data:
A. ESP-HR-CSI Dataset
We collected the ESP-HR-CSI dataset from seven participants (5 male, 2 female) in a room of a public indoor library. It was collected using two ESP32 devices, one as the transmitter and the other as the receiver. The sampling rate is 80 Hz, with a 20 MHz bandwidth with 64 subcarriers positioned at different distances. Each participant was measured at distances of 1,2 and 3 m for 5 minutes each. The participants sat in a chair between the devices and wore a pulse oximeter on their finger to collect ground-truth information as seen inB. E-Health Dataset
The E-Health dataset [20] contains CSI collected from 118 participants (88 men, 30 women) in a controlled indoor environment measuring 3 m×4 m (Fig 4). The setup consists of a router set in the 5 GHz band at 80 MHz bandwidth as a transmitter, a laptop as receiver and a single-antenna Raspberry Pi 4B with NEXMON firmware for CSI data collection (234 subcarriers). Participants wore a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 for the ground truth.Each participant performed 17 standardized positions or activities, with each position held for 60 seconds.
To me it sounds like, that they really just used standard WIFI to collect the data (this is especially true for the E-Health Dataset), since all the processing gets done on the Raspberry Pi.
B. E-Health Dataset\
The E-Health dataset [20] contains CSI collected from 118 participants (88 men, 30 women) in a controlled indoor environment measuring 3 m×4 m (Fig 4). The setup consists of a router set in the 5 GHz band at 80 MHz bandwidth as a transmitter, a laptop as receiver and a single-antenna Raspberry Pi 4B with NEXMON firmware for CSI data collection (234 subcarriers). Participants wore a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 for the ground truth.
does that mean a passive observer can do all that observations? and that a raspberry pi, with its single average antenna is capable of this?
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The problem is not sharing and accessing, but generating. If we had a system where people would be paid for generating knowledge, then they wouldn't have to charge for accessing knowledge.
That's why a lot more research should be paid for by the government. In exchange, government-funded research would be excluded from having patents and/or copyright.
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DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files
DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files
The Department of Justice attempted to do damage control after conservative political activist James O'Keefe released a video of a staffer claiming the government would "redact every Republican" from files about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.David Edwards (Raw Story)
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The United Nations Turns Eighty
The United Nations Turns Eighty
By Vijay Prashad on September 4, 2025 At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearl…Resumen LatinoAmericano English
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail can stay open, appeals court says
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail can stay open, appeals court says
Move puts on hold federal judge’s order last month to close Florida immigration facilityGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat
Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat
Dr Jean Innes is stepping down after the government told the charity to focus on defence research.Graham Fraser (BBC News)
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De-ACSM'ing and de-DRM'ing e-books for fun (but not profit) – Matias Kinnunen
A reminder for myself how to make library e-books pleasant to use with the help of Calibre and two Calibre plugins.mtsknn.fi
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GitHub - adrienmetais/adl: Download ebooks from acsm file
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Generate your own funny Error Messages just like the good old days!barrarchiverio.cl
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Google Photos now lets you animate your camera roll with Veo 3 for free
Google Photos now lets you animate your camera roll with Veo 3 for free
Google Photos now offers Veo 3 for turning images into short videos.Elissa Welle (The Verge)
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Sometimes I wish media organisations would report with the same hunger about every tiny, little unimportant feature in software I'm involved with.
Then again, it isn't millions of people using my stuff.
Maybe if the title didn't sound like an ad.
Also shit like this is how sensitization starts. People upvote this shit and befor you know it's all you see everywhere.
Fuck google.
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Revolution Wind developer sues Trump administration over stop-work order
Revolution Wind developer sues Trump administration over stop-work order | WBUR News
The developer behind Revolution Wind, a large — and nearly complete — wind farm near Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is suing to overturn the Trump administration's stop-work order.Miriam Wasser (WBUR)
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People prefer chatbots when buying embarrassing stuff
Consumers prefer dealing with chatbots over humans when buying ‘embarrassing’ products online
When purchasing “embarrassing” products, consumers would rather engage with a chatbot over another human, even when they are shopping alone ...Notre Dame News
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Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is now available for Download
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If you are currently running Mint 22.1, the upgrade will show up in the Update Manager > Edit menu.
Edit: I updated my machines this way. I'm guessing it isn't set to automatically move one from kernel 6.8 to 6.14? I can obviously change the kernel via the Kernels menu in Update Manager, I'm just wondering why this wasn't automatic.
i was going to amend my other comment.
according to this in the release notes:
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HWE kernel issues
To provide support for newer AMD processors, Linux Mint 22.2 ships HWE Kernel 6.14.
This kernel however has issues with:
Virtualbox
Old Intel GPUs which use the i915 driver
Old NVIDIA cards which use the 470 driver (this driver is no longer supported by NVIDIA and thus doesn't support newer kernels)
If you are affected by one of these issues, we recommend you install Linux Mint 22.1 instead, which ships with LTS kernel 6.8.
You can then perform an upgrade towards 22.2 without switching towards the HWE kernel.
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i ran lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'
and i confirmed i was running i915 but i'm also currently on 22.1 with kernel 6.8; so does that mean i can upgrade normally and not worry about the kernel?
It also says I'm using i915 but I bought this laptop a year ago... so I suspect many Intel GPUs use that driver?
Edit: According to kernel.org/doc/html/v6.14-rc3/…
The drm/i915 driver supports all (with the exception of some very early models) integrated GFX chipsets with both Intel display and rendering blocks.
does that mean i can upgrade normally and not worry about the kernel?
Yeah, just doing the upgrade via Update Manager > Edit menu leaves you on the 6.8 kernel. Confirmed with all three of my machines I upgraded.
Two of them I have since put on kernel 6.14 via Update Manager > Kernels, after updating to Mint 22.2 and seeing it still on kernel 6.8.
You got people like this guy and then you got me who had to reinstall mint 3 times because of upgrade and compatibility issues and then I eventually gave up on it 😭😭
And that happened in the span of one month too.
Eventually switched to Kubuntu and now I use Arch btw WITH BTRFS 🤤
Or use something like TimeShift and set it to automatically create backups.
Before I switched to the boringly stable Bazzite, TimeShift was a godsend. I was able to learn so much about Linux just by not having to worry about fucking up my install because whenever I did, it was trivial to rollback.
It could be you're running out of RAM.
You could try typing free
or free -h
in a terminal to see how much RAM you're using. If you see swap as 0, then it means you don't have it set up or enabled.
I don't want to waste time explaining swap space if that's not your issue, but if it is then you can probably figure it out with some searching or come back for help once you've confirmed that RAM is the problem.
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I ran Puppy off of a 4gb USB for almost 2 years when the hard drive crashed in my desktop years ago. As far as the "it just works" OS's go, it was fantastic.
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution that works well!
I ran it it remotely logging in from RustDesk while working. Jellyfin (caddy), Copyparty, and my Pihole all run on that machine and it finished and all continued working after it restarted.
Time estimate: 10 mins
Firefox 141 does not honor Cinnamon's dark mode on Mint 22.1
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After using Fedora for a few days I do not care for the desktop environment and hot keys
But holy fuck how have I been sleeping on toolboxes?
The dev environment is great, I’m loving it. I even installed fedora 43 in a container to test out some rocm features and I didn’t even need to reboot.
What desktop environment are you using, KDE Plasma?
But yeah, Bazzite is immutable Fedora, and distrobox is essential (and comes pre-installed).
Gnome, which I used to love 20 years ago lol
I thought Bazzite was just for gaming… o would rather a near immutable distribo, once it’s set up with VPN and stuff I want everything else in containers and running at user privileges.
It's geared towards gaming, but it's a fully functioning distro.
But yeah if you're not using it for gaming, it's based on Fedora Kinoite I think.
I might check that out.
I would use it for gaming but I have a Studio Display which my framework seems to not like (which I mostly name in Apple… the interop is awful but it’s a beautiful monitor).
When I figure things out more I’ll try and move it to my tv though.
I despise Gnome these days, used to love it back in the Gnome 2 days.
Give KDE Plasma a try with Fedora, it’s pretty darn awesome.
Just installed it, it's much better, and actually works with my thunderbolt display.
Coming from almost 20 years of macos, I am not used to the taskbar + windowing layout, but I'll see if I can customize that a bit more. Hotkeys are better than Gnome though.
At the time of myhardware upgrade it was only arch and nix that supported 6.14.
I've got mixed feelings about Fedora. I spent 10 years using a mix of Fedora, Red Hat, CEntOS, and Red Hawk at work so I'm very used to it.
However some of the decisions Red Hat the company have been making make me hesitant about it's future. It also makes me feel like I'm at work when I use it at home.
It's not a bad linux family at all and if I was setting up a production server CEntOS would probably be my choice.
Its a point release, so that's to be expected.
They also updated to kernel 6.14 and updated mesa to 25.0.7, which means for people like me with a Radeon 9060 XT, it's no longer necessary to use a PPA for updated mesa.
Project 2025 group wants huge changes to policy to encourage more kids
The right-wing think tank behind Project 2025 is now crafting new policy suggestions, including an incentive for married couples to have more children, according to a report.Following its controversial 900-page blueprint for President Donald Trump’s second term, the Heritage Foundation is now drafting a new position paper that includes calls for a “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family,” referring to the program to develop the first nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported.
The forthcoming paper, titled “We Must Save the American Family,” reportedly urges the government to pour funds into individual families rather than child care programs, like Head Start, according to the Post.
The Heritage Foundation is also urging the president to issue orders that require all proposed policies to “measure their positive or negative impacts on marriage and family.” If a program scores poorly, it should be revamped, according to the Post.
“For family policy to succeed, old orthodoxies must be re-examined and innovative approaches embraced, but more than that, we need to mobilize a nation to meet this moment,” the paper reportedly reads.
Project 2025 group wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for babies – with huge changes to policy to encourage more kids
A draft of a forthcoming paper reportedly includes policies that aim to ‘restore the nuclear family’Kelly Rissman (The Independent)
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Does this cellphone habit raise risk of hemorrhoids?
Does this cellphone habit raise risk of hemorrhoids?
Gastroenterologist Trisha Pasricha discusses why new findings may change how you think about bathroom routines.Jacqueline Mitchell (Harvard Gazette)
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US | FAA Investigating After 2 United Boeing 737s Collide At SFO
The incident occurred on Monday evening.
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Seeking Justice: Families Of Boeing 737 MAX Crash Victims Speak Out In Latest Hearing
This is the latest in a long line of hearings regarding the deadly accidents
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If You’re a Socialist, Root for the Green Bay Packers
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Nvidia dominates GPU shipments with 94% share — 27% surge in shipments likely caused by customers getting ahead of tariffs
27% increase in GPU shipments, 21.6% increase for CPUs
3 in 4 Gaza Detainees Held Without Trial by Israel Are Civilians, Military Database Says
3 out of 4 of the Palestinian detainees from Gaza held without trial as "unlawful combatants" by Israel are civilians, according to data from a classified Israeli military database.
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3 in 4 Gaza Detainees Held Without Trial by Israel Are Civilians, Military Database Says
Jessica Montell, director of the Israeli human rights group HaMoked, said Israel's "unlawful combatants" law "has been used to facilitate the forced disappearance of hundreds and even thousands of people."stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
Hamas to Trump: We Are Ready to Release All Israeli Captives in Comprehensive Ceasefire Deal
Three weeks ago, Hamas agreed to a U.S.-Israeli-drafted ceasefire, but its offer was ignored. Now, the movement says it will accept a comprehensive deal in a renewed bid to end the genocide.
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UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action
"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children's lives," said one Metropolitan Police officer.
UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action
"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children's lives," said one Metropolitan Police officer.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Noem Says Angola Chosen for Migrant Detention Because of Its 'Notorious' Violent History
As a court in Fort Myers, Florida prepares to address the legal rights of immigrants detained at "Alligator Alcatraz," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announces a new prison in Louisiana to house arrested migrants. Will the notorious Angola facility perpetuate the abuse and repression seen at Alligator Alcatraz?
Noem Says Angola Chosen for Migrant Detention Because of Its 'Notorious' Violent History
The Louisiana state prison has been known for brutal working conditions, solitary confinement, and violence.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
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Solar-powered Logitech keyboard appears on Amazon Mexico — MX Keys S look-alike promises up to 10 years of power
Freeing you from the shackles of using a cable or wireless charging pad
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in reply to return2ozma • • •So, at some point, we do have to move on policy, but frankly, I have a really hard time trying to predict what skillset will be particularly relevant to AI in ten years. I have a hard time knowing exactly what the state of AI itself will be in ten years.
Like, sure, in 2025, it's useful to learn the quirks and characteristics of LLMs or diffusion models to do things with them. I could sit down and tell people some of the things that I've run into. But...that knowledge also becomes obsolete very quickly. A lot of the issues and useful knowledge for, working with, say, Stable Diffusion 1.5 are essentially irrelevant as regards Flux. For LLMs, I strongly suspect that there are going to be dramatic changes surrounding reasoning, and retaining context. Like, if you put education time into training people on that, you run the risk that they don't learn stuff that's relevant over the longer haul.
There have been major changes in how all of this works over the past few years, and I think that it is very likely that there will be continuing major changes.
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in reply to tal • • •I agree, I looked into some AI stuff and it was really complex.
I’ve seen this story before and that complex stuff kind goes away and then it was a waste of time learning it.
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