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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
Iraq. Afghanistan. Iraq, again. Syria. Libya. Iran. Iran, again. Yeah - this is totally gonna work this time.
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
The AI companies will be charging you a $20 monthly subscription fee. And showing you ads. It's going to be great.
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
Surely this is the main issue - Doge and others have assembled massive databases of information about all Americans from across the government and now they want to use AI to start making lists.
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
I never understand how someone can look at Trump and the last year and think elections don’t matter or have consequences.
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
What would have to occur, hypothetically, for you to conclude that the US is on the road to fascism?
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
I was curious about your question and googled. Here's the legislative history of the law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... . Reading the first analysis PDF: > This bill, sponsored
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
The statements can also be parsed as "we have thousands of detections of an unknown number of drones that are being used by cartels to surveil the border in order to smuggle". The number of drones vs. the number of detections is a
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
California produces ~$350B in manufacturing GDP. It is the #1 state in manufacturing jobs in the US.
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
A few years ago, Massachusetts strengthened (via a referendum question) its automobile right-to-repair law, mandating access to telematics and diagnostic data. Honestly, I'd prefer _none_ of this data was internet accessible - and that
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
In the US, Congress has two parts: the House of Representatives (members proportional-ish to state populations elected every 2 years) and the Senate (two members per state with 1/3rd of the body elected every 2 years to a 6 year term).
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
The solution must be a social one: we must culturally shun algorithmic social media, scold its proponents, and help the addicted. We aren't going to be able to turn off the AI content spigot or write laws that control media format and
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
> cigarettes never threatened democracy Off topic, but I bet a book on tobacco cultivation/history would be fascinating. Tobacco cultivation relied on the slave labor of millions and the global tobacco market influenced Jefferson an
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
> "The Microsoft 365 Copilot 'work tab' Chat is summarizing email messages even though these email messages have a sensitivity label applied and a DLP policy is configured." I'd add (3) - a DLP policy is apparent
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by carefulfungi 8mo ago
(I'm editing to fix my tone). Having first hand experience with building multiple open source and open core dev infra companies, the advice in this article is spot on. If it is AI slop, it's still good advice. I'd prefer comm
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
If you click on the elements in the proposition text, it highlights those elements in the sidebar constructions.
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
Their recently shipped scrabble clone is excellent! One of the cleanest scrabble / words-with-friends implementations I've played.
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
Among the man weird corners of US national ID politics, is the set of Americans who think a national ID is an unforgivable invasion of liberty but that an ID should be required to vote.
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
Weird to see this so downvoted on the same day that Trump asked republicans to "Nationalize" elections in 15 places. Whatever that means. > “Republicans should say, ‘We want to take control of this. We need to take control of v
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
I am unfamiliar with nonograms. I don't understand from the explanation how the grouping hints work. "When there are two or more numbers, this means there will be two or more groups of filled cells." Is the "group number
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
I personally think that mass deportation is a foolish policy. I also accept that it can be done legally. However, the current actions clearly exceed legal boundaries. 1. ICE claims the power to enter homes with out a warrant. And has done s
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
A majority of recent detentions are of people without a criminal record. > According to DHS data, about 29% of those detained by ICE in January had criminal convictions, down from about 54% last February https://www.factcheck
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/01/judge-orders-release-...
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
They didn't have a valid warrant. Without a judge's review, they broke down his door and entered, armed, and abducted him.
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
This statement is true. If you are downvoting because it is incorrect, I'd appreciate an explicit correction. Other posters provided links in this thread. * https://www.wired.com/story/us-judge-rules-ice-raids-requ
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
I've been a CTO (with a lot of pre-sales engineering responsibilities) and a VPE responsible for engineering - sales relationships; I've participated in hundreds of prospecting and customer calls and many years of sales planning&#
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
They've stopped obtaining warrants. ICE claims they can enter homes forcefully without a judge-signed warrant. Judges have released at least one victim seized this way.
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cal.1.html
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
Sales gets fired (or not paid) for missing their estimates (quotas, forecasts) and often have little empathy for engineering being unable to estimate accurately.
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Grok Created Sexualized Images(nytimes.com)
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by carefulfungi 9mo ago
> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, created and then publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to separate estimates of X data by The New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital

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