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brucethemoose ,

More I read, the more predictable Israeli politics seems.

The outcome always seems to be "what's most beneficial for Netanyahu's survival."

And in this case, its preserving the status quo since he needs that for a coalition, I guess?

brucethemoose , (edited )

Well it would be great if more of their models were 'freeware' too.

Microsoft just loves to have their cake, eat it... and not share it.

brucethemoose ,

Webp works fine for me now.

The problem is AVIF. I mean I love AVIF (almost as much as JPEG-XL), but it doesn't work with anything except browser web pages, even after all this time.

brucethemoose ,

I mean the application could tell by looking at how its encoded, right?

Though I acknowledge how problematic "trusting" the app to do that is.

brucethemoose ,

What's the warhead on those? Is it a cluster bomb, or the other variant which looks like a bunker buster?

brucethemoose , (edited )

More than just a dispute over data, though, the Wikipedia editors argued that ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt often acts as more of a partisan actor in the Israel-Palestine conversation than a neutral source of information.

Greenblatt has called US anti-Zionist student protesters Iranian “proxies,” compared the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf to a swastika, and praised Elon Musk just days after the Twitter owner endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory as the “actual truth” last November.

Is this the story of the world now? Some old rich guy watches a little too much TV/Twitter and sends a major organization off the rails?

...I guess it always has been.

South Korea blasts Russia-North Korea deal, says it will consider supplying arms to Ukraine ( apnews.com )

South Korea’s presidential office on Thursday condemned an agreement reached by Russia and North Korea that vowed mutual defense assistance in the event of war and said it will reconsider its policy of limiting its support to Ukraine to non-lethal supplies....

brucethemoose ,

I get why, but I'm still a little surprised they haven't done it already.

brucethemoose , (edited )

Makes sense. Thieves filtering for easy marks is probably older than writing.

brucethemoose ,

I'm sure the annotations will be intelligent and insightful...

Kremlin bots spam internet with fake celebrity quotes against Ukraine ( kyivindependent.com )

Russian bots with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15....

brucethemoose ,

No, it ended when attention optimization and monetization became the objective.

If social media was all "dumb" it would be totally different, though I suppose keeping third party monetization out is always difficult.

brucethemoose , (edited )

I grew up in suburban DFW, and King of the Hill is not really an accurate parody...

It's a documentary.

You think I'm kidding, I am not.

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