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  • Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview

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  • I hear you, but I would imagine that Musk would retaliate by counter-suing the city and/or state, if for no other reason than spite. And would drag the whole thing out for at least as long as the AI infatuation lasts before abandoning the building for officials to deal with.

    A single citizen with a drone and a bunch of glass bottles full of petrol dropped onto the generators, however, would shut down operations immediately.

  • Ex-GOP operative's stark ultimatum on ousting Trump: 'Choose the Republic or surrender it'

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  • Trump is clearly fucking incapacitated. He needs to be removed under the 25th amendment. But what I see is either an utter lack of strategy, or a strategy of letting the republicans hang themselves (and all U.S. legitimacy along with it) in favor of letting things get to point where a midterm sweep seems likely. Ineptitude or callous political math. Feels like a greasy handshake from someone you know just spent all day alone.

  • Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in Treasurys, citing ‘poor’ U.S. government finances

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  • I actually rebalanced my 401k tonight and dumped all my bond holdings and most domestic stocks just an hour or so ago. (I did keep the index funds, though.)Swapping most of the allocations over to foreign stocks (showing about 35% yearly returns, vs the still good 14% I was netting before). I also threw a small chunk into a gold commodity index fund, which is showing 150% growth in the last year. Risky, but what am I going to do? Live long enough to grow old? In this economy?

  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • I used to have a TCL soundbar.

    In addition to being extremely mediocre, it promised to integrate with my WiFi so that music could be airplayed through it. After adding it to my WiFi, it still broadcast the open ‘setup’ WiFi network.

    If you joined the setup network, you could SSH into the soundbar as root without a password and dump the dhcp.conf file, which would give anyone access to my home WiFi network. Other TCL models also allowed for root via SSH, but used 12345678 as the password. A skilled hacker could just bot these via wardriving and turn them into network listeners.

    It may have still broadcast the setup network because I blocked the device from accessing the internet. I only ever went poking around on it because I noticed that the setup network kept getting set to the same channels as my home network and it was causing interference. I eventually just factory reset the device so it had no information on it at all.After the umpteenth time of not being found by my TV, a hard reset killed it. Just got stuck booting and never recovered.

    Anyway - crap brand. Sad day for Sony TV fans.

  • YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.

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  • Yes!

    I was just talking to my wife about, if not this idea, then the ramifications of splitting. We were discussing how someone like Putin can stay in power, or how I think it would be touchy to have joint protests against Trump in the U.S., even as his support falters across the board – because I couldn’t imagine republicans with morals, disaffected MAGA, democrats, and leftists on the same side of a picket line.

  • Cartoon Network

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  • I’m glad I have ADHD and will forget about this by tomorrow, or else I’d spend my weekend trying to figure out what temperature and droplet size makes the slipperiest ice. You can probably use far less water with a mist sprayer, assuming the mist doesn’t freeze before it hits the ground. (Saving water means better coverage by the time you run out, being my thinking.)

  • Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland

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  • I sort of think it’s a multi-pronged thing.

    I think one of Trump’s advisors floated it for the easy to grasp reasons -Proximity to the trade lane that’s beginning to open up through the arctic as the polar ice melts, and access to Greenland’s rare earth minerals as a way to not be reliant on China for them.

    I also suspect that should the Trump admin ever gain control of Greenland (I don’t believe they would), but they would turn it into a penal colony as they attempt to turn the U.S. into a white ethno-state.

    There’s the ego factor. The rest of the world is telling the man-child Trump no, so he’s trying to see if he can get away with it. He’s a psychopath who likes to see if he can enforce his will on others. It’s not even about the actual gains of the action, but about overcoming the objections of others because he’s fragile and weak inside.

    And finally - because if the U.S. looks like a credible threat to Europe, that means that Europe will have to invest in meeting that threat, even if the threat never materializes. Resources are finite and that harms Ukraine’s defense. No doubts from me that Trump is getting encouragement from his pal Putin to keep pushing for Greenland.

    It is completely fucked, though. No ‘real’ U.S. citizen wants this, either.

  • no eggs were harmed in the making of this video

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  • Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.

    Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” — Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

    Personally, I’m sort of hoping for the same karma as when Elaine Chao was secretary of transportation and let Tesla roll out an untested and confusing shifting system, which later helped kill her sister.

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  • Having just read a comment about someone who actually went through the process of having a kid by employing stuff like cycle and fertility tracking, scheduling both sex and abstinence, as well as other not-fun stuff, your comment made me think of taking the kink to an extreme, where instead of lots of rambunctious boning, it was a couple nerds doing intense and fruitless science to find the optimal way to impregnate someone that was impossible to impregnate. (Unless they start looking at the mating habits of bedbugs, but that’s a third, separate, entirely unhinged thing.)

    I mean, I’m pretty sure I know which interpretation you meant. But brains are weird and I’m sleep deprived.

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  • As someone who isn’t going to have kids and doesn’t want them, I still get the growing old alone concern.

    It’s not that I would have wanted children to take care of me, but that I don’t trust the social safety system in the U.S.Even if things are going well, it’s still a terrifying proposition. My first job ever was as a dietary aid at a mid-level retirement home, and while some of the people there were thriving (namely the folks who somehow managed to go into the home with their partners), the majority were a study of what happens when the ability to live exceeds the will. It was a formative experience.

    That’s why I’m in therapy and desperately scared that between neurodivergence and trauma, that I’m not going to be one of those really social old people with friends everywhere that care for them and keep them company. Although I think it’s not a given that kids will automatically be there for you as you age, I can see the appeal of doing what you can to hedge your bets. It’s a terrifying world out there, and we only have each other.

  • What did you accomplish during the twice monthly outage?

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  • I installed clips onto the bottom of my sectional sofa that prevent it from separating. Which is good, because it’s been separating a lot since I installed wheels onto it.

    The wheels were to make it easier to move because stuff kept falling behind it, but they worked too well. They even just slid around while locked. With all the sections clipped together it doesn’t seem to budge. The clips are the alligator style ones that you push the couch together to cinch, or lift the couch section to release.

  • The Legion Go with Bazzite is an excellent machine for gaming

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  • I got my wife a Legion Go in May and immediately installed Bazzite on it. I think I had a few minor issues, but nothing like what this blog post is talking about. It was a shockingly easy process!

    And yeah, it totally rules as a gaming machine. I’m honestly jealous and am waiting for generational improvements to happen in the space before I buy another handheld. (Or possibly, I’ll buy the Steam Frame instead.)

  • I don't think Todd knew he wanted a little sister, but he is a good big brother

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  • Her name is Juniper! We mostly call her June Bug, though.

  • 3/4 of of the kittens I was fostering passed with parvo while at the vet :( Bonnie is still battling if she survives I’ll be keeping her as my own cat.

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    I don't think Todd knew he wanted a little sister, but he is a good big brother

  • We don't need to schedule anything. It won't take long.

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  • Work took a meta turn today.

    Someone reached out to ask if I was really in all the meetings I’m booked for, only to give up and schedule their meeting for sometime in February because I didn’t respond in a very timely fashion … because I was in a meeting.

  • 3/4 of of the kittens I was fostering passed with parvo while at the vet :( Bonnie is still battling if she survives I’ll be keeping her as my own cat.

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  • We recently adopted a kitten that was fostered before she could be adopted out by the local animal shelter.

    To say that she’s the best, most lovely, and well adjusted cat is an understatement. We have two dogs and a year old one orange brain cell cat (who is also very sweet, but he comes on strong).

    She walked into our lives utterly fearlessly. She purrs so loudly at the slightest affection. She wrestles with our other cat, who is 10x her size. She’s getting confident with the dogs - she’s currently sleeping between my wife and our velcro heeler, touching both of them.

    We’re really grateful for her, and for the love and care that was given to her. Although we adopted her from a local shelter, we know the people that fostered her, so we know she was found eating trash with her littermates in a neighbor’s yard. She was just a street kitten with no mom before she got scooped up and shown all the love, which we see every day.

    It’s hard, sometimes unforgiving work, but not unnoticed, and not without impact. Thank you for caring.

  • 'Welcome back to life' — Ukraine's Intel faked death of top anti-Putin Russian commander, claimed Kremlin bounty money

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  • Commander of Russian separatist forces.

    So — Russians that are fighting for Russia (the country), not Putin. They’re currently aligned with and fighting alongside Ukrainian forces to undermine Putin.

  • Here we go again

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  • Different than the person you responded to - as an adult I’ve lived in 3 states, in metropolitan areas, and the rule has always been that you must show up to exactly the polling location assigned to you. People at that location and that location only have your name on a list that they use to verify your voter registration.In one of the cities, you could go to the election clerk’s office to receive a provisional ballot that would be counted only if they verified that a ballot was not cast in your name at your assigned polling location.

    Oh, and the assigned polling place moves almost every election.

    Editing to add: You often have to know what ward you represent, because the ballots can differ by ward and they combine several wards into one polling location. If you don’t know your ward (and the election folks aren’t nice), you have to wait in line for each ward until you accidentally find the person with your name in their book. (Each book represents a ward.)

  • They are German, of course.

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  • Science vs religion, baby.

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    We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk Rule

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  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Living in the U.S. and reading the news