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Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

Wie vaak demonstreert, kan door de politie worden aangemerkt als extremist. Dat overkwam activist Frank van der Linde. Zijn naam belandde in politiesystemen als mogelijke terrorist. Sindsdien voert hij een eindeloze juridische strijd met de overheid, procedure na procedure.

We have the privilege of getting to witness the Plastic Age Collapse.

The weirdest thing about Hank Green's apology for using AI is that he spends much of it asserting his "nuanced takes" on AI while in the same breath admitting to having essentially an addiction to LLMs. It's like listening to a smoker asserting their "nuanced takes" on the dangers of smoking.

Reverence rots the brain.

Europeans can leave feedback for the @ec.europa.eu about reforming the Copyright Directive similar to the feedback campaign we had with the Digital Fairness Act until June 25: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... This is to increase political pressure, and map out a pattern of behavior on their end

ec.europa.eu/commission/p... This decision is not unexpected. But we were prepared. Hence, we're pushing forward with @europarl.europa.eu ammending #StopKillingGames to the Digital Fairness Act. We can move on without the @ec.europa.eu and their non-decision Contact your member of Parliament today

The statement of the EU Commission is the feared disappointment. Still arguing things that have been refuted by Stop Killing Games Feels like they are intentionally playing dumb and wasting time, hoping that the false claims stick. This is not the end, though.

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

The Stop Destroying Videogames ECI has sent a powerful democratic signal. An invitation to OPENLY discuss the future relationship between games industry and its customers. The EU Commission must not fall for what seems to be a covert attempt to stop improvements. SKG open letter:

I love universities. But the incentive structure is badly fucked up. Anyone who teaches has had the experience of teaching a class they don't want to teach to a room of students who don't want to learn. Like with a lot of things Ai is an accelerant, but it didn't create the problem.

New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓

This shows that the goal behind dogpiles is purely to hurt people.

Technically, everything that's true is technically true.

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Points to another problem: academic journal publishing needs to die. Academic disciplines are of course different but as a historian, if I'm publishing a paper every two weeks, or even every two months, you know I'm not taking the research seriously. end

Many problems in the English speaking world can be traced back to its failure to address Cartesianism.

From the upcoming Free Lanes update to Terran Armada and more Trackers Alliance, 2026 is going to be the biggest year yet for #Starfield. 🌌 See everything coming to the game in today's Developer Deep Dive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scvz...

Proud to know two of these guys: www.science.org/content/arti... Interestingly, in both cases the key to not engaging was a vibe check plus listening to the women in their lives.

It is not moral to, based on their morality, side with moral people over immoral people on matters of truth.

Trump & Co have been talking about US military action for weeks, if not months, and positioning the assets to do it - long before such intelligence ever could have become a factor. This is transparent nonsense.

Trump zal niet stoppen met oorlog voeren voor hij Nobelprijs voor de Vrede krijgt

Likewise, pointing out the involuntary nature of tics, in order to deny mens rea for their harm, does not assert that there is no steps a person can take that might, but also might not, reduce their frequency or severity.

Asserting that is possible that symptoms will resolve is not the same thing as asserting that there is an intervention or collection of interventions that will reliably stop symptoms. There is nothing a person can do that will guarantee they will not have tics, which is the relevant point.

If someone says hiccups are irresistible and you reply, "Well, actually, have you tried holding your breath?" you are just being obtuse about what the person means.

Turns out that the "checks and balances" of the US government are just some guy standing next to the door leading to the authoritarianism room who might stop you if you try to open the door.

Plato (in the Sophist IIRC) actually addresses the fact that Socratic-type dialogues are not so much for the benefit of the interlocutor, who is often a sophist and too old to be open to the idea that he doesn't know what he thinks he knows, but for the benefit of the (often young) people watching.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Posting Valerie's story again for no particular reason. Just an inch...but they must never take it from us. #GodIsInTheRain youtu.be/H_GbtyOyxBc?...

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The problem with the concept of an external world is that it implies an internal one. While it's perfectly valid to say that the thing we might call our internal world is real, any boundary between it and the "external" is completely imagined. These aren't separate worlds at all, but a continuum.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Calling him handsome: - Expected - Overdone - Everyone has hands Calling him footsome: - Original - Unclear if it's a compliment or an insult - Fits this meme template