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OmnipotentEntity

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  • BREAKING - Tiktok has now SHUT DOWN SERVICES in the United States, noting "A law banning Tiktok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate th

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  • Or instead of targeting tiktok specifically, they could have chosen to pass a data privacy law and actually did something worthwhile instead of pointless, unpopular grandstanding. Haha just kidding, they would never do anything to reduce even slightly shareholder value.

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    Proton comes out as pro-Republican after the CEO endorses Trump Attorney General choice

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  • With Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk all leading Trump around with a $100 bill on a fishing line, you'd have to be profoundly naive or dishonest to actually take the stance that Republicans will do anything about Big Tech.

  • Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy in farewell address to the nation

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  • Well, you see, it was only a problem for him when it turned against him. When he actively supported it his entire career it was the obvious and natural order of things

  • Why scientists say hottest recorded year shouldn't be ignored

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  • The hottest year on record so far.

  • Fantasy books with an interesting "soft magic" system?

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  • A serial web story by Wildbow named "Pact" has a pretty interesting soft magic system with a decent amount of depth.

    All characters who can use magic in the story are not able to lie on penalty of their magic power being greatly reduced. The magic system is based around tiny spirits who listen to and judge people. There are powers in 3s, power in performance, powers in name, yet despite this the magic system still feels ad hoc, like you can make magic happen that you would not normally be capable of if you are just smart enough, poetic enough, and persuasive enough to the spirits...

    Magical beings feel Eldritch, actively dangerous, and typically very clever. The ones who are clever typically have very good mental models of what makes humans tick, yet clearly do not fall under the same rules.

  • Trump’s plan to cancel USPS EV trucks contracts shows contempt for taxpayers, letter carriers, and climate action

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  • It pisses off liberals. Literally the only thing that matters to him.

  • does not rule (also fuck the police and corporate news)

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  • NYT has been around since before the civil war.

    I'll let you have a guess what their stance on slavery was. They always have punched left.

    “Emancipation, whenever it comes, must be the work of the Slave States themselves. They must adopt it from a conviction of its necessity to their own well-being.”

  • IT'S DECEMBER!!! CHRISTMAS SONG LIST TIME!!!

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  • I try to make it a point to listen to Benny Grunch and the Bunch's old Christmas Album at some point during December.

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    It has been two years since the release of ChatGPT. How has it impacted your work or personal life? What changes have you experienced, and do you see it as a positive or negative influence

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  • It caused my brother to stop talking to me. He doesn't understand how ChatGPT works, so he's trying to woo his way to GenAI by layering some sort of fake ass natural language computation system on top of the spicy auto complete.

  • Who's the worst president the US has ever had?

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  • I think you're reading more intent in my post than was actually present. I'm not denying we did genocide to 100 million natives. All I'm denying is that Jackson specifically is significantly worse than the historically reasonable alternatives to the position. Had (for instance) John Quincy Adams, one of the authors of the Monroe doctrine and a big proponent of western expansion, won the presidency, I do not doubt that a similar overall trajectory would have taken place. Maybe we wouldn't have specifically had a trail of tears moment, but there's more to the genocide of native americans than just the trail of tears.

    And this is absolving responsibility of all the people who maintained slavery, which one could argue is even worse than jim crow.

    How so? I believe you're arguing in good faith, but I honestly don't see how you come to this conclusion from what I wrote?

  • Who's the worst president the US has ever had?

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  • I'm not really trying to weigh and decide if 6000+ deaths and forcible removal of 100k+ people from their homes is better or worse than 100 or so years of systemic oppression followed by more, quieter oppression. Instead, I'm looking at this from the perspective of alternatives.

    After the Civil War we very nearly had a moment when we could have maybe did something real for racial equality beyond anything we've seen even up to the present day. The Freeman's Bureau was fighting for wages for former slaves, and was generally a force for working class empowerment. Black congressmen were already being voted into office rapidly. If it were left to do its work, it might even have helped to innoculate the Irish- and Italian-Americans against future union busting on Black/White racial lines a few decades down the line.

    Instead, after only about a year, Andrew Johnson started fighting and dismantling the Bureau, placing the former slaveowners back into a de facto master/slave relationship with their former slaves, giving the old Southern Democrats back their political power, and generally restoring the status quo as much as possible. The Bureau itself lasted only 5 or 6 years, don't remember. The KKK rose up because reconstruction wasn't there anymore to prevent it, because the Democrats wanted so bad to just put all of the states back in the union and go back to bad old days, and so on.

    That was never a realistic moment that I know of in American history where people against war with the native tribes of this land had outsized power and influence. Jackson completely ignoring the Supreme Court's ruling was awful, but while the ruling was grounded in good moral and legal principles, it was, like it or not, extremely unpopular. There wasn't an entire party with a supermajority in Congress that could have kept up the pressure on this issue.

  • Who's the worst president the US has ever had?

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  • Andrew Jackson was Trail of Tears, but I actually think Andrew Johnson was arguably worse. He was Lincoln's Democrat vice president (he was brought on to help "balance the ticket" instead of sticking with his strongly abolitionist first term VP Hannibal Hamlin), who started dismantling reconstruction and giving the power back to the former slaveowners.

    You can pretty much lay Jim Crow at his feet.

  • Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs

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  • AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination

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  • LLMs are bad for the uses they've been recently pushed for, yes. But this is legitimately a very good use of them. This is natural language processing, within a narrow scope with a specific intention. This is exactly what it can be good at. Even if does have a high false negative rate, that's still thousands and thousands of true positive cases that were addressed quickly and cheaply, and that a human auditor no longer needs to touch.

  • Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

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  • "You should willing expose yourself to danger to protect the profits and business models of corporations who are attempting to monetize your attention and personal information."

    I really don't think I'd lose any sleep if suddenly YouTube, Facebook, etc, became unsustainable. I remember what the Internet was like before every dumbass MBA decided to try to wring as much money as possible out of it, and I preferred it that way.

  • Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

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  • Ad block is the number one thing you can do on the Internet to reduce your risk to exploits, phishing, etc. The US government recommends the use of ad block specifically for this reason. Usage of ad block is basic internet security hygiene.

  • mhmm...

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  • An environmental posadist. Not a stance I've normally seen. Imo, if nothing came out of deep water horizon, there's no oil accident big enough to matter.

    Transocean received an early partial insurance settlement for total loss of the Deepwater Horizon of US$401 million about 5 May 2010.[60] Financial analysts noted that the insurance recovery was likely to be more than the value of the rig (although not necessarily its replacement value) and any liabilities – the latter estimated at as much as US$200 million.

  • Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete

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  • If only there were other things that a person could do outside of voting once every four years to participate in the political process.

  • Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete

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  • Hey, look at that. It's the inevitable consequence of the game theory of first past the post voting. Voting system reform is my #1 issue, and if you actually care about the fact that "99% of voters" are locked into voting for someone they dislike to avert disaster every 4 years, it should be yours as well.

    There is no meaningful future for third parties until and unless this occurs. IRV is a good first step, but Score voting is better. Multimember districts are also important. Getting rid of the electoral college is a no-brainer.