Mod parent funny. Too obvious and low-hanging for insight, if'n I ever had a mod point to give.

That's because we "same people" have zero trust in Agent Orange as he threatens his country's own allies and invades other countries just for fun, while he simultaneously shits the bed over and over and over and over again.

We do, however, have at least some trust in the inspectors who, until the Great Trumpster Fire came along, were ensuring that Iran wasn't building nukes.

That would depend on which agency you're talking about, and how well Microsoft managed to curry favour with Trump.

I hear that money, flattery, and spurious ersatz medals can go a long way toward making der Trumpenfuhrer look the other way. And if the agency in question was NOAA or CDC, Trump might actually hand out a medal.

US is a danger to everyone.

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Here in Canada - at least among us average citizens - NATO is a very iffy thing just now. NATO's supposed leader has threatened the sovereignty of other NATO members, and launched trade wars with some of them. Ambassador to Canada Pete Huckster is an insulting arrogant bully, and he and American politicians are supporting Alberta separatists in a not-so-clandestine fifth column operation aimed at breaking my country apart.

So while the US spying on other NATO members is reprehensible, it's not really extraordinary. Throughout NATO, dealing with that kind of shit from America is just business as usual now.

And if they don't have the scale on their own, they can combine forces with other like-minded countries.

That's probably not ideal, but it would be WAY better than trusting ANY private-sector cloud services provider - never mind an American one - with all that sensitive data.

The Illinois legislation targets the LLMs themselves. I would like to see companion legislation targeting the server farm goldrush as well, since rapid growth in that sector seems to be driven - or at least excused - largely by AI demand.

By far the most prominent news stories deal with the psycho-social and job-market damages caused by LLM use. Equally important are the serious environmental and physical health consequences resulting from the server farms whose growth has exploded since the tech bros started pushing AI as though it's ShamWow.

And then there are Fascist Jews such as Netanyahu, almost everyone in his government and - so it would seem - a very large portion of Israelis. They are the ones who either support or actively participate in genocide, the killing of journalists, and the beating and imprisonment of people who try to give humanitarian aid to starving, dying Palestinians.

As far as I can tell, there are both liberal and conservative Jews among the Fascists. Thankfully, there are also both liberal and conservative Jews among those who denounce the genocide.

The Venn diagram of liberal Jews, conservative Jews, Israelis, Zionists, genocide supporters / deniers, and genocide opponents is one which I would not even attempt to draw. The thought of that makes my head hurt - never mind my heart.

That depends on your definition of "right wing".

I suspect that for most people at your end of the political spectrum the phrase means "conservative, traditional, and with a social, moral, and financial hierarchy that I'm bloody well going to climb as far as I can". I think folks at my end of the spectrum extend that definition to include extremely rich assholes who have invented and fought to legalize accounting dodges which allow them to pay ridiculously low taxes. (Oh, I almost forgot - add in the entirety of the fast-growing military-industrial complex).

Did you know that one of those tricks that the uber-rich use to owe sweet-fuck-all in taxes is to take smaller salaries than some of the people they employ? They pay income tax on those earnings, but they don't pay tax on the large loans-with-extremely-favourable-terms which underwrite their lavish lifestyles.

They themselves - along with, say, shares in their companies - are the collateral for loans which allow them to pay income tax on only a VERY small portion of the money which is really "income" by any reasonable standard. Unfortunately, tax laws aren't a reasonable standard.

Any guesses as to who pushed for, and had their hands and noses in, crafting the tax laws? You see, THOSE people are the ones by which we lefties largely identify the "right wing". The identity politics, social conservatism, "pull your own weight" rhetoric and the like are just sleight-of-hand distractions.

They'll make a deal with the king to promote more non woke content.

Well, at least that would still be some progress....

So is this a legal marriage or one of those common law things? Maybe the expenses you avoided involved the expensive wedding and so forth?

Trying to bridge to the "state of sin" joke that I was expecting on this story. Yours was the best of the jokes on offer, but I had much higher hopes for the story.

Me? If an AI certified the system as random, then I have my doubts.

Oh yeah, I suppose I better complete my citation of the ancient joke, hadn't I?

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann, 1951

With the growing ability to run local models at home on your own hardware, especially if you have Apple Silicon computers....I'm wondering if soon we'll see a LARGE drop in subscriptions to the Frontier models?

From what I'm seeing these local models can do what about 98% of the populace needs....and you aren't sharing your data with a corporation that is just sucking up all your data into their AI?

SSDs have gotten stoopid expensive anyway, so maybe it's a good time to go back to spinning rust.

Then again, might this attack even work on the the silicon of a magnetic drive? Or is the buffer too small to be vulnerable in the same way?

According to the first source, the total spending by colleges in the USA is $700 billion.

That would make the spending the second largest federal government budget item, just below social security.

- What gets cut from the federal budget?
- Will the free college include free books, free housing, free transportation, free school supplies?
- How many dollars of free education at the college level will someone be limited to over their lifetime?
- Will there be age limits so that going to free college is not a retirement entertainment plan for people who are very unlikely to pay payroll taxes?
- Will there be limits so that someone cannot relocate to the USA, get a free education, then relocate to another country?
- Will the free college be means tested, so that a wealthy family's daughter or son does not get free education?
- Will the free college be limited to public universities, or can it be used to pay for buildings / salaries for religious universities?

Since the earlier comment was mentioned that payroll taxes will be higher, will their be a clawback if someone goes to college for free and either does not graduate, never works, or earns less than 1.5x minimum wage? The clawback being turning the free college which is unused / underused into a college loan or garnishment of wages / transfer payments.

Source A - Educational spending https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/...
Source B - Federal budget spending https://fiscaldata.treasury.go...

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"How can the government of Spain get the maximum tax revenue from this new business?"