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Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

"using Palantir’s software would increase dependence on a U.S. provider. It also poses the risk of losing data sovereignty and thereby national sovereignty.

"Above all, however, the army’s staff experts say it remains unclear who has access to data shared with Palantir."

Keep March breezy: beat the heat and the commuter blues

#MarchMadness is back.

As people return to their commutes, motorways are once again hitting breaking point.

There is a silver lining: we don’t need everyone to ditch the car to fix it.

Here's how 👉 https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/keep-march-breezy-beat-the-heat-and-the-commuter-blues/

Two panel cartoon. Panel 1: Scientist in white coat is saying authoritatively "Pauline Hanson hasn't got a racist bone in her body!" Panel 2- Scientist standing next to picture of PH using pointer to point out bits of her body "...Everyone knows racism is found in the brain, heart and bile duct"

Given Pauline's performance today, might be time to reup this evergreen...

a person is holding a keychain that says " my trinket " ALT: a person is holding a keychain that says " my trinket "

I have a better maxim than Marie Kondo for controlling clutter. "Imaging you are moving to Perth, you can afford for one TEU container, would you use the limited space in that container for this thing?"

It's important to remember that religion, ethnicity, nationality, & family history intersect to make a person

Swedish Muslims are not the Pakistani Muslims; just as Irish Catholics are not the same as Italian or American Catholics.

Sadly many children of immigrants do terrible racist things

Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe Shabana Mahmood on a visit to the Center Sandholm reception centre in Sandholmgårdsvej, Denmark on 25 February. The Danish government has brought in a policy similar to the one the home secretary is introducing. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Why do people rush to get out of Pakistan as soon as they can? Because its a reactionary racist religious sinkhole where the establishment are some of the worst people you could ever meet.

Deep racism is not just a problem for whites, Christians, or Westerners

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Australia Electricity Emissions Update:
Average NEM emission intensity over last 12 months: 513 kg CO2-e/MWh. Down 25% since 2020, down 38% since 2015
Sth Australia reductions leading the way thanks to its increase in wind & solar generation. Down 28% since 2020, 67% since 2015)

Released emails reveal heavy political lobbying as massive gas project extended Woodside asked the government to ensure its media messaging “aligned” with the gas giant’s, as negotiations over its North West Shelf project continued.

Surprise! The last thing Australia needs is a carbon bomb that'll destroy climate, culture & the environment.

"conditions attached to Watt’s approval of Woodside extending the plant’s operation to 2070 were changed several times after the gas giant’s lobbying."

www.theage.com.au/environment/...

The US imposed an embargo on Cuban oil, and as a result, the Cuban economy is grinding to a halt.

#cuba #usa #trump #oil #economy #cartoon #politicalcartoon

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Not for nothing…

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Oil Market’s ‘Worst Fears’ Are Here as Gulf Conflict Hits Hormuz The oil market’s nightmare scenario came true this weekend. Now the race is on to deal with it.

Oil Market’s ‘Worst Fears’ Are Here as Gulf Conflict Hits Hormuz

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Moving Home with an Electric Van How my daughter and her boyfrind arrived in their new home

I've just written a review of the 100% electric Citroen e-Dispatch. It might be moving in more ways than one.
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An LLM will only regurgitate existing ideas!

At best your LLM will just tell you what war-gaming nerds on the internet had discussed about an Israel-US war against Iran -- much of it now out of date.

Douglas Adams wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency where the Pentagon's super secret Solver program took conclusion and created reasons.

Chatbots just regurgitate the internet. If you feed a LLM English language newspapers from Israel, then of course its going to recommend war with Iran.

FEDSPEAK: “.. To some degree, the Strait is experiencing ‘self-closure.’ .. No oil shipments have passed since morning, according to local reports; 22% of global supply is effectively ‘frozen’ .. indicating that the warnings by the IRGC are heeded.”

Amazon closed my only walking-distance grocery store and I really really could use a car to like, live, but like honestly just fuck us up. Make gas $25 a gallon, it’s the only way we’re ever going to learn anything

The Pentagon's deal with OpenAI is why I just have no patience for people trying to launder GenAI in the current sociopolitical context. Social media is not the place to be musing about the theoretical possibilities of GenAI when it's explicitly being used to terrorize humanity and kill the planet.

YouTube video by Weird Explorer This Useful Fruit Grows Everywhere in the USA...but there's a catch - SUMAC

Apparently, Sumac grows wild in the USA - Spoiler: It's hairs; the flavour is hairs !!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRPn...

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

Netanyahu and Israel's cabinet do not want regime change in Iran -- Israeli ministers have __explicitly__ said they want either a non-function nation riven by civil war or a shattered collection of warring states because they _explicitly_ said they saw Iran's existence as a threat.

“If the United States has concerns about <INSERT COUNTRY HERE>, then we also have concerns about <INSERT COUNTRY HERE>.

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I’m very upset, but I’ve got nothing of substance to contribute to the conversation on this platform. When you see me posting through it about random stuff, don’t confuse it for apathy.

this goes crazy

Really? We’re Fucking Doing This Again? — The Shovel The US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to claims it has no fucking idea what it...

“You have got to be fucking kidding,” the Rest of the World has remarked, as the US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to suspicions it has no fucking idea what it is doing.

Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

Definition of ANDRAGOGY the art or science of teaching adults… See the full definition

ANDRAGOGUE or PEDAGOGUE

andragogy (noun) : the art or science of teaching adults
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pedagogy (noun) : the art, science, or profession of teaching -- usually teaching children.
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pedagogue (n) : teacher, schoolmaster

comic strip. two men are discussing. one says: you know what scares me? parents allowing their child to be trans. that's child abuse! the other replies : omg! let kids be kids. the first says : exactly! but the second continues : in this case, it means to let trans kids transition so they get to enjoy their childhood instead of feeling broken and unloved because of who they are. not allowing a trans kid to transition won't make them less trans, just miserable and distressed. that's child abuse.

Let kids be kids.

Most Americans back Trump's deportation goals but not his tactics, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds They generally disapprove of his hard-line tactics, including masked agents in tactical gear who have clashed with U.S. citizens.

This is important: Trumps methods are unpopular, but his stated goals are not. Even if he is removed and the methods changed the exact same people are still going to be targeted. It’ll just be done more quietly, and if you think that makes it ok: wake the fuck up.

www.reuters.com/world/most-a...

Gay person: I'm gay

Autistic person: I'm autistic

Gay, autistic person: so it's called Pauper, it's a 60 card format where you can only play commons. People sometimes call it Legacy-lite due to its play patterns and power level and most decks are under $50