Kevin Beaumont<p>Well done to the US for imposing tariffs on islands with 0 exports. Or people.</p>
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.<p>Guy worth $340B spending $25M in WI is like the median American worker who makes $39,982 a year spending $2.94.</p><p>Meaning, a $5 cup of coffee has a greater financial impact on a working American than $25M did on a maniac billionaire.</p><p>This is how democracies collapse.</p><p>TAX BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE.</p>
tante<p>"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking. </p><p>Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.</p><p>That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.</p>
Snow Jo ❄️ :v_enby: 💫<p>:sm64_y: :sm64_a: :sm64_h: :sm64_o: :sm64_o: :blobmario:</p>
Mastodon Migration<p>Digital Psy-Op Alert ⚠️ </p><p>We are starting to see the billionaire corporate media fall in behind the administration disinformation operation that everyone will need to weather some 'discomfort' before things can get really better. Analogies like "need to demo the house before the remodel."</p><p>Expect to be bombarded with this messaging over the next days and weeks.</p>
David Ho<p>Explain to me like I’m 10 years old: Why is our drug problem the fault of suppliers but not our gun problem?</p><p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd557669dfa23d98177e3259d60a9a5d6a931ea00c1f56142c8c30fe916b/GGWMT2PURNDGBJ7P3ZNLXSZQVQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760c</span><span class="invisible">d557669dfa23d98177e3259d60a9a5d6a931ea00c1f56142c8c30fe916b/GGWMT2PURNDGBJ7P3ZNLXSZQVQ</span></a></p>
Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr<p>It cracks me up when people talk about how the current generation just isn't modest, and then you see a picture of them when they were younger, and it's mini skirts and those shorts where the balls almost fall out.</p>
Auschwitz Memorial<p>2 April 1875 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Karolin Schwartz, was born in Ujpest.</p><p>In 1944 she was deported to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Auschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Auschwitz</span></a> and murdered in a gas chamber.</p>
Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺<p>FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Scott Lucas, professor of US and International Politics at the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin, about the tariffs unveiled by Donald Trump. He says that Trump's announcement on tariffs was filled with lies and distortions and it was the 'dumbest and most economically illiterate speech I have ever heard'.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avEtMcELaPU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=avEtMcELaPU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Kris :v_bi:<p>I received back my trusty goth boots that I got cleaned and treated, and they look super shiny now :neocat_aww: </p><p>I dont know if they were this clean even when I first bought them 7 years ago! They are holding up so well considering how badly I treated them over the years and the insane amount of dancing and partying I've done in them :gothsparkleheart:</p>
Shoshana 🏳️⚧️<p>(define Shoshana<br /> (lambda ()<br /> (lambda ()<br /> (lambda ()<br /> (display "Shoshana")))))</p><p>(((Shoshana)))</p><p>I don't really understand why people are into all the extra lambdas.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lisp</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Judaism</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Mazeldon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mazeldon</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Jewdiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jewdiverse</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>From our magazine: “The Laken Riley bill, that’s been talked about by the media and everybody as an immigration bill, but it’s a criminal justice bill. And they’ve punctured the due process in criminal cases. They’re basically saying that as long as [immigrants are] charged … not even that they’ve been convicted or that they’re on trial, [that they’ll be deported].” <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/sylvia-garcia-interview-immigration/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/sylvia-garci</span><span class="invisible">a-interview-immigration/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/CriminalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/border" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>border</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a></p>
myrmepropagandist<p>What are some games you've enjoyed playing on a *large* touch screen? (big tablet)</p><p>Are there any games that are *more* fun on a touch screen than on a desktop, phone or console with dedicated controls?</p>
Dr. Victoria Grinberg<p>Hi, I'm Victoria, I have a PhD in astrophysics, manage 20+ people and on my second day of a 6 day UK trip, during the dinner after my invited talk at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, I managed to throw over a glass of salty lassi all over my black skirt, my shoes, my backpack and my handbag. I'll spend the next four days wearing the same backpack, with giant white stains, including to a fancy theatre show in London...</p>
Wary Jerry<p>Happy Tariff day! I am reminded of the history lesson that we got on tariffs in the school scene of Ferris Beuler’s Day Off</p>
Peter Gleick<p>Big <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> news. The Tenth Annual Value of Water Index has just been released.</p><p>92% of a bipartisan mix of voters say reliable water access is a very or extremely important issue.</p><p>80% support continued federal funding of water infrastructure.</p><p>74% are concerned about weather-related water impacts in the future.</p><p><a href="https://uswateralliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-Value-of-Water-Index-Fact-Sheet.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">uswateralliance.org/wp-content</span><span class="invisible">/uploads/2025/03/2025-Value-of-Water-Index-Fact-Sheet.pdf</span></a></p>
Miriam Boosh<p>Tesla has just reported a 13% drop in sales for the first three months of the year. This follows the company’s stock plunging nearly 50% since its mid-December high.</p><p>Guess being openly fascist and a white supremacist isn’t great for business.</p>
Radical Graffiti<p>"Policing is the domination of property over people."<br>Sticker seen in Surrey, Canada</p>
Erik Moeller<p>If you're a journalist working with sensitive documents, consider using <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.freedom.press/@dangerzone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dangerzone</span></a></span> (free and open source) to neutralize malware and (most) metadata. </p><p>This page explains why:</p><p><a href="https://dangerzone.rocks/journalists/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dangerzone.rocks/journalists/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
slanderoid :disputed:<p>Don't know why but this feels like a good time to remind folks that the base Steam Deck costs $399</p>
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