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Lyrl

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  • Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

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  • We did not reach out to Flock for comment on this article, as their communications director previously told us the company will not answer our inquiries until we "correct the record and admit to your audience that you purposefully spread misinformation which you know to be untrue" about this case.

    Consider the record corrected: It turns out the truth is even more damning than initially reported.

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  • Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread

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  • Amazing work by these reporters. Removing the plausible deniabilty around the stalking being done is valuable for public discussion, and hopefully informs vulnerable figures on the importance of taking precautions like leaving the phone at home in the fridge when having an informant or organizing meeting.

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    Is it normal not to care about anyone?

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  • Has this always been the case, or is it a new thing? If always, some of the other comments have some suggestions around neurodivergence. If new, it might be due to stress - if I am drained from work and basic household maintenance and just feeding myself, I have no brain cells left to care about anything else. The caring comes back if I manage to work in more rest time per week.

  • Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting

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  • The current iteration of agentic AI technology used by Logitech is little more than a glorified note-taking bot capable of summarizing meetings and "generating" the occasional idea.

    Given that most humans hate note-taking and avoid it, but it has a lot of value as a meeting output, getting a machine to do it makes sense.

    I also heard a podcast where a consulting company couldn't get their client contact to make any decisions because he wanted his CEO to review, but she had a busy schedule and was never available. The consultants trained an AI on this CEOs writings, and presented it to their client contact. The model was convincing enough the client felt comfortable making decisions. I thought that was interesting, and this article refers to something similar with models of stakeholders.

  • Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City mayoral debate: "Free buses would cost $700M. Cuomo gave more—$959M—to Elon Musk for a failed Tesla factory."

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  • Some people believe if more than x people are killed, whether the deaths are x number or 2x or x^2 doesn't make any difference: once we reach x, it's maximum horrible. Actions that reduce from something greatly more than x to something slightly more than x are not worth pursuing, because the deaths are still more than x, which is max horrible, so those actions don't matter.

    Other people believe that any senseless death avoided is always worthwhile, and support actions that reduce the volume of senseless death. Even if a lot of killing still happens, it's positive to reduce it.

    I can't tell if you are in the first group, or if you really lack the context of active conflicts the US is involved in with hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths that you cannot imagine anything worse than 4,000 deaths.

  • What women want

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  • It takes significantly more time in shopping. Online, the normal look at 25 items to find one that matches my style preferences and is available in my size, then add clicking through all the product detail tabs to try to figure out if it has pockets, 80% of them don't, and of the ones that do it's mostly hope that they aren't poorly designed where everything falls out of them upon sitting down.

    I appreciate that, with a multiple of the shopping time investment required by men or women who don't value pockets, and some fallout in unusable pockets, women's clothing with pockets is available. But I sure wish it was more available.

  • Hate's a Rhymes-with-witch

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  • According to Frank, "abortion is never outlawed, school prayer never returns, the culture industry is never forced to clean up its act."

    That might have seemed true in 2004 when "What's the matter" was published, but even then the Republicans were laying the groundwork with judiciary appointments and institutional support to develop young future conservative judges.

  • Hate's a Rhymes-with-witch

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  • But the Democrats want to tie government funding to responsible environmental practices like reducing nitrogen fertilizer runoff and manure leaks, and they might mandate slightly less inhumane conditions for animals in feed lots. The horror! /s

  • Alternatively... bidet

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  • It's not about the driver experience, it's about the road inspection. If the patient has a pre-cancerous polyp the inspector sees, they will cut it out, problem averted. If the patient has a pre-cancerous polyp obscured by stool, it gets missed and then in a few years turns to cancer. And survival rates for colon cancer are depressingly low.

  • Senate Democrats, holding out for health care, reject government funding bill for 10th time

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  • In just over two years (January 2011 to March 2013) the Republican-controlled House voted 54 times to repeal the ACA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_repeal_the_Affordable_Care_Act#Vote_Total_Summary

    There was never any path for those votes to progress into law, but they've valued repetitive voting performance for decades at this point. I get doing it once - get representatives on the record with a position - but am baffled that so many voters value the repetition that Republicans keep employing this strategy.

  • Some Snaps of Shaver's Creek on Route to my Second Shot Featuring this Surprise Single-eyed Shortie!

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  • I have pet cockatiels, and had read that three was a difficult number to keep because typically two make friends and one is left excluded. Interesting to see a similar dynamic described in a completely different bird species.

  • Some Snaps of Shaver's Creek on Route to my Second Shot Featuring this Surprise Single-eyed Shortie!

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  • I feel shortchanged on rabies trivia by the article grouping opossums (which are resistant to rabies due to low body temperature) and squirrels (which are resistant to rabies due to dying easily when bitten by a larger animal, and most animals are larger than them).

  • Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

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  • Guessing the question wasn't clear, since Lays is both the name of the original product (potato chips) and the brand (which without looking it up I would guess includes other types of chips such as corn). But results from a well-formulated survey would have less clickbait value, so the shock results get reported.

  • Trump announces 130% tariffs on China. The global trade war just came roaring back

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  • It dropped to 30%, which is still painful but larger businesses (which make of the vast majority of the stock excahnges) can manage without too much stress. The 100% shock number lasted less than a week, if I remember correctly. Until now. TBD how long this go round lasts.

  • Trump announces 130% tariffs on China. The global trade war just came roaring back

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  • Deposits of rare earths aren't rare, and the US has them, too. It's the processing of ore into usable metal that China really has a lock on, and the processors have promoted development of the nearby deposits because that makes logistical sense. Sure, other countries could catch up if motivated and organized about it, but building the expertise and infrastructure would take years to decades. If we want to have access to new electronics two years from now, we will capitulate to China.

  • 'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

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  • Not in my lifetime. I do hope leaders emerge who can harness the modern levers to our brains in a constructive way, but even if that started next year at the midterms, the decades of work ahead just to get back to the institutional knowledge and regulatory protections that existed last year exceed my life expectancy. The hope is that happens so my nieces and nephews will benefit.

  • What is the result of a programmer's work?

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  • I work in a manufacturing plant. I am not a programmer, but I work with several supporting my projects on the manufacturing equipment. I find it wild that they stay in the front office building all the time, and are generally resistant to coming out on the plant floor and seeing the physical stuff being made because of their programs. That's the best part IMO!

  • What is the result of a programmer's work?

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  • I work at a multi-bilion dollar company that would crash to a halt if our Cobol + assembly language Unisys system written in the 80s went offline. It's hard to predict what will become difficult to replace, but some code has extraordinary staying power.

  • MTG Turns on Trump and Tells GOP to End the Shutdown

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  • Her call for the Senate to remove the 60 vote requirement, and pass the Republican bill with a simple (all Republican) majority, is not better in my eyes. The headline's implication that she's talking about negotiating with Democrats is hugely misleading, typical of Daily Beast.