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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
Reporting is that they had a basically impossible deadline and they took lawyers off of counterintelligence work to do this. So a conscious act of resistance is possible, but it's a situation where mistakes are likely - people working
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Sanctions Order [lawyer uses Grok to draft filings, misrepresents case law] [pdf](cases.justia.com)
4 points by apical_dendrite 10mo ago|0 comments
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Acting CISA director failed polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation(politico.com)
14 points by apical_dendrite 10mo ago|1 comments
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
Enjoy your trip to Tweed New Haven Airport.
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
I think Avelo is the only airline that participates. The rest are charter companies.
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
Please actually read what I wrote. You are responding to something that I did not write. I did not claim that there wasn't "massive, unchecked surveillance". The specific claim that I made was that the conspiracy-theory films
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
As far as US persons are concerned, jeffbee is correct that the Snowden leaks are not compatible with the conspiratorial worldview represented by Enemy of the State or the X-Files. The Snowden docs showed things like if two people outside t
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
This incident did not occur in a vacuum. If this had been a surprise attack during peacetime, the calculus would be different, but it wasn't. Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israeli civilian populations more or less indiscriminately
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
It wasn't a non-military political goal. It had a military purpose of taking out the communications network and personnel of a group that was actively engaged in combat.
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
The laws of war don't expect a military to attack a target only if there was no risk to civilians. That would be so unrealistic that nobody would even attempt to follow the laws of war. There has to be some consideration of relative ri
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
You seem to be under the impression that they targeted pagers that were distributed through civilian channels. These were pagers that were purchased BY Hezbollah to be used on Hezbollah's private, secure network, not on a public networ
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
It's not really a "mundane daily object" though. It's a communications device that's issued to people on the Hezbollah private communications network. It's only accessible to non-combatants if they are (1) in t
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
The pun on Dye's name is probably the least mean thing Gruber has to say about him.
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
I recently heard a C-suite executive at a unicorn startup describe a particular industry as made up of small-scale, prideful craftsmen who will be unable to compete with agentic AI. I don't know how much "VCs and tech tycoons&quot
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
Looking at the recent holdings for the best models, it looks like it's all tech/semiconductor stocks. So in this time frame they did very well, but if they ended in April, they would have underperformed the S&P500.
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
I'm aware. See for instance, VC Arielle Zuckerberg's comment that when deciding which founders to fund she looks for "a little of the rizz and a little of the tis" with "rizz" referring to charisma and "ti
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
I can tell you from personal experience as a person with a physical disability that it's still very much a stigma. It's also very much possible for something to be both a stigma and an identity. In fact, the stigmatization can mak
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
A lot of schools implement this by having the students put their phones in a locked pouch when they enter the building in the morning. https://www.overyondr.com/phone-locking-pouch This generally takes it out of the hands o
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
Parents really like the convenience and the feeling of safety they get when their kid has a phone. If they have to change school pickup plans they'd much rather text their kid than call and leave a message with the school office and th
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by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
I was fortunate enough to see Leopoldstadt on Broadway. It was an absolutely brilliant, deeply moving play based on Stoppard's family history.
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
This letter is from a leading defamation law firm but it does not actually threaten legal action, it just asks the Times to "do right by its readers" (maybe that's after the first four pages that are shown in this tweet). If
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The potential existential threat of LLMs to online survey research(pnas.org)
3 points by apical_dendrite 11mo ago|0 comments
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
I think everyone would agree that we should reduce fraud and waste in healthcare spending. I don't think DOGE was making a serious attempt to do that.
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
If you look at the sources for the $100-200 figure, she's looking at a particular form of humanitarian aid - community-based therapeutic care for children with severe acute malnutrition. There are other models like inpatient programs t
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
I've followed DOGE closely and haven't heard anything that would indicate they were even trying to reduce unnecessary medicare spending. Where I have heard that they've tried to touch healthcare spending, they've made a
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
I don't understand what's dishonest from the quotes that you shared.
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
DOGE represents all the worst aspects of startup culture. These guys saw all the existing expertise in the federal government as lazy, stupid, old-fashioned, and wasteful, and they thought that they were basically supermen - smarter, harder
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
> It's what we're supposed to be doing. Why?
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
If you google "reversion to the mean" or "regression to the mean" you'll see a more general definition.
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by apical_dendrite 11mo ago
> Do companies run by Elon Musk violate ethical and environmental regulations much more often than other similar companies, or does it just seem that way as a casual news reader because it is more worthwhile for outlets to publish a stor

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