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DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites

As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code

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On a company-wide Slack this morning, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced he has been put on a paid leave of absence. […] He continued, writing that Mark Davies, current Automattic Chief Financial Officer, has “conspired” with Automattic Board of Directors members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker “behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that.”

Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting / Lux Claridge was dragged from a city meeting about data centers and charged with interfering with the police after they clap… Full title: Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting / Lux Claridge was dragged from a city meeting about data centers and charged with interfering with the police after they clapped during a presentation.

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ICE Sends Legal Immigrant to Guantánamo Bay

Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters

ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data | Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as f… Full title: ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data | Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as fraud.

Lutnick claims that data centers, known for water consumption, ‘don’t use water’

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Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to scrap its AI layoff plan

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'It embarrasses me to be involved': Inside the National Guard D.C. deployment

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More states pilot 3-year college degrees, seeking to address rising tuition

Gina Hinojosa bets anger over Flock cameras and data centers will make her America’s unlikeliest governor - Gina Hinojosa talks to Eric Garcia about the growing backlash in Texas and how it could fee… Full title: Gina Hinojosa bets anger over Flock cameras and data centers will make her America’s unlikeliest governor - Gina Hinojosa talks to Eric Garcia about the growing backlash in Texas and how it could feed a ‘bite back’ against Republicans in November

Trump Promises $5,000 Payment to US Adults if GOP Wins Midterms

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C.I.A. Director Makes Secret Visit to Moscow

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Porsche inks US$1.5 billion AI deal with India’s Tata Consultancy

Trans issues are cheap that’s why both corporate dems and GOP like to center on them . Most people want to solve real issues - healthcare, social net, housing costs etc all of those require touching oligarchs and ofc dangerous

Signature? So when - In January?

I feel like you’re missing the point entirely. Bab-el-Mandeb is the southern gate of the Red Sea. Suez is the northern gate. You don’t need to own both doors to trap someone in the hallway - you just need to lock one. If the Houthis can effectively close Bab-el-Mandeb, they control whether ships can transit the Red Sea at all, which means they control the Suez route’s viability by default. That’s called chokepoint leverage, not “complete control of the whole Red Sea.” Nobody said they planted a flag in Suez. They don’t have to. Egypt can own the canal all day — if the southern exit is a shooting gallery, the canal is a dead end. So yes: technically you’re correct. Strategically, you’re arguing a distinction without a difference.

they just blew up that saudi pipeline. can transit

This just unfolded late last week. There is no I do that’s whybim saying there seems to be. a media coverup. www.cnn.com/…/yemen-houthi-saudi-us-blame-intl ‘A f***-up of epic proportions’: Blame game begins after Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance down Red Sea coast al-monitor.com/…/centcom-chief-saudi-arabia-yemen… US Navy Adm. Brad Cooper flew to the kingdom overnight Thursday as Yemen’s Riyadh-backed forces crumbled in the face of a lightning Houthi offensive Houthis took critical chokepoint out of red sea that they couldn’t do for many years and now can effectively close it just like Iran closed other one- with very little effort needed. That effectively controls Suez passage

Reality is probabilistic and none knows why, almost like someone programmed a video game. Noone knows why quantum outcome changes based on mere observation. You get what I’m saying - just by me looking at the experiment result changes. I have to observe the reality in order to force it’s hand and render the outcome. If I were to design a video game I would surely not render the entire world unless someone interacts with it - to conserve resources. And now there is this: modern work suggests that the extra spatial dimension itself may emerge from quantum entanglement. Roughly: 2D quantum information → entanglement structure → emergent 3D geometry/spacetime. I don’t know about you, but this sure as hell seems like a graphics engine. And another thing : At the deepest level, the universe may consist of quantum information and relationships. Space and time emerge from how that information is organized and changes. So… Do I understand it right? “It from bit” as they call it - is this basically like a video game source code? We are “information” floating in space? And why is spacetime quantized? - This is pretty crazy imo. Nature just allows only specific values? Wow. if this is a video game or simulation I would surely allow only specific values. Definitely smells like a simulation.

Quadruple moderation is killing lemmy. It’s a Gift to Reddit Quadruple moderation is killing Lemmy. It’s a gift to Reddit There’s a rule about online communities I want people here to understand: the 90-9-1 rule. Roughly 90% lurk, 9% comment, and 1% create. Additionally - lemmy monthly active users is stangant at about 35k monthly active and not improving: lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats When I first got to Lemmy, I had trouble finding enough content I was interested in even commenting on. So I figured: why complain about the lack of content when one can start posting it myself? That’s why I post so much. If people don’t post, most Lemmy communities simply don’t have enough creators to sustain themselves. You need posts before lurkers can lurk, commenters can comment, and some of those people eventually become creators themselves. I’m not posting just to flood Lemmy. I’m trying to help solve one of Lemmy’s biggest problems: not enough content creators. And frankly, doing that has been a nightmare. Lemmy has a quadruple-moderation problem Every active content creator has to survive four layers: Community moderators can remove your posts or ban you from the community. Your home-instance admins can ban your entire account. Receiving-instance admins can block/ban you for everyone on their instance, even though you don’t belong to it. Public moderation history means those decisions follow you. One moderator’s decision can influence another and snowball into more moderation. For prolific content creators, that’s brutal. I’ve had multiple accounts banned over one or two posts that somebody didn’t like. Months of posting, comments, engagement and contributions can effectively disappear from a community because of a couple of moderation decisions. And the more you contribute, the worse the odds become. If you make hundreds or thousands of posts, eventually you’re going to post something that one moderator somewhere doesn’t like. You don’t need one moderation team to tolerate you. You need multiple independent moderators and admins, across multiple servers, to remain aligned indefinitely. There’s almost no cost to deleting a creator This is another major difference from Reddit. There is generally no financial investment in a Lemmy community’s content. A volunteer moderator can ban someone who contributed months of posts and comments and lose all of that person’s past and future contributions without losing revenue, salary or investment. Did you know all creator posts are wiped out from lemmy after account banned? The creator paid the cost in time. The community loses the content. The users lose something to read and discuss. And the moderator who pushed the button may personally lose essentially nothing. So who benefits from making prolific content creation this difficult? Because it certainly isn’t Lemmy. And this creates an enormous attack surface I genuinely have trouble believing that everyone complaining about prolific posters simply doesn’t understand this dynamic. At some point I have to question whether some of it is deliberate. If I were Reddit and wanted to undermine a federated competitor, this is exactly where I’d attack it: its content creators. You don’t need to hack Lemmy. You don’t need to DDoS instances. You don’t need to take anything offline. Lemmy already provides the mechanism. Report prolific contributors. Call their posting “spam.” accuse them of being bots. Point moderators toward their public moderation histories. Get one account banned somewhere, then let that decision influence moderators elsewhere. Eventually the creator gets tired of fighting and leaves. I’m not claiming I have proof Reddit is doing this. I’m saying Lemmy’s architecture makes this kind of subversion ridiculously easy, and Reddit would be an obvious beneficiary. Reddit doesn’t have this same federated quadruple-jeopardy problem. You’re primarily dealing with the moderation of the subreddit you’re contributing to. Lemmy desperately needs more people creating content, yet its moderation structure makes life progressively harder for the people who create the most of it. At some point we should be asking: Who actually benefits from that? A plea to admins: protect your creators ban reddit agents instead Before banning someone, look at who is contributing and who is reporting. If an account with zero posts in years reports someone who has contributed hundreds of posts, don’t treat those two users as equally valuable to the health of the community. That doesn’t put creators above the rules. Remove bad posts. Warn people. Moderate proportionally. But stop throwing away months of content and future contributions over one or two posts someone disliked. Creating content takes time. Reporting takes seconds. Protect the people actually building your communities. edit: I am reposting from reddit - there is no rules against that. its actually great thing for majority of lemmy users! This reposting tool is open source - i’ve never been hiding the fact im reposting from reddit. people get only high quality pre-dozed, pre-moderated content. addons.mozilla.org/…/lemmy-deep-lighthouse/ I think more people should be using similar tools and populate lemmy with content. - htis is the only way to move that 35k mau number and creat conditions for more OC on lemmy edit 2 " but we dont want content" argument. The fuck you dont. who the fuck is we? And this is why I don’t buy the argument that the people still here represent what users want. Look at the numbers. Fediverse: ~14 million registered, ~1.17 million MAU. Lemmy: ~756,000 registered, ~35,000 MAU. Lemmy has had three quarters of a million accounts created and only about 4.6% of that number is active monthly. Obviously that doesn’t mean 95% were all regular users who quit. But it does tell us something important: the people currently active are a tiny, self-selected fraction of everyone who has tried this platform. So when 30 existing users say “WE don’t want more content,” you’re hearing from the people the current system successfully retained. You’re not hearing from the enormous number of people who tried Lemmy and aren’t here anymore. Maybe instead of assuming the remaining users have figured out what Lemmy should be, we should be asking why so many people tried it and didn’t stick around.