kcarruthers

kcarruthers, 7 hours ago to random

Conservative Heritage Foundation plan calls for Trump to kill everyone on federal death row: "A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential second term calls for the swift execution of everyone on federal death row, continuing the historic federal execution spree that took place during the Trump administration."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-death-penalty-plan-b2542656.html

kcarruthers, 16 hours ago to random

ROFL 🤣: OpenAI—which has scraped the internet and fed copyrighted works into its own products—has filed a copyright claim over the OpenAI logo being used on the ChatGPT subreddit

"It does not seem wise for OpenAI to start enforcing copyright claims."

https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

kcarruthers, 18 hours ago to random

UC Davis spent ~$175k trying to repair its image & remove pic from net after a campus police officer pepper-sprayed student protesters on the Quad in Nov. 2011

https://theaggie.org/2016/04/14/documents-reveal-uc-davis-spent-175000-to-erase-pepper-spray-incident-from-internet/

jonoabroad, 21 hours ago to random

the cloud, it's an all wonderful and you don't need to worry about physical hardware or bothering with that low level stuff.

RIGHT UP UNTIL YOU WANT OR REQUIRE A FUCKING VNET AND THEN WE ARE ALL BACK IN THE FUCKING 1980s AND MASKING IP ADDRESSES BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE WHO COULD POSSIBLY ABSTRACT NETWORK ACCESS INTO SOMETHING LESS MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHAHHAHAAH

kcarruthers, 1 day ago to random

Two more sleeps until MrMaxi comes home. I miss the little guy.

oberonsghost, 1 day ago to random

There is dinosaur erotica?

kcarruthers, 1 day ago to random

Keeping it all in the family: Barron Trump picked to serve as a Florida delegate at Republican National Convention

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/barron-trump-picked-serve-florida-delegate-republican-national/story?id=110049809

kcarruthers, 1 day ago to random

Tl;Dr nope! Bonza fallout: Can Australia sustain another airline? - ABC listen

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/brisbane-mornings/bonza-airline-competition/103814360

kcarruthers, 1 day ago to random

NIH to open long #COVID clinical trials to study sleep disturbances, exercise intolerance, and post exertional malaise
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-open-long-covid-clinical-trials-study-sleep-disturbances-exercise-intolerance-post-exertional-malaise

kcarruthers, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

“The big difference…was that all of the scientists I worked with were incredibly frustrated. Everyone was at the end of their rope, asking: what the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is?”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

kcarruthers, 1 day ago to random

😬 OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn: released draft guidelines for how it wants AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—& exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-exploring-how-to-responsibly-generate-ai-porn/

kcarruthers, 1 day ago to random

“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/meir-reuven-kahane-columbia-student-protest-car-assault

kcarruthers, 1 day ago to random

Y’a reckon? “We need to avoid replicating the experience of the 1990s, when taming inflation involved destroying the economy”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/article/2024/may/09/those-calling-for-higher-interest-rates-in-australia-should-be-careful-of-what-they-wish-for

kcarruthers, 2 days ago to random

Living rurally raises the risk of intimate partner violence for women. The main risk factors are the same as in the city, but there are issues specific to the bush that have to be addressed: In rural Australia, everyone knows your business – so it’s harder for victims of violence to get help [ie everyone knows but nobody wants to intervene]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/07/in-rural-australia-everyone-knows-your-business-so-its-harder-for-victims-of-violence-to-get-help

kcarruthers, 2 days ago to random

When you’ve even lost the New Statesman: The Tories’ death spiral - Rishi Sunak has failed to provide his party with the coherent leadership it needs.

https://www.newstatesman.com/new-statesman-view/2024/05/conservatives-sunak-death-spiral

kcarruthers, 2 days ago to random

Fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year, a BBC analysis finds.
Nearly 50 days have smashed existing highs for the time of year by the largest margin in the satellite era.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68921215

kcarruthers, 2 days ago to random

Hvordan har det seg jeg nyser og nå gjør ryggen vondt. 🤦‍♀️

kcarruthers, 2 days ago to random

I’m I just sneezed and hurt my back years old.

kcarruthers, 2 days ago to random

Exclusive [pretty sure it is known though]: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds 🫣
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

kcarruthers, 2 days ago to random

OMG the bathroom builders are so much more inefficient than the kitchen builders.