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Maybe the hackers will release information connecting Patel to the Noem and Lewandowski grift operations with govt contracts. Out of the four companies allowed to bid for the $220 million advertising contract, 3 were linked to Noem and Lewandowski and one to Patel.

Im sure they are all doing it...

China, Iran and Russia can vastly out produce missle interceptors. Drones, hypersonics, etc.

They can also manufacture launchers faster and cheaper than they can be countered. $30k drone vs interceptor at millions.

The U.S. and Israel will not accept the current regime staying in power.

Neither side wants to stop the war. Israel, Europe, the U.S., gulf states and others in missile range of Iran will not want the current regime to remain in power.

What happens next? Full invasion? Regime change Iraq style??

Here is a highly probable outcome before next year. Iran continues breaking the Iron Dome and firing on "allied" targets and infrastructure. The U.S.refuses or cant sustain a full invasion (because it is a death trap).

What happens next? It is obvious Israel will use tactical nukes on Tehran and other targets in Iran. It is going to be their only option.

Location data is arguably more important than financial or medical data. Atleast in a context where someone is after you. Thanks to bribery and data brokers, it doesnt have to be anyone in Govt or LE tracking you. Collect certain identifiers from a device or account and you can track almost anyone. Financial and medical data access is certainly bad, but your location data can be used to orchestrate a stalking campaign or a murder in a deniable way.

It is why after the U.S. kills or captures some foreign leader, they brag about figuring out their routes and daily habits. It is not a stretch to say that it could also be done, and probably has before, in the U.S.

Extreme penalities should be put in place for any location data access without a court order... And your location should never be allowed to be sold or shared with any non court approved third party. It really is that serious and if the public had the bandwidth to be concerned over another issue, maybe something would change.

Who knows, maybe all the public needs to take it seriously are some real life examples of location data being used illegally...

Theocratic states based on a concept of superiority with a delusional belief in biblical armageddon should never be allowed to have weapons capable of turning that delusion into reality.

Law enforcement should require a subpoena if they want to have location data for anyone. It really isnt a third party loophole issue.

Law enforcement should only be accessing location data if they have probable cause to believe a crime is happening. This invalidates the third party doctrine loophole and becomes an unreasonable search (and seizure of your privacy) under the 4th amendment.

Location data specifically should be treated as the most private data about a person. It should have the highest scrutiny for any access. It is more important than your financial records and medical records.

The real question is what percentage of GDP is directly created (or continues to exist) because of the increased debt. When this metric was created the GDP was more authentic and not debt driven.

It is an open question just how much of "social media" has been similar to moltbook for many years. Or maybe Zuckerberg being an android himself just finally found his home.

I've been hoping someone can make a text based modern version of Lord or TradeWars. Having LLMs generate a lot of the gameplay and text dynamically would be one idea.

Closing the strait of Hormuz is worse for Iran and China than anyone else. Natural gas to Europe but not as big of an issue compared to Russian energy supplies. The Saudis and others have pipelines to bypass the strait. Many countries who sell oil obviously benefit from the increased price. I'd almost see how the U.S., Russia, Saudis and even the current administration in Venezuela would be fine with the oil price increase if Irans supply is taken off the market for a long time.

Let's assume a nuclear exchange happens at some point during a war. There is a very high chance that this will cause an escalation leading to a nuclear apocalypse.

Since this result is presumably inevitable at increasing frequency, it's more like nukes prevented another major world war and stole a form of peace from the future, temporarily. That peace debt might be repaid with the end of everything.

There has been some reporting that Mandarin and languages similar to it provide several advantages over using English. First, the theory is that a language like Mandarin can encode more complex ideas using much less memory than it would take in a language like English.

Some reports, which I can find and post here if necessary, claim this can lead to a 40% or so overall performance difference.

There is also a view that due to the way complex meanings are encoded in a pictograph type language that it improves the inference stage and ultimately greatly reduces hallucinations.

There has been some work from Microsoft and others to compress tokens from the user side. Other papers have suggested the advantages are so great that a new kind of symbol based language should be created to use for all of the training data.

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of LLM optimization? Is Mandarin and similar languages more efficient for LLMs?

It all brings back nightmares from migrating the older style EDI for healthcare data for what was HL7 XML at the time. XML is widely used still for all kinds of stuff. On some level if JSON was allowed to evolve the same way, eventually you would just wind up with something like XML.

I've always wondered who the target audience is for chopped and screwed mixes... What about it is appealing to you?

The article is calling the attacker a miscreant cyber-scum.

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If he is convicted of a crime, he should face the punishment for that. The article keeps making the point that it is the bars responsibility to "provide accountability" when the criminal justice system fails. This guy sounds awful and one of the allegations is certainly bad, but this idea of a sort of hit job in the press and reputational damage with not even an arrest sure does seem suspicious. When did society start wanting to exclude and punish someone even before any arrest, much less a conviction?

You're still better off with a jury trial over letting one judge make a decision. Your chances of finding impartiality among 6 or 12 jurors is much greater than taking chances with one judge. Unless you're a company or politician who has a financial or political leverage over a judge, then you want to avoid a jury. Sometimes a counter party can have all kinds of quid pro quo, indirect, leverage over a Judge or even a District Attorney. It's a lot more difficult when you have 12 people to deal with.

It's a weird grey zone of laws where the beaches are not officially nude beaches, but they are advertised this way. Many are run by the federal park police. Most anti nudity laws are state laws and as a result, there is kind of a loophole with enforcing it.

Of course, the act of being nude in public can make many believe they have been assaulted when it's just nudity.

The mechanics of the cancellation by the guilt of association should be reconsidered. The focus needs to be on the ones who are accused of crimes or accused of obstructing justice at the justice system level which enabled this to continue for so many years. It may be another unpopular opinion but I also think more focus should be on his execution. There is enough circumstantial evidence to support the idea that he was given a summary execution. After all, any scientist who took money or was targeted by his network was only able to do that because he was not kept in prison. The lack of a trial, the questionable death of the main defendant, all of it creates an atmosphere of secrecy which enables the redactions on files released publicly to become sort of weaponized. The focus is kept everywhere but the people named most often or the redacted names who should be held accountable and face due process without being summarily executed.

I'm kind of surprised how the political and legal network around Feeding Our Future, for example, has gone so unnoticed and underreported.

This can happen just being under investigation. Or worse, no arrest, conviction or investigation. Just word of mouth kind of stuff can do it.

Employers also have a convenient privilege to maintain these narratives about a former employee. This is employer to employer confidentiality where they can say almost anything about you to another potential employer and you never have the chance to hear it or correct it.

Everyone should support the ability of even a person with a conviction to continue working and contributing to society. It's kind of a civil death that leads to bad outcomes for those targeted.

Yes

I mean, they are militas so at the end of the day they will protect the people even if they are told not to..

Automating the upload of a home folder to the darkweb in the middle of an extortion attempt would be pretty weak for a "legendary" hacker.

whoopsie :D

Advertising is a two way street into the content and meaning behind your otherwise private conversations with a chatbot.

Blue cities should have local citizen backed militias under the control of the mayor.

It's a scale between sanctions and other forms of blocking trade. Cutting off Kaliningrad will be a key part of punishing Russia as it moves more into Ukraine. There have been many instances of deliveries turned back through lithuania, sometimes causing massive disruptions to shipping to Kaliningrad. There has been a lot of threats from Russia that if the blockade gets to be fully enforced that they will respond militarily. Having total access to this port is going to be the next phase of the Russian war.

Regardless, without Kaliningrad being a factor, it is still Denmark's responsibility to control those waterways to deny Russia access to the North Atlantic. Having to reinforce Greenland is taking resources away from Denmark enforcing its area in the Baltic Sea.

There is a lot of information about it over the past few years from more international sources. And no, it's not imagined.

The really debatable issue is with the reported attempted agreement by the Trump admin and attempts by Russia to sort of trade Ukraine to Russia for Venezuela. If this turns out to be true, and you can find domestic reporting on this offer having been made a few years ago, then places like Kaliningrad, Estonia and other former Soviet Republics become the next targets.

Much of this around Greenland has to do with the ongoing land and sea blockade of Kaliningrad. It hasn't been widely reported in the Western media, but it could be the next major flashpoint between Russia and the E.U. Similar to Crimea, Russia wants it's access to the Baltic Sea restored and Kaliningrad is a key part of this. Standing between the English Channel, North Atlantic and Kaliningrad are three waterways through Danish territory. Now because Putins friend in the U.S. is threatening to invade a Danish controlled island (that the U.S. already has a military base on, and effectively controls militarily already), Denmark now has to split its forces to a degree, making it much easier for Russia to accomplish its goals in the Baltic Sea.

I've been considering how feasible it would be to build a modern form of the denial of service low orbit ion cannon by having various LLMs hammer sites until they break. I'm sure anything important already has Cloudflare style DDOS mitigation so maybe it's not as effective. Still, I think it's only a matter of time before someone figures it out.

There have been several amplification attacks using various protocols for DDOS too...