It sounds like – though is not explicitly stated – that this study is specific to the 2020 election. I’m not sure that this can be generalized to all misinformation.
I could easily imagine election involvement being different than, say, information about Ukraine.
Also, the criteria here was whether people linked to sites used to spread misinformation, rather than whether an individual story was true or not. So the metric here is maybe specific to ability to evaluate how sketchy an online news source is. If, for example, a friend posted some information directly, it might be that behavior would be different.
I absolutely do not want a ban on felons running for President. In some countries, that is used as a political tool to eliminate political opponents. Putin used that against Navalny.
I don’t think that avoiding vaccines is a very good idea, but I only really care about it to the extent that it’s a risk to other people.
With COVID-19, there’s a major risk in that a dangerous disease is rapidly spreading and there’s a major concern that hospitals may get overwhelmed, leading to death rates spiking. Not being vaccinated was a serious risk to other people.
In this case, according to the article, only 1.4% of the people involved had been fully-vaccinated. Even if every single case was a result of an infection from someone who wasn’t vaccinated, virtually all of the people who are being hurt are either not vaccinated or only partially-vaccinated. There is no risk of hospitals being overwhelmed.
It’s not zero-impact on other people, but that impact is pretty limited in this case.
In general, my take is that people should be entitled to a warning, but if they still want to do something to themselves that is a really bad idea and the impact is pretty much on them, well…
The operations used OpenAI’s technology to generate social media posts, translate and edit articles, write headlines and debug computer programs, typically to win support for political campaigns or to swing public opinion in geopolitical conflicts.
Covert activity against other countries seems like an area where one might want to invest in one’s own automated translation tools, or at least hire a human translator.
but argued his death was “an accident that could have been avoided had Mr. Sterling simply turned himself in” before a task force was assigned to catch him.
That’s probably true. However.
It’s fine for a police officer to hit someone with a car, and it’s been done on many occasions.
But that’s also considered to be deadly force, like shooting them.
There is a threshold where an officer, or anyone else, using deadly force is acceptable in each state.
If it doesn’t meet the bar, can’t use deadly force.
This isn’t the criminal code, just the Michigan state policy, but that should be written to reflect the criminal code:
Enforcement members may only discharge a firearm at a vehicle in the following circumstances:
Self-defense or defense of another - to justify the discharge of a firearm at a vehicle there must be some overt action on the part of the driver to establish an intent to kill or severely injure, as opposed to actions taken to escape arrest.
Life-threatening felonies with the use of a firearm - weapon may be pointed and/or discharged at a vehicle when an enforcement member has probable cause to believe an occupant has committed a life-threatening felony (murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, attempted armed robbery, felony arson, attempted arson, certain kidnapping crimes and criminal sexual conduct involving a weapon).
That’s talking about firearm use, but the underlying legal code will be dealing with any use of deadly force.
Initially after the attack, the Laax had listed its destination as Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. On Thursday, however, its listed destination instead appeared to be Bandar Khomeini, Iran.
Hmm.
Is it possible that they just diverted as a result of the attack? I mean, they got attacked and the ship was damaged. That’s not business as usual. That might have affected the delivery schedule or other things that might affect the destination. It might mean that they wanted to head to a port that could do some kind of repair work.
this really doesn’t concern me. Its capabilities are probably more like a battering ram than anything high tech.
There has been discussion recently about Russia discussing imminent deployment of a nuclear anti-satellite weapon. I don’t know if this is that, but the timing is right.
We discovered that high-altitude nuclear explosions are pretty bad news.
Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency. It was launched from Johnston Atoll on July 9, 1962, and was the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space, and one of five conducted by the US in space.
Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements. The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 900 miles (1,450 km) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights,: 5 setting off numerous burglar alarms, and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP damage to the microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian Islands.
The explosion released roughly 10^29 electrons into the Earth’s magnetosphere. While some of the energetic beta particles followed the Earth’s magnetic field and illuminated the sky, other high-energy electrons became trapped and formed radiation belts around the Earth. The added electrons increased the intensity of electrons within the natural inner Van Allen radiation belt by several orders of magnitude. There was much uncertainty and debate[by whom?] about the composition, magnitude and potential adverse effects from the trapped radiation after the detonation. The weaponeers became quite worried when three satellites in low Earth orbit were disabled. These included TRAAC and Transit 4B. The half-life of the energetic electrons was only a few days. At the time it was not known that solar and cosmic particle fluxes varied by a factor of 10, and energies could exceed 1 MeV (0.16 pJ). In the months that followed, these man-made radiation belts eventually caused six or more satellites to fail, as radiation damaged their solar arrays or electronics, including the first commercial relay communication satellite, Telstar, as well as the United Kingdom’s first satellite, Ariel 1. Detectors on Telstar, TRAAC, Injun, and Ariel 1 were used to measure distribution of the radiation produced by the tests.
In 1963, it was reported that Starfish Prime had created a belt of MeV electrons. In 1968, it was reported that some Starfish electrons had remained in the atmosphere for 5 years.
Way back then, there were few satellites in orbit. There are a lot more now.
EDIT: Okay, I take it back. It looks like the development was what was being talked about, and that the deployment was explicitly not imminent:
A senior Defense Department official told lawmakers Wednesday that Russia is developing an “indiscriminate” anti-satellite nuclear device that would pose a threat to all satellites operated by countries and companies around the world.
"The concept that we are concerned about is Russia developing and — if we are unable to convince them otherwise — to ultimately fly a nuclear weapon in space which will be an indiscriminate weapon” that would not distinguish among military, civilian or commercial satellites, John Plumb, the assistant secretary of defense for space policy, said at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing.
He said the threat was “not imminent” but that the Pentagon and the “entire” Biden administration were concerned about the program.
So this is probably some other kind of “space weapon”.
New processor, better, brighter display, 120Hz display refresh, thermal improvements in cooling of processor and voltage regulation system, color-coded expansion modules to match bezel, high monitor resolution to avoid fractional scaling, better webcam, new expansion module for SD card storage, option for keyboard with “Super”-labeled key rather than Windows key.
For small-medium businesses, can ship with Windows 11 and provides longer warranty, scaled up support staff.
Neither of my two wishlist items, 100Wh battery or triple mechanical trackpad buttons, though.
That being said, I’m not sure that that’s from the 1930s. That car has what I assume are supposed to be whitewall tires, which apparently existed in the 1930s but peaked in popularity in the 1950s. I’m no vintage car expert, but to me, the body styling looks more like what I get when I search for 1940s cars than either 1930s (cars were still boxier, didn’t have a streamlined appearance) or 1950s (loss of the protruding tire guards or whatever those are called).
And I guess that the car alarm is probably anachronistic, but that that’s intentional.
An American Airlines flight bound for Boston was forced to abort takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday morning to avoid another plane that was landing....
The Summer of the Shark refers to the coverage of shark attacks by American news media in the summer of 2001. The sensationalist coverage of shark attacks began in early July following the Fourth of July weekend shark attack on 8-year-old Jessie Arbogast, and continued almost unabated—despite no evidence for an actual increase in attacks—until the September 11 terrorist attacks shifted the media’s attention away from beaches. The Summer of the Shark has since been remembered as an example of tabloid television perpetuating a story with no real merit beyond its ability to draw ratings.
Graduating with student loan debt is an all too common reality for new college degree holders beginning their careers. But there’s another, often overlooked cohort of debtors facing their own set of challenges: Americans over the age of 55 approaching their retirement years....
How did the loan even wind up lasting that long in the first place? Shouldn’t the repayment terms have had it being paid off way before that? I mean, you’d have to have that loan outstanding for something like 40 years for it to reach retirement age. Even house loan terms aren’t that long.
Death Valley, California, breaks the all-time world heat record for the second year in a row
If verified, the 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4°C) reading at the Furnace Creek Visitor’s Center on Friday, July 9, 2021, would be Earth’s highest reliably measured temperature.
There are a whole lot more people living in Delhi than Death Valley, though.
EDIT: According to this, the hottest temperature India has been recorded seeing prior to this was in 2016:
A temperature reading collected in Delhi, India’s capital territory, may have broken national records as the country grapples with a blistering heat wave. The reading — 52.9 degrees Celsius or 126.1 degrees Fahrenheit — was preliminary and technically an outlier compared with others taken in Delhi on the same day, officials said. But, if confirmed, it would be the highest temperature ever registered anywhere in India.
The temperature reading came from a substation in Mungeshpur, a neighborhood in Delhi. Located in the northwest, India’s capital territory — which includes its capital city, New Delhi — is home to almost 30 million people and covers about 600 square miles of land. The Indian Meteorological Department said in a news release that the reading out of Mungeshpur could be due to a sensor issue or some other error, and that it would examine the data and the sensor.
You’re working at Obsidian, and now that you are all part of the Microsoft Studios family, would you be interested in working on another Fallout game?
Yeah, I mean, I think I’ve consistently said that. I think that would be really cool. I think the circumstances would have to be right for it because I got my chance to work on a Fallout game. And even though at release it was not super well received, over time it’s grown in appreciation, for which I’m very grateful. I’m glad that fans do really enjoy the things that I thought were really good about it. And I believe the effort that the other designers put into it that made it feel unique and special while still being undeniably a Fallout game. So I feel like I fulfilled that, and I don’t want to fuck it up, right? I don’t want to just make a game for the sake of doing it. So yes, and I’ll say this over and over again, I don’t make these decisions. Stuff like this happens well above my head. I know I have a prominent position in the industry, but I’m just a studio design director. I’m not a studio head. I’m not Feargus. I’m not someone like Phil Spencer or anything like that. So yeah, I think that would be really cool if the circumstances are right.
Apparently they had been giving homeless people some amount of unused hotel space.
The housing charity said people being declared homeless in Edinburgh who would usually be offered temporary accommodation such as hotels were being sent out of the city due to a severe shortage in accommodation caused by the concert.
Much more happily than I would a field of non-disarmed ones.
Military explosives are generally pretty stable. They can’t just explode when you bump them.
If your detonation mechanism requires ignition of a primer by a battery that (a) is runs a timer and then disables itself and (b) has batteries that only last so long anyway, there’s not a lot that can reasonably set the thing off.
Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.com)
LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN HUSH-MONEY CASE (www.nytimes.com)
edit: I have changed my title to match the new NYTimes headline. Sorry about the all caps, I guess they are really excited about this lol...
Biden gives Ukraine permission to carry out limited strikes within Russia using US weapons (www.cnn.com)
More than 90% of chickenpox cases in New York City outbreak among unvaccinated people (abcnews.go.com)
Just 1.4% of cases were among people who received two vaccine doses.
OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its A.I. in Covert Campaigns (www.nytimes.com)
Iran and an Israeli company also exploited the tools in online influence efforts, but none gained much traction, an OpenAI report said....
Michigan state trooper accused of fatally hitting a fleeing suspect with an SUV is charged with murder (www.cnn.com)
Ship attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels was full of grain bound for Iran, the group's main benefactor (apnews.com)
Trump ‘seriously considering’ pardoning Julian Assange | News | gazette.com (gazette.com)
US Officials: A Russian Rocket Launch Last Week Likely Deployed A Space Weapon (soylentnews.org)
NEW 2024 Framework Laptop 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) (www.youtube.com)
Man of Action - Kerry Callen (lemmy.world)
This is not part of Kerry Callen’s main Super Antics comics series, but the hilarious and short-lived related series can be seen here....
American Airlines flight forced to abort takeoff at Reagan National Airport to avoid hitting another plane (www.cnn.com)
An American Airlines flight bound for Boston was forced to abort takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday morning to avoid another plane that was landing....
Millions of older Americans still grapple with student loan debt, hindering retirement (www.cbsnews.com)
Graduating with student loan debt is an all too common reality for new college degree holders beginning their careers. But there’s another, often overlooked cohort of debtors facing their own set of challenges: Americans over the age of 55 approaching their retirement years....
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups (arstechnica.com)
Delhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national record (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16243336...
Josh Sawyer Reflects on Design Evolution: From Icewind Dale to Pentiment (www.sector.sk)
Ukraine Getting Swedish Airborne Early Warning Radar Planes Is A Big Deal (www.twz.com)
Ukraine's FrankenSAM That Uses RIM-7 Sea Sparrow Missiles Breaks Cover (www.twz.com)
In desperate need of air defenses, Ukraine’s Soviet-designed SA-11 Buk mobile air defense systems have been outfitted with Sea Sparrows.
Homeless sent out of Edinburgh to make room for Taylor Swift fans (www.bbc.co.uk)
Poland unveils details of €2.4bn fortification of eastern borders (notesfrompoland.com)
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)