A product you were just talking about pops up in an online ad. How? Advertising algorithms are so good that they may know what you want even before you do. C...
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank....
Most people aren't migrating of their own volition but fleeing war and famine. People I've seen advocating for "regulations for immigration" would rather have those people dying of hunger or exposure at their borders instead of letting them in.
the US has many problems but it’s still a democracy
Given the choice between hot shit and cold shit still ends with you being covered in shit. Heads or tails between two very similar parties hardly counts as a true democracy.
Google and Amazon are both loath to discuss security aspects of the cloud services they provide through their joint contract with the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus. Though both the Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Forces are Nimbus customers, Google routinely downplays the military elements while Amazon says...
I bet greed had much more impact than envy. Capitalims is, in a nutshell, gluttony applied to everything it can touch, and companies lust to make ever greater amounts of money or face the wrath of their shareholders. Innovation is hard, so copying your proud rivais is the easiest way (sloth, anyone?) to accomplish that...
Google's response sure is some vile corporate doublespeak:
As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead. To best position us for these opportunities, throughout the second half of 2023 and into 2024, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better, remove layers and align their resources to their biggest product priorities. Through this, we’re simplifying our structures to give employees more opportunity to work on our most innovative and important advances and our biggest company priorities, while reducing bureaucracy and layers.
I don’t think war criminals & mass murderers care about civil liberties.
they don't care about human rights either:
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who is in her 60s, was strip-searched, handcuffed so tightly it caused pain, denied access to food, water and medication for several hours, and held in a cold cell without adequate clothing or blankets.
It used to help me greatly at my job (software development). I’m using mostly DDG as a replacement but it just isn’t even close to what Google used to be years ago.
I’ve enjoyed Mark Rober’s videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn’t sitting right with me...
Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday....
Chaos ensued in the United Arab Emirates after the country witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years, with some areas recording more than 250 mm of precipitation in fewer than 24 hours, the state’s media office said in a statement Wednesday....
What I meant is that your schadenfreude is misplaced. Since there is oil in UAE it would be exploited wheter people living there wanted or not. And, well, it will keep being exploited until civilization falls, that’s the nature of the economic system we are all cursed to live under.
Well good luck convincing Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell et al and all the politicians they bought in the whole world to grow a conscience. Ain’t gonna happen.
What does that have to do with your implying that there were and never will be an alternative to fossil fuels?
I did not imply that at any moment. If you take your time re-reading our argument you’ll see that. What I’ve argued is that oil is a substantial backbone of current western civilization, and since oil exists in the UAE it would be exploited wether people living there wanted that or not (and that has been the case for decades).
You are arguing that oil is necessarily a substantial backbone of Western civilization by claiming that it would have been extracted from the area no matter what and will continue to be so in perpetuity. Neither of those things are facts. They are pure guesswork on your part.
No, I’m arguing that oil is currently a substantial backbone of Western civilization. And yes, it would have been extracted from the area no matter what, because if people native to the region refused, some imperalist country would simply bomb those natives or replace their leaders with ones more pliabe to said imperalist demands. It won’t of course go on forever because petroleum is a finite resource and when it runs out the UAE will become a unwanted desert wasteland ignored by all except for those still living there.
Sorry, but right now you’re just grasping at straws. But if you have to win the argument no matter what, go ahead and claim to have bested/disproved/refuted me, I don’t want to argue this further. Have a nice day.
Senator Tim Kaine, a former vice-presidential nominee and leading foreign policy voice in the Democratic party, has said Joe Biden now understands that Benjamin Netanyahu “played” him during the early months of the war in Gaza but “that ain’t going to happen any more”....
I wonder if it is in the US’ best interests being dragged on a war very much like the one waged on Afghanistan… a costly affair that ended up worsening the problem in the region
Nearly six in 10 buildings in the Strip have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks and its largest medical complex is an ‘empty shell,’ according to the WHO...
Puta que pariu, quem foi o corno que escreveu essa merda? Vá tomar no cu, esse código não foi escrito, foi cagado. Que caralho de emprego bosta esse meu, ter que mexer com lixo fedorento igual esse. COMPILA, CACETE! Merda, saco, bosta, FDP, corno!!
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" ( www.eff.org )
Brazil’s Lula government ousts Petrobras chief after dispute over dividends ( www.ft.com )
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Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them ( arstechnica.com )
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion ( www.arktrek.shop )
Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED ( www.wired.com )
Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
Is Microsoft TRYING to Ruin Xbox? | KnowledgeHusk (16:12) ( www.youtube.com )
Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. ( www.nytimes.com )
Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds ( www.dw.com )
Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank....
Middle Earth enshittification ( lemmy.world )
Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios ( www.pcgamer.com )
TikTok sues the US government over ban ( www.theverge.com )
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men ( techcrunch.com )
Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon ( theintercept.com )
Google and Amazon are both loath to discuss security aspects of the cloud services they provide through their joint contract with the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus. Though both the Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Forces are Nimbus customers, Google routinely downplays the military elements while Amazon says...
Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy ( www.engadget.com )
For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report ( www.freepressjournal.in )
‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel is civil liberties threat, say lawyers ( www.theguardian.com )
Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days ( www.arenaev.com )
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V ( www.theregister.com )
The Man Who Killed Google Search ( www.wheresyoured.at )
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....
Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet ( www.theregister.com )
Modi Calls Muslims ‘Infiltrators’ Who Would Take India’s Wealth ( www.nytimes.com )
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'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad
I’ve enjoyed Mark Rober’s videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn’t sitting right with me...
Meta says you can’t turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram ( globalnews.ca )
Russia, Iran turning Israel and Ukraine into ‘battlefield laboratories,’ experts say ( thehill.com )
Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday....
STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory… ( web.archive.org )
Chaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 years ( www.cnn.com )
Chaos ensued in the United Arab Emirates after the country witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years, with some areas recording more than 250 mm of precipitation in fewer than 24 hours, the state’s media office said in a statement Wednesday....
Ex-Blizzard Exec Dragged For Suggesting Gamers Start Tipping ( kotaku.com )
US seeking to deter Iran from strike on Israel, officials say ( www.theguardian.com )
Tim Kaine: Biden knows Netanyahu ‘played’ him in early months of Gaza war ( www.theguardian.com )
Senator Tim Kaine, a former vice-presidential nominee and leading foreign policy voice in the Democratic party, has said Joe Biden now understands that Benjamin Netanyahu “played” him during the early months of the war in Gaza but “that ain’t going to happen any more”....
Israeli MK says secret plans underway for Gaza resettlement ( www.newarab.com )
Satellite images reveal extent of devastation in Gaza after six months of war ( english.elpais.com )
Nearly six in 10 buildings in the Strip have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks and its largest medical complex is an ‘empty shell,’ according to the WHO...
Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening? ( www.nytimes.com )
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Code quality can be measured in fucks per minute ( sopuli.xyz )
Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted ( www.abc.net.au )
In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app....
Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible ( arstechnica.com )