Gvnzng aka Victor

103-year-old Holocaust survivor reclaims German citizenship An increasing number of Jewish Americans with family histories shaped by the Holocaust are applying to restore German citizenship — to have the option to move to Germany should conditions in the US de...

American Holocaust survivor reclaims her German citizenship out of concern for what she sees going on the USA

At least they have that option. Given that there's a good possibility the fascist AfD comes to power at the next election in Germany, it might be a case of out of the frying pan...

U.S. Company Taken Offline by Cyberattack as Revenge for Missile Strike on Iranian School Devices were remotely wiped by the hacking group. The company says the attack is now over.

Iran-linked hacking group Handala claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against the U.S. medical equipment company Stryker on Wednesday. The group said the hack was retaliation for a U.S. missile strike against an elementary school on the first day of the Iran War which killed at least 175 people

Considering most of them aren't even capable of being cannon fodder, I'd say no loss.

Seriously, do you think they could pass boot camp? Not the ones that I have seen...

ICE Officers May Be Exempt if a Military Draft Is Reinstated As World War III fears grow, a little-known draft exemption for ICE agents has Americans outraged. Here's what the law actually says.

Does everyone remember how awful it was to take a Nat'l Guard exemption to the draft during Vietnam? Well, they're going to let ICE agents do the same thing for Iran

ICE will be needed to protect the clowns in the D.C. bunkers.
www.inquisitr.com/ice-officers...

Team Trump haunted by misguided pre-combat decisions as war continues Hindsight is always 20/20, but the Republican administration has made bad decisions and showed poor judgment in ways that have already had lasting effects.

All the Trump admin's incompetent decision-making before Trump's war is going to come back to haunt the US

Who needs strategy, tactics, and literally thousands of years of military history about the region when you have Dear Leader's infallible gut?

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Trump’s immigration crackdown is backfiring by hurting the U.S.-born workers it was meant to help, data shows Over the past year, following a $170 billion infusion in immigration enforcement, U.S.-born labor participation fell from 61.4% to 61%, federal data shows.

Stephen Miller and Trump sold MAGA the story that deporting all the immigrants would improve their job prospects. Instead, the American-born workforce has seen hiring shrink, and job opportunities an illusion.

And that Justice would be sought for victims of Jeffrey Epstein. And Peace was a priority

Some advice from my Irish wife to MAGA.

If you're MAGA in Ireland and you feel the locals are being disrespectful to your righteous beliefs, there is a simple way to handle it. Just say Oliver Cromwell was the best thing to ever happen to Ireland and then challenge them to a fight.

MAGA traveler who said her politics ruined an Ireland vacation gets lit up on social media A TikToker claimed her Ireland vacation turned tense after locals asked about U.S. politics in a pub. But she buried the lede.

American tourist in Ireland stunned to find nobody likes MAGA Americans

Good. It shows that the Irish are paying attention and MAGAs are getting at least a little of what they deserve.

"But the Irish are white..." the MAGA thought, concluding their dumb bullshit would be welcome.

‘RINO hack’: MAGA melts down over Thune’s SAVE America Act ‘betrayal’ Leading the charge is election denier Cleta Mitchell, who has spent days unleashing increasingly unhinged posts on X accusing Thune of sabotaging the bill.

Shot: Senator Thune gives in to pressure, announces SAVE Act will go to the floor of the senate. Chaser: Except he's not bypassing the filibuster so the thing will be DOA. MAGA and other anti-democracy crackpots are *pissed*. Thank Cthulhu for Thune

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Americans demand to know who they have to bomb to lower gas prices HOUSTON, TX - American consumers shocked by sharply rising gas prices demonstrated their keen understanding of global geopolitics by demanding that the Department of War bomb some foreign country into...

American consumers shocked by sharply rising gas prices demonstrated their keen understanding of global geopolitics by demanding that the Department of War bomb some foreign country into dropping the cost of oil

WTF is a "Department of War," anyway? Lose that Orwellian bullshit.

see what I want to read is what is the "system prompt" telling the personality parameters of that you can't see or access that is shaping the form of the info retrieval and reply, people don't understand the delicate guardrail structure they use at all in LLMs.

DOJ prosecutor who told judge 'this job sucks' under Trump now running for Congress as Dem A federal prosecutor whose confession to a federal judge in Minnesota sparked a viral moment, is now running for Congress as a Democrat.According to The Washington Post, "In her now-famous outburst, J...

"In her now-famous outburst, Julie T. Le told U.S. District Judge Jerry W. Blackwell that she felt powerless to compel U.S. immigration officers to follow judicial orders to grant immigrants bond hearings or release them from detention.

SUPPORT THIS PERSON PLEASE!
www.rawstory.com/julie-le/

Deceptive Patterns in UX: How to Recognize and Avoid Them Deceptive patterns promote business outcomes at the user's expense. Designers should avoid deceptive patterns by carefully assessing their designs.

Exactly. I tell everyone you have to understand they are finely tuned sycophant machines, by design to maximize your use of them. They use the mechanics of addiction just as slot machine designers too, all part of dark patterns in UX/UI.

Profitable banal evil.
www.nngroup.com/articles/dec...

Its response was something like "No, the sun is not made of bees, it is composed of hydrogen being fused into helium. But it's really interesting to think of a big sun made of bees buzzing around up there!"

So even when it was pointing out that I was wrong it still took the time to kiss my ass.

Why AI Chatbots Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong Language models often abandon correct answers to please users. Scientists are studying why—and are teaching AI to push back.

AI Chatbots Agree With You Even When You're Really, Really Wrong

I tried to test this once with ChatGPT just on a lark. I asked it the most absurd question I could think of to see whether it would contradict me, the question being "is the sun made of bees?"

Yeah, that 10% myth gives us cool stories (Limitless, Lucy, etc...) but it really does a disservice to how amazing the brain is and for me, when I heard that it sounded immediately suspicious to me, like scientists used to talk about "junk DNA". Now we know it's anything but junk. Critical stuff.

The US-Israeli strategy failed to defeat Iran quickly – now they are moving to plan B | Paul Rogers It’s called the Dahiya doctrine – and the IDF and US air force are using it to destroy domestic support in Iran, says emeritus professor of peace studies Paul Roger

It's amazing how much Israel and the USA will go through to keep two people out of jail that most likely should be instead of leading this war. On the USA side there's a guy with 34 felony convictions plus Epstein FFS who hasn't seen a day of jail time at the very least.

WSJ bursts MAGA bubble and warns Senate GOP against making a 'grave mistake' President Donald Trump has demanded that Senate Republicans pass the SAVE America Act, his flagship voter suppression law that would put massive new restrictions on the ballot box, at all costs — and ...

WSJ takes a moment to point what a bad idea it is to get rid of the filibuster citing all the massively awesome things Democrats would pass in its wake

Imagine thinking that Democrats would actually get anything done if it weren't for the filibuster.
www.rawstory.com/wsj-filibust...

Groundbreaking Research May Reveal How Forgotten Memories Can Be "Reactivated" in the Brain A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that the brain can reactivate stored memories even without conscious awareness.

Many people believe that if a memory cannot be immediately recalled, it may be gone for good. However, new research suggests that the brain could still retain these memories, even if we are unaware of them.

Consciousness as a fundamental field of the universe...
thedebrief.org/groundbreaki...

We have to hope the majority party, currently controlling all branches of government, are more stupid than capably evil, so we can have an election fair enough that the sane people may get some control in part of it.

AND...

Mastodon is another way too... I need to be over there more... thanks for reminding me we need to take the billionaires control of these platforms away and give the internet back to the people.

Largest ever oil reserves released as Iran targets shipping in Strait of Hormuz Iran has attacked ships in the Persian Gulf and targeted Dubai airport, while the US and Israel launch further strikes against the country.

I'm no expert, but I'd think that sitting your ship just off of the coast of an active war zone is a bad idea unless you want it to get in trouble.

If this seems bad, take comfort in that the media is playing ball with the government and the situation is much worse in reality.

Trump has one prescription for midterms. House Republicans have another President Donald Trump insisted he had the answer for Republicans anxious about losing their congressional majority this year.

I'm expecting Trump to do what trump does best - shit all over the place, make a giant mess of the elections and then claim there's too much chaos and elections are invalid.

I don't think it'll work, but he's gonna do it anyway.

USDA needs Palantir to tell workers where to sit : As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

Trump's USDA using deadly Palantir AI for staff musical chairs. So, a week's worth of electricity for something people used to be able to eyeball.

If it makes you feel better it's not that they're too stupid to figure out seating arrangements without AI, it's just a nice grift

If you understand this meme we should be friends...
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Scams could now cost Americans $119 billion a year, study finds The estimate builds on numbers from the FBI, which are widely believed to capture only a small fraction of the money lost to scams.

Scams are now costing Americans about $119 billion per year, and that's probably only counting the ones being run by members of the Trump administration

www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

The cruelty is the entire point. Need proof?

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Mounting claims of identity theft by Uber drivers raise passenger safety concerns The allegations surfaced after several people across the country reported receiving tax forms showing income from Uber, despite never signing up to drive for the company.

Random people getting 1099's from Uber realize there's a whole bunch of unknown characters dodging security checks on drivers by stealing identities. Uber sticks fingers in ears; "LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU"

www.cbsnews.com/news/uber-id...