Russia is building an electronic registry of LGBTQ+ citizens
…the Orwellian plan has been in discussion since last year after Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the so-called “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization” at the urging of President Vladimir Putin.
In the US, state department employees are already being ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by the end of the day.
At this rate I don’t think we’re too far off from what Russia is doing here.
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
Every few days I see something that makes me think we are living in the dumbest possible timeline.
Ohio AG Dave Yost to Costco: Drop your diversity programs or else
Such blatant racism and homophobia. Shit like this is going on across the entire country. We are a fucking joke on the world stage.
Ohio Republicans want to make major changes to marijuana law approved by voters
Conservatives are full of great ideas lol I have no problem going back to Michigan for cheaper, higher quality weed 🤷
I don’t even know what to say lol
Denmark to pump $2bn into Arctic security as Trump eyes Greenland
Copenhagen announced on Monday that it will pump an additional 14.6 billion Danish crowns ($2.05bn) into security. The announcement came as the European country resists demands from United States President Donald Trump to hand over control of Greenland.
I sure hope there would be mass protests from our military if they were ever ordered to do something as fucking stupid as invading an ally.
What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?
New AI from China is cheaper and more efficient than ChatGPT and actually open source.
The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips.
It’s hard to stick up for American companies like OpenAI when they burn through tens of billions in funding, aren’t actually open source and then completely changed their business model from non-profit to for-profit.
Elon Musk is being sued by the feds over the way he bought Twitter - The Verge
It’s hilarious that this is even a news story. Like as if it will have any repercussions whatsoever for Elon. It’s no different than how Jack Smith decided Trump is absolutely 100% responsible for the Jan 6th insurrection and if he was anyone else he’d be serving hard time, but in reality he doesn’t even get a slap on the wrist. Instead he gets to run the free world into the ground.
It’s just a thing that happened followed by a bunch of meaningless media coverage that translates to static.
It makes for good filler in between multimillion dollar advertisements, but it’s no different than watching an episode of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones on digital cable.
They could fine Elon Musk $100 billion and it would have absolutely no noticeable effect on his life or his power as an oligarch.
2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society
The verb rawdog is defined as “to undertake without usual protection, preparation, or comfort.” While the word originated as a vulgar slang term referring to having sex without a condom, rawdogging ended up crossing over into mainstream usage for a wide variety of activities, like the travel trend in which a passenger sits through a flight without any distractions.
Hmmmmm 🤨