IMO a major reason that Israel is levelling Gaza is that it’s a one-sided conflict where Israelis are not getting killed. There are apparently 53 Israeli hostages right now, but more than 20,000 Gazans have been killed. There is some pressure to end the conflict, but not enough. If it were a war where Israelis were being killed too, it would end a lot quicker.

I know the Iran / Israel conflict is a different one, but if enough Israelis stop supporting Netanyahu, both conflicts might end. Israeli civilians dying might be the only thing that will stop Netanyahu.

Keep Goodhart’s law in mind:

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

No, it’s because the opposition is the establishment, and violence is a tool the establishment uses to… well, stay established.

Okay but who’s the one defining a protest as violent?

The same people who write the history books. History is written by the winners, and when they write those books the protests that led to them winning are written up as being non-violent. It’s like “terrorists” vs. “freedom fighters”. If they succeed, they get to write the history books and they’re freedom fighters. If they lose, the other side writes the history books and they’re terrorists.

Matt would be too nice to tear you to shreds in an argument. Many of the others probably just wouldn’t engage. Sam enjoys conflict and uncomfortable situations.

It’s like it just gives up after about 8 results. “These 8 results don’t contain what you want? I give up. Here, just watch one of these videos instead.”

Screw you, just show me the rest of the results, I swear it’s in the top 30 results.

You search for “blah”, Google gives you a bunch of bad results, and serves up 5 ads. Nothing matches what you want, so you search again “blah but not foo” and you get another 5 ads. If search were good you’d only see 5 ads, but because it sucks you get 10 ads.

If Google had real competitors, bad search results might mean people would give up and use a competitor’s search, but because they have a search monopoly, they can enshittify their results and show even more ads without losing users.

Apparently, for reals, the LAPD was complaining about being hit by rubber bullets fired by the LA Sheriffs Department during the No Kings protests. And earlier, LASD was gassed by the LAPD because LAPD shot before the sheriffs had their gas masks on.

It’s also the #1 story on nbcnews.com, #4 on abcnews.com (after the Israel-Iran conflict, millions protesting nationwide and Trump’s birthday parade), #1 on cnn.com, #1, #2, #3 and #4 on nytimes.com.

I mean, why do people say bullshit like “why is this not a bigger story” on something that’s one of the biggest stories being covered by national news?

I imagine that they could find that leeching is illegal if you upload anything to any other torrent clients. I think Meta was claiming they were literally in the clear because they were being assholes and configuring their clients not to share at all.

But yeah, keep your ratio above 1, or you’re a jerk.

e-note be like telegram memorandum memo but not on paper, on computer magic blinky box.

Repository: a collection of related computer code, like related files in a filing cabinet

Fork: a copy of a repository at a certain point in time, like a fork in the road, they diverge from that point

Pull request: a request that a repository owner incorporate your changes into their files.

When you’re on the information superhighway, in cyberspace, sometimes you want to send someone some information (datums). Sometimes an electronic mail is too formal or cumbersome for that, so you instead send them digital text messages, basically cybernetic telegrams, called e-notes.

AFAIK it was more about getting away from Thomas Edison’s patents.

AFAIK, you don’t actually need actually need an LLM to do it, as long as you do what Meta did and not upload anything at all. The one who did the copyright infringement is the one who supplied the data to you.

I can’t help but feel that sane countries have an officer’s badge number visible at all times and that it’s a fireable offence to hide it in any way.

This isn’t something that someone should have to ask for, because there’s always a chance the officer might not comply. The officers you most need to get a badge number for are the ones who are going to try to hide it.

I can understand in 2025 that telling someone your name is dangerous. That’s as true for cops as it would be for a barista, a bouncer or a librarian. People are psychos and doxxing is too easy. But, there’s no reason that the public shouldn’t know a permanent ID for a cop that could be used in lawsuits or criminal proceedings.

Hmm, good idea. I hadn’t thought about that. It looks like that lets you link just to the video:

https://redlib.privacyredirect.com/vid/5lr33ttssg6f1/360.mp4

So could tulip bulbs, for a while.

Yeah, I wonder if they tried to get Toyota to give up the 7? It seems likely they tried, Toyota said no, and they just got permission to use 007 anyhow.

So, Aston Martin using their link to the Bond franchise and getting their car numbered “007” – marketing genius.

But, man, I feel so sorry for all the programmers who used a numeric field for the car numbers and now had to convert everything to using strings now. And you can’t even fix it by using some sneaky display rule because Toyota has the “7” car while Aston Martin has the “007”.