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calliope

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  • 1 in 4 men believe no one will ever fall in love with them

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  • Dang, this survey doesn’t seem to be super promising.

    The study revealed high levels of anti-feminist sentiment amongst UK men, with 50 per cent endorsing ‘red pill’ rhetoric underpinned by misogynistic ideology. 67 per cent of men agreed that “the media tends to portray men in a negative light”, while 59 per cent of men agreed that “feminism is about favouring women over men”

  • US Republicans accuse the EU of ‘decade-long censorship campaign’

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  • The chair of this committee is Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of the dumbest people in congress.

  • Both gave amazing performances

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  • It makes sense, the movie quickly became fantasy fodder for violent post-Vietnam-war white supremacists. They pretended they were fighting a fictional government where Jewish people manipulated minorities to steal white people’s privilege.

    As an example, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh loved Rambo and worked for a short time as a simple security guard. The book Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew describes:

    He liked to brandish “a huge … pistol out of his car window” and came to work with bandoliers of ammunition hung across his chest, like the fictional supersoldier and Vietnam War veteran Rambo. Clearly McVeigh was deeply attached to the popular culture deployments of the Vietnam War story.

    First Blood is also listed as one of his favorite movies in Jeffrey Toobin’s book Homegrown, about white terrorism in the U.S.

    He also loved Red Dawn and watched it on repeat when he was in prison.

  • ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take - Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

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  • Who insisted on separating parents from their children during his last administration to discourage people from trying to immigrate illegally.

    The cruelty is always the point.

  • 'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company'

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  • This is 100% right, you nailed it.

    The article above even mentions that Take Two’s stock dropped.

    In the immediate wake of [Project Genie’s] announcement, the share prices of a handful of companies, including game engine maker Unity and Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher Take-Two Interactive, took a notable tumble.

    This is an attempt to stop the slide for the benefit of their shareholders.

  • 'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company'

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  • Holy shit, maybe ask AI about your own asinine strawman.

    If you listen to the ai-bad crowd, screw science.

    You can just skip the experimentation and go directly to conclusions.

    What a waste.

  • A cool guide to everyday etiquette no one teaches you

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  • It is so general on that one!

    “Hey that food looks good”“Don’t tell me how my food looks!”

  • Ransomware gangs focus on winning hearts and minds

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  • I think it’s kind of funny that by “form relationships” they mean “find someone who can be bribed.” Bribery is ancient, it’s honestly crazy if they haven’t already been doing this.

    He cited a well-reported incident in which the Medusa ransomware gang unwisely targeted the BBC by approaching its cyber security correspondent, Joe Tidy. The gang messaged Tidy on the encrypted Signal application to offer him 15% of a future ransomware payment if he gave them access to his PC. When this was rebuffed, Medusa’s recruiter upped the offer to a quarter of 1% of the BBC’s revenues, and promised Tidy he would never have to work again.

    The other example in the article is the same thing.

    all three [“victims”] worked in the cyber security field, specialising in incident response and ransomware negotiations. The Department of Justice (DoJ) said that one of the men became involved in the scheme because he was in debt.

    This is definitely not new! I worked at a place ten years ago where someone was arrested while at work for selling proprietary server code.

  • GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids - Pink News

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  • It’s good that the article specifically mentions that he was on a Christian Nationalist podcast.

    Naming them makes it easier to recognize their patterns of behavior. 100% of Christian Nationalists are modern Nazis. They’re not real members of society, they’re ghouls.

    Christianity as a whole is actually a distinct thing from Christian Nationalism. In fact, there is a clear inverse relationship between actively being a Christian (going to church, reading the bible) and following Christian Nationalism (the book Taking Back America For God from Oxford University Press cites decades of studies).

    It’s distinctly, provably thought-rejecting evil. The Venn diagram of Christian Nationalism and proudly stupid, evil people is pretty much just a circle.

    If someone is a Christian Nationalist, they are a bad person. No question.

  • Sydney Sweeney Created This Moment. But Does It Belong to Her?

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  • What's your favourite sound?

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  • Crunchy leaves! Specifically, if one leaf is especially dried out and crumpled, I love the crunch it makes when you step on it.

  • Sydney Sweeney Created This Moment. But Does It Belong to Her?

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  • To prohibit the enforcement of laws relating to the installation, certification, and maintenance of emissions control devices under the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes.

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  • They literally called it the

    Diesel Truck Liberation Act of 2025

    Unsurprisingly, it is sponsored by one of the useless senators from Wyoming. So glad an empty state gets an equal say!

  • Disney’s ‘Muppets’ Lost a Generation of Children. Can a New Show Make it Relevant Again?

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  • Is this article pretending that the Muppets were hugely relevant after the 2011 reboot?

    After a decade of mismanagement, beloved characters like Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are back. The stakes couldn’t be higher

    It’s more than “a decade of mismanagement,” Disney bought them over twenty years ago.

    I love the Muppets and I swear they weren’t super popular in the 2000s either. They lost two generations at least.

  • Good news everyone

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  • Imagine being stupid enough to run out to work for the inspiration for Biff in Back to the Future II.

    It has never been this easy to tell the stupidest, worst people in the world from everyone else.

  • Elis Lundholm is the only out trans athlete at the Winter Olympics - Outsports

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  • This does appear to be the case! He competes in the female category, per the article

  • Elis Lundholm is the only out trans athlete at the Winter Olympics - Outsports

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  • The article does say but it’s quick!

    Because he was born female and competes in the female category, he is good to compete per the trans athlete rules in any sport.

  • The Hidden Cost of AI Art: Brandon Sanderson

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  • but the questions "Why read another human's writing if an AI's is better?" still has no answer.

    Of course it does. Because the human creator was affected while creating it. What you quoted explains the whole thing.

    Well, remember, art is not just the story. It is not just the painting or the sculpture or whatever else you love to create. It’s also the process of creation and what that process does to you. We make art because we can’t help it. It’s part of us.

    I added bold because that’s the core point. Of course I would rather read something where a human was affected by the process of creating. That’s relatable, and the entire purpose of art.

    You read another human’s writing because they’re human, and a human who experienced something while creating is unquestionably superior to what amounts to randomness. An LLM can’t think, learn, or have human-like experiences. It can only copy. Expression is the important thing, and an LLM can’t express.

    AI can’t compete with a human’s passion or interest, and doing something with passion or interest is what makes something art.

    The act of creation by a human literally makes all the difference.

  • Steam Machine Hardware Has Me Worried About the PS5’s Long-Term Future

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  • Legitimately! It’s been Nintendo’s whole thing and they’ve been amazing at it.

    With handhelds especially, they have been wildly successful experimenting since the original Game Boy in 1989. Which makes the Switch’s “eventual” success mentioned in the article even more short-sighted.

    The interesting thing to me about the GameCube and Wii U is that they were followed up by incredibly successful hits. The less successful consoles had to walk so their more radical follow-ups (the Wii and Switch, respectively) could run.

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