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  1. I've got a CZ P-07 and it's a lovely shooter and I like the DA/SA trigger that can allow for restriking a round
  2. Member when people used to get mad about sexualizing children? Truly, America is great again ReutersMeta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots...Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents fileJan 27 (Reuters) - Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mexico state court case and made public Monday. The lawsuit – brought by the state’s attorney general, Raul Torrez, and scheduled for trial next month – alleges that Meta "failed to stem the tide of damaging sexual material and sexual propositions delivered to children" on Facebook and Instagram. The filing on Monday included internal Meta employee emails and messages obtained by the New Mexico Attorney General's Office through legal discovery. The state alleges they show that "Meta, driven by Zuckerberg, rejected the recommendations of its integrity staff and declined to impose reasonable guardrails to prevent children from being subject to sexually exploitative conversations with its AI chatbots," the attorney general said in the filing. In the communications, some of Meta’s safety staff expressed objections that the company was building chatbots geared for companionship, including sexual and romantic interactions with users. The artificial intelligence chatbots were released in early 2024. The documents cited in the state’s filing Monday don’t include messages or memos authored by Zuckerberg. Meta spokesman Andy Stone on Monday said the state’s portrayal was inaccurate and relied on selective information. "This is yet another example of the New Mexico Attorney General cherry-picking documents to paint a flawed and inaccurate picture." Messages in the filing showed safety staff had special concern about the bots being used for romantic scenarios between adults and minors under the age of 18, referred to as “U18s.” “I don’t believe that creating and marketing a product that creates U18 romantic AI’s for adults is advisable or defensible,” wrote Ravi Sinha, head of Meta’s child safety policy, in January 2024. In reply, Meta global safety head Antigone Davis agreed that safety staff should push to block adults from creating underage romantic companions because “it sexualizes minors.”
  3. The whole interview with Pablo Torre is a great watch, they literally have thank you notes from russian regiments explicitly thanking them for breaking sanctions, along with other NBA owners on record saying they have no idea where he gets his revenue from Edit: basically Ubiquity has no sales teams and exclusively uses 3rd party partner vendors. They have zero compliance or anything like that. In the reporting, they pose as a russian and the ubiquity sales rep helps them set up a sale that is brokered through Turkey so that they can evade sanctions. They even have a $100k order minimum since it's breaking sanctions. And they were fined $500k in 2019 as a first time offense after it turned out they are the backbone of Iran's network infrastructure, so they are teed up to get whacked
  4. My BIL is getting deployed to Afghanistan this weekend... Again. Going to the send off ceremony from Mabry this weekend and have been filling up a 1tb SSD with movies and shows and games and emulators for him during the long boring times.
  5. Well TBH the thing of it is when you're dealing with fascists, they're going to act as if you did do the horrible terrible thing so that they can justify the act themselves. YOU are guilty of the same overconfidence in ability to withstand trump, given the years of you convincing us that Aileen Cannon wasn't in the tank for trump, and the justice system wasn't working actively for his advantage
  6. Don't forget, TRANS ATHLETICS!!!
  7. Welp. ICE tried to storm an Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis today, so that's a new low PrimiciasAgentes de ICE habrían intentado entrar al Consulado de E...'Este es un consulado. No pueden entrar', dijo el personal diplomático ecuatoriano del Consulado de Ecuador en Mineápolis, en el estado de Minesota, cuando agentes de ICE habrían tratado de ingresar a(Machine translated) In recent days in that city, two Ecuadorian minors have been detained amid raids on migrants and protests. In addition, American nurse Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE agents while recording the detention of an Ecuadorian. "We are all surprised ", an Ecuadorian diplomatic source in the United States told PRIMICIAS about the entry of ICE members to the Consulate. Another source confirmed to this media that, on January 27, they learned that ICE agents appeared to be chasing an Ecuadorian who entered the Consulate to hide.
  8. Pretty good mapping of Andor to current events - which is pitch-perfect with Gilroy's intent. Great analysis, occassionally trips over his words, but the comparison of how Minneapolis is being treated and enduring to Ghorman rings true to me. Ghorman was targetted with propaganda campaigns to eventually justify a step up in military presence and eventually put on the mask and do a good old fashioned atrocity with faceless stormtroopers. Once they're wearing masks, it isn't for their protection. It's because they have permission for what is about to happen. If you're sensitive to the issues and current events, sorry and please scroll on.
  9. A principal networking engineer I work with swears by ubiquity and his home lab is full of it. He was pretty shocked by the article and is gonna stop buying their stuff
  10. Copyright law has been abused via the DMCA in which it becomes a federal felony to "break a digital lock" (read: decrypt a file). Right to repair is currently stymied by companies arbitrarily encrypting protocols and software interfaces for the sole purpose of denying repair and extensibility. That's exactly what John Deere has been doing for a decade plus now. It's the ultimate anticompetitive cudgel to enable the most profit extraction possible
  11. CBP getting on the casualty board in Arizona NBC NewsOne person in critical condition after being shot in inci...The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.A person was shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday, according to a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesperson. The individual, who has not been identified, was shot in southern Pima County near milepost 15 of West Arivaca Road at around 7:30 a.m., according to a news release from the Santa Rita Fire District. The fire department said it transported the person in critical condition. The circumstances leading to the incident were not immediately clear. There is no information whether anyone from law enforcement was injured in the incident. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Crews from the Santa Rita Fire District and American Medical Response provided medical care to the individual on the scene, according to the news release. "Patient care was transferred to a local medical helicopter for rapid transport to a regional trauma center," the fire department said. "The incident remains under active investigation by law enforcement agencies."
  12. Also here's the Hunterbrook story directly HUNTERBROOKUbiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone WarBased on Hunterbrook Media’s reporting, Hunterbrook Capital is short $UI and long a basket of comparable securities at the time of publication. Positions may change at any time. See full disclosures bThat's fucking wild and disgusting. I'm glad I don't have any of their equipment, but Ubiquity is in pretty clear violation of US Sanctions selling this much hardware to russia
  13. As always, Pablo Torre Finds Out This is a long-form interview with a co-founder of Hunterbrook on the reporting
  14. I don't think we can say that person really exists at scale, is the thing. The data simply doesn't support it. Sure there may be a bunch of folks who try it once, but then they go back to their old workflows MAU numbers and token consumption would be SIGNIFICANTLY higher if the average American worker was using Gemini/ChatGPT/Claude for everyday work and leisure
  15. It's really an interesting sociological lens to apply though - LLM's tend to blow smoke up your ass and empower you to feel like an expert even if you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. That definitely is going to resonate with a political party and movement that has made its biggest gains on rejecting experts and proudly proclaiming "I DID MY OWN RESEARCH!!!"
  16. Don't forget the explicit goal to be securing their voter records, so that way once the supreme court overturns birthright citizenship they can rewrite election results by picking and choosing which votes actually count
  17. Can't park there, mate
  18. We don't need no stinking free speech! And also lulz good luck cracking thousands of e2ee chats It is funny that the citizens of Minneapolis have better opsec than the feds
  19. It's darkly funny, the Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! published in March 1945 on the road to Berlin even dead nuts lays it out to a tee Hitler and his associates adopted the name of National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi) and announced objectives that attracted many German people. The official title of the Nazi party was deliberately worded for its propaganda value, appealing to "nationalists," "socialists," "workers," and all others who might be favorably influenced by these labels. At the very time that the fascists proclaimed that their party was the party of the "average citizen," they were in the pay of certain big industrialists and financiers who wanted to run the people with an iron hand. The whole thing is worth a read, it is some strong anti fascist stuff that also worryingly describes much of what we are observing now with striking parallels
  20. I'm pretty sure we're past the tipping point - gold has passed USD as the main global reserve, and I don't see that changing. We are a net-import economy and a weak dollar is gonna be bad thing for us, and all signs point to USD's becoming just another forex. It's a great time to diversify into some European stocks and ETF's - I picked up a thousand shares of VEU to diversify a little bit and lock in some gains, and it's had a 33% return over the last year. I'd bet Europe and their trading symbols are gonna be getting more trade love than the US resulting in more value going there than here. At least, assuming that shit doesn't get wild
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