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Les gens qui commandent des Uber eats là vous irez en enfer juste pour ça

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@peh @scudery il fallait bien que le karma s'équilibre après l'invention du nan kebab

@scudery curieusement et tristement, moi non plus...

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If there's one area where tech has shown a consistent aptitude for innovation, it's in accounting tricks that make money-losing companies appear wildly profitable. And AI is the greatest innovator of all (when it comes to accounting gimmicks).

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accounting-gaffs/#artificial-income

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A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.

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@scudery Toulouse. Il me semble que la première vient d'ici...

@scudery pire. Ça vient de chez moi, je crois.

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Speaking as someone who is Jewish, Paul Krugman addresses attacks on Zohran Mamdani as an antisemite:

"I’m Jewish, and anyone who knows their history realizes that whenever right-wing bigotry is on the ascendant, we’re always next in line. Are there really people out there naïve enough to believe MAGA’s claims to be against antisemitism, who can’t see the transparent cynicism and dishonesty?"

#ZohranMamdani #antisemitism #Jews #racism
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-all-rats-now

On en parle du fait qu'on vit dans un pays où le Président ne peut pas se montrer devant les 80000 personnes du #StadeDeFrance pour pas se faire siffler?

#Top14 #FinaleTOP14 #StadeToulousain #UBB #UBBST #Macron #Vestiaire #AvantMatch

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me: the earth isn’t flat

fiat earther: correct

me: huh?

fiat earther: it’s the shape an italian car

me: what?

fiat earther: you read my name wrong didn’t you?

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#ReligionIsPoison #ShitIFind

KREM.COM
Brunswick family loses everything in a fire, except a Bible
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Seems a little passive aggressive if your god allows your house to burn down and he leaves his business card.

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Salut, ça doome ?
De mon côté, parmi 32 #Infocerises j'ai récolté une petite claque éducative pour Attal, les tickets-restos valables pour les courses jusqu'au moins 2027, un visa de réfugié climatique australien, des castors portugais, 81% de gens dans le monde ok go taxer les pétroliers climatocides, le sanctuaire d'Ulysse à Ithaque, les bulles d'émotion des cétacés et des portraits au Land-Art.
Bons appétits.

https://lescerisesdehiatus.blogspot.com/2025/06/32-bonnes-nouvelles-recolte-du-jeudi-26.html

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"Not all men," he casually argues, tossing a chocolate into his mouth.
She doesn't blink. Instead, her fingers curl around the box of chocolates between them, and she smiles. "Okay. But if I take this box of chocolates, poison one in front of you, shake the box, and offer you one", she raises an eyebrow, "would you take it?"
The chocolate in his mouth suddenly feels too thick, too sweet. A disbelieving laugh escapes him. "Good lord, you are crazy."
"Oh no no, I'm not crazy," she says trying to fight the smirk at his reaction. "I'm just working with the numbers. When one in four is poisoned, you check every piece."
l excerpts from a novel I will never write
~~~ thenevernovel, Instagram

Screenshot of an Instagram-post with by "thenevernovel", saying:

"Not all men," he casually argues, tossing a chocolate into his mouth.
She doesn't blink. Instead, her fingers curl around the box of chocolates between them, and she smiles. "Okay. But if I take this box of chocolates, poison one in front of you, shake the box, and offer you one"She raises an eyebrow. "would you take it?"
The chocolate in his mouth suddenly feels too thick, too sweet. A disbelieving laugh escapes him. "Good lord, you are crazy."
"Oh no no Im not crazy,"she says trying to fight the smirk at his reaction. "I'm just working with the numbers. When one in four is poisoned, you check every piece."

l excerpts from a novel I will never write

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"Trapping AI" – Slight Update! 🌀

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs 🕳️. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers — ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, we’ll roll out a new layer of complexity — amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

🖼️ fakejpeg generates fake JPEGs on the fly. You "train" it with a collection of existing JPEGs, and once trained, it can produce an arbitrary number of things that look like real JPEGs — perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk 🗑️.

Explore fakejpeg: https://github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/#expanding-the-offensiveness

See the tarpit in action: https://content.asrg.site/

A captured screenshot of a page generated by a tarpit (built on babble, a standalone LLM crawler-tarpit binary), deployed as part of the ongoing ‘Trapping AI’ operation — an endless stream of deterministic bollocks that traps crawlers on a single site and forces them to endlessly navigate a constantly expanding sea of pages 🌊. Each new page spawns additional layers of meaningless text and dozens of links, dragging them ever deeper into the tarpit 🕳️.

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Comme j'ai du temps à tuer, petit retour sur mon expérience de jurée aux assises 🧶
Ce sera pas forcément bien structuré, c'est écrit comme ça vient

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Uhm… feel free to use this as needed.

(Sound on and may not be safe for work “language”)

@jehansanspour les travailler un par un. L'un sur l'économie de long terme, un autre sur l'indépendance énergétique, l'écologie... selon leurs priorités.

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Voilà quelque-chose qui ne passera jamais sur CNews : «En France, la majorité des homicides sont commis par des Français contre des Français. Et les homicides ont baissé quand l'immigration a augmenté.»
Jean-David Zeitoun, Médecin.

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I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

https://x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1133703638432526337

A stacked bar chart titled "Causes of death in the US: What Americans die from, what they search on Google, and what the media reports on". It compares what people actually die from versus what people search for on Google, and what the NYT and Guardian report on. It neatly illustrates that while people are most likely to die from cancer and heart disease, they search very little for heart disease, and focus too much on diabetes, suicide, and terrorism. Meanwhile, the media sources focus a wildly disproportionate amount on terrorism, homicide and suicide, while virtually ignoring heart disease.

Some number: In reality, people die mostly from heart disease (30.2%) and cancer 29.5%. There are much smaller shares for road incidents (7.6%), lower respiratory disease (7.4%), Alzheimer’s (5.6%), stroke (4.9%), diabetes (3.8%),. Suicide is only 1.8%, homicide only 0.7%, and terrorism is barely 0.01%.

The media are even more out of whack with reality: The NYT and Guardian devote 35.6% of their death-related coverage to terrorism and 22.8% to homicide, while devoting only 13.5% to cancer and barely 2.3% to heart disease. The media sources devote roughly 13% of their death-related coverage to cancer, about half as much as it occurs in reality.

Basically, the chart shows that while people and media perceive the role of cancer somewhat accurately in causing, people overstate the role of terrorism, homicide and suicide -- and media wildly overstate terrorism and homicide.

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Nos responsables politiques s’alarment du prétendu manque d’empathie chez les jeunes.
Ils accusent tour à tour les parents démissionnaires, les jeux vidéo violents, l'école en déshérence (faute à qui , camarade ? ) ou, pour les plus subtils, le confinement , tout sauf eux-mêmes.

ET CHAQUE PUTRIN DE JOUR, ils se montrent cyniques, glacés, prêts à piétiner quiconque et à sacrifier tout ce qui reste de beau, de fragile, de vivant pour une minute de pouvoir et une pièce d’or.

Ce sont tout aussi bien leurs discours pleins de morgue, leurs lois sans amour, leur mépris érigé en doctrine qui ont appris à toute une génération que ressentir, c’est s’exposer, et qu’il vaut mieux frapper le premier que vivre ensemble.

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Today is the 51st anniversary of Richard Feynman's 1974 commencement address at @Caltech - more famously known as his "Cargo Cult Science" lecture against pseudoscience.

Here's a link to its complete text:

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

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