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unpossum

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  • Iranian Hardliners Threaten President’s Life in Furious Backlash Over U.S. Agreement

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  • I don't agree that the pre-civil war state should be the comparison. The civil war started due to peaceful protests against the government, which were then brutally repressed.

    I also don't usually look through comment history before commenting. That being said, I'll retract my "fuck off tankie" statement (and will read articles from iran news wire with MEQ in mind). I don't really believe the 30k killed is propaganda, but there's little chance we'll agree on that.

  • Iranian Hardliners Threaten President’s Life in Furious Backlash Over U.S. Agreement

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  • As far as I can tell, the situation in Syria is better than before Assad got kicked out. If it’ll stay that way is anybody’s guess, I’m admittedly not too hopeful myself. Venezuela, I think we agree on.

    As for Iran, your comments consistently come off as supportive of the current regime. It’s impossible to tell if that’s just because you really dislike Iran news wire, or if you actually do support the IRGC, hence my initial comment.

    I haven’t read other stories from Iran news wire than some of those that have been posted here, so I can’t really comment on your examples, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if an outlet dedicated to fighting the Iranian regime let their hope for change overshadow the need for source criticism.

    (eta: paragraphs...)

  • Iranian Hardliners Threaten President’s Life in Furious Backlash Over U.S. Agreement

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  • So do Russia and Iran. I really can’t wrap my head around supporting the obviously horrible regime in Iran, just because they oppose (the obviously horrible regime in) Israel. I mean, there’s critical support, and then there’s fingers in ears and shouting la la la

  • Iranian Hardliners Threaten President’s Life in Furious Backlash Over U.S. Agreement

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  • Tankie scum fuck off

  • Russia Deploys Emergency Crews to Siberia as Krasnoyarsk Wildfires Nearly Quadruple in Size - The Moscow Times

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  • “The situation remains fully under control, and there’s no threat to residential areas,” the regional wildfire center said in a post on VKontakte.

    Translation: run.

  • Varkpost

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  • Vark vark vark

  • Russian summarizes the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.

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  • My condolences to their significant other and family.

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • Because when you're old enough to remember what AIM chat it's could do 25 years ago, it stops being impressive what today's chatbots can do...

    C’mon, that’s just silly.

  • Happy Funny Beach Day to all antifa supersoldiers! o7

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  • Great beach, 6/6, would land again

  • Full text of Zelensky's open letter to Putin

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  • It’s a clear invitation to peace, phrased in a way that would show weakness if accepted.

    Ukraine can point to it and say “we tried” and then continue curbstomping logistics until the Russian frontline collapses, and then we get real peace.

    (Yes, copium, but definitely consumer-grade)

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    unpossum @sh.itjust.works

    When AI builds itself

    www.anthropic.com /institute/recursive-self-improvement

  • Russians complain that fuel shortages are hindering mobile air defense units in occupied Crimea.

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  • ...that sounds like a nice non-linear effect coming up

  • Russia begins talks of ending the war to save the economy

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  • Sure, Vova.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    unpossum @sh.itjust.works

    the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

    thoughts.hmmz.org /2026-05-31.html

  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

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  • I feel like it gets more intrinsically interesting the better it gets, even when the initial shock has faded a bit, but tastes vary of course.

    The LLM creators won’t shut up about what we can use it for and why. Some of those use cases actually work fairly well, like coding, so that part doesn’t really trigger any alarms.

    What I don’t see is how they intend to make actual money when open weight models catch up in the next months, but if we can lose the frontier labs and keep the current abilities available that’s fine by me (apart from the whole “possible collapse of Western economy”, that is)

  • Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

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  • State-of-the-art models rely on late-1800s and early-1900s print books for high-quality training data, and those books use ~30% more em-dashes than contemporary English prose. That’s why it’s so hard to get models to stop using em-dashes: because they learned English from texts that were full of them.

    That sounds really plausible -- I associate the em-dash with old books and stilted prose, like Sherlock Holmes stories

  • Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

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  • I don't know if my (software development) job will still exist in ten years

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  • Yeah, I've had that existential crisis this Spring, and so have other devs I know. There's still a good way to go, but unless LLMs hit a hard limit on cognition I tend to share the author's feelings.

  • Russia recalls Armenia ambassador over EU ties

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  • alluded to the "Ukrainian scenario."

    “Unless you do as I say, I’ll shoot myself in the foot again”

  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

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  • I’m sorry, but I don’t agree with your first point at all. Things can have negative sides and still be interesting.

    The Turing test, as I interpret it at least, is more of a philosophical than a technical thing, trying to provide a way to evaluate the thinking ability of someone or -thing without being able to look at its innards. I’ve always found it fascinating, but I can understand if people disagree (just don’t drag the Chinese room into it). However, if you don’t think a conversation with Claude is more interesting than a faux psychiatrist session with ELIZA, I don’t know where we could go from there 🤷

  • Removed Locked

    Russian troops liberate 10 communities in Ukraine operation over week — top brass

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  • The way you act, the only supportable conclusion is that you’re deliberately trying to make leftists look bad. You’re a bad caricature of even a tankie.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    unpossum @sh.itjust.works

    Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

    www.anthropic.com /news/claude-opus-4-8
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    unpossum @sh.itjust.works

    The pressure

    daniel.haxx.se /blog/2026/05/26/the-pressure/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    unpossum @sh.itjust.works

    FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

    www.ftc.gov /news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/ftc-require-cox-media-group-two-other-firms-pay-nearly-1-million-settle-charges-they-deceived
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    unpossum @sh.itjust.works

    An open-source spec for Codex orchestration: Symphony.

    openai.com /index/open-source-codex-orchestration-symphony/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    unpossum @sh.itjust.works
    LWN.net

    Significant raise of reports

    lwn.net /Articles/1065620/