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by bhouston 1y ago
Why are they demanding these two be fired? What are these two accused of? The article seemed to skim over this.
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by bhouston 1y ago
There is already https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
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by bhouston 1y ago
I do not know the exact specifics of UC Berkeley and you didn't link to them. That said, I am a financial supporter of FIRE, which often has come to the defense of free speech of conservatives. It is also opposed to the Trump administ
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by bhouston 1y ago
Moving Wikipedia elsewhere will likely have to happen. Thought, the US may respond by blocking Wikipedia content as many regimes in the past have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Does Wikipedia take any federal funding? As a charity they are tax exempt - that could be revoked. The US government could declare them to be a foreign influence operation and require them to register as foreign agents. They could ad
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Yeah that'd be a very easy 1A case. The Trump admin was very creative when it came to Harvard and figured out many different pressure points to push all at once. Don't expect it to be too simple. The guys running this have
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Even if there is organized bias, what can Congress legally do about it? Something similar to their targeted of US Univerities/Colledes for anti-semitism and for being "woke." Trump has threatened the Harvard endowment,
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by bhouston 1y ago
There is a ton of bias on Wikipedia. But this is the nature of anything trying to create a collective understanding of the world that involves multiple authors with diverse viewpoints. But given the way this administration works (looking a
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by bhouston 1y ago
> I'd also bet that the vast, vast majority of voters are already going to vote for their chosen candidate, independently of whether they see $1 billion worth of ads or $5. This is true of elections in two party systems. Most people
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Not really true, Kamala outspent Trump 2:1 and had the media machinery on her side Only if you exclude outside funding. Conservative SuperPACs were incredibly well funded compared to Liberal ones last election: https://www.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Our political donation system is infinitely better though than the US.
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Case in point: Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump. Trump's campaign was about $541M cheaper. You are skipping Super PACs which is pretty much exclusively ultra rich people political spending. Here is the Super PAC spending and Kama
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Is the same not true in Canada? In Edmonton's upcoming elections 39% of the donations came from corporations, but they made up 84% of the donated dollars It is quite different. Here is how campaign finance works: https:/&#x
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Money has an influence but it’s an exaggeration to think that it’s the only factor. Massive amounts of money is a requirement in the US. Of course strategy still plays a role but if you do not have massive amounts of money in the firs
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by bhouston 1y ago
> ever heard of "Laurentian elite" ? I don't think that is the same thing at all. Laurentian elite just refers to Canada's largest population cluster as a whole and saying that the upper class in general is influenti
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by bhouston 1y ago
The degree to which US politics can be bought amazes me as a Canadian. It does seem that $$$ makes right in the US. It isn’t so much the will of the people but the will of the rich and powerful. For example, in the last US election there wa
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by bhouston 1y ago
You could sell kits for this btw. There would be demand. And I think you could be quite successful. The reason is that Trump is tariffing the hell out of the main Chinese telescope accessories manufacturer, ZWO. So if you can provide a n
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by bhouston 1y ago
Citing the Coinbase CEO ( https://www.coinbase.com/en-ca/blog/coinbase-is-a-mission-fo... ) as a reason to not talk politics at work is pretty weird. He says you shouldn't engage in diversity hires, but he hims
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by bhouston 1y ago
I love the PCIe standard is 3 generations ahead of what is actually released. Gen5 is the live version, but the team behind it is so well organized that they have a roadmap of 3 additional versions now. Love it.
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by bhouston 1y ago
It was announced two weeks ago. Details: https://youtu.be/JFtvdItYNBU
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by bhouston 1y ago
Nice! I would expect that it was relatively straight foward given that Blender is native on MacOS ARM and also iOS ARM? Blender is just so nice to use these days.
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by bhouston 1y ago
You present these as straw man exaggerations, but they were real things that happened. > The global pandemic will tank the stock market It actually did screw up the economies of a lot of countries and companies and it messed with stock m
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by bhouston 1y ago
> proscribed terroist organization Terrorist designations are local to each country and the language you are using is UK language. Which countries rules do you want to enforce here in your censorship? > CNN or NYT will bring Israeli
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by bhouston 1y ago
Is this article incorrect in itself? I am confused about your objection. There is a lot of reporting on Meta's collaboration with IDF in restricting content: https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram
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by bhouston 1y ago
I had to shorten the title to make it fix and maybe export tariff isn’t the right word? These are weird tariffs in that the GPU may not even be made in the US, rather they may be made and assembled anywhere in the world but if these US comp
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Nvidia and AMD hit with 15% US tariffs on *sales* to China(theregister.com)
5 points by bhouston 1y ago|1 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
Weird to have such an early knowledge cutoff. Claude 4.1 has March 2025 - 6 month more recent with comparable results.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Sounds like a graph that was generated via AI. :)
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by bhouston 1y ago
The two main bots he is running on X are: dogeai_gov - 128K followers - focused on promoting DOGE cuts to the US government. CityDeskNYC - 1K followers - focused on the NYC Mayoral election.
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The 24-year-old Canadian software engineer who runs MAGA bots(ottawacitizen.com)
4 points by bhouston 1y ago|1 comments

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