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Important points from @michelleinbklyn: "The weakening of the intellectual quarantine around Nazism ā€” and the MAGA rightā€™s fetish for ideas their enemies see as dangerous ā€” makes it easier for influential conservatives to surrender to fascist impulses. When they do, they pay no penalty in political relevance, because thereā€™s no conservative establishment capable of disciplining its ideologues." nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinionā€¦


Telegram war nur die Spitze! ā€žArchitektur der UnterdrĆ¼ckungā€œ wird aufgebaut


Die Ć¼berraschende Verhaftung des Telegram-GrĆ¼nders Pavel Durow hat erneut verdeutlicht, dass im Verborgenen ein erbitterterer Informations-Krieg tobt.
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From Rambling to Rational: The Mediaā€™s Trump Sanewashing Problem | The New Republic

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Nachrichten AUF1 vom 06. September 2024


MutmaƟlicher Islamist in Frankfurt verhaftet - Nun gibt es eine mysteriƶse Spur zum Swift-AttentƤter in Wien. Und ein Politiker schweigtā€¦ + Klartext-Ansage vom Vida-Boss - Bei AUF1 fordert Roman Hebenstreit: Ɩsterreich braucht gar keine ArbeitskrƤfte-Einwanderung + Und:
ARD gegen AUF1 - Jetzt wird es eng fĆ¼r die ZwangsgebĆ¼hrensender
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So, that thing with Amazon being full of AI-generated books containing tips to eat poisonous mushrooms?

Google Scholar now appears to be increasingly full of GPT-fabricated academic papers too - undermining human societyā€™s hard-amassed evidence base.

Good work, everyone.

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/ā€¦

#science #academia #generativeai
#misinformation

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I wonder if there'll be some kind of inverse carbon dating in the future. Where people would determine the age of a text corpus just by counting the fraction of AI bullshit contained in it.

"Ah interesting, these texts contain 34% AI bullshit. This is a strong indicator for it stemming from around 2029. There's probably still much true information in there as the 50% AI bullshit mark was only hit 4 years later...."

in reply to Matt Potter

Crypto's main use case is paying for crimes.
Generative algo's main use case is spam.



How on brand is that Justin Caporale, the guy who pushed the female Arlington cemetery official is just a little bitty guy. byteseu.com/400824/ #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics


I went to the fifth-grade graduation once at the school where I taught and a child, a fifth grader about 10 years old, said in her graduation speech:

"Another way our teachers show that they care about us is they don't let us go to the bathrooms or in the hall when there's shooting."

tigerthegecko.blogspot.com/201ā€¦

in reply to Bronwyn Harris

The first time a third-grader confidently told another student that they didn't have to worry because "Ms. Harris wouldn't ever let a bad guy come in and get you," I understood that I would actually die for my students and that it was actually a real possibility.

Do you know what it's like to be underpaid, often disrespected by other adults (just look around threads for examples), exhausted, and know that you might have to die for the kids you're responsible for??





Ā”AyĆŗdanos a llegar a mas gente! Firma esta peticiĆ³n y apoya la creaciĆ³n de una tributaciĆ³n europea sobre las grandes fortunas. Ā”Que no lo paguen los de siempre!āœŠ https://www tax-the-rich.eu



Iā€™ve spent the entire morning going thru tubs that have been stored in the garage for 7-8 yrs or so, & apparently, I can fit my butt into some rly old jeans again! Not these, mind you, but Iā€™ll be damned if Iā€™m giving them away BC YOU NEVER KNOW, RIGHT? šŸ¤£

& Ralph Lauren/Polo doesnā€™t make Saturday jeans any more & theyā€™re my all-time fave jeans for running around in sneakers. (Theyā€™re too short for heels, but srsly, how often do I wear heels these days?)

I love raggedy old jeans. šŸ„°

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Whenever we moved (and as a military family, we moved a lot), my mom would put the date on all the boxes.

If she hadnā€™t opened the box within a year or by the next move (which was sometimes *less* than a year :( ), sheā€™d just throw the box away without looking in it.

ā€œI havenā€™t needed whatever is in there for a year. Iā€™m not likely to need it ever again.ā€

šŸ¤£



Dutch Cloud Community - ICT-onderwijs MBO lijkt uitsluitend gericht op grote Amerikaanse bedrijven.
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Got a bug report on emoji-picker-element that it's super slow if you have ~20k custom emoji (some fediverse instancesā€¦ šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«). I was about to write some complex virtualization logic until I remembered that `content-visibility` exists: web.dev/articles/content-visibā€¦

~15% perf boost in Chrome, ~5% in Firefox, Safari has it in Tech Preview I guess. And no accessibility pitfalls or complicated code to maintain. Not as good as virtualization, but amazing what a few lines of CSS can do. github.com/nolanlawson/emoji-pā€¦

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Nolan Lawson

@anthony That's interesting; I'll toy around with that!

What prompted this was noticing a huge amount of time Chromium is spending in "ResourceFetcher::requestResource" (visible if you turn on "show all events"). I had a hunch that this was related to the `<img>`s, so I removed the `src` and suddenly all the costs went away. I'll need to dig to see if it's `loading=lazy`-relatedā€¦

As for IntersectionObserver, yes, I messed around with that too. It's definitely the better cross-browser choice.

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@anthony Hm, `loading=lazy` doesn't affect those `ResourceFetcher` costsā€¦ Still might make sense to get rid of, though, if I'm effectively doing my own lazy-loading.
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