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Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians ( www.nytimes.com )

The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....

PopcornTin ,

It didn't happen.

It only happens a little bit.

It happens and that's a good thing.

PopcornTin ,

It's terrorists/freedom fighters all the way down.

r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months. ( journals.sagepub.com )

I know most people that were on reddit at the time are fully aware of this and won't be surprised but don't dismiss the findings out of hand. It's important that studies are being conducted and the fact that the finding match our lived experience is still noteworthy.

PopcornTin ,

It's all about living in a silo. Surround yourself with one side, and there's no other direction to go but further down your side.

PopcornTin ,

Five years? They need $100 billion at least monthly! It's ridiculous the way Republicans treat these innocent people

PopcornTin ,

Does it get sunlight from a nearby window? Algae loves raw sunlight.

Why do they still dye the rivers green for St. Patricks Day? It's not a good look for downtown Chicago. ( kbin.run )

I just think the novelty of these type of displays was up in the 90s, It's time for an upgrayedd. I propose leprechauns flying up and down the river wearing water jet packs, shooting people with their Chicago-style hot dog cannons would be more with the times. What's your idea?

PopcornTin ,

People have different tastes.

Can you not fathom this idea?

PopcornTin ,

We will find reasons to be outraged, though.

PopcornTin ,

The New York times article gives a little extra detail.

up to 14 weeks into their pregnancies, according to the French justice minister, Éric Dupond-Moretti.

That's pretty much only the first trimester (12 weeks, so two weeks into the second). Why rejoice to this, when in the US, any limit on it is decried as the most horrible thing ever?

PopcornTin ,

Originally, it had no meaning. It was just the letter K. There are attempts to rewrite history, give it some purpose, but no.

PopcornTin ,

Nope, it's been stated, so it's a fact here. You are just in your own tiny bubble of people who don't want to live in China.

PopcornTin ,

People who have experienced various other countries want to settle in the US. People here who haven't been elsewhere, idolize the idea of X country and post about wishing they could go, knowing deep down they wouldn't even if they won the lottery and could go anywhere.

Embryo loss is integral to IVF. Alabama’s ruling equating embryos with children jeopardizes its practice ( www.statnews.com )

An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism. But according to the Supreme Court of Alabama, it is a person, too — an unborn child, entitled to the same legal protections as any minor....

PopcornTin ,

A rando destroyed other people's embryos. I'd say sure, the clinic is liable for their lack of security.

PopcornTin ,

A gamete is not an embryo. A wise person once said, if takes two to tango.

PopcornTin ,

Who should get to decide what happened to your embryos? If you choose to destroy them, sign a waiver for the clinic, and it's done. If any other person destroys them against your wishes, shouldn't you have a say in that?

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis ( www.theverge.com )

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.

PopcornTin ,

The issue seems to be the underlying code tells the ai if some data set has too many white people or men, Nazis, ancient Vikings, Popes, Rockwell paintings, etc then make them diverse races and genders.

What do we want from these AIs? Facts, even if they might be offensive? Or facts as we wish they would be for a nicer world?

Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy' ( www.businessinsider.com )

Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy'::Products have appeared on the platform with odd titles that are seemingly related to OpenAI's usage policy.

PopcornTin ,

Damn, and I'm fresh out of I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy.

PopcornTin ,

Don't forget food too. No one should profit on necessities.

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