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  • Senators Sound Alarm As AI Companies Pour Millions Into U.S. Elections

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  • I agree it won’t happen. But it is a simple solution.

  • Senators Sound Alarm As AI Companies Pour Millions Into U.S. Elections

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  • The majority of problems in the US could be fixed with one simple solution: eliminate lobbying completely. I know some small causes would suffer, but it would overwhelmingly be a good thing. The vast majority of people in congress right now are there because money is involved. They are not there to help or represent their district or state or country. They are there to get rich and it works. If there was no money in politics, more of the people trying to get elected would actually represent the people. It wouldn’t solve everything, but it would be a heck of a start.

    https://ballotpedia.org/Changes_in_Net_Worth_of_U.S._Senators_and_Representatives_(Personal_Gain_Index)

  • Finland suffers EU's worst unemployment for second month in a row

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  • Yea, most developed nations are struggling with birth rate. Certainly Finland is one of them.

    I was replying to your comment that Finland doesn’t tax their wealthiest. They do tax their wealthy via income. Finland ranks as one of the best countries when considering income inequality.

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/income-inequality-by-country

    One consequence of multi-party systems is you’ll find out that every country has a minority of racists. Some nations are higher (~40% approval of trump in the United States is an example). Germany’s AFD party currently has 20%.

  • Finland suffers EU's worst unemployment for second month in a row

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  • I think you might be thinking of Japan. While Finland does have a low birth rate, it is similar to a few other European countries. Japan and China both have lower birth rates.

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/birth-rate-by-country

    Finland has a progressive tax. If anything, they do a better job taxing the wealthy than the vast majority of other western countries.

    https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/Finland/Individual/Taxes-on-personal-income

    I’ve spent a significant amount of time in Finland, and while there is some xenophobia and racism (like everywhere else) it isn’t “extreme”. There are many countries far worse than Finland.

  • Male Student Allegedly Created AI Nudes of 13-Year-Old Girl & School Suspended Her, Not Him

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  • It was likely due to the publicity of the case, but nonetheless the police did their job in this one.

    “According to a release from the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, a male student is now facing 10 counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence, and more charges could come.”

  • science @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    More bad news for the US science community

    www.usatoday.com /story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/
  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    Zillow removes climate change risk from home listings

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/dec/01/zillow-removes-climate-risk-data-home-listings

  • Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises

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  • Holy shit that was tough to finish that article. There are so many quotes from this idiot that are just fucking nonsense. Here are my top three:

    “It is just as tough,” Liebman exclusively tells Fortune. “Back then, it was more difficult in some ways because you had less neighborhoods that people would live.”

    Plus, she says, never has there been more opportunity at young people’s fingertips—not just when it comes to inventory on the market: “If you’re not afraid to show off your skill set, and you try and find yourself an opportunity where you’re going to be appreciated and where people are going to allow you to expand your horizons and hopefully add value to the company that you’re at, I think it’s an unbelievable time.”

    “It’s not that expensive,” she adds. “So if you’re willing to move around, which people are now, I think that there are definitely opportunities out there… You’re going to secure a much, much less expensive apartment than if you are insistent on being in the West Village.”

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Yea, as the other person mentioned, to my knowledge (which is limited) the video decoding in the browser on Linux tends to be browser and hardware specific. I know it’s gotten easier over the past couple years tho.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • It will choose for you, but you can select specific drivers if you’d like. I’ve only had to mess with installing specific drivers on edge cases.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • PopOS in my opinion. It (mostly) solves the issue of getting the drivers needed to run GPUs.

  • Crulesy

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  • I received these socks when I wrecked my ankle in the emergency room so they could fit over my air cast. Or… did I just think I was in the emergency room…. I may have some thinking to do.

  • Denmark's EU president cancels vote on Chat Control

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  • Great news and deserved celebration! However, we can’t get complacent as a reworded version will be back in six months.

  • So effective it made stupid people

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  • It’s not a vaccine problem, it’s an education problem. A large portion of Americans are exceptionally gullible to propaganda and Republicans have weaponized it very well. The anti-vax narrative is not present in large portions of the population in other developed nations. We need to look within, not at the solution to disease.

    Edit: Unfortunately others are informing me that this is a problem in other countries as well, which is sad. My partners family is from a country in Europe that doesn’t appear to have this issue at scale so I foolishly extrapolated.

  • How is it indeed

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  • I’ve had at least a dozen dreams of trying to text someone during an emergency and I’m unable to do so. I keep fat fingering the buttons and it won’t send.

  • Security Researchers Find XZ Utils Backdoored Debian Images on Docker Hub

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  • “The backdoor targeted SSH servers by hooking into OpenSSH's cryptographic functions through the liblzma.so library.”

    Not exactly academic in this case.

  • Ha ha!

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  • “On Sunday, while on a hunting safari with us in South Africa's Limpopo Province, Asher was fatally injured in a sudden and unprovoked attack by an unwounded buffalo. He was tracking it together with one of our professional hunters and one of our trackers. This is a devastating incident, and our hearts go out to his loved ones.”

    Go fuck yourself Coenraad and Vermaak Safaris. Unprovoked my ass. You were trying to murder the Buffalo. Also, stop calling this shit hunting. You can’t lead a millionaire douchbag with a gun out into a ranch with a tracker and call him hunter. Are you going to pull the trigger for him too?

  • South African farm worker says he was forced to feed women to pigs

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  • “Such tension is especially rife in rural areas, despite the end of the racist system of apartheid more than 30 years ago. Most private farmland remains in the hands of the white minority, while most farm workers are black and poorly paid, fuelling resentment among the black population, while many white farmers complain of high crime rates.”

    That last sentence sounds familiar. Gee-whiz, I wonder why the crime rates are so high?

  • SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto'

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  • Well the head of the EPA called climate change “a religion” so that ship has sailed for the US.

  • DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers

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  • Good to know! But the out of the box version of DuckDuckGo.com does have AI on by default. I think it should be off by default.

  • DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers

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  • Somewhat ironic given that DuckDuckGo has AI on by default. You have to either save the settings on the cloud or manually turn off AI when searching using DuckDuckGo. Still a good privacy search engine though.

  • science @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    NASA leveled by Trump

    www.nasa.gov /fy-2026-budget-request/
  • science @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    The death of science in America

    www.nytimes.com /interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html
  • Privacy @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    DuckDuckGo's Default Settings

  • politics @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    Update: Nothing illegal here. Virginia reused envelopes from last year.

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    Chew toys for extreme chewers

  • politics @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    New poll shows Harris within 5% in Texas

    www.270towin.com /2024-presidential-election-polls/texas
  • aww @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    My puppy named Quark! Sometimes charming and sometimes strange.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    Possible leak of sensitive Chinese cyber security documents

    cybernews.com /news/github-leak-exposes-chinese-cyber-ops/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    UnpopularCrow @lemmy.world

    Found this in my college sociology book (Henslin 2007)