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  • Trump asked Republican lawmakers if he should fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell

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  • And if he doesn't walk it back, it effectively collapses the economy so not like market investments will mean jack shit anyhow

  • More immigration judges are being fired amid Trump's efforts to speed up deportations

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  • Immigration judges aren't judicial judges, they are what are called administrative judges and do fall under the executive branch. That said, there is a lot of administrative law and procedure that is certainly still getting fucked by Trump/maga.

  • Daggerheart: I expected another Dungeons and Dragons, but found something much, much better

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  • Daggerheart is not at all a PbtA game, though it borrows elements. It borrows pretty heftily from a lot of predecessors besides 5e, like pbta, fitd, cypher/numenera, and SWRPG/Genesys. With imo the last one sharing the most DNA.

  • An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs

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  • Diffusion models iteratively convert noise across a space into forms and that's what they are trained to do. In contrast to, say, a GPT that basically performs a recursive token prediction in sequence. They're just totally different models, both in structure and mode of operation. Diffusion models are actually pretty incredible imo and I think we're just beginning to scratch the surface of their power. A very fundamental part of most modes of cognition is converting the noise of unstructured multimodal signal data into something with form and intention, so being able to do this with a model, even if only in very very narrow domains right now, is a pretty massive leap forward.

  • An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs

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  • A quick search turns up that alpha fold 3, what they are using for this, is a diffusion architecture, not a transformer. It works more the image generators than the GPT text generators. It isn't really the same as "the LLMs".

  • When lunatics start talking about expelling all Israelis 'Back to Europe' instead of integrating them in a one-state solution

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  • I think that pre-Israeli zionists literally used the slogan of "Arabs out!" might have contributed to early 20th century suspicions that zionism was a fundamentally invading and colonial ideology. But that's just me.

  • AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us.

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  • It won't tell us what to do, it'll do the very complex thing we ask it to. The biggest issues facing our species and planet atm all boil down to highly complex logistics. We produce enough food to make everyone in the world fat. There is sufficient shelter and housing to make everyone safe and secure from the elements. We know how to generate electricity and even distribute it securely without destroying the global climate systems. What we seem unable to do is allocate, transport, and prioritize resources to effectively execute on these things. Because they present very challenging logistical problems. The various disciplines underpinning AI dev, however, from ML to network sciences to resource allocation algorithms making your computer work, all are very well suited to solving logistics problems/building systems that do so. I really don't see a sustainable future where "AI" is not fundamental to the logistics operations supporting it.

  • Kidnappers or ICE agents? LAPD grapples with surge in calls from concerned citizens

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  • Probable cause for ICE means a real and reasonable apprehension that if they don't make the arrest then, the individual is likely to flee were they to seek a judicial order or warrant. This is literally impossible to have in premeditated raids. The very act of planning and premeditation necessarily means they had time to seek a warrant before arrest. This person is full of shit and fully deserves to be "litigated in the streets." May they suffer the lack of peace they deserve.

  • Meta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias

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  • This is fucked up, but also it's fucked up that there is a single public policy ducked director for Israel AND the Jewish diaspora.

  • 'We Will Not Accept This Intimidation,' Mamdani Says of Trump Threat to Arrest Him

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  • I think this would actually trigger real rioting and violence. And that would give the Trump the veneer of legality he needs for Republican support to enact martial law. And that would trigger more rioting and violence spreading beyond NY. It would be a catastrophically stupid move on Trump's part. So probably by end of the month.

  • Just baffling

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  • We have seen authoritarian communism that regressed into autocratic nationalist imperialist communism. We have also seen authoritarian communism that has shifted into state capitalism. Just like there are many variations of capitalism that we have and have not seen, there are likewise many of socialism and even communism that we have and have not seen.

  • Creative Commons is Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI

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  • I imagine not, though I haven't looked into it.

  • Sony, owner of "Naughty Dog", is suing a small game developer "Naughty Cat" in HK for trademark infringement.

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  • God, why is the games industry so fucking illiterate when it comes to IP law. File a trademark opposition? They're suing! File a patent application without issued claims or even substantive examination? They've patented it! These aren't crazy fucking complicated concepts, but the journalism for games industries like actively stunts the understanding of these things by the market.

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  • Do you like shovels? What an inane question. Capitalism is a tool. It works for some things and not for others. If you want to achieve the things it doesn't work for, you don't use it and use a better suited tool instead.

  • Fans slam The Alters after discovering evidence of undisclosed gen AI in images, text, and translation

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  • It probably uses a GPT of some sort at this point, tbh. There is no reason whatsoever using Google's ML translation or ChatGPT's ML translation should make any bit of difference to people who are actually upset over this if they have given any thought whatsoever to their concerns.

  • Trump says he’ll withhold money from New York if Mamdani becomes mayor

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  • There are two different thoughts on how how to do this. Restructure federal tax so that it is paid to the state along with your state income and then the state simply withholds from the fed. The other is that states simply refuse to enforce any sort of federal collection or enforcement of unpaid taxes.

  • Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success

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  • If you say shit like this, you're not a leftist, you're just a memer. Practical outcomes and actionability are always more important than your petty puerile impulse for myopic catharsis. Introspect and do better.

  • Supreme Court hands Trump major win, limits judges’ ability to block birthright citizenship order nationwide

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  • It isn't quite what you've italicized, but make no mistake that's it's still a terrible precedent to set. Preliminary injunctions can still be granted by district courts, but now they need to be brought in the form of a class action and all the tediousness that entails. ACLU thankfully had one ready to go it seems just in case of this and it's been filed already.

    Nevertheless, this also enables insane infringement of the first amendment. There is nothing stopping him from declaring membership of a particular political party is illegal, including state parties, and then requiring each state to independently challenge under a restricted class action. It's ludicrous.

  • Creative Commons is Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI

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  • There are many open sourced locally executable free generative models available.