London Mayor Randall Weddle said seven people were injured, both by gunfire and in related highway collisions.
“No one was killed from this, thankfully,” he said in a video posted to Facebook. “But we ask that you continue to pray.”
Meth and guns. It’s a winning combination!
Donald Trump's own presidential campaign has failed to substantiate the former president's Saturday rally claim about children and schools, according to CNN, which deemed the statement a "lie."
Trump recently spoke at a Moms for Liberty event where the former president made an eye-popping claim about transgender kids.
"The transgender thing is incredible... your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child," Trump said last week.
So he’s been lying non stop for decades, but by the time some corporate news operation actually uses the word “lie” he’s already on to insane rantings.
We say this every time there’s a temporary moment of a vague sense that not everything is going to shit immediately. After Obama won, for example. When Bill Clinton was about to win.
It’s an occasional problem when working in reality. The corporate media will make adjustments soon to ensure rage and fear carry the day as always. It never lasts too long.
Yes but in the face of this:
The most overtly racist, dishonest, incompetent, ignorant, and compromised candidate possible. EVER. And that’s saying something.
This wasn’t “GW Bush and his war on terror”-level bullshit this was light-years beyond that.
Just bog-standard demented sociopathic malignant narcissism.
No jury in the world is gonna convict a baby!
Mmm . . . maybe Texas.
Remember the contest to be drawn into this episode? I always wondered what happened that they didn’t do it. I presume the “shadow” that wrestles with this guy was supposed to be the contest winner.
Hahahaha! That is by far the stupidest embrace of “AI” possible.
I’d say I can’t wait for it to fail, but whenever I say that things tend to become intractably lodged in the culture, so. Great success!
If an excavator could stare open-mouthed, that’d be what that looked like
If it weren’t pervasive, ubiquitous, and predictable I’d agree with you. But it’s as close to systemic as we can measure.
Why they do it is debatable, but that they do it is not.
Great! I’ll take a pound of swoops, two flats of screech and a bag of whos for the kids.
Limbaugh is also the son of a federal court judge and cousin to the late conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Debates since 2016 (hell, 2000) have been anything but. They are tragicomic farces of inane television “news” production and political spectacle.
It’s not possible to have anything good come from them, but if nothing bad comes from them, then, well - go do, I guess.
I’ll be under the couch with my eyes closed and hands over my ears.
Misogynist toadies gotta eat y'know.
That’s not his thing. He has zero interest in communicating anything to her that isn’t broadcast loudly. He’s all about the circus, the was never any substance there.
Social media users claimed students would have to take the ASVAB exam "in an effort to combat military recruiting issues."
A test of AI for Australia's corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19416727
> Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way at summarising documents and might actually create additional work for people, a government trial of the technology has found. > > Amazon conducted the test earlier this year for Australia’s corporate regulator the Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) using submissions made to an inquiry. The outcome of the trial was revealed in an answer to a questions on notice at the Senate select committee on adopting artificial intelligence. > > The test involved testing generative AI models before selecting one to ingest five submissions from a parliamentary inquiry into audit and consultancy firms. The most promising model, Meta’s open source model Llama2-70B, was prompted to summarise the submissions with a focus on ASIC mentions, recommendations, references to more regulation, and to include the page references and context. > > Ten ASIC staff, of varying levels of seniority, were also given the same task with similar prompts. Then, a group of reviewers blindly assessed the summaries produced by both humans and AI for coherency, length, ASIC references, regulation references and for identifying recommendations. They were unaware that this exercise involved AI at all. > > These reviewers overwhelmingly found that the human summaries beat out their AI competitors on every criteria and on every submission, scoring an 81% on an internal rubric compared with the machine’s 47%.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28113982
Photo: Republican Club of North & East Fort Myers A Black Trump supporter in Florida is suing a Republican group, claiming he was called a “slave.” According to NBC 2, Carl Baxter, a well-known Trumper from Lee County and president of the Republican Club of North and East Fort Myers, filed a lawsuit...
cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3608192
> From the Atlanta Daily World: > > ! > Photo: Republican Club of North & East Fort Myers A Black Trump supporter in Florida is suing a Republican group, claiming he was called a “slave.” According to NBC 2, Carl Baxter, a well-known Trumper from Lee County and president of the Republican Club of North and East Fort Myers, filed a lawsuit against Americans … Continued > > The post Black Trump Supporter Sues GOP Group For Allegedly Calling Him ‘Slave’ appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.
Companies are doing lots of shiny new information technology projects based on this year’s hottest new tech, Artificial Intelligence! And 80% of these fail — double the failure rate of other …
cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/2262316
Connections confirmed between ‘grassroots’ Ohio solar opposition and dark-money natural gas group
The leader of a local anti-solar energy group admitted to Ohio regulators last week that a well-connected natural gas executive is among the group’s largest donors.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12798779
Michael Dourson receives funds from chemical makers and plans to develop and publish studies that benefit firms
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12776322
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19085346
> https://lemmy.world/post/19085147
The Georgia State Election Board is facing criticism for changing rules, specifically one that involves the certification of election results. There have also been calls for board members Janelle King, […]
Last week: >The Georgia State Election Board recently approved a rule that could allow for local election boards to refuse certification of results.
This all comes as the board is currently facing a lawsuit for allegedly meeting illegally.
This week, Georgia State Election Board member, “conservative personality”, conservative PAC founder, and “pit bull for victory” at the recent Trump rally, offered her thoughts on the issues: [essentially “lol. Suck it, losers”]
This is not the Georgia Election Board member trying a quid-pro-quo for a white house gig. This is a different Georgia Election Board member.
So, they’re in place to refuse to certify a Democratic win, it’s all nice and “legal”, and we’re just watching it happen. Yay republiQans.
Russians Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich helped Elon Musk to acquire Twitter, newly-released court documents show.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12733123
"After receiving a tip about a family of Burrowing Owls on the eastern edge of Cheyenne, a photographer rushed to the location in late June. The owlets seemed nearly ready to leave their burrows. Over the years, the photographer has perfected a method using a GoPro on a small tripod, set to take a photo every 5 seconds. They leave the camera behind, allowing the owls to feel comfortable. The challenge lies in the long wait to see if the effort pays off. This shot was taken on June 28th."
📷 Peter Arnold
Kids today might not realize that, for about twenty years there, you could go to Google Search and find things you were looking for! Google now features a hilariously unreliable AI summary as the f…
cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/2178630