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5 dagen geledenIf I really had to rank big tech companies in terms of trustworthiness I would be really hard pressed to find one to rank below Meta.
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21·7 dagen geledenAssuming for the moment that all these criticisms are completely correct and valid, “Provides no new information” or “documentation is methodologically unacceptable” or “selective bias” or “took license” do not mean that a book should therefore be characterized as fictional.
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is a three-volume nonfiction series . . .<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago?wprov=sfti1
The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Arkhipelag GULag; literally, “The Gulag Archipelago”) is a three-volume nonfictional literary investigation. . .<
That’s a very large conclusion to reach from one person’s completely undetailed single statement.
I had probably 10 times as many educational hours dedicated to Hitler and the Holocaust as I did learning about Stalin.
As older generations with direct knowledge die off, the younger generations are forgetting.
Not too long ago I started listening to the audiobook of The Gulag Archipelago, and I had to stop a few chapters in because it was negatively affecting my mental health.
You may have heard about the Soviet Union being bad in the 70s and 80s, but that was an absolute cakewalk compared to the Stalin era.
28·11 dagen geledenThe UN budget for 2025 was $3.7 billion
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158531
For comparison, global chewing gum sales in 2025 were $48.68 billion
Posts on it are mostly garbage, but it still seems the best place to find jobs, at least in my own engineering experience.
81·18 dagen geledenI find it very unlikely the US could keep a lid on 200 deaths and saying it’s six. Not for more than a week or so. People’s families are going to wonder where their loved ones are. Hospital workers, morgue workers, life insurance companies, flight crews, people are going to talk, and share pictures.
2·19 dagen geleden“Traffic” definitely implies number of ships.
They have German-style stall doors where even your feet are not visible from outside
10·23 dagen geledenIf you state reasons for doing something that gives everyone a thing to look at to see if you are succeeding or failing.
Trump is, above all else, a master in marketing. He has complete confidence that, through marketing skills, he will be able to take credit for anything good that comes, and all failures can be either ignored or blamed on someone else.
But stating reasons up front makes it harder to do this.
A camera was put up explicitly for the purpose of seeing who is moving the bins, and the guy can’t see who is moving the bins, and the guy never thinks to reposition his camera?
No, that’s AI slop.
A LLM that does not understand that you can’t avoid being seen by a ring camera by ‘approaching from a blind spot. ‘
Meme feels like
- Steal underpants. . .
- Profit!
241·28 dagen geledenI started watching a lot of home-improvement type videos on YouTube, and suddenly since then all the ads now assume my dick is horribly bent and doesn’t work, and that I uncontrollably shit and piss myself.
It’s so pervasive I can’t even watch YouTube on my living room TV with my young kids around because I would have to explain way too much to them.
I would say it’s an extremely blurred line, not a clear difference.
From the perspective of citizens entrusting elected leaders with massive powers they should be considered identical.