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@TheJFreakinC I learned at a fairly young age not to play in traffic

🚨This is one of the most disturbing ICE brutality videos I’ve seen in a long time… Another angle of this incident shows ICE agents suddenly rushing protesters outside the Newark ICE Facility, then continuously shoving U.S. citizens toward the wheels of a MOVING TRUCK… until an activist’s LEG is run over. And the most disturbing part? The protesters are not charging the agents… The agents are the ones creating the escalation. And not only that, they are forcing civilians backward toward a MOVING VEHICLE, escalating a situation that was not violent until THEY made it violent. That is reckless, dangerous force. So, let’s go over the obvious constitutional violations happening in this video… 1. First Amendment violations, because Americans have the constitutional right to peacefully protest the government. 2. Fourth Amendment violations, because federal agents cannot use excessive or objectively unreasonable force against nonviolent civilians. 3. Fifth Amendment due process concerns, because the government cannot arbitrarily target, intimidate, or assault citizens exercising protected rights. 4. Federal officers can also face liability under 18 U.S. Code § 242 for depriving people of constitutional rights “under color of law.” When armed federal agents create chaos themselves, then use that chaos to justify violence against civilians, that is an abuse of power. Call your representatives. Demand accountability.

@DavidHi18205504 @1337hero @plex Transcoding, subtitles, etc.

@1337hero @plex If you have tailscale you can just go to the video file's directory and click play.

I'm 100% DONE with @plex 👎 I was camping with my daughter in a thunderstorm; thinking perfect time to stream from my homelab. Over my OWN private VPS with tailscale and BOOM a PAY WALL? WHY? What justification is there for a subscription for software I host and stream over my own services? Switching to Jellyfin. Fuck off Plex.

@JoshKale If the deadline is to be made, do you reckon they'll ask @elonmusk for help? I don't see any other route for them to achieve those launches in 60 days.

This New Glenn rocket explosion released 20% of the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and that wasn't even the bad part: → The pad: LC-36 is the only pad on Earth that launches New Glenn and now it's gone. Over $1B to build. SpaceX needed 7 months to rebuild after a similar hit. → The deadline: Amazon needs 1,618 satellites up by July 30 to keep its FCC license. It has ~300. The rocket that was supposed to help fix that just blew up twice in a row SpaceX made us believe that landing rockets on barges was a normal expectation. Turns out rocket science is hard after all. Wishing the team a speedy recovery 🚀

@MikeNumerical @AaronBlake I still get a few of them yearly from my vending machines

@AaronBlake Some thought this mug would be good on a dollar. Ever see one in circulation during the past 30 years or more?

George Washington declined to be featured on currency when he was living, fearing it would be reminiscent of a monarch. Congress in 1866 passed the Thayer amendment, which stated "no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States."

@TheSCIF Not cool, but the included instructions say to use the provided secrecy sleeve, which solves this problem

Maricopa County ballot envelopes contained illegal "cutout windows" in the envelopes containing actual ballots in order for Democrat operatives to allegedly identify Republican ballots to "toss/lose" their ballots during the Arizona 2022 election. They will make up a completely irrelevant reason and deny the actual purpose to cover up their fraud tactics. They will use anything and everything to their advantage to rig elections. Pay attention.

@lighttrader7 @Badhombre More accurately there are reporters wherever the president is. Generally though, it's the nerve center for the world. If and when something serious happens, networks globally want a team there to catch the scoop live. It's called the press pool.

@Badhombre Non-American here. Are there always so many reporters outside the Whitehouse? Glad no one innocent was killed, and my condolences to the shooter, "Best's," family during this difficult time

This reporter has the survival instincts of a lemming.

@mattvanswol The safest most realistic option probably would be a carrier anchored offshore as base of operations, and the president tendering directly from it into the wedding by helicopter. Too risky landing AF1 on island, and too risky assuming it'll be ready for a quick exit.

@mattvanswol A sitting president traveling to a third world country is somewhat challenging to manage logistically. The Bahamian government is a mix of incompetence and corruption. State visits require some level of mutual trust and cooperation. That's probably what the decision came down to.

The only reason I would ever skip my kid's wedding is if something absolutely MASSIVE was about to go down. So massive that missing the wedding would look small by comparison, even in hindsight... ...we are going to war, aren't we?

@GeneSmi96946389 @mess_critical If you're over-selecting for trait expression (high IQ, height, whatever), especially over generations, is it really any different? You end up with the same risks, situations, e.g. a potential inadvertent increase in unwanted mutations.

@Taylor_64 @mess_critical Selective breeding is bad because it creates a lot of homozygous alleles, especially bad ones in important genes. Embryo selection doesn't do this. It doesn't have the same risks.

A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile

@GeneSmi96946389 @mess_critical Coercive vs. screening is certainly different, yes, because you give the individual freedom of choice. The outcome though, in either scenario, is not so different. When money starts changing hands, it's also not so hard to influence "freedom of choice", or at least steer it.

@Taylor_64 @mess_critical I think coercive eugenics is a lot different than polygenic embryo screening. If we were bringing back government mandated sterilization or worse, I would be strongly against it. But nobody is forcing this tech on anyone. Parents are doing it voluntarily, for pretty good reasons!

@GeneSmi96946389 @mess_critical With subsidies, you start to get into the issue of influence and control on the part of the funding agency. I have tinfoil hat theories about how abortion clinics are funded, and specifically where they're funded vs. not. Sadly the effect is the same regardless of intent.

I don't think government should mandate this tech, but I do think that eventually it should be subsidized for people who can't afford it. We're probably not at the point yet where that makes sense for the general population, but we are at the point where that makes sense for families with a very high risk of certain diseases.

@mess_critical @GeneSmi96946389 Yeah, either way it's a slippery slope / dark path depending on how you see it. I don't think the idea of eugenics ever really died, just the social acceptance of it. If you dress it up and make it glamorous (like spreadsheets!), maybe it'll catch on.

@Taylor_64 @GeneSmi96946389 Watch the film Gattaca. It is from 1997 and it describes a world where this kind of selective breeding is normalised. The tech will get cheaper, it will become more widespread and some governments may even mandate it. I think this puts us down a dark path.

@mess_critical @GeneSmi96946389 The downsides are real though, just like selective breeding in lesser animals, you can end up in a situation where all of your ideal specimens have an Achilles' heel. Royal families ran into this with their selective breeding, and eventually stopped, realizing it was a bad idea.

@mess_critical @GeneSmi96946389 So long as most people still conceive naturally, I don't see this as being an issue. In fact, I think it may be beneficial; we have the <1% doing selective breeding, producing specimens that may achieve great things, while the remainder still fulfills duties of natural selection

@ma1ybe Not sure how old you are but babies in dumpsters predate literally any abortion restrictions. I've seen these news stories since my childhood, and I'm an old man now. People are just insane, regardless of laws.

Hot take but we literally tried to warn you that this is what happens when abortion access isn’t accessible.

@AlexisS63650 @Rainmaker1973 Fructose, corn syrup, etc. are sugars, the top video shows this. The bottom has artificial sweeteners, chemicals designed to imitate sweetness, extremely concentrated, hence nothing when boiled down

@Rainmaker1973 I personally want to know who asked for Coke with less sugar or Coke with no sugar. And why the corporate demons gave attention to him ? Why are we obligated to consume Fructose, Corn Syrup and Citric Acid ? If Coke has no sugar what is the point ?

This video perfectly explains the real difference between Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero

@WallStreetApes If you've ever tried both side by side, you realize it doesn't matter what the elements break down into. There's a clear difference, and that's what's being sold. Some people just prefer one over the other.

A real scientific study onto Coca-Cola found that Mexican Coke is a lie. It showed there is no real cane sugar “In 2010, a group of legit scientists get together to do a legitimate experiment for a legitimate science journal, and they want to test soft drinks including Coca-Cola. They want to know what sorts of sweetener are being used for each and how much of that sweetener is in each of them. So they gather a bunch of soft drinks including a Mexican Coca-Cola and an American Coca-Cola, and do all of their testing. What they find is that the Mexican Coca-Cola actually has no sucrose in it, meaning sugar. All they find in this is glucose and fructose, the elements that are used to build high fructose corn syrup. — They found no sugar. They only found the elements for high fructose corn syrup” Okay this sounds really crazy, so I looked into what’s actually happening Coke is highly acidic with phosphoric acid. Sucrose, which is cane sugar, hydrolyzes (breaks down) very quickly in acidic conditions into glucose + fructose By the time the bottle reaches you, especially after shipping, storage, and sitting on shelves, most or all of the sucrose has already inverted That’s why the study found almost zero intact sucrose Recent lab tests confirmed Mexican Coke starts with cane sugar but ends up with ~97% inverted by the time it’s tested So you are literally paying more for nothing So it’s technically not a lie, but it’s also incredibly misleading too

@mkelly007 People built monuments of wood for millennia, and all of them burned or rotted with time. The difference apparently is that they understood wood burned, and so they quickly rebuilt. This should be no different. Wood burns, it rots, it's temporary. Just rebuild.

The Pease Park troll cost about $300,000 to build, funded by private donors who wanted to create something magical for Austin. And now it sits burned down. A pile of ashes surrounded by caution tape. A giant wooden troll where kids laughed, families took photos, and people stopped for a moment to enjoy something whimsical in the middle of the city… gone. It’s hard not to feel like this is symbolic of something bigger. We build beautiful things in Austin, and somehow we keep finding them destroyed. Sometimes it really feels like we just can’t have nice things anymore. #atxcouncil

@lemire There's so much nuance that's missed in these discussions. High LLM SAT and IQ scores are as impressive as a human with an encyclopedia doing it, i.e. not very. These tests were constructed with humans in mind. The calculus must change when your memory contains all knowledge.

I am getting tired of reading 'experts' like LeCun repeatedly claiming that our AIs are nowhere near human-level intelligence. Let us look at the evidence. US universities rank students based on standardized tests like the SAT. Current AIs achieve near-perfect SAT scores. They also beat tests like the GRE. A few years ago, it was notable when early ChatGPT scored ~120 on an IQ test, a common measure of human intelligence. An IQ of 120 is well above average. Current AIs reportedly have IQ scores similar to those of leading scientists. It is not just in tests. I can ask an AI to produce a science paper that looks undistinguishable from what a PhD level student could do. I just have to give it the data. Better yet, from a prompt, agents can run the experiments and collect the data, and then write the papers. Those of us who try to get work done with AI know what is possible. You can't possibly just say 'this is nowhere near human-level intelligence'. In software, good AIs show a greater mastery of, say, C++, than your average software engineering professor. You could just build a formal test to prove it. The difficulty is that the professors would refuse to take your tests. At this point point, someone will object 'yeah, but your AI can't do this simple thing that we can all do'. Fine. These AIs do not have *human* intelligence. They are very much not human beings. They are something like alien intelligence. They can code straight in assembly language, but have trouble counting characters in words. But that's the result of trade-offs. A dog or a monkey can solve some problems faster than you can. But let us be fair. As a species, these AIs have definitively 'human-level intelligence'. You can't spend decades setting up cognitive tests for human beings, have these AIs beat us in these tests and then say 'well, that's not real intelligence'. Come on !

@Chrisxy24 Amazing flashback, thanks. 80s and 90s boxing was such a unique thing to experience, I'm not sure what compares today. Just the whole thing, PPV, the media around it, it was special. Fun times.

A 20-year-old Mike Tyson walked into the ring against heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick like a man possessed. 😳🥊#boxing After the stoppage of round 1, Berbick spat on Tyson out of frustration and humiliation, and Tyson instantly became furious. The rest was history for him.🔥