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Cake day: July 9th, 2024

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  • This sounds exactly an AI generated slopicle, with all the typical phrasing and re-wording you expect. It basically takes lines straight from the refenced articles and slightly rewords and/or adds little interpretative phrases to them.

    Folks, we need to start learning to recognize this kind of crap and not be fooled by it. For example:


    Hindustan Times simple statement: “A neighbor further told the Daily Mail that she spotted Jonathan Ross’s wife Patrixia pacing around the driveway on Wednesday afternoon.”

    This: “She was spotted looking frantic as she walked back and forth in the driveway, according to the Hindustan Times, suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that her husband had been involved in a lethal force incident during his shift.” <-- (oh please! no reporter writes shit like that, “… suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that…”)


    Daily Mall simple statement: > “She also shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook.”

    This: > She appears to enjoy cooking, having previously shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook on social media.


    And what is this?: “Shortly after the shooting, Patrixia and the children were never seen at home again.” That doesn’t even make sense! No human would say that.


  • I’ve just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.

    tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how

    1. all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and

    2. Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them and violated the agreements anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains retaliatory tariffs only hurt their own people, that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withhold billions in rent to the US oligarchs.

    And that’s just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest. edit update: yeah the whole video is worth watching.






  • I don’t know what the arguments against this idea would be, but seems to me like the first thing Denmark needs to do, probably with the help of some allies, is expel the US from Greenland, take over the US military base there and strongly fortify it. Then the US can’t use it for the invasion. I’m sure their plans heavily depend on having and using that base. Don’t say anything beforehand, just show up with enough force that the existing US contingent there can’t win if they fight back, present the eviction notice, and get them moving out before US can send reinforcements.