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"What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” he says. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system.” - Geoffrey Hinton
#genai #justice #humanrights #democracy #oligarchy #plutocracy #equality
Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’
The ‘godfather of artificial intelligence’ on ‘the only hope’ for humanity, why China has an advantage — and when machines will outstrip usCristina Criddle (Financial Times)
RFK Jr.’s Own Family Calls on Him to Resign After Trainwreck Hearing
https://newrepublic.com/post/200083/rfk-jr-family-calls-resign-senate-hearing?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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RFK Jr.’s Own Family Calls on Him to Resign After Trainwreck Hearing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t even have his family’s support.The New Republic
#Trump is now targeting non-Tesla EV factories. 1/3 of this plant's workforce was just taken by ICE.
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South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
Most of the 475 arrested were from South Korea, leading the country to call the raid an unjust infringement of people's rights.Robin Levinson King and Kayla Epstein (BBC News)
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📍Tibetan macaque in Huangshan, China
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
A theory that is afraid of investigation is undeserving a place in the human mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1877-06-23), “The Ghosts,” Carson Theater, Carson City, Nevada
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #investigation #questioning #sacrosanct #science #theory #hypothesis #assertion
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Traditional Vs cable Vs social media... it is utterly wrong to draw equivalence between the hard-left and -right as extremes. Hard left is inclusive/progressive/clean/etc. while the hard right is the exact opposite. Left is better for most, right is NOT!
The end of the gatekeepers
In the age of social media, the establishment no longer controls the narrativeJohn Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times)
SNL’s first out trans writer is leaving the show
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/snls-first-out-trans-writer-is-leaving-the-show/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Russia’s 24/7 Trans-Arctic Corridor to Supercharge Northern Supply Routes
Russia is aiming for full-throttle, round-the-clock operations along the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor, President Vladimir Putin declared at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).Sputnik International
Das Bild zeigt eine nächtliche Landschaft mit einem helleren Mond im Himmel, der von einer dünnen Wolke teilweise verdeckt wird. Der Mond scheint hell und hängt hoch am dunklen Nachthimmel. Silhouetten von hohen Bäumen, wahrscheinlich Tannen, dominieren den unteren Teil des Bildes und schaffen einen starken Kontrast zum hellen Mond. Im Hintergrund ist ein Teil eines Hauses mit einem Dach zu sehen, das sich links im Bild befindet. Die Umgebung ist dunkel, was die Helligkeit des Mondes noch betont. Ein kurzer, heller Streifen, der möglicherweise ein Meteor ist, ist im oberen linken Bereich des Himmels zu erkennen.
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La FOTO QUE DELATA a PATRICIO GÓNGORA y lo vincula a la cuenta anónima pro KAST "Patito Verde"
por Sala de Prensa
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Del fatto che negli ultimi anni solo in nord Europa si sono pronunciati con multe ai colossi, mi fa una gran paura il nostro non voler screditarne l'immagine.
Il singolo è talmente soddisfatto delle magagne consentite che non ha subbi sul subordinarvi a scatola chiusa l'intera società
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How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims
Chaos at the CDC and the sharp move away from mRNA vaccines has public health experts alarmed.The Conversation
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Track & Field (1984) for the Atari 2600
Most people remember Track & Field as an NES game—specifically the one that worked with the Power Pad. Fair. That’s how a whole generation ended up stomping on their living room carpets in the name of Olympic glory.
But the lineage goes further back. Track & Field started in the arcades, and long before the NES ever launched in North America, it had already been ported everywhere—Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computers, and yes, even the Atari 2600. Konami developed it, but Atari handled publishing. In fact, under their Atarisoft label, Atari scattered this thing across the microcomputer landscape.
The 2600 version showed up in 1984—right in the middle of the video game crash—because if there was going to be an “official Olympic game” for consoles, it had to land on the machine that still sat in more households than anything else.
Now, let’s be honest: “faithful” on the Atari 2600 means extremely simplified sprites, blocky stadium crowds, and sound effects that barely registered as sound effects. But compared to the hardware’s usual output, it’s impressive how recognizable each event still is.
Reception was solid enough. The real sticking point was the control scheme. Using a joystick to mash out sprinting speed was… let’s say “less than ideal.” Unless you had the dedicated Track & Field controller—the one with two big buttons you could slap back and forth—your wrist probably hated you by the end.
And that’s why this version gets forgotten. It wasn’t bad, it was just overshadowed. Everyone remembers the arcade cab. Everyone remembers the NES Power Pad.
But in 1984, if you wanted Track & Field in your living room, the Atari 2600 was where you got it.
"Während die AfD in aktuellen Umfragen neue Höchstwerte verzeichnet, schießt sich die Bundesregierung ausgerechnet auf jenen Teil der Zivilgesellschaft ein, der für demokratische Werte und gegen den Rechtsruck kämpft."
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Zivilgesellschaft: Familienministerin will Demokratieprojekte mit Verfassungsschutz durchleuchten
Seit langem blasen rechte Akteure zum Angriff auf die Zivilgesellschaft. Nun verspricht Familienministerin Prien in einem Brief an die Union, dass Nichtregierungsorganisationen im Programmnetzpolitik.org
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Einige erinnert das wahrscheinlich an die Worte des antifaschistischen Widerstandskämpfers Max Reimann:
"Es wird [...] der Tag kommen, da wir Kommunisten dieses Grundgesetz gegen die verteidigen werden, die es angenommen haben!"
Es sind die Linken, die dieser Demokratie gerade den Arsch zu retten versuchen: Gegen jene, die sich für die großen Demokratie-Verteidiger halten. Seufz, Leute. Seufz.
bei bewusstem Ausblenden humanistischer Werte. Das ist #merz Historie, wie der der anderen Nazi-Enkel*innen. Es geht hier nicht nur um die Bewahrung des verbrecherisch erworbenen materiellen Erbes von ungesünhten Natziverbrechen der Vorfahren, sondern wohl auch um die Bewahrung des ideologischen Erbes.
Trump: 'Aiuteremo Kiev con garanzie sicurezza, Europa sarà la prima'
https://tg24.sky.it/mondo/2025/09/05/donald-trump-guerra-ucraina-dazi-news?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ucraina, Trump: "Aiuteremo Kiev con garanzie di sicurezza, l'Europa sarà la prima"
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Ucraina, Trump: 'Aiuteremo Kiev con garanzie di sicurezza, l'Europa sarà la prima'Redazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
Reversing what was undisputable knowledge
Branded as false-factual information
A game of sovereigns
Masters of deceit
Weapons of art
Tables turn on the overpowering
Balance to be restored
Force fed fabricated quandaries of diplomatic myth, untruths
Consequences of pride, and misplaced malice
The dialogues fall through
Oh, but they ingest it
Undoing from the inside begins as a seed
Until it grows
Lies form
Blind and targeted, you've been selected
The ideals fit the narrative
The leaders are comparative
Spewing of extrinsic falsehoods
Pumping from a heart of hatred
Constant lies distributed burrow inside the minds of fools
Wrought ruin
Utilized information warfare worming its way into the domiciles
Of leadership and mandated officials
Behind, they are organized to distribute your pitfall for a steeper sum
To achieve success, and to have relied on certain forces with corresponding obligations
It is the wielder's responsibility to oblige them
A lack of ethics contributes to the disservice
A burning canvas
An heirloom coated with blood
Devolve, regress
And only on the surface, the unrevealing purpose, grazes upon a meadow of minds
Through the hands of the blind
The sightless open the gates
Control through overwhelming fear
The facets of propaganda
The mindless open the gates
Systemic rot
And proverbial failure
The facets of propaganda
Through the hands of the blind
The sightless open the gates
Meticulously evolving
The facets of propaganda
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#Propaganda #Politics #Authoritarianism #Lyrics #Metal #Music #ShadowOfIntent
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‼️🇺🇦Ukraine won't give up its land, says commander of AFU’s Azov National Guard Brigade (Kyiv Independent VIDEO) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #Norway #Sweden #UN #France #Poland #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Italy #Romania #Bulgaria #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Italia-Estonia 5-0. Esordio con goleada per Gattuso
https://www.agi.it/sport/news/2025-09-05/italia-estonia-5-0-esordio-gattuso-33031600/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Sport @sport-Agenzia_Italia
ICYMI: The Kids Aren't Working
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-09-05/icymi-the-kids-aren-t-working?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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🦇 #GothDiscoInferno #84 🔥
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Bears!
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Bear Cam - live from Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park | Explore.org
Watch LIVE as hundreds of Alaskan Brown Bears descend on a mile-long stretch of the Brooks River to feast on the largest Sockeye Salmon run in the world.explore.org
“I wasn’t sure what number you wanted me to go with.” — @zuck, 100% pathetically bitch-made by the man who said he should be thrown in jail for life, appeasing an administration who says his wife’s family are not Americans, loving how RFK is dismantling every public health advancement that every CZI worker ever did.
RE: threads.com/@acynig/post/DOOuD…
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Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot micThreads
#fediChiedi Qualcuno sa se sul Fediverso c'è un equivalente (su lemmy, kbin, mbin, piefed o zoccuiè) di quello che era il reddit r/incipit dove si propone un incipit e gli altri continuano la storia? O almeno un tag convenzionalmente usato per la cosa, l'equivalente dell'inglese WritingPrompt? @ParoleSparse m'ha fatto pensare che l'esempio che avevo buttato lí
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potrebbe funzionare a questo scopo.
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prego figurati, ti facilito il lavoro con anche la sigla iniziale:
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Purtroppo su YT! trovo solo la versione dalle audiocassette, dove manca la parte del disco che fa clic.
Non odiarmi troppo 😉
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If this post makes you uncomfortable, I wonder why, because nature isn’t something to be afraid of, and neither am I.
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I’m really happy I took this photo, it’s my favorite selfie in a long time, and now my new profile picture on almost all my social media accounts.
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Socials - Erik L. Midtsveen
I'm an anarcho-syndicalist, gender-fluid, bisexual, and autistic individual living in Bergen, Norwaymidtsveen.codeberg.page
Im @spiegel.de berichtet @akm0803.bsky.social vom „Koordinator Sicherheit“ der AfD-Bundestagsfraktion, der - ups! - wegen Gewalt gegen Asylbewerber verurteilt worden ist. Aber kaum jemand ist mehr schockiert. Verbotsverfahren prüfen… war da was? Mein SZ-Kommentar:
In puncto AfD zeigen Union und...
In puncto AfD zeigen Union und SPD Schwäche
Die AfD ist offensichtlich ein Fall für Karlsruhe. Und doch scheuen Union und SPD den Gang dorthin, das ist schwach.Ronen Steinke (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
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Strongly agree with a good 3/4 of this by @pluralistic:
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The best outcome would have been for Chrome and Android to have been spun out into non-profits, endowed with the cash Google has been paying Apple to avoid any more competition across apps/search/web.
It has not helped matters that neither DOJ, nor most civil society orgs (save @owa), could see through private-equity-adjacent logic to understand the public interest in these software projects. Own goals all around.
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Termination dust is creeping lower into the Hayes Range, with fall colors nearly at their peak across the tundra. I took this yesterday during our drive down to the Delta Mountains.
The image displays a Netflix interface for the "Clip a Moment" feature. At the top, the Netflix logo is prominently displayed in red against a dark background. Below the logo, a preview window shows a scene from a movie or show, featuring a young girl with a surprised expression, set in a dimly lit environment. The preview window is bordered by a timeline at the bottom, with a green start marker at 53:16 and a red end marker at 53:58. The timeline includes smaller thumbnail images of various scenes from the same content. On the right side of the preview window, there is a "Save" button. The overall color scheme is dark, with blue and red accents, emphasizing the interface's modern and sleek design.
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Boah ey, also wenn aus dem Nichts heraus ohne Änderungen an #Hardware oder #Software plötzlich irgendwelche Programme nicht mehr funktionieren, da könnte ich aber sowas von die #Tischkante abbeißen.
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CIOE 2025 (the 26th China International Optoelectronic Exposition)
CIOE 2025 (the 26th China International Optoelectronic Exposition) will be held from September 10–12, 2025, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center in Shenzhen, China.China Business Forum
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#SciArtSeptember Day 5: Skeleton
A cicada exuvia, which is an exoskeleton and fully belongs on Day 5.
Full disclosure: I already posted it on my previous instance, but I really like this picture.
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OK, I need people to do better because this is just too evergreen in too short of a time for me to stay feeling good about it. (People shouted out a couple good examples that avoid these pitfalls. If you got more, yell them at me!)
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Let's Talk About "Ghibli-inspired" TTRPGs - Thought Punks
Also check out the free micro-RPG I was inspired to share from my slush pile by this post.RevCasey (Thought Punks)
So much winning ~
Because I'm a fishist, I treated myself to a small piece of wild caught halibut. In the Midwest, this fish is hard to find and was priced at $29.98 a pound. TWENTY NINE DOLLARS AND NINETY EIGHT CENTS a pound for a wild caught fish. Mother of Zod, 🐬 💸
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in reply to TinJar • • •The deal under capitalism is "if you don't work, you don't eat"
If you don't get to eat anyway, why bother working?
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As usual, these people don’t care to think through stuff. Move fast and break things. Better to apologize later than ask for permission before.
Sociopaths.
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in reply to Marijn • • •but where will profits come from for more than a few months once those with all the money have their fill of that product?
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in reply to ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘 • • •@anne_twain
The hope is at least some governments will act sooner rather than later.
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