As the Lever helped expose last year, Leo’s judicial activism was supercharged in 2021 when a conservative surge protector magnate secretly funneled $1.6bn to his new dark money fund – the largest known political advocacy donation in US history.
Even the design of the student debt case reeks of Leo’s involvement, since just like the Colorado suit, it appears to have been based on DC machinations. As the Lever reported, the student loan servicer at the heart of the case – whom Republican attorneys general argued would be harmed by Biden’s student loan plan – would in reality face no financial harm at all.
The US has a serious problem about the impartiality of the SCOTUS. Dems not going hard to fix the problem is not helping the situation. Future of US Legal System is not looking good for the average Joe.
Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met with a video imploring them to contact their representatives about age-verification laws.
“While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for age verification, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk,” DeVille says in the video.
What a personal data <strikethrough> goldmine </strikethrough>. I mean we must protect the kids ... from everything, everywhere, every time, at any cost.
Tens of thousands of police were deployed in cities across France as fears of rioting grew following the funeral of teenager Nahel M, whose shooting by police sparked nationwide unrest.
3M Co has reached a $10.3 billion settlement with a host of U.S. public water systems to resolve water pollution claims tied to "forever chemicals," the chemical company announced on Thursday. The company said the settlement would provide the funds over a 13-year period to cities, towns and other public water systems to test and...
3M, which is facing thousands of lawsuits over PFAS contamination, did not admit liability, and said the money will help support remediation at public water systems that detect PFAS "at any level."
Not liable? Sure... Still for $1B/year for the next decade this is at least a meaningful amount.
Described as one of the biggest and most costly challenges facing the financial services sector, money laundering is an increasingly complex and global problem. According to Google, last year $2trn was laundered last year alone, with an average of between 2%-5% of global GDP pouring through the system annually.
HSBC was the test customer for the new product, finding it outperformed current systems in detecting financial crime risk. They found a two to four times increase in true positive risk and a 60% drop in alert volumes. This reduced operating costs and sped up detection.
This is most welcome as boomers move into online transactions, expect to see overall industry replacing rule-based systems with AI systems if the data analyzed isn't persistent and ever changing.
Regardless, the FTC also argues that this manufactured categorization doesn't matter because Microsoft's exclusivity decision applied to "all future ZeniMax games." While Microsoft said in 2021 that "some" future Bethesda games would be Xbox exclusives, no Bethesda non-exclusives have been announced since then.
In this case, FTC is right and they should be extra careful what Microsoft says, as evident, they will just do the opposite.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), the sponsor of the resolution, and other conservatives tried to advance a similar censure measure last week, but 20 Republicans — objecting to language that could have resulted in a $16 million fine for Schiff, unless he resigned from Congress — joined most Democrats to sink it before it came...
Luna’s censure measure requires Schiff to stand in the well of the House chamber for a verbal rebuke in addition to triggering an ethics investigation. Democrats rallied behind Schiff after the vote as he walked up to receive the reprimand, chanting “Adam” and “shame” as McCarthy presided over the House chamber.
Starting to feel like a lot of petty house wives type retaliation going on in the House now. There is no point. All there is to get back at you, at all cost.
Texas’ power grid operator is asking residents to voluntarily cut back on electricity due to anticipated record demand on the system as a heat wave keeps parts of the state and southern U.S. in triple-digit temperatures. Much of Texas on Tuesday was under excessive heat warnings. In the West Texas city of San Angelo,...
Reddit is the default and some of us have gotten used to lurking, since it was always big enough that someone else did the voting and top comments. I look at fediverse as an opportunity for change, and in return asking I become an active community member again. Post the latest you see, comment, explain, etc . At least up vote is the content is good.
As long as you are the mod of your /m/, you can make it clear that direct copy of Reddit is acceptable for your /m/. You're reposting the link in fediverse, with the intention to initiate conservation here because of better moderation. That sounds fine to me. Even the mod can lead by cross posting from Reddit. Yes, It's the content. Yes, Reddit is the biggest content source (for now). Don't shy away from leveraging it.
Consider who we are and who you want to be. The assumption that power users, tech savvy folks moved over to fediverse more openly. I think that is true. Think if you want to start being the "first" of the Internet. That's how digg was, that's how Reddit grew, even 4chan made a name being the place for the hottest trash takes and going viral once in a while. So post here, and then cross post into Reddit. If they want to be the adult company a layer higher, then so be it.
A team of archaeologists from Yamagata University, IBM Japan and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne used an artificial intelligence application to locate previously unknown Nasca geoglyphs. In their study, reported in Journal of Archaeological Science, the group used a variety of data sources to teach an AI app.
The researchers suggest that their approach can be refined to aid in finding more geoglyphs in the region and modified for use in other archaeological image searching applications.
I think this is a good example how AI will supplement a lot of our work, instead headlines calling of the end of the human race.
A bill instructing NASA and the US Department of Energy to collaborate on key areas of research and development, including propulsion, artificial intelligence, astrophysics, Earth science, and quantum computing. He sought to add space-based solar power to the list.
I guess. That is the whole point right? If you like how a instance is run, you join them. And if any beehaw users don't like this direction it's taking, they can always make another account on Lemmy.
Fediverse allows for great potential of redundant, diverse, and flexible meta content consumption, but we the users are bearing some of that growing pain right now as this all grows and things get shuffled on the fly.
I'm old now. People probably forget or don't know, Digg died overnight because they themselves fucked up their redesign. The backend was broken and the frontend looked like a different site. So people just packed up and left. Reddit hasn't infrastructure wise screwed up. And now being the behemoth it is, it will never really die out. Because, just as op experienced, that masses don't really care about any of this. As long as it's working, they continue to use it blissfully.
Doesn't matter if you're smarter than Elon. It's like poker, the guy with more chips is likely to win the pot, and Elon has mountain of chips that he's willing to spend.
I think Reddit has shown it is no longer is the same open source, transparent, and community driven platform it used to be. Today's Reddit is huge, and it will still be relevant 5 years from now, and I don't think it will have a Digg incident. So to that end, the sub should just stay open to help new players....
What a joke of a company that Comcast. How is this "can't tell you what we're billing" carp even legal?
In my search to ditch them, i found out Ting is offering fiber internet now to selected cities. Flat rate, no other "monthly" charges magically appearing. Link if you are lucky to shop for it https://ting.com/internet
The king of dark money effectively controls the US supreme court now | Joel Warner (www.theguardian.com)
From its recent rulings to its billionaire donor scandals, this supreme court term has been defined by judicial activist Leonard Leo
Pornhub Tells Users to Take Action Before Politicians Take Their Porn Away (www.vice.com)
Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met with a video imploring them to contact their representatives about age-verification laws.
France braced for fifth night of riots as family buries teenager (www.reuters.com)
Tens of thousands of police were deployed in cities across France as fears of rioting grew following the funeral of teenager Nahel M, whose shooting by police sparked nationwide unrest.
Here come the “metahumans”: Virtual avatars have real jobs in Indonesia (restofworld.org)
Metahumans are occupying trusted roles like news anchors and government communicators.
3M reaches tentative $10.3 billion deal over US 'forever chemicals' claims (finance.yahoo.com)
3M Co has reached a $10.3 billion settlement with a host of U.S. public water systems to resolve water pollution claims tied to "forever chemicals," the chemical company announced on Thursday. The company said the settlement would provide the funds over a 13-year period to cities, towns and other public water systems to test and...
Google Cloud launches AI-powered anti-money laundering tool (techmonitor.ai)
The new system from Google Cloud deploys AI to create a risk score built using bank information. This includes KYC data and network patterns.
FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal (arstechnica.com)
"Microsoft's actions following... acquisition of ZeniMax speak louder than... words."
House GOP votes to censure Schiff over role in Trump investigations (www.politico.com)
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), the sponsor of the resolution, and other conservatives tried to advance a similar censure measure last week, but 20 Republicans — objecting to language that could have resulted in a $16 million fine for Schiff, unless he resigned from Congress — joined most Democrats to sink it before it came...
Sweltering heat tests Texas' power grid and patience as thousands in South still without electricity (apnews.com)
Texas’ power grid operator is asking residents to voluntarily cut back on electricity due to anticipated record demand on the system as a heat wave keeps parts of the state and southern U.S. in triple-digit temperatures. Much of Texas on Tuesday was under excessive heat warnings. In the West Texas city of San Angelo,...
Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Series X and Xbox Game Pass (www.theverge.com)
The Xbox price hike follows warnings prices wouldn’t hold forever.
"It's the content, stupid" - some #chaoticgood ways to encourage people to get off of Reddit and onto Kbin
Jotting some quick notes I've observed so far from running /m/scifi for a couple of weeks and getting to 3K subscribers:...
Using AI apps to find Nasca geoglyphs (phys.org)
A team of archaeologists from Yamagata University, IBM Japan and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne used an artificial intelligence application to locate previously unknown Nasca geoglyphs. In their study, reported in Journal of Archaeological Science, the group used a variety of data sources to teach an AI app.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company. (www.npr.org)
"It's time we grow up," says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.
For the first time in decades, Congress seems interested in space-based solar power (arstechnica.com)
A bill instructing NASA and the US Department of Energy to collaborate on key areas of research and development, including propulsion, artificial intelligence, astrophysics, Earth science, and quantum computing. He sought to add space-based solar power to the list.
Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org)
Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
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Twitter is getting evicted from its Colorado office over unpaid rent (www.engadget.com)
r/arknights and the blackout moving forward (www.reddit.com)
I think Reddit has shown it is no longer is the same open source, transparent, and community driven platform it used to be. Today's Reddit is huge, and it will still be relevant 5 years from now, and I don't think it will have a Digg incident. So to that end, the sub should just stay open to help new players....
Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Comcast blasted for seeking "loopholes" in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.