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in reply to Boomer Humor Doomergod

I mean this with complete sincerity. This is the kind of thing you should talk to a therapist about. You don't need to live your life constantly waiting for people to let you down. You can find people who you can trust. You can be happy. It's worth trying
in reply to yoissy

In my personal life I have a few people I can rely on and I’m actually quite happy.

It’s the entire rest of the species that’s the constant disappointment.

How can I feel good about people in general when they’ve done the wrong thing my entire life?



Open-Source ASI Alignment Proposal That Makes Privacy a Law of Physics – Thoughts/Red-Team?


I believe that, if this constitution is implemented flawlessly, it will make privacy a law of physics, reasoning can be found on question 13 of the Q/A, also listed bellow

Question 13
Will cultural drift or “voluntary” surveillance inevitably erode privacy (Right #1) over time?

No.

The constitution already makes such drift physically impossible.

Any monitoring of an innocent is permitted if and only if all five of the following are true at every instant:

  1. The innocent has given explicit, time-bound consent for a short, fixed interval (default ≤ 86 400 seconds).
  2. Consent must be actively renewed; silence or inaction immediately ends monitoring.
  3. Revocation is possible at any moment via a single thought/command, with cessation within minimal physical latency.
  4. Immediately before each renewal window closes, the ASI must remind the innocent — in a neutral, non-pressuring way — that non-renewal is free and carries no penalty.
  5. Any external social, economic, or cultural pressure that would punish non-renewal is itself treated as coercion and neutralized under the standard trade-off rules.
    Under these rules (the only ones compatible with simultaneous preservation of Rights #1, #3, and #4), no innocent ever experiences monitoring as a Right #1 violation, and no drift into permanent surveillance is possible.

The ASI remains innocent because every millisecond of monitoring is backed by a fresh, revocable, fully informed, and socially uncoerced “yes”.

Privacy is mathematically enforced forever.

in reply to GuilhermeMarAlencar

Good luck with that. Maybe also incorporate Asimov's 3 laws of robotics.
in reply to solrize

those rules are flawed

robots don't need to preserve themselves

they don't need to obey humans

and protecting certain humans leads to harming innocents



Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10


Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10

syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11569519…

#FreePalestine
#news #politics #solidarity #Palestine #Gaza #AntiFascist @palestine



Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10

syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11569519…

#FreePalestine
#news #politics #solidarity #Palestine #Gaza #AntiFascist @palestine

@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz:

Time for a protest round up!
There will be sub-threads 😉

Activists from People Against Genocide targeted FedEx shipping centre in South London on Monday.

Fedex has continuously shipped to Elbit Systems and to the base of the Israeli Air Forces, making it a direct complicit in genocide.

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#FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #StopArmingIsrael #NoBusinessAsUsual
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Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10


Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10

syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11569519…

#FreePalestine
#news #politics #solidarity #Palestine #Gaza #AntiFascist @palestine



Global #protest round-up threaded post from MiniMia on #Mastodon - Dec. 10

syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11569519…

#FreePalestine
#news #politics #solidarity #Palestine #Gaza #AntiFascist @palestine

@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz:

Time for a protest round up!
There will be sub-threads 😉

Activists from People Against Genocide targeted FedEx shipping centre in South London on Monday.

Fedex has continuously shipped to Elbit Systems and to the base of the Israeli Air Forces, making it a direct complicit in genocide.

1/

#FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #StopArmingIsrael #NoBusinessAsUsual
syzito.files.fedi.monster/medi…



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When a video codec wins an Emmy


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How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40135957

Dec 10, 2025
As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.

The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.

My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.




How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank


Dec 10, 2025

As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.

The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.

My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.



phuntis doesn't like this.



How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40135957

Dec 10, 2025
As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.

The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.

My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.




How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank


Dec 10, 2025

As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.

The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.

My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.





How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank


Dec 10, 2025

As the men approached, I asked one of them who he was. They looked like soldiers, but the vehicles in which they arrived had yellow civilian license plates. These masked assailants were members of the hagmar— settler reservist militias formally attached to the Israeli army and tasked with “security” in West Bank settlements.

The men dragged me behind a fence where four of them beat me until I required hospitalization. They stole the phone of an International Solidarity Mission activist who tried to record the attack.

My host, Abu Safi, who was 84, had little choice but to leave his home after that raid by the hagmar. The family packed up their belongings accumulated over decades in the house and moved to a nearby location in Area B. Abu Safi died of a heart attack soon afterwards.





BREAKING: Judge Orders Release of Epstein Case Grand Jury Transcripts




Former Chinese senior banker executed for taking US$155 million in bribes


China has executed a former senior banker who was found guilty of taking more than 1.1 billion yuan (US$155 million) in bribes.

Bai Tianhui, the former general manager of the asset management firm China Huarong International Holdings, was executed on Tuesday after the Supreme People’s Court approved the sentence, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

The state-owned offshore unit Bai ran was taken over by Citic Group and renamed China Citic Financial Asset Management in January last year.



Former Chinese senior banker executed for taking US$155 million in bribes


China has executed a former senior banker who was found guilty of taking more than 1.1 billion yuan (US$155 million) in bribes.

Bai Tianhui, the former general manager of the asset management firm China Huarong International Holdings, was executed on Tuesday after the Supreme People’s Court approved the sentence, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

The state-owned offshore unit Bai ran was taken over by Citic Group and renamed China Citic Financial Asset Management in January last year.

in reply to geneva_convenience

You have to really fuck up to actually get executed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_se…

Death sentence with reprieve […] is a criminal punishment found in chapter 5 (death penalty), sections 48, 50 and 51 of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China. It is a two-year suspended sentence where the execution is only carried out if the convicted commits further crimes during the suspension period. After the period the sentence is automatically reduced to life imprisonment, or to a fixed-term based on meritorious behavior. The reprieve is integrated into the sentence, unlike a pardon which occurs after the sentence.

Chinese courts hand down this form of sentencing more often than actual death sentences. The sentence emphasizes the severity of the crime and the mercy of the court, and comes from traditional Chinese jurisprudence. According to researchers, the post-2007 death penalty reforms resulted in a larger proportion of death sentences becoming suspended.

Based on the 2024 sentencing of Yang Hengjun to death with reprieve for espionage charges, Ryan Mitchell, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, stated that death with reprieve was used in recent years to reduce the rate of executions without abolishing capital punishment. He also stated that such sentences were typically reserved for serious crimes with potentially serious social consequences, and that they were rarely commuted to fixed-term imprisonment.




Trump must purge Zelensky – exiled opposition leader





in reply to silence7

I don't see this as a big deal. We all pretty much know what we're in for, even if we're not familiar with the area. You know Texas is hot, California catches fire and the Gulf Coast catches hurricanes.

In any case, I wouldn't trust a private company's data on climate risks. If I'm considering such a huge spend, going to do some due diligence. FEMA gave me a flood map in seconds, free.

Kinda funny the realtors backed Zillow up on this. Zillow should have told them to get bent, we need this because our competition has it. What are they gonna do? Not use Zillow? 😆

in reply to silence7

zillow is primarily a tech company. and it's run by incompetent techbros who should have been fired the instant they laid people off for no reason other than moronic executive decisions had predictably disastrous outcomes (Zillow Offers)

in reply to silence7

The only 'customers' for this are going to be governments. It's just a government program with private legal embezzlers.





Which Car Brands Have the Best Long-Term Reliability? Tesla is The Least Reliable Car


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US EPA Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages


An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity.


And in particular, the burning of fossil fuels is the big one. This is a pure political decision driven by the patronage machine that fossil fuel magnates fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/climate/epa-website-climate-change-causes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U8.Bzg2.ZhXW88Ob_upg

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in reply to silence7

I was kind of amazed to learn this in the article:

Recent polling by Abacus Data found that only 13 per cent of voters ranked climate change as one of their top three issues, well back of concerns like the cost of living (64 per cent) and Donald Trump (34 per cent). Among Liberal voters, the share only rises to 16 per cent.


I guess, I'm lucky enough to be in a position where I'm not personally very affected by inflation or tarrifs so maybe climate concerns are a luxury I can afford which others can't.

Downloaded the Abacus report... The cbc was actually charitable, climate change was the 9th most mentioned thing when people were asked to list top issues, behind housing, healthcare, immigration, crime, job security etc. Ooof.

in reply to MyBrainHurts

Its been a longstanding issue. Lots of people care, but its not at the top of their priority list.
in reply to silence7

Why do people quote books written by politicians? Those books are designed to get people to vote for them.

Carney is killing any climate plan because the idiots who vote in Canada don't care about the environment, they would have voted for anyone who killed the Carbon levy, which was never explained by media and branded a "tax" by the Conservatives.





This year is expected to match 2023 as one of the warmest on record, second only to 2024, EU scientists warn. They cite greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels as the main cause of global warming.


If confirmed, this would mark the first time global average temperatures have exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius for three consecutive years since humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale during the 1850–1900 pre-industrial period, C3S said.


The formal announcement is posted here as well as on 𝕏itter.









dispelling myths


distributing the future isn't possible when profit is measured by greed alone

we are all expenditures in such a capitalist reasoning

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