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no disrespect to this user personally, it's not his fault, but this is one of those posts that really makes it clear how fundamentally everyone does not get it in a larger sense and we just aren't gonna make it. it sounds out of proportion, I know, but it's a microcosm
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Oh hot take but I think "beer" and "she'll be right, mate" is a part of this.
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gossip from sources in R senate campaigns, lots of blame but one theme emerging: the Million Charlie Kirks were a catastrophe. half of them hatched "unsouled" and slid sideways into hell before they could vote; the rest were "webs of blood and tooth" who largely went third-party
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Drew, you have ruined your life and reputation and future for literally nothing. The only thing people know about your dad is that there's a video of him begging you to not do this. He was right. You should have listened!
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Red Scare is dead. You can stop trying to shapeshift into a new grift. You and Anna sold your souls, thinking the MAGA moment would last forever, and showed everyone that you believe in nothing. Human weathervanes. Enough
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It doesn’t matter how well they do, @TheDemocrats are the party of the Gaza genocide.
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Voters have overwhelmingly rejected Hasan Piker at the ballot box, preferring instead to vote for the candidates he has endorsed and campaigned for.
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If your private school can afford to advertise on a Melbourne tram then it can afford to have government funding taken away.
"School band make 9 day 3,000km tour of Victoria by train, stopping to play concerts along the way" is pretty cool, except for the "why does government give private schools money while state schools are forced to beg, borrow and steal just to give students bare essentials" bit.
ALT Poster for Melbourne Grammar School Symphony Orchestra tour of regional Victoria in December 2022.
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Juan Atkins created incredible music, but techno was middle class music made possible by good union jobs in the auto industry. The takeaway shouldn’t be lying and say it’s “working class”, but that it was only possible because those jobs afforded dignity and creative freedom
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“Zionism has brought millions of people to a state of utter derangement,” Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser said, noting that pro-Israel commentators struggle to even acknowledge that Palestinians are human.
Moser questioned the value of platforming such views in the name of “balance,” comparing it to debating the merits of Nazism or inviting a member of the KKK to provide an opposing perspective when interviewing a Black guest.
@WeTheBrandon | @BenMoser123
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Il n’y aura pas d´IA socialiste compte tenu des investissements massifs (1600 milliards sur 3 ans), et encore moins avec l’IA générative et des besoins massifs en électricité ou en terres rares.
Le modèle de l’IA générative c’est l’extractivisme même et le vol par les patrons.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Benjamin Moser says Israel is "actively fomenting" antisemitism by claiming to act in the name of all Jews:
"It's asking a lot of people to say that there's this Jewish army of this Jewish state with this Jewish star on their flag, and they are mercilessly slaughtering tens of thousands of children, but don't confuse them with Jews," Moser said.
He argues that the reported rise in antisemitism is simply a rise in anti-Zionism, "people reacting to Israel and the evil, wicked things that Israel has been doing in our names."
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they want u to never pick up books. they want you as stupid as ur microplastics peppered brain will allow so they can make u fall for all their racist fear-mongering. they’re lying to u about immigration, trans ppl, crime stats so ur anger isn’t directed at the crooks robbing you
Golden gate bridge.
Main cable weighs 3100 pounds per foot.
How could they have possibly handled that?
Total length of galvanized steel wire used in both main cables is 80,000 mi (129,000 km).
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Golden Gate Bridge main cables were spun in place wire-by-wire from thin strands over catwalks, not lifted or handled as complete heavy units. The cited specs match official bridge records.
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東大卒のAIエンジニアがニュースをみて飲み会で同じような話を言っていた。ガチでコレは教養よ。僕たちはかつて、自分のPCにデータを持ち、自分のメモリで計算する「デジタル上の地主」だった。
しかし、今、AI資本が目指すのは「全員がクライアント（末端）になり、頭脳はすべて彼らのクラウドから借りる」という完全な小作人化。
アルトマンの発言は「お前らに強いマシンを持たせるのはリソースの無駄遣い。端末は画面を映すだけでいい、計算はうちのAIがやってやるから金を払え」という、テクノロジーの封建社会化の宣言に他ならない。
僕たちが失いつつあるのは、PCのスペックではなく「デジタル上の自律性」そのものなのかもしれない。
かつてのWinnyの時代、僕たちは「個人PCの余剰リソースを繋げば巨大なパワーになる（P2P）」という未来を夢見ていた。それから20年。最近のサム・アルトマンの発言は真逆だった。「個人PCのRAMなんて5%しか使われてないから無駄。AIクラウドに寄越せ」
なぜ、かつて夢見た「個の解放と分散」は終わり、AI巨大資本による「超・中央集権」へと逆行してしまったのか。
その理由は、半導体とインフラの圧倒的な偏重にある。世界中の資源はNVIDIAのAI GPUに集中し、退役した旧型サーバーすらeBayで高値取引される狂乱。
日本の系譜であるキオクシア（旧東芝）のNANDはAIのDRAM偏重の影で耐え忍び、ソニーや任天堂、僕たちのPCやゲーム機は「資源の末端」としてコスト高の打撃を直撃で受ける。
「個人が持つリソースは無駄」
その言葉の裏にあるのは、かつて個人が手にしかけたデジタル上の自由や「権力」が、AI資本へ根こそぎ回収されていく現実だ。
分散の夢の敗北と、AIによる資源の総取り。時代の急速な変化にゾッとする。
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かつてのWinnyの時代、僕たちは「個人PCの余剰リソースを繋げば巨大なパワーになる（P2P）」という未来を夢見ていた。それから20年。最近のサム・アルトマンの発言は真逆だった。「個人PCのRAMなんて5%しか使われてないから無駄。AIクラウドに寄越せ」
なぜ、かつて夢見た「個の解放と分散」は終わり、AI巨大資本による「超・中央集権」へと逆行してしまったのか。
その理由は、半導体とインフラの圧倒的な偏重にある。世界中の資源はNVIDIAのAI GPUに集中し、退役した旧型サーバーすらeBayで高値取引される狂乱。
日本の系譜であるキオクシア（旧東芝）のNANDはAIのDRAM偏重の影で耐え忍び、ソニーや任天堂、僕たちのPCやゲーム機は「資源の末端」としてコスト高の打撃を直撃で受ける。
「個人が持つリソースは無駄」
その言葉の裏にあるのは、かつて個人が手にしかけたデジタル上の自由や「権力」が、AI資本へ根こそぎ回収されていく現実だ。
分散の夢の敗北と、AIによる資源の総取り。時代の急速な変化にゾッとする。
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There R liberal Zionists claiming those 19 Israeli Palestinian seats represent Israeli democracy. As Juan Cole points out, it is just the opposite. This election result actually confirms Israel is a racist state since no Jewish party will include them in a governing coalition.
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Vocês sabem por que a ideia de não aceitar o resultado das eleições ainda não se traduziu em movimentos de rua, acampamentos em quartéis, vandalismo ou bloqueios de estradas pelo país? Porque agora existe uma consequência real: a prisão. Pela primeira vez na história da República, golpistas estão pagando por seus crimes.
Não pode haver anistia, sobretudo para os líderes que arquitetaram e financiaram a tentativa de golpe liderada por Jair Bolsonaro.
Podemos discutir, em alguma medida, a dosimetria das penas para aqueles que foram manipulados e induzidos a cometer crimes. Mas quem planejou, financiou e liderou a tentativa de ruptura democrática precisa responder integralmente por seus atos. A impunidade não pode ser o recado deixado para a história.