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huis, 26 days ago to random Dutch

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/01/25/vvder-malik-azmani-samenwerken-met-extreem-rechts-in-europa-is-onvoorstelbaar-a4188168 #vvd #nsc

huis, 26 days ago to random Dutch

VVD-Europarlementariër @bartgroothuis spreekt zich tijdens lijsttrekkersdebat uit tegen regering met PVV https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/05/15/europese-verkiezingen-15-mei-a4198929 #vvd #nsc

huis, 3 months ago to random Dutch

@basheijne schetst in @nrc_nl #wilders rookgordijn “wie denkt serieus dat de van oudsher pro-Russische #pvv die electoraal ver boven alle partijen uittorent, op dit punt onvoorwaardelijk overstag zal gaan?”
Precies deze indruk lijkt #wilders momenteel te geven; een onmiddelijk en aanwezig gevaar voor Nederland en Europa. #bbb #nsc #vvd #groenlinks #pvda .
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/02/23/de-russen-moeten-in-de-pan-gehakt-worden-maar-reken-niet-op-ons-a4191059

huis, 4 months ago to random Dutch

‘Een half jaar geleden zou het verhaal van Pool politiek ongeveer net zo irrelevant zijn geweest als het complot-geleuter uit FvD-kringen. Nu dingt de #pvv mee naar een plek op het hoogste niveau in het landsbestuur.” #nsc #vvd “Als een PVV-kamerlid spreekt, spreekt er geen volksvertegenwoordiger maar een afgezant van Wilders.” (de PVV is geen partij, maar heeft één lid; #geertwilders).

huis, 5 months ago to Israel Dutch

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/23/israel-flooding-hamas-tunnels-seawater-risks-ruining-basic-life-gaza-expert
"Environmental experts have warned the strategy – which Israel has yet to commit to – risks causing an ecological catastrophe that will leave Gaza with no drinkable water and devastate ...agriculture in the 141 sq mile territory."

"seawater pumped into the hundreds of kilometres of tunnels crisscrossing the porous, sandy soil of Gaza would inevitably seep into the aquifer that its 2.3 million residents rely on for about 85% of their water."
#gaza #israel

huis, 5 months ago to random Dutch

De WOLF

#TomJanMeeus schreef in nov. 2020 "Martin Bosma gebruikte de term "omvolking" maar liefst tien keer in vijf jaar...De AIVD noemde mensen die dit woord gebruiken in 2018 'rechts-extremistisch' omdat ze het 'zuiver houden van het blanke ras nastreven"

Drie maanden later, tijdens de herdenking #februaristaking1941 zei #GeertMak "Plotseling staat de wolf nu werkelijk voor ons, pal voor onze neus".
https://tinyurl.com/3bcpbphh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHT-3KpNzfk

#pvda #gl #nsc #vvd #pvv #grondwet

https://februaristaking.nl/spreker/geert-mak/

huis, 7 months ago to Palestine Dutch

5 Broken Cameras

Injustice, hazard and hope are vividly captured in this defiant one-man chronicle of life in an embattled Palestinian village
#emadburnat #palestine #westbank #israel #gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/oct/21/5-broken-cameras-review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7RxpwH_its

petersuber, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

"Jennifer Petersen keeps 73 school books she detests in her basement…In the last year, she read each one. She highlighted and typed up excerpts from more than 1,300 pages…that she says depict sexual acts." https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/28/virginia-frequent-school-book-challenger-spotsylvania/
(#paywalled)

See the photo of her books bristling with bookmarks.

Reminds me of the woman speaking to Dr. Johnson in 1755 after he published his dictionary.

𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯: Sir, thank you for omitting all the dirty words.

𝘋𝘳. 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯: Madam, I'm glad you checked.

#BookBans

randahl, 8 months ago to random

Russia’s central bank has raised the basic interest rate to 13 percent to prevent Russians from lending money in order to lower their purchasing power to combat inflation.

Imagine what this does to a society when people cannot afford to buy a home or renovate an existing one, get a car loan, and companies cannot expand, farmers cannot build a new barn, and so on.

In the long run this will of course affect employment, innovation, tax revenue, everything.

It is downhill from here.

failed crash and burn GIF by truTV’s Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters

1br0wn, 10 months ago to random

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ct_bergstrom, 1 year ago to random

For the entire span of my life, people have tried to develop AI systems and anticipated a day when those systems can pass the Turing Test.

Now that day has arrived, and no one seems to care about Turing Tests anymore. Why not?

Is it that

1. We're not actually there? It would take more than a few simple patches (google the answer to arithmetic questions!) on top of ChatGPT to pass a turing test?

2. Arriving there makes it clear that the Turing Test never was the right metric?