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  • Republican proposes giving Democratic-leaning part of Virginia back to DC after redistricting vote

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  • It doesn't matter what DC wants for the land. Requires the State Legislature to approve any grants of land.

    Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 US Constitution.

    To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings

    Which all of this is a tell. They don't want to put forward an amendment to undo the stupid SCOTUS ruling, they just want to be the only group that's allowed to politically gerrymander.

  • The Trump administration asserts that a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed.

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  • The issue here is a weak Congress that keeps not using the one process that the people who made this country put in there to ensure that Congress reminds the President that "uh huh, you do have to have some accountability."

    And they keep not using that one process because they've wholly abandoned the notion of "country first".

  • US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties

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  • Ultimately they want to be able to track every interaction you have online and tie it to your real life person. And they want to keep those record until the end of time. And they want AI and data analytics so that they can one day determine what "kind of person" you are.

  • US Navy denies food shortages after grim photos emerge from blockade ships

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  • Another meal was a ground meat patty, an unidentified piece of meat and some sliced carrots. (Supplied)

    I want people to know that I have yet to find someone who has identified the "unidentified piece of meat" that looks like a deflated meat balloon.

  • Far Side - Dec. 6, 1987

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  • Those who forget history are doomed to..... crap, what was it again?

  • If it happens on a full moon, it's a warehouse, otherwise its just a normal house

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  • If the cost of keeping humans is higher than the cost of automating, they'll just automate the process. Or have the place ran by wire, where humans pilot lifts remotely.

  • The FAA wants video gamers to be the next generation of air traffic controllers

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  • Man, the issue is FAA ATC rules indicate that you have to be under 31 years of age and you must retire at age 56. Add on top of that a requirement of four years of schooling and if you don't make the choice to be part of ATC by age 27, you just are never going to be one.

    I'm pretty sure there's reasons behind the mandatory retirement age. But dang, it's hard convincing anyone under 30 that they should pick up a pretty stressful job.

  • From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary

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  • Many local government's aren't on the home rule, they follow some form of the Dillon Rule. This applies to utilities and land use. For some local areas they are required by some degree to follow the State's allocation and billing of utilities to remain classified as a public utility in the State.

    In many areas our legal framework at the State and local level were never made to handle what's coming down the pipe with new advances. This is why I always indicate that data centers and their impact need to be addressed at the local level. That's why I think Federal regulation is the wrong step for the building part of AI. This is very much a local and/or State level that needs to desperately be answered there.

    The good news is that we see more people who are involved with their local government with this issue. But this underlying issue has been one since the 1970s, it's just that these companies have hired firms that are incredibly well versed in the shortcomings of local ordinances and State law. It's super difficult to patch up flaws in the laws when they're being exploited at rapid fire pace.

  • Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI

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  • That supply is constrained artificially for particular markets. There's nothing that stops Samsung, Hynix, or Micron from indicating particular runs for different sectors. And if those three had not removed other competition, we would have producers to increase that supply.

    Again, this doesn't absolve the AI industry in the least. But we have makers that are only making limited selections of product for pure gain and are able to do that via their manipulation of the market. We don't always have to have a good guy and a bad guy, it can bad guys all around.

  • Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI

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  • We are paying more for a PlayStation so that idiots can use ChatGPT to mislead people on dating apps – something is rotten in the state of gaming

    I need people to understand, AI is the current "thing". We have an industry that produces memory for this planet that is a functional monopoly. Today their excuse is AI. But their excuse for that sudden increase changes roughly every four years. And we continue to let them get away with it, because we collectively blame the consumer.

    And do know, I'm not saying AI companies get pass from me. That's not the point here. The large AI companies and us regular people are consumers of the exact same product that only three companies provide. Those three companies have been legally found guilty in several courts of law across the world of colluding to increase prices, and because there's not really any other alternative, they chalk the fines up as the cost of business and we write it off as a necessary evil.

    But when we blame AI (which there's lots to blame AI companies for, again that's beside the point here) we are just blaming a consumer of a product. We are basically saying "Why do they get that thing I wanted. I should be the one who gets it, not them." Now there's a lot of industry regulation and international treaties that ensure we're at the bottom of the list and AI companies pay into keeping that status quo. But let's be real here, if it wasn't them, it would be someone else.

    When we say the reason computers and technology is getting expensive is because of AI, we are actually avoiding the real culprit here. A tightly controlled market, not unlike say the diamond business of old. And should AI fade away (which math equations that represent ways to optimize pattern matching are something we've found to be incredibly helpful) that tightly controlled, highly colluded, industry remains. And then we eventually find ourselves right back where we left off and are convinced to blame something else.

    Again, this isn't trying to absolve the sins of AI companies. But it's to point out that this isn't an "AI has done all of this all by itself." And when we do that, we're providing cover for an industry that largely runs corrupt with impunity.

  • The Olsen twins

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  • Greek.

  • The Olsen twins

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  • I shall name the first one Hodos (ὁδός) and the other Ora (ώρα). For the words way and time (as in the time something happens).

  • Judge Rules Trump’s Order to End Funding for PBS, NPR Was an Illegal First Amendment Violation

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  • This was the entire point to all of it. The first term showed that you can sow enough chaos, that even if it's ruled illegal later, there's no fixing it. I fear it's as bad as it could be, the damage is done, there is no fixing this. Especially considering that the corporation for public broadcasting dissolved because of the damage done.

    Trying to bring it back is likely years if not decades and only if there is a real commitment to bringing it back in Congress. But no, it's very likely gone for good never to return. The entire Court ruling was always going to be a Pyrrhic victory. The CPB and public broadcast was based mostly on a Government desire to do public good. Once that notion was gutted there was nothing to hold back it collapsing completely.

    This is likely going to be the case with a ton of agencies and programs Trump illegally halted. Once the court case is over, there's just no way to bring the program or agency back. Once you burn the bridge, not many will willingly come back. The absolute damage Trump's second term has done thus far is easily a century worth of Legislative work. And given today's ruling with SCOTUS about Colorado, the High Court may very well begin challenging if medicine and the legal definition of a doctor don't run afoul of First Amendment protections.

    We may not have to fight for healthcare because we'll have to fight for the entire notion of medicine as a concept should be one in a legal sense. That's where we're at with this administration. We may have have multiple centuries worth of work ahead of us just because of this one President. His term has been so destructive to the fundamental tenets of what our nation was built upon, I can't imagine us ever going back to a pre-Trump United States. We are likely forever altered from this man's time in office.

  • CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment

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  • I'm just going to say, I live in a very red area of Tennessee close to where some Whiskey is made. Folks at the Co-Op have very few nice things to say about Trump at the moment. In fact, some have some choice words.

    Whoever Trump's handlers are, they're smart to keep him golfing these days.

  • System76 is charging an eye-popping $5299 for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU upgrade on its latest PC: Video card dwarves RAM cost in latest Thelio Mira Linux computer

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  • I feel this is more nVidia's fault than anyone else's.

  • US interest in electric vehicles surges as gas prices jump amid Iran war

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  • "It's an emergency. Come back when it's a catastrophy."

    — The United States on literally everything

  • My glasses

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  • Just FYI, they're indicating the glasses prescription in diopters. A -1.5 means minor correction to myopia by 1.5 diopters. Someone took the -1 and -1.5 as a hotness scale, but the guy is a sort of famous optometrist and was commenting on the lens correction factor, not hotness.

  • Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket

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  • Firmware on these is pretty tight. They're usually using CC2510s or CC2530s. The CC2510 has a voltage glitch hack that you can use to attempt to read the contents via the DCOUPL capcitor, but it's not very effective and you can only read a few bytes per attack.

    You can see a github some tools some have created here. Eventually someone is going to read the firmware off theses and be able to hack them, it's just a matter of time.

  • US’ Iran campaign faces dwindling munitions stockpiles

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  • An extended US military campaign in Iran could be constrained by a munitions shortage

    Lot of ifs for something that the US is known to prioritize above all else. What affordable food? Sorry, got to make missiles.

  • Americans right now

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  • Well in all fairness protests these days don't get a message across so much as present new targets for the Government to shoot at.

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