Intercepting the shipment, lining the interior of with some explosive (some putty that could hug all open space, or swapping out the batteries with custom ones that are half filled, etc), then wiring up a microchip that triggers when a specific code of 1’s & 0’s is received, or perhaps audio signal.

We’re talking about a state secret police here. There is no law or order. There is no “democracy”. They have billions of dollars in funding, and a mandate to do whatever they want with essentially zero consequences.

What I find most concerning is that a large number of people/journalists considered it plausible to blow up a (edit: stock standard) pager remotely via some hack or zero day.

The war crimes are expected.

When there are zero consequences for war crimes, the “rules based” law and order we virtue signal is completely meaningless.

Companies will pass costs onto consumers anyway, so best to make them all bear the same costs and be on a level playing field. No point targeting consumers directly unless it’s greenwashing.

My city banned plastic bags a year ago. I’m still using ones from 2-3 years ago. The bags that replaced them are advertised as more “reusable” but use like 5-10x more plastic per bag and I doubt I’m going to even get double the longevity. Really feels like they did it to benefit the fossil fuel merchants of death, and not reduce plastic at all… especially considering everything else is still wrapped in single use plastic.

Sounds like a great way to lose a ton of your best employees.

He has now agreed to forfeit the money along with various aircraft parts.

Oh look. Another example that we live in capitalist plutocracy’s masquerading as democracy™️… Imagine trafficking drugs and the only consequence being forfeiture of the proceeds and inventory.

Non violent drug offense? Life in prison! Violating sanctions and assisting a hostile enemy? Oopsie whoopsie!

Just plutocracies, doing plutocratic things, because they’re plutocracies.

You’re clearly one of the reasons the quality is so low. Wasting everyone’s time using lemmy as your personal link aggregator. It’s obnoxious af.

America’s a plutocracy, so there’s like a 90% chance nothing will come of it.

What the scientific community needs to do is make publishers irrelevant by creating a series of FOSS projects similar to the fediverse — architected, coded, owned, and operated by the scientific community — with the explicit goal of making a universal scientific journal where peer review is open, transparent, and at cost.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a handful of publishers to gate-keep peer-review in 2024. All of the problems are technically solved, and inexpensive. The only thing that’s necessary is the will.

Yeah, the quality on Lemmy is nowhere near what Reddit was back in its heyday 10+ years ago; mostly due to the quality of the users; users who think content like this is worthy of posting and upvoting.

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I’ll snort the blow off their nail, though. I’m not a hater.

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Sure, you had fewer ads before, but now you got slightly fewer ads than the amount known to induce seizures. Blessed be the fruit!

It’s like saying “Republican party working directly with Fox News, Breitbart, and OANN to spread disinformation”

Yeah … No shit!

I’m getting off right now

If that’s the case then the Cartels already elect/make most of the politicians — whom select the judges — so there’s not really much of a difference, is there?

Programs have “learned” how to play games without instruction — most recently with rat neurons playing Doom — and that’s what they’ll attempt to do with LLM’s. It must learn from feedback, experience and interaction as we could never code something that complex.

I don’t believe LLM’s can achieve general AI, but humans are just organic pattern recognition devices at the end of the day — a brain in an organic machine that can sense a fraction of the world around us.

The problem is that LLM’s are dumb, thus dangerous when given autonomy, they’ll be used to wage war, and the military industrial complex is more likely to destroy us with autonomous LLM killbots than achieve general AI.

95% of corporations and 100% of multinationals are greedy parasites who only virtue signal when it’s profitable (mainstream) to do so.

Those that had any real virtue have been destroyed or acquired by the parasites.

The USA FREEDOM Act violates US citizens freedoms and civil liberties.

The “democratic” republic of NK has never been democratic.

Fox News had the motto “Fair and Balanced” for like 20 years, despite being a conservative state propaganda machine.

Turns out you can just lie without consequences!