Paris MarxGiven everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Jjchryan
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Mostly retired educator, author, and system engineer. Profession: information
AnarchoNinaWritesThey. Do. Not. Come. Back.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/my-family-and-other-nazis
John Coates
Randahl FinkTrump trying to get the press to focus on Bill Clinton being in The Epstein Files, will be as effective as the sentence "Yes officer, I killed several women, but so did Ted Bundy!"
Alexander Karn“In each individual case the process of becoming a Nazi showed the unmistakable symptoms of nervous collapse. The simplest and most basic reason was fear. Less clear was a kind of exhilaration, the intoxication of unity, the magnetism of the masses. Many also felt a need for revenge against those who had abandoned them.”
—Sebastian Haffner (1938)
Fear. Intoxication. Revenge.
Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇This is *the most malicious, brutal* malicious compliance I've seen in quite some time, possibly ever, and I am HERE FOR IT. Thank you, @jwz
Sheril KirshenbaumIf you’re not sure why the FDA is critical or doubt we need scientists monitoring our food system, read up on the 1858 scandal in NY killed 8,000 children “traced to the use of impure milk.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/surprisingly-intolerant-history-milk-180969056/ #science #history #uspol
Paul CantrellJeeeeeeebers, this article…!
“A Tesla does not need to be moving, or have its engine running, to suddenly burst into flames”
“[Teslas] can self-ignite after weeks of sitting peacefully”
“burned hotter than 3,000 degrees “
“12 firefighters to extinguish the blaze…about the same amount of water used to put out a building fire”
“an unattended Tesla has the potential to burn down an entire structure”
“garage went up in flames and required at least 6 firetrucks to extinguish”
“2 passengers died…after a driverless Tesla veered off the road, struck a tree and burst into flames”
“30,000 gallons of water to extinguish the fire”
“Tesla Model S in Frisco, TX shot out flames ‘like a flamethrower’”
Fire “broke out as a Tesla Model S was sitting in a parking garage. The car had suffered no recent impact…was not charging”
From @DrGeof: https://mastodon.social/@DrGeof/114024882572630148
JzeroExplain it to me like I'm a techbro:
"I get it. I get that there are people that use LLM-powered software, and I must be clear that anecdotal examples of some people using some software that they kind-of like is not evidence that generative AI is a sustainable or real industry at the trillion-dollar scale that many claim it is.
"I am so very bored of having this conversation, so I am now going to write out some counterpoints so that I don't have to say them again."
The Generative AI Con
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell
Lesley Carhart 
You had better take a shot, and then read this. Absolutely sobering. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charles-spitzer-stadtlander-jd-mpa-9b018b25_urgent-national-security-threat-i-work-activity-7296973991716499456-31eV
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