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2026-08-28 15:26:46 UTC

>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to buy at least a million dollars worth of robots from Boston Dynamics, the company that makes the dog-like SPOT robots, with the purpose of improving “officer safety,” according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement.

2026-08-28 15:09:37 UTC

For her safety, Doe has opted to receive alerts from the US Department of Justice Victim Notification System any time she may be a victim in a new criminal investigation. Although she has received countless alerts, she was shocked when the CCCP notified her that it had identified AI-generated CSAM on xAI that depicted her. This re-traumatized Doe, whose complaint alleged that messages were found on online forums “between offenders chatting about creating AI generated CSAM of Plaintiff and other similarly situated known, legacy, victims of CSAM.”
Now, Doe fears that xAI has not only made it easier to make more violative images of the most distressing time in her life, but also that xAI allegedly has stored the images that Grok generates and uses those outputs to further train Grok. Because of this, she believes that Grok has been trained on both the initial set of images that have haunted her for more than 20 years and the more recent AI-generated ones.
This is the first case to accuse xAI of training on CSAM, and the complaint does not go into great detail on that claim. Previously, Ars reported on a controversial dataset that was later scrubbed after researchers found CSAM in the training data, but there’s no indication xAI trained on that data. In a press release from lawyers representing Doe, it explained that Doe’s images were included in a CSAM Hash List maintained by NCMEC, and “that same material” allegedly “was part of the dataset xAI used to build Grok’s image and video generating capabilities.” The complaint similarly only alleged that “CSAM depicting Plaintiff with its longstanding well-known hash values has been used as a part of the dataset used by xAI.”

2026-08-25 15:37:03 UTC

The Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly subpoenaed several major Wall Street lenders to glean more information about their role in the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness.
Regulators are seeking insights into Situational Awareness’s trades, use of leverage and communications with the investment banks, which include Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup and Bank of America, according to Reuters, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Situational Awareness plunged from about $45 billion to around $10 billion in late July after it was hammered in last month’s tech sell-off.
The hedge fund, led by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, was forced to unwind much of its publicly listed portfolio of large, concentrated, levered positions — which included SK Hynix and CoreWeave — after losses sparked several margin calls among its prime brokers.

2026-08-25 15:00:05 UTC

> They are reportedly building devices for 24x7 monitoring, no doubt uploading everything you say to the cloud for AI analysis; they refused (via mealy mouth legalese) to opt out of doing surveillance for the US government of US citizens and we have stuff like this...

2026-07-29 15:11:14 UTC

>The Saudis have remained a major source of financial support for Lucid Motors since it went public, buying up shares and lending billions of dollars as the company has struggled to reach a mass market of EV buyers in the U.S. and abroad.

2026-07-08 15:36:05 UTC

In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the anthropomorphizing language that makes it harder to have clear discussions of what so-called "AI" technologies actually do, and when and whether to use them. But these ways of speaking are deeply ingrained at this point, and it takes work carve new conversational and writing habits. That work involves at least three steps:
- Noticing which word choices are anthropomorphizing
- Finding alternatives
- Getting in the habit of using the alternatives

2026-06-24 14:17:30 UTC

Under capitalism the endpoint of every app is a slot machine.

2026-06-05 14:16:07 UTC

> In 2024, nearly two-thirds of L.A. voters passed Measure HLA, requiring the city to make streets more multimodal, more inclusive. Since HLA became law, the city has been scrambling to find ways to not follow HLA.
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> Some of the city’s loophole strategies are legal. Some appear not to be. All of them are supporting the city’s deadly car-centric status quo and undermining nascent efforts toward a balanced multimodal transportation system.
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> In the last month or so, the city appears to have decided that the way it can get around HLA – and around disability access laws – is to only repave streets without sidewalks.
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> This practice is making the city less equitable, because streets without sidewalks are nearly all in relatively well-off neighborhoods. City repaving is currently focused on many hillside areas including Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Mount Washington, Pacific Palisades, and Studio City. The city is also resurfacing sidewalk-less streets in other car-centric suburban neighborhoods including Northridge, Toluca Woods, Valley Village, Valley Glen, and Woodland Hills.

2026-05-12 15:45:51 UTC

President Donald Trump says he wants the gas tax to be temporarily suspended as [empire continues its terrorism campaign against Iran] into its 11th week and keeps oil prices elevated.
He told CBS News Monday morning he wants the tax suspended "for a period of time" and would want it reintroduced "when gas goes down."
Asked by reporters in the Oval Office later in the day how long the gas tax would be suspended, the president responded, "'Til it's appropriate."
Suspending the gas tax would require an act of Congress. Currently, the tax is 18.4 cents per gallon of gas and 24.4 cents per gallon of diesel.
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2026-04-12 17:23:09 UTC

Get ready for the lines going down on Monday...

2026-04-06 03:01:35 UTC

The Bank of England warned Wednesday that the ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran could cause already-existing weaknesses in the financial system to bubble over, heightening fears around the risks that private credit and artificial intelligence stocks pose to stability.
Policymakers at the Bank identified weaknesses in private credit markets, highly priced U.S. tech stocks, and hedge fund activity in the sovereign bond market as key concerns that had lingered in the financial system before the war began — and said they could erupt at once as a result of supply chain disruption from the war.
“A substantial negative supply shock leading to tighter financing conditions increased the likelihood of these vulnerabilities crystallising at the same time, potentially amplifying their combined impacts on financial stability,” said the Bank’s Financial Policy Committee in a record of its latest meeting, published Wednesday.
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2026-04-03 17:55:12 UTC

>The letter states that Iran has never initiated a war and has resolutely repelled those who have attacked it, and that portraying Iran as a threat is not consistent with historical reality or present-day observable facts.
>The President invites Americans to look beyond the machinery of misinformation and consider the realities of Iran and its people, and to choose between confrontation and engagement, which will shape the future for generations to come.

2026-03-08 03:32:39 UTC

Most people mistakenly assume that police solve crimes on a daily basis. According to University of Utah law professor Shima Baughman's research, just 11% of significant crimes end in an arrest and 2% in a conviction. A significant proportion of serious crimes usually remain unsolved.
What are police doing instead? Most cops spend between 46% and 81% of their time on “unassigned” duties, such as eating lunch or filling out paperwork. And when they’re on patrol, cops playing with their phones has become such a problem that even Mayor Eric Adams, a former cop himself, has expressed his “frustration.” Two weeks after the subway shooting, Adams asked New Yorkers to send him photos of officers using their phones while on duty. “We are going to start taking very aggressive actions to make sure police are patrolling our subway system and not patrolling their iPhone,” the mayor warned.

2026-02-05 01:45:42 UTC

Source: https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/807567249204461568/please-clap-brecht-vandenbroucke
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2026-01-27 17:56:40 UTC

"Let's see, baseball, rode a bike - that could be me, except for the part where I go out and do something incredibly stupid. All those things - Boy Scout, outdoorsman, right? You know who that is? A lot of people. Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, was all those things. Dennis Rader, remember him? He's the beat, bind, torture and kill guy. He liked to hunt. He was a family man. Everybody liked him. His mother liked him. All that stuff. Dennis Rader and Alex -- I'm sorry, but I can't just pretend because you're dead, you're like the superior person."

2026-01-10 17:55:37 UTC

Israeli authorities have issued a demolition order against a football pitch in a Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim has been taking a look.

2025-11-13 03:53:37 UTC

In the wake of a measles outbreak in Canada that has infected thousands of people over the past year, an international health agency revoked the country’s measles-free status on Nov. 10, 2025.

2025-10-29 13:57:22 UTC

jfc.

2025-10-15 14:13:26 UTC

> Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

2025-09-20 16:39:40 UTC

> >According to Cabello, the detainees confessed the shipment was part of a "false flag operation" designed to incriminate Venezuela in international drug trafficking and justify external aggression. "The four detainees are saying they work for the DEA," Cabello told state television, calling the alleged plan a "maneuver for destabilization."
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> >Authorities said the boat originated in Colombia's Guajira region and was connected to a trafficking group called "Los Orientales," allegedly led by Gersio Parra Machado. Cabello argued that the operation demonstrated Venezuela's commitment to combating narcotics without resorting to lethal force. "We don't apply the death penalty," he said, drawing a contrast with U.S. military strikes on alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean.

2025-09-20 16:33:26 UTC

Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continued the Democrats’ piling on against Palestinians this past Sunday.
Fetterman asserted to CNN’s Manu Raju: “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”
Asked by Raju if Israel was using “starvation as a weapon,” he claimed: “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Israel is not deliberately starving people, absolutely.”
He added: “Those conditions are miserable there. And it is hell on earth. Why? Some people blame Israel for that? I blame Hamas and Iran for that thing.”
This continues most Democrats’ failure to recognize the Gaza genocide, even walking back the genocide assertion in the recent case of Congresswoman Katherine Clark, a top leader in the House of Representatives.

2025-09-19 15:20:19 UTC

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Legit. I didn’t know about this term either. But I’ve ranted to friends about how advertisements are involuntary time-theft and mind control.
Capital is constantly trying to force its propaganda into our minds and lives. 100%.

2025-08-18 14:47:45 UTC

>Palestinian journalist Marwa Musallam was buried alive by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City as her cries for help went unanswered. Her remains were recovered 45 days later, one of nearly 270 journalists killed since the Israel’s war on Gaza began.

2025-08-02 14:44:19 UTC

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Swisscows.com seems to be working for me but I don't think I'm removing "trackers".
Can you give an example? What browser is removing the "tracker portion"? How is it doing that?
The [querystring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string) can contain trackers. But for searching it usually contains your search terms. So, if your browser is removing the querystring, then searches probably won't work.

2025-06-14 14:48:00 UTC

>Their performance was impressive enough to earn four “yes” votes from the judges — but one of the five robots experienced some stage fright, perhaps, and shut down in the middle of the routine. But the show must go on, so nevertheless, the four other robots persisted.

2025-06-12 15:36:48 UTC

Car brain <---> Fascism.
One more lane ---> Ethnic cleansing.

2025-05-22 16:44:31 UTC

Singer JJ, Austria’s winner, calls for transparency over Israel’s public vote dominance at Eurovision

2025-05-17 16:35:09 UTC

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29805461
> Residents in and around Bessemer are furious over Project Marvel, a plan to build a 4.5-million-square-foot data processing facility on 700 acres of wooded land. Public officials have been sworn to silence.
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> If built to planned capacity, the data center would be one of the largest in the United States and could become one of the largest single consumers of electricity in the state. Of nearly a dozen residents interviewed by Inside Climate News, none expressed support for the project as planned. Instead, all shared fear and frustration over their inability to obtain information about the $14.5 billion proposal from politicians charged with representing the public.
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> Efforts by Inside Climate News to speak with public officials in Bessemer about the proposal, called Project Marvel, were met with silence. The mayor, his chief of staff and the city’s attorney all signed a non-disclosure agreement with the developer, staffers said, and would not be able to answer questions about the project.

2025-05-08 15:04:59 UTC

Cars <---> Fascism

2025-04-28 15:28:44 UTC

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/37409963
> > Alleged attack on facility holding African detainees raises fresh questions over US military operations in region
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> Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/yemen-houthi-rebels-say-scores-killed-in-us-airstrike-on-prison
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> Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

2025-02-17 15:30:53 UTC

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The real question: Is their skin pale enough to benefit from white privilege? B/c that's all that "whiteness" is.

2025-02-16 16:50:50 UTC

Imagine the leader of a global superpower announcing a plan for removing an entire ethnic group from a territory they’ve long inhabited. Neighboring states would have to make land available to that superpower to resettle the displaced peoples. The refugees would “have their own administration in this territory” but they would “not acquire … citizenship” since any “sense of responsibility towards the world” would forbid making “the gift of a sovereign state” to a people “which has had no independent state for thousands of years.”
No, the plan described in brief here is not President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, proposing a United States takeover of Gaza and mass relocation of its Palestinian population. It is the so-called “Madagascar Plan,” devised by Nazi Germany in 1940 to “resettle” European Jews.
That plan was the Third Reich’s final major proposal for removing the Jews from the Greater Germanic Reich Adolf Hitler envisioned in Mein Kampf prior to the “Final Solution” — the indiscriminate shootings of Jewish men, women, and children on the Eastern Front, leading to mass killings in death camps and gas chambers in late 1941. In that history lies a warning: Plans for the mass relocation of a population seen as troublesome or dangerous can rapidly devolve into the loss of sovereignty, of human and civil rights, and, eventually, ethnic cleansing.

2025-02-12 17:00:26 UTC

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2025-02-08 15:29:49 UTC

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> genocide is about to happen.
lmao libs waking up after over a year... acting like they suddenly give a shit about an ongoing genocide.
This is why y'all keep losing. Literally offering nothing but vile condescension.

2025-02-07 16:49:34 UTC

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The same thing she's suddenly doing now.

2025-02-07 16:36:30 UTC

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Well yeah nobody in the region wants these imperial cultist invaders and their genocide. It's a completely reasonable strategy to resist together.

2025-02-05 15:53:36 UTC

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Who's saying that? Got any links?

2024-08-13 15:19:27 UTC

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2 more weeks to install any other distro!