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Chaos at Dubai airport after flights suspended following drone attack Passengers were ushered into tunnels after an alert sounded

Chaos at Dubai airport after flights suspended following drone attack

Russia Secretly Sharing Location of U.S. Targets With Iran, U.S. Officials Say In a sign of deepening ties, satellite data from Moscow could help Tehran hit American forces around the Middle East.

Imagine a Dem President who'd been making public overtures to Russia, then having it revealed Russia was handing intelligence to an enemy to murder US soldiers?

FoxNews would have calls for impeachment on blast 24/7

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Tragedy and farce, at the same time.

There's many pokemon that are canonically multiple entities. Exeggcute is one

Note that there's both ghost type pokemon and actual ghosts of pokemon

The reason that the above average Pikachu is so valuable is that he's street legal, all the much more powerful pokemon wouldn't get to walk free but nobody suspects the little mouse

My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.

Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.

Lying shamelessly is a defining feature for so many executives in today's tech industry. They learn from top dogs that this is the way to get ahead. Until we figure out how to publicly shame liars and hold them accountable, their lies will only grow.

The collapse after the Biden job boom puts this all on Trump - injecting economic uncertainty, dumb tariffs, etc. But you can be sure his courtiers will frame this as due to AI so they can say he's just our unluckiest President.

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

Is this Russia? I'm pretty sure this was supposed to be published in RT.

NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

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AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley Haas researchers found the opposite. - Haas News | UC Berkeley Haas While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What ...

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Israeli troops fire on Unifil positions in south Lebanon region where Irish troops based Defence Forces will issue statement that ‘all Irish troops are accounted for and are well’, Martin tells the Dáil

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...

Interferometric Image Scanning Microscopy for label-free imaging at 120 nm lateral resolution inside live cells - Light: Science & Applications We introduce interferometric Image Scanning Microscopy (iISM). By combining principles of Image Scanning Microscopy with interferometric detection, iISM pushes the boundaries of spatial resolution, co...

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350,000 peoples’ lives hang in the balance. A majority entered the U.S. legally and have never been in violation of any immigration law. They’ve had to go through multiple background checks. And yet they’re hanging on by a thread, even though the situation in Haiti hasn’t gotten any better.

Unfortunatelly most Spanish media is also very tilted to the right so they are selling the message that the rest of the world is despising us and licking Trump's ass is the only reasonable thing to do.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

in this Ohio diner, moral leadership gets mixed reviews

This example is particularly heinous – an AI slop channel telling you not to buy a game with beautiful art handmade by a human?

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

The ratio, your honor! Think of the ratio!

Anti-war writers from Goodman to Orwell to Arendt all found the same problem: mediated communication converts moral energy into the feeling of having responded. The LLM perfects this. You walk away feeling you understood something. You didn't.

If the same system you use to ask whether the airstrike was justified is the one the generals used to plan it, that is state media. The effects frame both the decision and our reckoning with it within the sterile language of distance and abstraction.

An LLM does not need to pull a trigger or automate a missile to serve the cause of war. It can work to make obscene violence feel justified and rational — to give you the illusion that you have “thought the matter through.” 🧵

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

The theoretical vulnerability was always there. The theory just got tested, and the risk nobody had priced in should now very much be priced in. The blast radius of a data centre outage may be huge.

Iran war shows data centers emerging as critical targets From Amazon sites in the Gulf to reported strikes on Tehran data centers, digital infrastructure is increasingly becoming a casualty of war - Anadolu Ajansı

My comment for Anadolu Agency (turkish press agency) on data centres as targets in the Iran war. The strikes on Amazon facilities in the UAE and Bahrain are the first time commercial cloud infrastructure has taken physical damage from a drone or missile attack. www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

Trump creates potential for fraud

This story still isn’t going away.