Mastodawn

"Reports are spreading — on social media and in travel forums — of Americans wiping their phones, deleting apps, and locking down their digital lives before flying. This is not paranoia. It is a rational response to a documented reality."

~ Rudy Martinez

#Trump #Republicans #AirTravel #airports #ICE #TSA #fascism
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https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-special

The Rest of the World Report | Special Report

While the war in Iran was going on other things were also happening. Notably, the ICE deployment to US airports.

A Chicano In Paris

TheDude 10h ago

Jay

4d ago

Looking for a new job as an Embedded Software Engineer.

I have 3 years of experience as an embedded software engineer in an R&D team. Mostly with embedded C, real-time operating systems, ESP32, communication protocols, and some hardware design.

I'm specifically looking for companies that work on sustainability, health, education, privacy, FOSS, or similar fields. In the eastern part of the Netherlands or hybrid/remote.

If anyone knows any interesting companies, please let me know!

TheDude 10h ago

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Cassandra is only carbon now 2d ago

It's really refreshing and reassuring to know that, during these chaotic and depressing times, our economy is being run by serious people who believe in things that are definitely real and who take rational actions on the basis of those beliefs.

It'd really suck if capital was concentrated in the hands of a rogue's gallery of capricious sycophants, sleazy conmen, and number-crunchers who suck at math, all of whom had their brains melted by AI.

TheDude 10h ago

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Dan Wineman 22h ago

@unlambda @xgranade At current prices they’re losing money on every inference just from operating expenses, not cap-ex, and it’s speculated that the break-even point is anywhere between 10 and 100x what they’re charging, which is already too high for the vast majority of the public, who, according to surveys, largely hate it. This won’t be “big business,” unless a lot of things change at once in ways that don’t seem likely to me.

TheDude 11h ago

Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"12h ago

My experience precisely. I feel sorry for folks young enough to not have experienced the glory years of the Internet.

TheDude 11h ago

TinDrum 1d ago

what we thought we knew about autism and... whatnot

'For decades, researchers had been measuring the wrong thing. Conflating communication style differences with empathy deficits produced dramatically inflated effect sizes and an illusion of empathy impairment'

#autism #actuallyAutistic #science #psychology

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202601/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-autistic-people

What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.

Psychology Today

TheDude 11h ago

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Andii אַנדִֽי 1d ago

@oscarjiminy
This alone should be shouted about: "researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly. In a world increasingly damaged by in-group bias, this isn't a deficit; it's a collective-level fail-safe feature."

TheDude 13h ago

Ketan Joshi 15h ago

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?

TheDude 14h ago

kim_harding ✅1d ago

May you live in interesting times... https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian Three weeks into the Iran war, reality has passed through the looking glass, out the other side, and is now selling tickets to the gift shop. What follows is not satire. Satire requires exaggeration, and you cannot exaggerate something that is already operating at maximum absurdity. This is simply the news, and nothing but the news. Told straight, in a universe that has clearly stopped taking its medication.