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NevermindNoMind

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  • Biden to announce US will build port on Gaza shore for large-scale aid delivery

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  • It's like your trying to make this more complicated to somehow shift Bidens culpability away. We have three branches of government , the judiciary isn't sending bombs for Isreal to drop on kids, the legislature is too incapable of doing anything at all, so that leaves us with the executive branch that gets to decide whether to send bombs to Isreal and what conditions to put on them. Currently, the executive branch is headed by Joseph R. Biden, and he makes those calls. Just like it was his decision to set up a temporary port for aid. What does 200 years of history have to do with anything? Is George Washington approving arms sales? Did Biden want to condition weapons transfers on Isreal adhering to humanitarian law, but the ghost of Richard Nixon wouldn't let him?

    The analogy, in my opinion, works to illustrate the point that just because you did one good thing, that doesn't absolve you of responsibility for the much larger bad thing you are still doing. Biden getting aid in is good, I'm glad and support it and yada yada. But that doesn't mean I'm going to forget that at the same time he is sending bombs (over 50% dropped on Gaza were unguided!) without any conditions on how Isreal uses them.

  • Netanyahu says Israel will push on with Gaza offensive, including in Rafah

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  • Great perspective, I enjoyed reading that thank you

  • Biden to announce US will build port on Gaza shore for large-scale aid delivery

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  • I have a 100 dollar auto donation to Trump's campaign set up. My family was mad at me for that, so I also set up a 10 dollar donation to Biden. That didn't seem to get them off my back, so in a few weeks I'm going to up my donation to Biden to 30 dollars. For some reason my family is still mad and wants me to stop donating to Trump. Can't they just celebrate how awesome my donation to Biden is? AITA?

  • Netanyahu says Israel will push on with Gaza offensive, including in Rafah

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  • Yeah the button is labeled "stop transfer of bombs to Isreal". All he has to do is push it. Without the unlimited firehouse of US taxpayer funded weapons flowing in, Isreal will have to decide whether they want to draw down their current stocks blowing up residential houses and hospitals, leaving them more vulnerable to actual threats, or pull back. Also, the US is the only thing holding back international accountability. If Isreal loses that support, they might face consequences for their actions, become isolated, lose trade, etc.

    Now it doesn't have to get all the way to that point, the US could just seriously threaten cutting off support, military or otherwise, and Israel would likely back down. But Biden calling bibi and saying "pwease don't target civilians" is not asserting pressure.

    Biden won't do more because he knows if he puts real pressure on Isreal then Republicans would attack him as "weak on Hamas" or whatever, and that threatens his reelection. Biden cares about that far more than human rights.

  • Netanyahu says Israel will push on with Gaza offensive, including in Rafah

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  • At least your honest about your call for genocide, instead of pussyfooting around with "right to defend themselves" nonsense.

    The majority of the state of Mississippi does not support LGBT rights or protections for women That's their culture, even if not everyone agrees with that. I assume your cool with genocideing Mississippi as well?

  • Netanyahu says Israel will push on with Gaza offensive, including in Rafah

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  • "There is international pressure and it's growing, but particularly when the international pressure rises, we must close ranks, we need to stand together against the attempts to stop the war," he said.

    Sorry, why is Isreal not an isolated state at this point? If they won't respond to international pressure, and indeed are intent on doubling down because of that international pressure, why even include them in international bodies?

  • Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital from aid convoy bloodshed

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  • “We've asked the government of Israel to investigate and it's our assessment that they're taking this seriously and they are looking into what occurred, so as to avoid tragedies like this from happening again,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters during Friday’s news briefing.

    Kirby pointed to previous examples of Israel investigating incidents and said they have been “very honest and upfront” about mistakes. Kirby added that they have not given Israel a timeline to complete their investigation.

    Don't worry everyone, the Biden administration trusts that Isreal will investigate and give us an honest assessment of any "mistakes" they made. Now please just go back to being mad at Wendy's while Biden goes around Congress to ship another batch of bombs to Israel to be dropped on apartment buildings and refugee camps.

  • Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court

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  • We had I think six eggs harvested and fertilized, of those I think two made it to blastocyst, meaning the cells doubled as they should by day five. The four that didn't double correctly were discarded. Did we commit 4 murders? Or does it not count if the embryo doesn't make it to blastocyst? We did genetic testing on the two that were fertilized, one is normal and the other came back with all manner of horrible deformities. We implanted the healthy one, and discarded the genetically abnormal one. I assume that was another murder. Should we have just stored it indefinitely? We would never use it, can't destroy it, so what do? What happens after we die?

    I know the answer is probably it wasn't god's will for us to have kids, all IVF is evil, blah blah blah. It really freaks me out sometimes how much of the country is living in the 1600s.

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    Israel orders evacuations in Gaza City, as U.N. suspends food deliveries to the north because of looting.

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  • Take it up with the WFP, that's their stated reason for haulting aid, because Isreal is targeting their conveys. I don't know what kind of looney toons world you live in where an aid organization getting targeted by an army in one area is going to feel safe delivering in other areas. Don't strain yourself, making up justifications for a genocidal state is hard and the cognitive dissonance takes a toll, so just pace yourself.

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  • You sure don't seem to know much about the situation. Let me help get your education started.

    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240219-israeli-protesters-block-aid-convoys-bound-for-gaza

    The UN says the protests at Nitzana and Kerem Shalom are blocking trucks from going into Gaza, hitting dwindling stocks.

    The Palestinian Red Crescent Society on Sunday evening said 123 trucks made it into Gaza via Kerem Shalom, but none had passed through Nitzana because of the protest.

    Nili Naouri, head of the far-right group "Israel is Forever", said that "it's completely immoral to force Israel to send humanitarian convoys of trucks to people that support Hamas, who are holding our people hostage, and are collaborating with the enemy".

    On Sunday, members of the organisation turned up to block aid, calling it "unhumanitarian".

    "Hamas aren't going to gladly free our hostages if we allow aid trucks in for the civilian population of Gaza," said Naouri.

    Her solution is simple: "Let Gazans leave Gaza" if they want help from the international community.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/11/middleeast/why-only-a-trickle-of-aid-is-getting-into-gaza-mime-intl/index.html

    Lengthy inspections, rejected humanitarian aid and Israeli bombs raining down. Those are some of the hurdles to relief reaching the 2.2 million Palestinians in war-torn Gaza.

    The United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, Martin Griffiths, has described the process as “in all practical terms, impossible.”

    An average of 95 aid trucks per day entered Gaza between October 10 and February 1, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, down from 500 commercial and aid trucks a day before the war, when Palestinians weren’t facing mass displacement and starvation. Some 2 million Gazans are dependent on UN aid now.

    “The humanitarian operation and the delivery of trucks continues to be cumbersome and continues to be unnecessarily complex,” Juliette Touma, director of communications for the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), told CNN.

    Humanitarian workers cannot move safely across the strip. **UN trucks carrying aid have repeatedly come under Israeli fire, according to UNRWA. On February 5, an UNRWA truck waiting to take aid into northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire, the agency said, adding that no one was injured. **The IDF told CNN that it is looking into the incident.

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  • Literally Isreal according to the World Food Program itself:

    “Israeli targeting of convoys, Israeli targeting of police who are there to protect aid convoys, and then of course due to the desperation, because of the lack of aid that’s getting in, there’s just been a deterioration of civil order in Gaza that’s led to the charging and looting of aid convoys as they’re trying to make their way.”

    Low explained that in Rafah, aid convoys were accompanied by Palestinian police officers to ensure order during distribution, but that this is no longer the case because the Israeli army targeted these aid convoys in order to kill the Palestinian police.

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  • Congratulations on another shit headline NYT! The UN suspended food deliveries because the caravans were supposed to have Palestinian police escorts to ensure orderly distribution (you know cause starving people tend to act in desperation), but those police escorts went away because ISREAL KEPT TARGETING THE POLICE ESCORTS. Isreal creates a horde of desperate people and then murders the people responsible for protecting aid workers making it too dangerous to deliver the aid. Isreal is deliberately, though indirectly, sabotaging the aid delivery.

    But good job NYT coming up with a headline to make it seem like the Palestinians are barbarians ungratefully "looting" the generous aid deliveries. Dishonest garbage rag.

  • OpenAI Has Google in Its Sights With New Online Search Product

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  • I doubt OpenAI is about to run a AI driven search product supported by ads, so I don't know that this is a direct competition. This looks more aimed at outfits like Perplexity.AI. Right now most people are still interested in who has the best models. But at some point all the models will be good enough to the average consumer, much like ass smartphones have good enough processors, and the question becomes what can they do. OpenAI in particular seems intent on building out ChatGPT to be some kind of all encompassing do everything assistant.

  • Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros

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  • Some are, sure. But others have to do with the weight. The most interesting rationals for returning it are because it's shit as a productivity tool. So if you can't really use it for work, there aren't many games on it, then why are you keeping it? At that point it's just a TV that only you can watch (since it doesn't support multiple user profiles).

  • OpenAI's GPT Trademark Request Has Been Denied

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  • I don't know enough to know whether or not that's true. My understanding was that Google's Deep mind invented the transformer architecture with their paper "all you need is attention." A lot, if not most, LLMs use a transformer architecture, though your probably right a lot of them base it on the open source models OpenAI made available. The "generative" part is just descriptive of the model generating outputs (as opposed to classification and the like), and pre trained just refers to the training process.

    But again I'm a dummy so you very well may be right.

  • OpenAI's GPT Trademark Request Has Been Denied

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  • Putting aside the merits of trying to trademark gpt, which like the examiner says is commonly used term for a specific type of AI (there are other open source "gpt" models that have nothing to do with OpenAI), I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate how incredibly bad OpenAI is at naming things. Google has Bard and now Gemini.Microsoft has copilot. Anthropic has Claude (which does sound like the name of an idiot, so not a great example). Voice assistants were Google Assistant, Alexa, seri, and Bixby.

    Then openai is like ChatGPT. Rolls right off the tounge, so easy to remember, definitely feels like a personable assistant. And then they follow that up with custom "GPTs", which is not only an unfriendly name, but also confusing. If I try to use ChatGPT to help me make a GPT it gets confused and we end up in a "who's on first" style standoff. I've reported to just forcing ChatGPT to do a websearch for "custom GPT" so I don't have to explain the concept to it each time.

  • The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing"

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  • Interesting perspective! I think your right in a lot of ways, not least that it's too big and heavy now. I'd also be shocked if the next iPhone didn't have an AI powered siri built in.

    I guess fundamentally I am skeptical that we're all going to want a screens around us all the time. I'm already tired of my smart watch and phone buzzing me with notifications, do I really want popups in my field of vision? Do I want a bunch of displays hovering in front of my while I work? I just don't know. It seems like it would be cool for a week or so, but I feel like it'd get tiring to have a computer on your face all day, even if they got the form factor way down.

  • The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing"

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  • Apple has always had a walled garden on iOS and that didn't stop them from becoming a giant in the US. Most people are fine with the App Store and don't care about openness or the ability to do whatever they want with the device they "own." Apple would probably love to have a walled garden for Macs as well, but knows that ship has sailed. Trying to force "spatial computing" (which this article incorrectly says was an Apple invention, it's not Microsoft came up with that term for its hololense) on everyone is a great way to move to a walled garden for all your computing, with Apple taking a 30% slice of each app sale. I doubt the average Apple user is going to complain about it either so long as the apps they want to use are on the App Store.

    I think the bigger problem is we're in a world where most people, especially the generations coming up, want less screens in their life, not more. Features like "digital well-being" are a market response to that trend, as are the thousands of apps and physical products meant to combat screen addiction. Apple is selling a future where you experience reality itself through a screen, and then you get the privilege of being up to clutter the real world with even more screens. I just don't know that that is a winner.

    It's funny too because at the same time AI promises a very different future where screens are less important. Tasks that require computers could be done by voice command or other minimal interfaces, because the computer can actually "understand" you. The Meta Ray-Ban glasses are more like this, where you just exist in the real world and you can call on AI to ask about the things you're seeing or just other random questions. The Human AI pin is like that too (doubt it will take off, but it's an interesting idea about where the future is headed).

    The point is all of these AI technologies are computers and screens getting out of your way so you can focus on what your doing in the real world, whereas Apple is trying to sell a world where you (as the Verge puts it) spend all day with an iPad strapped to your face. I just don't see that selling, I don't think anybody wants that world. VR games and stuff are cool because you strap in for a single emersive experience, and then take the thing off and go back to the real world. Apple wants you spending every waking moment staring at a screen, and that just sounds like it would suck.

  • Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.

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  • I think it's intentionally wordy and the opt-out is "on" by default. I am usually instinctively just trying to hit the "off" button as quickly as possible and hitting save so I can get rid of the window, without actually reading anything. I almost certainly would have accidentally opted in to third party tracking.

    I fully admit I might just be dumb though.