JonesMaruki

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What a sentence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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The Iran nuclear deal was a genuine triumph that made the world a safer place. Trump deliberately blew it up.

Trump ushered the fastest accelration in the Iranian nuclear program over the last decade and a half by withdrawing from the JCPOA without putting anything else in place. (And Netanyahu allegedly helped put him up to it)

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A periodic reminder that if you are an indie comic book creator, Blambot's Indie Font free usage policy applies to YOU! blambot.com/pages/licenses

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CNN quietly disbanded its Race and Equality team, I’m told

CNN quietly disbands its Race and Equality teamwww.whatimreading.net The news comes as CNN leader Mark Thompson announced that the cable news channel will lay off 100 employees as it restructures its newsgathering operations.

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I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

Crypto-mining accounts for 2% of all U.S. electricity usage. (Bitcoin alone consumes the same amount of energy as the entire state of Utah.)

Crypto Mining Consumes a Mind-Boggling 2% of U.S. Electricityheatmap.news Bitcoin alone consumes roughly the same amount of energy as Utah.

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Least sociopathic LinkedIn post ever Like infinite monkeys with typewriters eventually you get a LinkedIn post that makes sense

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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Project 2025 includes the call to “outlaw” porn. If you want to understand what they mean by that? Look to what these groups are already fighting “porn,” and their connections to anti-gender movements outside the US. I start that analysis here:

The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Pornnewrepublic.com It’s not people watching porn online. It’s drag queens, trans people, LGBTQ library books, and more.

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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/

Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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It doesn’t get better at it

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Game UI pet peeve: inventory thumbnails in a grid that don't share a common vanishing point It makes the grid look warped and more cluttered than it actually is If you can't render your thumbnail items with a shared vanishing point, it's cleaner to use an isometric projection

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Tip for those seeking more community engagement on Bluesky: Instead of always expecting people to come to YOUR profile & Liking/replying to YOUR posts, spend regular time seeking out OTHER people's accts & interacting (Liking/replying/sharing) with THEIR posts. More #BlueskyTips here. #KidLit 🧵👇🏼

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I guess I’ve become sort of a science-hype debunker so as far as this goes, let me just say: it’s real. Really really real. You could soon get a shot every six months that would basically eliminate your chance of getting HIV. Taken a step further: we have the tools to eliminate HIV in our lifetime.

Gilead’s twice-yearly shot to prevent HIV succeeds in late-stage trialwww.cnbc.com Gilead's experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.

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Even when "all the wealthy people will domicile in other states to avoid the tax!" proves empirically to be false by passing the tax and observing what happens afterwards, they still are like "what if it's true tho"

The recent news from Massachusetts revenue officials that they collected about $1.8 billion this year from the so-called "millionaires tax" sparked chatter: Is the windfall great financial news — or a precursor to an exodus of wealthy residents?

Other states eye Mass. millionaires tax — for windfall or wealth exoduswww.wbur.org States considering wealth tax proposals, like Pennsylvania and Vermont, are taking note of Massachusetts' revenue gains. But at home, the question of whether the voter-approved Fair Share Amendment is...

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I'm Shirley, a Black/Korean woman who makes really cool art. It's Juneteenth, and Black people still have yet to receive reparations. But here are some of the ways you can financially support me today! ✨💖 ✨: paypal.com/paypalme/lioninthetrees ✨: ko-fi.com/lioninthetrees ✨: shop.lioninthetrees.com

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Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.) www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

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"Life is a one-way street, ain't it? If you could paint it I'd draw myself going in the right direction So, I go all the way, like I really, really know But the truth is, I'm only guessing." Just a thought... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id10...

Just a Thoughtwww.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by Downtown Recordings/AtlJust a Thought · Gnarls BarkleySt. Elsewhere℗ 2006 Gnarls Barkley under exclusive license to Downtown Music, LL...

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"The view that people are merely biological computers who spit out words based on the totality of what they’ve read is offensively cynical. If we lower the standards for what it means to be human, however, machines look a lot more impressive." this is so fucking on point

This article goes in depth on this question, with the right angle: The comparison with human learning is a way to justify theft. Hope it helps :) www.tomshardware.com/news/ai-does...

AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To)www.tomshardware.com Some argue that bots should be entitled to ingest any content they see, because people can.

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"But what if my billions might save the world later, if only you hadn't taxed me".

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40 years ago, long before conveniences like automapping features were invented, mags like CRASH published game maps (for those unwilling or unable to make maps themselves). This fine example is Oli Frey's rendition of Ultimate's sprawling arcade adventure Atic Atac. Superb stuff!

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Nintendo Direct is just 24 hours away! Here’s my bingo card. Can’t wait to get a complete sweep.

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Consider preordering my upcoming book THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE YOKAI. It is an absolute banger of a book (unbiased) and preorders go a long way in sales. They tell Amazon and other book orders how much potential demand there is and they order accordingly. www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Gui...

The Ultimate Guide to Japanese Yokai: Ghosts, Demons, Monsters and Other Mythical Creatures from Japan (with Over 250 Images): Davisson, Zack: 9784805317730: Amazon.com: Bookswww.amazon.com The Ultimate Guide to Japanese Yokai: Ghosts, Demons, Monsters and Other Mythical Creatures from Japan (with Over 250 Images) [Davisson, Zack] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Ultimate Guide to Japanese Yokai: Ghosts, Demons, Monsters and Other Mythical Creatures from Japan (with Over 250 Images)

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Seems like a god opportunity share this again: medium.com/@keithkisser...

Why Does All AI Art Look Like That?medium.com 6 ways to tell generated Images from the real thing

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Wake up babes, new version of Simple NoAI WordPress plugin just dropped. Adds more crawlers to deny including: AppleBot-Extended, Bytespider, Cohere-ai, Diffbot, ImagesiftBot, PerplexityBot, FacebookBot, Omigili Get 1.6.3 here: wordpress.org/plugins/simp...

Simple NoAI and NoImageAIwordpress.org This plugin very simply adds a line of code to your header that tells AIs not to use anything on your website for indexing.

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If you so happen to be a @cartoonistcoop.bsky.social member, you get a 20% off discount code for Affinity, and it ABSOLUTELY stacks with this sale... just saying... 😌 (I just walked away with the Affinity suite for $66 USD pre-tax)

Affinity is running a 50% off sale. CA$109.99 for all three apps (Photo 2, Designer 2, Publisher 2). Designer is a great substitute for Illustrator. The regular price is $95 CDN. For $15 more, you get the whole suite.

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How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search. Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here. Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.

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When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.

The ultra-wealthy will often take whole fleets of cars with them when they travel, loading vehicles, along with motorbikes and other toys, onto chartered cargo aircraft that follow their private jets. This is how they do it: cnn.it/3X8V14a

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you ever just remember the 100 Mile Border Zone and get mad all over again about Lieberman, DHS, and how completely fucked our border policies have been to the anti-humanity wing of politics your entire life www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLUwww.aclu.org The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...