defaultdragon

[山口一男 @baaUBZ8INKYP7U0]

私も、いちおう日本を代表する社会学者の一人と言って良いと思いますが（文化功労者です）、高市政権は戦後最悪の政権であると思います。理由は余りにも多岐にわたりますが、嘘と情報操作のみで成り立ち、かつ「自由で民主的な日本」にとって有害となる政策ばかり推進しようとしていると断言します。

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Namii🍞 @NAMIORII]

「How the time keeps on winding~」

#immergination

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I have heard people claim that the reaction people are having against AI is the same reaction people had when the internet started to be introduced. And as someone who was there at the time, I can tell you NO IT FUCKING WASN'T.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Chew ☁️噛む @ChewChewer]

I've lost all my neighbors.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

This has been going on for 80 years, and heavily documented. The NYTimes finally scraped together enough integrity to publish something.

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

This yellow cube that separates me from my home. I don’t know why I call it 'my home,' for they have demolished it. They didn’t just destroy it; they razed my entire town. This yellow cube feels like the dividing line between truth and illusion, between reality and imagination, between the old man I am now and the young Omar I once was, between love and its opposite.

Two and a half years have passed while I am forbidden from returning to my land. I used to feel profound sadness for those forcibly displaced during the Nakba of '48, but it seems I have become one of them. My father spent over 40 years building our home, only for Israel to destroy it in the blink of an eye. They didn't just demolish the house; they demolished us along with it.

How can a lifeless cube encapsulate forty years of building? Forty years where every brick laid was a promise of safety, and every corner of the house was a story my father tucked away for difficult days. Now, we have become the displaced stories, seeking shelter in a memory that refuses to forget, and in words through which we try to mend what has been broken within our souls.

[𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎 @hellspatisserie]

I need a good book that serves as an introduction to pure mathematics for someone who comes completely from the humanities, has little grasp of math, and is terrible at thinking mathematically

[Igalimax @Igalimax]

2 minute break
Cecilia #Immergination

[defaultdragon @Defaultdragon1]

@ourokronii @TsunaDenLata As someone who's had a few bettas I thought I'd weigh in!
It largely depends on temperament; grumpy ones kill crustaceans/other fishes too :(
+wild-type bettas have super diverse phenotypes, and long fins are actually selectively bred!
always glad to see someone this invested!!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Yesterday Donald Trump changed the law so the USA's forests can be sold to billionaires, an area the size of the UK and France.

While Javier Milei allowed billionaire companies to mine in Argentina's glaciers, which has ALWAYS been banned.

They are selling what isn't theirs.

[defaultdragon @Defaultdragon1]

@hereizita70861 @RachelMuseVT That doesn’t MATTER. Have you seen Trump’s other actions? He’s declared wars with no real goal, cut taxes to give to billionaires, denied climate science, nosedived the economy—do I even need to go on?

Israel’s bombs are America-bought. They fucking strafed Lebanese civilians.

[defaultdragon @Defaultdragon1]

@RachelMuseVT This is a tragedy. I have no other words. The consequences of the current American leadership are going to trickle into EVERYTHING, from food to people’s lives.

We need to stop this. Every American needs to organize and fight this now, before it’s too late. More people will die.

[RachelMuse ⚜️🩸 @RachelMuseVT]

A vtuber is advocating for joining the us military meanwhile another vtuber who has done nothing but be kind and try her best, has just had her family killed by isreal and america.

[StPete @billbuc]

We cannot allow this. To stop the destruction of the Forest Service and sell off of federal lands, every union must be ready to strike to shut down the government, along with every conservation group, relevant commercial interests and the Democratic Party. This literally calls for all hands on deck across the country. It is the hill we die on.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Nature hater Trump to blitz 2.5 million acres of ancient forests spanning 17 counties across Oregon.
They include mature and old-growth forests treasured by recreationists, hunters, conservationists and tourism businesses
https://t.co/5GBQKIaaeH