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GrymEdm

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  • Israel Lobby Pushes Lie That People Are Not Starving in Gaza: Report

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  • The aggressive Zionists are lying to our faces, killing journalists, and censoring news sources that disagree. These folks have no integrity and actively oppose truth because the truth of the situation is disastrous for their support. Here's former Israeli PM Yair Lapid telling the world that "if the international media is objective, it serves Hamas. If it just shows both sides, it serves Hamas."

    Just because it's an important disclaimer - "Zionist" is not the same as "Jew" or even the same as "Israeli". Racism is never the informed choice, and there are many dissenting Jews inside and outside of Israel. I'm friends with a Jew who has been horribly persecuted by their own family for breaking ranks and to me they are meaningfully courageous. Lots of Zionists aren't even Jews. Judge based on actions, not genetics or residence.

  • Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new US regime change scheme

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  • The USA under Trump tried to depose the Venezuelan leader only 5 years ago or so. Speaking of Trump, a large portion of the USA is currently striving to elect someone who tried to overthrow democracy in their own nation. Electoral scrutiny is all well and good, but is the USA really the right arbitrator given their domestic election problems and history of interfering in Central/South America? What do Venezuelans think about US involvement?

  • We just had the warmest February on record | February 2024 was the planet’s ninth consecutive warmest month on record, according to NOAA.

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  • This is anecdotal and local weather does not equal climate, but where I am in Canada (over 600km north of the US border) we had green grass and no snow on the ground all through the Christmas/New Year holiday season. It wasn't until January that we got nailed with cold and snow and it's already almost gone again. Unless there's another prolonged fall in temperatures we will have had like 8-10 weeks of typical continuous winter weather way up here in freaking Canada.

  • Hail trans people

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  • If God cannot co-exist with people peacefully coming to terms with who they then God isn't kind or tolerant. If God can be killed by the mere presence of such people then God is ridiculously fragile (which would explain why his followers are so swiftly threatened and outraged). I'm not trans or religious but I know my response to Mr. Greer - I would much rather have happy, healthy people replace an unkind, intolerant, and fragile "God".

  • The little-known, massive advantage that renewables hold over coal.

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  • Renewables also have the advantage of not turning our planet into an Easy Bake oven, and not destroying people's respiratory/genetic/general health like coal does. The coal lobby is basically the only thing keeping coal around when so many better alternatives exist (which is every modern alternative).

  • Canadian government will resume funding to United Nations relief agency for Palestinians

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  • The EU resumed funding a few days ago. Canada should have asked for more evidence before cutting funding, but at least they've resumed. Hopefully this will prompt more thorough investigation prior to major decisions in the future.

  • Cookie Monster complaint about "shrinkflation" sparks response from White House

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  • The Count is going to start teaching kids about corporate profits. "One billion extra dollars untaxed! Ha ha hah! 2 billion..."

    Oscar the Grouch is going to be a working homeless who is forced to move his can every week by police.

  • Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet

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  • Wow, I never knew about that and it's not just a small fee either. This 2020 article has it at 9,500 Euro/10,300 USD. "Some observers worry Nature's €9500 publishing fee is so high that it threatens to divide authors into two tiers—those at wealthy institutions or with access to funds to pay, and everyone else."

    It's already hard enough getting funding in some fields of science without that kind of added expense to put your data out there. Definitely sounds like you're right to call them out.

  • Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet

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  • It's interesting reading quotes from that article like: "If you can’t verify what someone else has said at some other point, you’re just trusting to blind faith for artefacts that you can no longer read yourself." and "After you’ve been dead for 100 years, are people going to be able to get access to the things you’ve worked on?"

    It reminds me of problems the US military is having with refitting/upgrading old ICBMs. From the 2021 article, "Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore, STRATCOM Chief Says": "Where the drawings do exist, "they're like six generations behind the industry standard," he said, adding that there are also no technicians who fully understand them. "They're not alive anymore."

    It's sounds like the danger is we'll be able to access the science (or just trust it's true) but in some cases we'll be unable to retrace our steps.

  • Review of new OpenAI Sora videos.

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  • It's 100% going to change the way art and film is created. Right now OpenAI has restricted access to Sora, but that won't last. I wonder if being a trusted reviewer is going to become more important than creation, just because so much media is going to become available on a basically daily basis. People will want to know what's worth watching when presented with a library of hundreds of "AI home movies".

  • Review of new OpenAI Sora videos.

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  • You were right, I checked and I screwed up. I watched a bunch of Sora videos and got mixed up about which ones were new (thought I saw some of the new ones on the official site). I've updated the link to a YouTube video reviewing actually new Sora vids. Apologies to all.

  • UNRWA accuses Israel of detaining, coercing staffers into false confessions about ties to Hamas

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  • Israel has been using these types of techniques on captives (Israeli and otherwise) to gain coerced confessions for a long time now.

    In 2014, Australian journalists produced a documentary called Stone Cold Justice: Israel’s torture of Palestinian children. An excerpt from the description: A film which has been produced by a group of Australian journalists has sparked an international outcry against Israel after it explicitly detailed Tel Aviv’s use of torture against Palestinian children. The film, titled ‘Stone Cold Justice’ documents how Palestinian children, who have been arrested and detained by Israeli forces, are subjected to physical abuse, torture and forced into false confessions and pushed into gathering intelligence on Palestinian activists.

  • Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready.

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  • I agree. I'm talking about how quickly we're going to have strategies in place to deal not how quickly we'll have it all figured out. My guess is we have at best a year before it's a huge issue, and I agree with your take that figuring out human vs. AI content etc. is going to be an ongoing thing. Perhaps until AI gets so good it ceases to matter as much because it will be functionally the same.

  • Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready.

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  • I 100% agree the genie is out of the bottle. People who want to walk back this change are not dealing with reality. AI and robotics are so valuable I very much doubt there's even any point in talking about slowing it down. All that's left now is to figure out how to use the good and deal with the bad - likely on a timeline of months to maybe one or two years.

  • Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready.

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  • This is Kyle Hill's video on the predicted impact of AI-generated content on the internet, especially as it becomes more difficult to tell machine from human over text and video. He relays that experts say within a year huge portions of online content will be AI-generated. What do you guys think? Do you care that you may soon be having discussions/arguments with chatbots more often than not on popular platforms like Reddit, X, YouTube, etc?

  • The US SEC [stock market regulator] votes this week on controversial climate change rule: Here's what's at stake

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  • Climate change and direct environmental impact is too serious to be ignored for the sake of avoiding corporate complexity. In 2022, the World Wildlife Fund reported that animal populations across 10's of thousands of monitored species have declined an average of 69% since 1970. Many of those declines were the most extreme in the 90's to present day. That means if you're over 40, there were about 3x as many animals when you were born as there are now on average.

    Asking for environmental impact transparency is the very least humanity should be doing.

  • U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs

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    Exclusive: October 7 survivor testimony contradicts Israeli military's justification for killing civilians

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  • When it comes to the IDF firing at people, the only difference between killing Israeli civilians and other civilians is that Israel will mourn Israelis as martyrs afterwards. Prof. Mearsheimer describes IDF friendly fire and the Hannibal Doctrine in this short video.

  • Let me check the time real quick

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  • There's definitely value in not constantly being tethered to a device reminding you how many steps you've taken, e-mails, etc. Also I'm reminded me of a quote:

    “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy