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Holt, the adoption agency that stole these kids, is based in Eugene
very little reporting here about how this happened or what's being done now about accountability or family reunification
there are a lot of Korean adoptees about my age in western Oregon
I'll keep your secrets if you keep mine.
AI: "Gee, I don't know Dave. Maybe your wife should know you've been cheating on her with Susan from marketing."
Anthropic’s new AI model threatened to reveal engineer’s affair to avoid being shut down
https://fortune.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-ai-claude-opus-4-blackmail-engineers-aviod-shut-down/
The standard excuse is "real artists study other artists, therefore AI is not stealing."
Here's the thing. Real artists study other artists, and do not produce nearly identical works, and if they do, they will contact the other artist and ask permission to publish the derivative work.
AI = plaigiarism-as-a-service
“Even if reviewers already had an RTX 5060 GPU in hand, Nvidia cut off most reviewers’ ability to test it before May 19th by refusing to provide drivers until the card went on sale. (Gaming GPUs don’t really work without them.)
And yet Nvidia allowed specific, cherry-picked reviewers to have early drivers anyhow if they agreed to a borderline unethical deal: they could only test five specific games, at 1080p resolution, with fixed graphics settings, against two weaker GPUs (the 3060 and 2060 Super) where the new card would be sure to win.”
https://www.theverge.com/pc-gaming/672637/nvidia-rtx-5060-review-meddling-gamersnexus-wake-up-call
The #tomatoes have been planted! Phew! Only two weeks late! 😅
I have more tomato cages to put up because I'm afraid Zoey is going to crush the plants while she rolls around napping around the #garden.
Our community discussion #BikeNite starts in about an hour, at 4pm Pacific (UTC-7). I post cycle-y questions w/ Q1, Q2, Q3; if you answer w/ A1, A2, A3, etc, it's easier to match.
Tag #BikeNite if you want your answer to be more discoverable; follow it to see questions & replies in your feed. Boost & reply to replies to keep the discussion going.
(You can follow BikeNiteQ tag so questions are easier to find, but don't include this in answers)
Just in time for summer, I have a box of assorted #homebrewing equipment for sale in #PDX
I have a couple small brew pots, a couple Northern Brewer beginner level kits, and a bunch of bottles with plastic racks for them. Plus a bunch of other stuff.
US$60 as is. Please let me know if you're interested. Priced to move. (My partner is allergic to hops, so ... )
This is what kills me: clean, renewable energy has improved radically over the last couple decades, and it’s gotten MASSIVELY CHEAPER as well. If you don’t care about the environment, can we at least interest you in cheaper and more abundant energy?
They tell us Schrödinger's cat is just a thought experiment.
But what is CERN if not a machine purpose-built to arrange for a graduate student's career to survive or perish based on the probabilistic detection of a single particle during their time "in the box"?
Hot diggity dog! Wienermobiles put on riveting race in Wienie 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/wienie-500-wienermobile-race-indianapolis-speedway/64867202
Fun Fact:
Canada's credit rating is now better than the country threatening our sovereignty
It's impossible to discuss the energy transition without acknowledging the fragile state of our democracy. And it's impossible to acknowledge the fragile state of our democracy without seeing how fossil-fuel interests are undermining it to stop the energy transition.
This makes me sad. Season 2 of Gatwa's Doctor is the best season since early Tennant. I am sure racism has something to do with ratings being down, to many people still have fucking problems with skin color.
‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Sup...
Report: “5th Circuit Rules Texas Library Patrons Have No First Amendment Right to Information” https://www.infodocket.com/2025/05/23/report-5th-circuit-rules-texas-library-patrons-have-no-first-amendment-right-to-information/ #libraries #books #firstamendment
Keep 'em coming
"NEW: The Fulton County, #Georgia Board of Commissioners voted to reject the nominations of two prominent election deniers to the county board of elections.
Before voting, one board member said, “It’s not possible to work with folks trying to sow discord.”
"The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status...
More than a dozen federal lawsuits allege DOGE staffers have been illegally granted permission to view databases with personal and financial information the government maintains, and multiple federal judges have expressed concern about what information DOGE has accessed and why. Late last month, DHS announced a DOGE-led overhaul of its Systematic Alien Verification Entitlements (SAVE) database, making the system free for state and local governments to use and promising a "single, reliable source for verifying non-citizen status nationwide."
"What they're building is a surveillance weapon and it can be put to all sorts of adverse uses in the future"
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5389952/usda-snap-doge-data-immigration
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NEW VIDEO: California Senator Alex Padilla foiled Republicans’ attempt to pass the SAVE Act this week. Sen. Padilla joins me to discuss protecting voters’ information from DOGE and the work Senate Democrats are doing to fight voter suppression.…
@chris “Greatness”. Ah, yes. Now where else have I heard this mantra about making something GREAT again…? Interesting that such psychology seems to be so effective.
Excellent video entry today from @anderspuck explaining Putin's motivations for continuing the war and why the ceasefire deals don't satisfy Putin's aspirations.
