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I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.

cool how the Nobody Wants To Work Anymore guys are also the We Don't Want Human Employees Anymore guys. we're working as hard as we can to replace you with an iPad but until then let's see some hustle out there

CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

sorry to say, but this is just a normal baby, everyone. it's clearly not old at all. quite fresh, actually.

Does the left need their own Sauron the Deceiver to craft rings of power as gifts for all free folk – only to, in secret, craft a Master Ring to bind them to his will?

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life

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60,000 is simply what is conservatively reported, because it is all that the Gaza health ministry has been able to account for. there are still hundreds of thousands of Gazans missing-- many of them most likely dead. Alon Levy will live in shame for the rest of his days.

Rain, hail, or shine - Palestine will be free.

in early oct2023 abu obeida said that the israeli hostages/pows would experience the same things all palestinians in gaza are experiencing since theyre now in the strip. since then israel has bombed hostages, shot them as they wave white flags & is now starving them all the same

your words will live on in shame long after we have departed.

Jeremy Ben-Ami's most recent blog post is confusing, he says that he will no longer defend Israel against the charge of genocide but cannot bring himself to personally deem it to be one. This is probably a fair enough view if you're some layperson, but when you're chair of a political lobby org?

chat bots aren't alive, nor do they possess anything akin to intelligence. I've really run out of patience for this sort of foolishness. It does not learn.

one of the most indicative traits of an intellectual fraud is their willingness to run off at the mouth about things they very clearly don’t understand. it’s totally fine to not be an AI expert. why are you pretending to be one for your 100k substack subscribers?

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market Recent college graduates searching for jobs are finding that practical degrees, work experience and even connections are no match for sluggish hiring.

“The unemployment rate among recent graduates has been increasing this year to an average of 5.3%, compared to around 4% for the labor force as a whole, making it one of the toughest job markets for recent graduates since 2015” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
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A 1949 clipping from that copy of Hersey’s Hiroshima

US policy makers should perhaps "get lost" and "go fuck themselves".

How to Hide a Famine - Boston Review Israel’s deliberate campaign to obfuscate the hunger crisis in Gaza.

“As all mechanisms to stop Israel’s onslaught are pursued, a full spectrum of aid is needed in Gaza today. The best guarantee on the effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists in to report. Doing so will also reveal who the ‘bald-faced’ liars really are.”

Alex de Waal:

the free press is completely unhinged. this is about the NYT initially omitting from its story about starvation in Gaza that one of the profiled children has a pre-existing medical condition. what is the "damage" what was done by that omission, exactly?

Two sisters in DCF custody since mother was detained by ICE in May in Worcester are missing, officials say - The Boston Globe The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released a missing poster of both sisters to help in the search.

Do you remember the horrific abduction in Worcester, MA where protestors clashed with ICE as they ripped a woman away from her family? The horror continues.

The woman’s 13 and 17 year old daughters were placed in foster care. They are now both missing. 1/
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A thread on these local, blue state, micro-fascist influencers who are having a moment on FB. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Nuclear reactors to power AI data farms in US' first private HyperGrid A new MoU cements Fermi America–Hyundai E&C’s plan to build four AP1000 reactors for the HyperGrid campus, powering AI workloads.

> trying to build 4 AP1000 reactors

- in a private grid

- expressly for AI, before the bubble pops

- in the United States

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Gaza Still Isn't Receiving Enough Food to Prevent Starvation, Aid Workers Say The famine situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Aid workers say Israel is not allowing enough food to enter the area as Palestinians starve.

Although Israel said it would pause military activity in select areas of Gaza to allow more food aid in, humanitarian organizations have said that the amount of food entering the area is far from enough, and without additional aid, an increasing number of Palestinians will die from famine.

shut the fuck up.

Congratulations to the Asians who actually believed that the Harvard Affirmative Action case was really about them!

Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor for D.C. The 74-year-old former Fox News host, New York prosecutor and judge was nominated after the Senate blocked Trump’s first choice, right-wing podcaster Ed Martin.

Senate again fails in its oversight and checking of president’s power by confirming Trump’s stacking of courts with hyper-partisan loyalist, former Fox reality TV judge show who supported his lies about 2020 election, and whose ex was pardoned by Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A viral tweet with 5.7M+ views accused Prime Minister Ishiba of being an "anti-Japanese" leftist because he doesn't visit the Yasukuni Shrine. A Community Note added context: he doesn't visit it because the Emperor also didn't visit it after class A war criminals were enshrined.

A viral right-wing Japanese Twitter post is calling Saitama University historian Ichinose Toshiya a "traitor" for giving an un-controversial mainstream historical explanation of Japan's 1930s invasion of China on an NHK TV program aimed at teaching history to children.