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Occasionally re-reads Raymond Chandler

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and ...
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

The Better News
$30 billion and the water supply of a small city later
Pieter Omtzigt en Renske Leijten over de pas gevonden ‘datakluis’ van de belastingdienst https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-ba08dfec/
Opinie: Stilzwijgen over de datakluis is niets minder dan sabotage van de rechtsstaat

Er zijn talloze momenten geweest waarop mensen met kennis van de datakluis zwegen. Omdat ze moesten, of omdat ze niet durfden te spreken. En beide zijn doodeng, stellen Pieter Omtzigt en Renske Leijten.

de Volkskrant
Der rasante Ausbau der KI-Infrastruktur belastet Energie- & Wasserressourcen enorm und gefährdet die Klimaziele der EU. Große Tech-Konzerne haben jetzt die EU durch einen wenig beachteten delegierten Rechtsakt erfolgreich dazu gedrängt, Daten zu einzelnen Rechenzentren weiter verschleiern zu können.

I know.

I thought it was fake too.

It’s real.

Here’s Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon quoting the Bible verse …from Pulp Fiction

JD Vance in Hungary: "You should never have a foreign head of state threatening the head of government of an allied nation. It's preposterous, it's unacceptable."

We knew, but the proof is nice.

"Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves"

The guess-the-next-words machines don’t actually understand anything.

https://nitter.poast.org/heynavtoor/status/2041243558833987600#m

#math #ai

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Trump Wants to Make Deportation Deals. Autocrats Are Ready to Listen.

The White House has turned deportations, a signature domestic issue, into a major piece of foreign policy. Here’s what we know about the program.

The New York Times