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jpreston2005

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  • Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling

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  • The article you didn't read?

  • Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling

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  • fatal police shootings in more-Democratic states have declined 15 percent on a population-adjusted basis, with the rate holding relatively steady since Mr. Floyd’s death.

    But in Republican-leaning states, they have risen 23 percent. And within those redder states, exurbs and rural areas, which tend to be more conservative than cities, have the highest rates of police killings.

    You're telling me that in republican bastion states of lower education, less unions, less social spending, and more racism, is tied to more violence and a greater amount of extra-judicial killings by the state-sanctioned corporation-protectors? But they have almost 4 weeks of training! How could this possibly be??

    But don't worry! They're trying to make it worse! Far worse!

    This week, the Justice Department said it would no longer investigate or oversee nearly two dozen police departments that were accused of civil rights violations, including in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky. And in April, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at “unleashing” law enforcement, including by directing the U.S. attorney general to “provide legal resources” to defend police officers accused of wrongdoing.

  • ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard

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  • I was thinking about their horrifying conclusion as well, and your comment made me pine for the days when you wouldn't know something. Think about it, back before the internet, if you had a random question, you either had to interact with some trusted person, or you went to the library and looked it up. It's like the ever-present access to all information has quelled or killed any notion of curiosity or boredom, and it's within those frames of mind that learning and inspiration come. I remember as a kid when I wouldn't know the answer to something, I'd think on it for days, weeks. I'd get stuck on a video game level, and hit my head against the wall for hours trying to overcome it, only to pick up a random gamer magazine off the rack at the mall, and read the solution. Treating that magazine like it was the lost treasure map of some ancient expedition, passing it around my group of friends... Interactions and experiences that are gone forever.

    The idea that we've gradually went from relying on trusted professionals, learned educators, and scientific rigor, replacing them with a corporations data-harvesting LLM, on-line influencers, and click-bait "journals" cosplaying as academic centers with integrity. This article is basically celebrating the fact that we've off-shored all of our thinking, curiosity, and inquisitiveness to machines, all the while we struggle for scraps in a corporation dominated life devoid of genuine human interaction. We're all to busy sipping dopamine hits from a screen instead of actually living our lives.

    I grew up while the internet was being slowly rolled out, and being from the last generation to remember what it was like before the internet, I can say that the things I miss most are privacy, the ability to be bored, and not knowing.

    It's worse now, and it's harder everyday to imagine that life on this planet will improve.

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  • The existence of this kind of instinct within an LLM is extremely concerning. Acting out towards self-preservation via unethical means is something that can be hand-waved away in an LLM, but once we reach true AGI, this same thing will pop-up, and there's no reason to believe that 1. we would notice, and 2. we would be able to stop it. This is the kind of thing that should, ideally, give us pause enough to set some world-wide ground rules for the development of this new tech. Creating a thinking organism that can potentially access vital cyber architecture whilst acting unethically towards self-preservation is how you get Skynet.

  • Researchers tag Wyoming’s first barred owl near its Grand Teton nest

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  • From where he's holding out wing, seems to be gripping it where the owls "hand" is, makes it look like they're shaking hands. Like they're celebrating the successful tag-and-release together. "Hello, yes, fine job, you got me allright, well done"

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  • cooks make more than salads. You're being an asshole.

  • TIL: "A Boy and His Dog" (1975) was a little cult movie with BIG cultural impact. Fallout games, Mad Max, others

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  • Tried to watch it, the casual attitude towards rape turned me off.

  • This Bluetooth device enables you to talk to your cycling friends – even if you drop them | BikeRadar

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  • This thing only works if you're within a half mile of the other device? that's half of what a cheap walmart sub $30 walkie talkie would get.

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  • Literally not a fantasy, but my and a lot of cooks reality.

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  • When I was a cook, even if I was just making something simple, I could still find creative satisfaction in a variety of ways. How you sprinkle on the garnish, plating, using a little more of this, a little less of that. Food to a chef is like art designed to be destroyed, so with the temporary nature of the medium, it really allows you to be creative. You're not hung up on making it perfect, because it's just about to be eaten, so it let's you be more free with your design choices. It can be fun creating art while you're supposed to be working.

    but if my job was suddenly just washing up after a machine... well. That will get old real quick.

  • The first ever earthquake fault rupture captured on a security cam in Myanmar

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  • Thought I was going to see a crack appear on the driveway, that's what I was watching originally. Then it happened and I was like "What? The driveway stood still and the rest of the Earth just lurched forward?" Holy shitballs

  • Never gonna happen

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  • Recently I decided that I was done with my usual vacuous, timid approach to life. I want to follow my dream with the one life I have to live.

    And then I think about how someone in 1940's Germany could have felt the exact same way. Do they give up on their dream, flee the fascist regime, or did they doggedly stick around, ignoring what was happening around them in an attempt to fulfill their truest desire? Is it possible to be a successful actor/comedian whilst not living in NYC or LA? Do I make the push for my dream, while pushing away all the news, or do I flee to a safe country and try to cobble together something I can call fulfillment?

    Shit, the amount of far-right lunatics with guns in this country already scares the bejeezus out of me, but adding on a fascist dictator is just a bridge too fucking far.

  • Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

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  • I would take a "Weekend at Bernies" Bernie Sanders over literally any moderate DINO the DNC will push on us. I don't care if he's 99 and on a ventilator, put that man in office so we can finally join the rest of the civilized world with universal healthcare.

  • Democrats vote against gun control in surprise move

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  • As the founders intended, we have a right to bear a single-bore muzzle-loaded flint-lock. Anything more than that should really be a separate right.

  • Homeownership further out of reach as rising prices, high mortgage rates widen affordability gap

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  • The American dream is now an outright lie, one perpetuated by boomers who lived the most charmed existence before pulling up the ladder behind them. Billionaires stole our future.

  • Race incident in Rochester involving slurs against little boy goes viral; alleged offender has raised $300K to relocate

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  • disgusting. Funds should be taken and given to the family of the boy she traumatized.

  • Arrest made in torture and murder of trans woman Sara Millerey González caught on video

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  • Millerey González, 32, was raped, had her hands, arms, and legs broken, then was thrown into a stream in a deep ravine to drown in Colombia on April 4

    Rather than helping, some witnesses recorded her on video trying in vain to escape the ravine and stream, which they later posted to social media.

    What in the actual fuck. You see someone struggling to not drown and you just fucking film it??

  • Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?

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  • The everything is already awful enough without us having to carry around a device that connects us to all the awful everywhere we go.

  • Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?

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  • nobody would care

    Information Overload. The march doesn't matter. The people who did the upsetting thing have already gone on to do several more upsetting things by the time we've started marching against the first one. The people reporting about the upsetting thing miss the point but it doesn't matter because nobodies actually paying attention, it's just fluff on in the background. The white noise we need to go about our day maintaining some false sense of "staying up to date" when it's impossible to do. The torrent of information comes from all over the globe and never stops growing. Even if everything is suddenly perfect in your neighborhood, city, state, or country, it doesn't matter because there's a genocide somewhere else, and the pope died, and there's a famine and a new study that says the sweet treats you like are going to kill you and the stock market is down but it's back up by the time you check and you should've bought the dip so you could actually retire but you were too busy ignoring a TV while looking at bad news on your phone and eating a sweet treat because nothing feels real anymore and you just need a hit of dopamine before you start panicking and reach for the gun in the nightstand to put a bullet in your brain because at least the bullet will be real and the silence afterwards won't be temporary.