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  • Authoritarian left... What is this?

    It's an oxymoron. Authoritarianism is right-wing regardless of how the "authority" brands itself.

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    No sleeping bags, keep moving: California cities increase crackdown on homeless encampments
  • It's almost impossible for politicians to confront their masters profiting from the housing crisis (eg. landlords, capital). But it's extremely easy and self-satisfying for them to demonize and violently attack their victims.

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    The followup to ChatGPT is scarily good at deception
  • Computer programs don't deceive. They respond programmatically based on input given.

    Any perceived deception by the computer is actually just irrational expectations, etc. by the user.

    it will start by telling you it’s “thinking.” After a few seconds, it’ll specify that it’s “defining variables.” Wait a few more seconds, and it says it’s at the stage of “figuring out equations.” You eventually get your answer, and you have some sense of what the AI has been up to.

    The opposite is true here. We are being intentionally misdirected by misleading/humanizing language away from what the computer is actually doing. Not even close to understanding what the "AI" has been computing.

    However, it’s a pretty hazy sense. The details of what the AI is doing remain under the hood. That’s because the OpenAI researchers decided to hide the details from users... In other words, we’re not sure if Strawberry is actually “figuring out equations” when it says it’s “figuring out equations.” Similarly, it could tell us it’s consulting biology textbooks when it’s in fact consulting comic books. Whether because of a technical mistake or because the AI is attempting to deceive us in order to achieve its long-term goal, the sense that we can see into the AI might be an illusion.

    The author conflates the actual deception of the developers with the imaginary deception of the "AI". This type of terrible coverage is completely normal inside the "AI" bubble.

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    Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion. AI is making things worse.
  • Politicians gonna attack Shein until USA is #1 polluter... And all these companies will still be exploiting the same slave labor at the same sweatshops destroying the planet.

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    U.S. is cracking down on Shein and Temu by closing a loophole that makes their cheap goods exempt from tariffs
  • This just political theater and domestic handouts. It will increase clothing prices for workings while doing nothing to alleviate their exploitation.

    There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

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  • www.africanews.com Report: Rwanda used Israeli spy tech to tap phones of top Ugandan officials | Africanews

    Telephone numbers for Ruhakana Rugunda, the prime minister of Uganda until last month, and Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, the prime minister of Burundi, appear on the list.

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    www.bignewsnetwork.com Colombian president slams police purchase of Pegasus spyware

    Bogota Colombia - Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticized on Wednesday the purchase of Israel-made Pegasus spyware by the countrys police to

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    www.wired.com How a Group of Israel-Linked Hackers Has Pushed the Limits of Cyberwar

    From repeatedly crippling thousands of gas stations to setting a steel mill on fire, Predatory Sparrow’s offensive hacking has now targeted Iranians with some of history's most aggressive cyberattacks.

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    www.techdirt.com New Trump Book Threatens To Jail Zuckerberg, Putting Zuck’s Groveling Letter In New Light

    Was Mark Zuckerberg’s cringey spinelessness just an attempt to grovel before Donald Trump to avoid a vindictive criminal lawsuit? Given the timing of the letter coming out just before Trump’s new b…

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    apnews.com FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket falls over in flames at landing

    SpaceX launches are on hold after a booster rocket toppled over in flames while landing. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded the company's Falcon 9 rockets and ordered an investigation following Wednesday's accident off the Florida coast.

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    www.cnbc.com Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating

    Starbucks says incoming CEO Brian Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’s head office in Seattle on a corporate jet.

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    www.theguardian.com ‘A police state’: US universities impose rules to avoid repeat of Gaza protests

    Students, faculty and advocates warn of chilling effect on free speech as schools across US introduce restrictions

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    www.forbes.com Israel Reportedly Used Fake Social Media Accounts To Garner Support From US Lawmakers On Gaza War

    According to the New York Times, the campaign was undertaken by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs with the intent to gain support from the U.S. public and lawmakers.

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    jacobin.com Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine

    Since 2014, Amazon has been pouring billions into Israel, contributing to illegal settlement programs and the relentless surveillance of Palestinians. Israel’s dystopian end goal: to compile biometric profiles and security ratings for every resident of the West Bank.

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    www.theguardian.com Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network

    The Guardian used public records and open source materials to identify Daniel Linden of the Shirion Collective

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    www.eff.org The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort to Label Social Media

    This extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific evidence and turns the nation’s top physician into a censor.

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    Facebook and Instagram have failed to tackle disinformation and deceptive advertising in the run-up to European Parliament elections, the European Commission said on Tuesday as it opened an investigation into suspected breaches of EU online content rules.

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