They've been a Murdoch-influenced cesspool politically for years now, this is par for the course for them; just more social control by the government under the guise of protecting kids.
Gotta stop kids from learning about the wider world until they've had their worldview shaped to their regressive government's liking.
Every major piece of tech in use by police domestically was built originally for military use. Every large police department in the US operates fixed-wing surveillance drones, stingrays/imsi-catchers, camera-based tracking systems, etc. All but the smallest departments receive tons of milsurp vehicles, weapons, and gear. Night vision and thermal imaging systems were military tech, and now they're standard for police. CS gas was military gear (until it was banned under the Geneva Convention), and now it's used exclusively by police.
And that's just use of military tech against us by police. Get into domestic surveillance by 3-letter agencies, and it's even worse.
people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens.
After a time new "elites" will worm their way into power, sure, but in the meantime things are often better, and things may even end up less bad at the next 'peak' of elitist control than the last time. Since it's currently getting worse by the day, it doesn't seem as though the normal calculus of "don't risk collapse to fix imperfection" really applies; we seem to be heading for collapse (whether economic, democratic, or otherwise) anyways.
Oh yeah, my partner and I don't play games together very much at all, I just mean that if your partner is actively opposed to your hobbies, that's a problem.
Do I believe that Putin would love to start shit with many of his neighboring countries? Absolutely, yes.
Do I believe that Ukrainian intelligence (and government in general) has a great self-interest in other countries beefing up their defense spending, and possibly using Ukraine as a proxy to further erode the Russian military? Absolutely, yes.
It doesn't matter whether we believe her or not, it just matters that Trump has the sliver of doubt for his supporters to latch onto to ignore reality.
Then if Democrats try to say, "why aren't you upset that there are no Republicans or Trump being accused, this is obviously a coverup", MAGAs can pivot to, "you're just trying to stop your guys from being prosecuted. See, you're the *real pedophile supporters, not us!"
Ars Technica is not asserting that themselves, that's the argument that Strike3 is making. Strike3 and other porn companies attack non-professional porn on these grounds as well, to try to kill their competition.
Maxwell's lawyer stated that the DoJ asked Maxwell about close to 100 people, prior to the administration trying to turn this the other way around and frame it as Maxwell "giving up" people on her own.
Convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell “was asked maybe about 100 different people” during a meeting with a top Department of Justice official in Florida on Friday, her lawyer said.
“She literally answered every question. She didn’t say, You know what? Don’t ask me that. I’m not going to talk about this person,” Markus said about his client, who is serving a 20-year prison term for crimes related to procuring and grooming girls for Epstein to sexually abuse.
“She was asked maybe about 100 different people. She answered questions about everybody, and she didn’t hold anything back,” he said.
Remember this for when the "list", if they ever release one, has no prominent Republicans or conservative donors on it. They will present this as "The Epstein List", but it's just their own list (and it's compromised anyways given the potential pardon being kept in play).
I wonder how much this is short-term investors being very dominant in the market, and executive compensation being tied to short-term performance, colliding?
If minimum holding times for a stock position were implemented (e.g. can't sell for 2 years), or if executives were compensated based on e.g. 10 year performance of the company, I feel like this cycle of acquisitions and layoffs and trend/hype-humping would die quickly.
If you mean some Israelis want the world to collectively view them as a genocidal state of racists and murderers (or at least racist and murderer apologists), I mean, sure, perhaps some do, but I can't fathom why they would, and I don't think that's particularly common given how widespread their propaganda campaigns go to push the narrative that they're the good guys.
There's a local bookstore lady that will literally not let us leave without telling us everything happening in town for the next month. Find your gossipy bookstore person. :)
As much as I agree with you, I think the purpose of the 'women and children' stats is more to avoid malicious attempts to derail the conversation by distracting with questions of "how many of them were Hamas tho", "how do you know they weren't Hamas", etc.
Neural Networks in general though are massively useful, and NNs being trained for e.g. medical diagnostics or scientific research are miniscule in their energy footprints compared to LLMs, can be incredibly accurate (even beyond people), and open up tons of avenues for research that the extant budgets just couldn't support.
People need to understand the difference between LLMs and Neural Networks.
LLM training is a massive energy hog that gives us nothing but the illusion of coherent human-made text.
Non-LLM Neural Networks are much broader in use, almost always massively less energy-intensive to train, and often incredibly accurate when finely-tuned for specific purposes.
LLMs can die in a fire, and nothing would be lost. NNs in general are incredibly useful and honestly a massive source of potential for bettering healthcare (and science research in general) globally.
The reaction by skeevy guys to this is literally proving the need for an app that does this (obviously, whisper networks exist for a reason, but they don't scale to internet dating).
Sadly, the presence of selfies and IDs being stored rather than immediately discarded upon verification, is also why we can't really ever trust tech companies to make this app.
They've been a Murdoch-influenced cesspool politically for years now, this is par for the course for them; just more social control by the government under the guise of protecting kids.
Gotta stop kids from learning about the wider world until they've had their worldview shaped to their regressive government's liking.