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  • Other way around - the AI is writing a letter "from" the daughter to be sent to the athlete. Still BS though, and I'm sure famous people just love getting spam fan mail where the person couldn't be bothered to draft it themself.

  • MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden

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  • Maybe the Republicans should do the same thing then and have Trump stop running.

  • 'Zionist-free zone': Israelis are increasingly unwanted at global tourism sites

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    • He could be an Arab Israeli
    • He could be ultra-orthodox
    • He could have had a medical exemption
    • He could have received Israeli citizenship later in his adult years after conscription.
    • He may have served but in a role that isn't committing human rights abuses (say working on missle defense)
    • He may have served but his political views have since developed and he's now pro-peace / anti-apartheid.

    To generalize and assume that nearly all Israeli men are war criminals is to generalize on the basis of national origin which in most jurisdictions is rightfully assumed to be racist.

  • 'Zionist-free zone': Israelis are increasingly unwanted at global tourism sites

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  • You can't not serve someone because of their country - the hotel doesn't know whether this man is a soldier or not, just that he's Israeli.

  • State Farm seeking 30% rate hike for California homeowners

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  • Perfect article about exactly this situation.

  • ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later

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  • Not at all surprising. ChatGPT 'knows' a course's content insofar as it's memorized the textbook and all the exam questions. Once you start asking it questions it's never seen before (more likely for advanced topics that don't have a billion study guides and tutorials for) it falls short, even for basic questions that'd just require a bit of additional logic.

    Mind you, memorizing everything is impressive and can get you a degree, but when tasked with a new problem never seen before ChatGPT is completely inadequate.

  • ‘The Movement to Convince Biden to Not Run Is Real’

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  • Biden will lose against Trump. Changing candidates this late isn't ideal but it's better than guaranteed failure, and it's better than after the convention if Biden deteroriates from where he's currently at.

  • More than 300 Egyptians die from heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, diplomats say

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  • I hadn't read this exact article but still commented because I've read about the same events in other publications.

  • More than 300 Egyptians die from heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, diplomats say

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  • I read somewhere that people who fork over money for a special visa to Saudis Arabia have access to air conditioned stations along the way. Most likely the Egyptians are doing it unofficially, which is likely easier to get away being in the general region already.

  • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

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  • I both agree and disagree. I agree that there isn't going to be a single 'straw', because everyone's thresholds are different. For me it was back when Microsoft auto-upgraded my PC to Win 8, which was also when they started putting in hard-to-disable telemetry and bad UI. It sounds like Recall is the threshold for some other people.

    Also don't discount that MS' market share is dominated by a ton of corporate users (who lack a choice) and casual users (who don't care / are unaware), but at least anecdotally they've been losing the power users in my life, which if true in general which will have negative downstream effects for them moving forward (IT departments working to support alternatives, software developers refusing to build on Windows Server / MS software stack, etc.)

  • LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN HUSH-MONEY CASE

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  • He's a Florida resident though.

  • LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN HUSH-MONEY CASE

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  • There may be a component that felons have to have finished their sentence which could exclude Trump.

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  • That just means the DDOSer is taking Internet Archive down without any further work required.

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    (NSFW) Israel releases film of women soldiers being taken by Hamas on Oct. 7

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  • Lol I'm neither Graeme Wood nor am I associated with Israel in any way. At the start of this conflict I was much more pro-Israel but it's been clear that they don't care one iota about minimizing civilian causalities (or worse, they do care but in the opposite direction). But being anti-Hamas doesn't make you pro-Israel - sometimes there are conflicts where both armed sides absolutely suck and civilians are stuck in the middle, and this is one of them.

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    (NSFW) Israel releases film of women soldiers being taken by Hamas on Oct. 7

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    Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

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  • I too use Kagi but it's worth noting that Kagi gets most of its results by paying and using other search engines including Google and Bing, so it's not 100% independent or immune from say Bing's outage. Still the best option by far though.

  • EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war | CNN

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  • Only to countries that are part of the ICC. Many countries, including the US, aren't a part so Netanyahu can safely travel to those places.

  • Mississippi governor signs bill to let cis people sue trans people if they use the bathroom

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  • Cue them freaking out when bearded hairy trans men are forced to use women's washrooms because of this law.

  • Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore

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  • I'm going to be more sympathetic for the developers which is that they likely spent a ton of money for the land already when prices were high and after expensive building costs they're struggling to not lose money.