2024-05-05
Horseshit
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EU plan to force apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives
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Court Says Italy Is Rightful Owner of Bronze Held by Getty Museum
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The bystander's role is changing in the era of livestreaming
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Discover the Unique Experience of Edge Esmeralda in Healdsburg
The June event will take the form of a temporary pop-up village for “founders, scientists, urban planners, researchers, engineers, philosophers, storytellers, and beyond … thoughtful people who are brilliant, curious, and kind … who believe the future can be better and are actively working to make it happen,” according to the event website.
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"Involuntary Single", female "incel"? A Literary Cry for Help from Female Insings
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This is how you summon ancient horrors innit: Egyptian Pyramids, Sphinx close to public for tech billionaire's wedding
Electric / Self Driving cars
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Holding all men responsible for a violent minority has failed to keep women safe
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Western Christian churches, such as the Roman Catholic Church, celebrate Easter Sunday on March 31, 2024; Eastern churches, like the Greek Orthodox Church, celebrate Orthodox Easter on May 5, 2024.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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and knowledge of SDL, pygame, openCV, and Numpy data structure layout A 100x speedup with unsafe Python
In any case, I'd be surprised if that many people use SDL from Python for this specific issue to be broadly relevant. But I'd guess that numpy arrays with weird layouts come up in other places, too, so this kind of trick might be relevant elsewhere. The code above uses "the C kind of knowledge" to get a speedup (Python generally hides data layout from you, whereas C proudly exposes it.) It also, unfortunately, has the memory (un)safety of C - we get a C base pointer to the pixel data, and from that point on, if we mess up the pointer arithmetic, or use the data after it was already freed, we're going to crash or corrupt data. And yet we wrote no C code - it's all Python.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Economicon / Business / Finance
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US Jobs Post Smallest Gain in Six Months as Unemployment Rises
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Berkshire Hathaway cut Apple investment by about 13% in the first quarter
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Huy Fong Foods halts production. Is another sriracha shortage coming?
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State Farm announces major change affecting tens of thousands households in CA
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Berkshire Hathaway's cash pile hits new record as Buffett dumps stocks
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Boeing Locks Out Firefighters in Seattle over Disputed Pay Rates
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Bay Area restaurants react to new Calif. law with anger, shock
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Mark Hamill Makes Cringey Appearance at White House Press Briefing, Lame Jokes Fall Flat
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Members of Congress should actually live in DC
The New York Times recently conducted an interview series with departing members of Congress. And when they were asked how to fix the institution they’re leaving, Congressman Ken Buck and Senator Tom Carper both spoke fondly of a time when members of Congress actually lived in Washington, a time when, as Carper said, “Folks didn’t jump on an airplane on a Thursday afternoon and head for home.” Buck suggested that this resulted in “less divisiveness and less hate.”
After the Republican Revolution in 1994, Gingrich condensed Congress’ work from five days into three, so his caucus had more time fundraise in the district and less time to fraternize with colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Thirty years later, we’re still saddled with this legacy. Or, as Binder puts it, there is “increased pressure on members to be raising money and to be worried about re-election, which compels them to spend more time in the districts.”
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Ineligible, alas. Born in Jamaca. Is Winsome Sears on Trump’s Short List for a Running Mate?
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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The horrible truth about shaken baby syndrome cases.
Back in 2008, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals became the first to overturn an SBS conviction, writing that there was “fierce disagreement” among doctors and “a shift in mainstream medical opinion” about the certainty of the diagnosis. Last year, a New Jersey appeals court barred the admission of evidence about shaken baby syndrome, calling it “junk science.” Yet elsewhere, hundreds of parents and caregivers continue to be prosecuted based on the same medical theory. A review of more than 1,400 appellate rulings between 2008 and 2018 found that only 3 percent of SBS convictions were overturned, a far lower rate than in other types of cases. The reality is that in parts of the country, evidence of the telltale triad of symptoms won’t warrant an arrest—but in other parts, it can literally amount to a death sentence.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Georgia rocked by protests as government pushes Putin-style 'foreign agent' bill
The ruling Georgian Dream party is trying to force through a “foreign agent” law, likened by critics to a measure introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin to quash dissent. The draft law, which has passed the second of three votes, would require organizations in the former Soviet country that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents” or face crippling fines. critics say the intended target of the legislation is Georgia’s independent media and civil society organizations, ahead of elections in October in which Georgian Dream, whose popularity is waning, is desperate to keep power.
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Cuba sentences 22-year-old to 15 years in prison for posting videos of protests
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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Cheap Russian drones overwhelm US-made Abrams tanks, taken out of action
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France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront - Asia Times
France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère).