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  • JD Vance says US could veto NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms

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  • I hope you guys can get through it without anything dramatic happening, but I don't think the world can afford to rely on the US being consistently reasonable any more. This is genuinely Russia level stuff.

  • JD Vance says US could veto NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms

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  • I think it's clear that we can never rely on the US again in any respect. Absolute chaotic backwater sinkhole of an oligarch fascist state.

    We're on our own.

    Maybe it's good that we know that now.

  • What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now?

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  • Oh yeah, definitely this. The economics will probably never allow it to be deployed at a scale where it will make any sort of difference.

    Instead, it is used as an excuse to not take any action on climate change which is actually realistic, albeit hard.

  • An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued

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  • Jesus christ

  • Share of the European Union's GDP in 2023

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  • Nice implicit population visualization. Per capita might be more revealing.

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  • Yup.

    Sure, the long term productivity and quality takes a nosedive, but the shareholders don't care about that as long as the numbers for the next quarter look better.

  • Russian-backed propaganda network 'Voice of Europe' for spreading anti-Ukraine stories and paying unnamed European politicians has been broken up, according to authorities in several countries

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  • Name them. Name the politicians.

  • Modder who accused Palworld of using 3D models from Pokemon games admits that he has faked everything

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  • This article is more disinformation than the initial comparisons were.

    The author clearly has no 3D experience. OF COURSE they had to fucking scale the models, 3D assets from different games and engines are not going to automatically share the same coordinate space. The point is that a lot of geometry that make up various pals is similar enough to pokemon parts that it has almost definitely been either traced or retopologized from the Pokemon originals. Multiple pals are just kitbashed together from random recreated bits of existing pokemon.

    I don't care about any vague AI accusations. I don't care or know if what they've done is legal, I'm not a lawyer. I haven't played a pokemon game since Red. But it should be clear that Palworld is at best creatively bankrupt, and they used their similarity to existing IP to gain viral success.

    I'm not saying it's a mechanically bad game. I'm not saying you should feel bad for playing it.

    But this stuff is definitely ethically questionable and deserves to be discussed, and that is not helped by some idiots who do not understand 3D modeling weighing in about how "all the similarities were faked". Because they were not.

  • The world should learn from Poland's tragedy: restoring democracy is even harder than creating it | Timothy Garton Ash

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  • I think Poland is tracking a couple of years ahead of those of us further west, so it's useful for us to see how you resolve the damage the right wing populists have caused. I think many of us will face the same problem in the future.

    Good luck guys.

  • Turkey set to approve Sweden's NATO membership bid after long delay

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  • Good lord, have we learned nothing? At least wait until they've actually voted, they can still find some exotic way to block us.

    Edit: We made it!

  • Taiwan ruling party’s Lai wins presidential election

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  • Congrats guys!

  • OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say

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  • Nicely put.

  • Turkey's president submits Sweden's NATO bid to parliament for ratification

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  • It still has to pass in the parliament, so I'm sure there's plenty of shenanigans and domestic posturing left before they actually let us in.

  • Japanese PM: intl AI regs will be here by year's end

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  • Did lemmy introduce a fee per letter in the headline I wasn't aware of?

  • Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish

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  • Personally, I was fine with paying for "Premium Lite", which was reasonably priced, removed ads, and gave channels you watched some revenue.

    But youtube removed this subscription tier a few weeks ago, leaving only the twice as expensive "Premium". Since I, and I assume most others who subscribed to "Premium Lite", has no use for the other stuff included in the more expensive tier the cost is no longer justified for me. Back to finding increasingly exotic ways of getting around their ads I guess.

  • AMD FSR3 Hands-On: Promising Image Quality, But There Are Problems - DF First Look

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  • Yeah, this is exactly where I'm at.

    A large part of the reason I want higher framerates in the first place is that I want lower latency.

    Higher framerates that actually make latency worse make no sense to me.

  • Pro-Russian ex-PM Fico wins Slovak election, needs allies for government

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  • Well shit.

  • Sweden’s leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates

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  • Agreed. There are not really any good options here.

  • Sweden’s leader turns to the military for help as gang violence escalates

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  • Yeah, I don't really disagree fundamentally with any of this apart from the fact that I don't think involving the military at this point is anywhere near warranted. We'll have to see what happens I guess, I think it could be mostly saber rattling. "Look how seriously we're taking this!".

    But more police, and specifically more police on tasks that actually matter and aren't just being pursued to pad their stats? That's fine.