This graphic is number of deaths from Israel's weapons vs. Hezbollah's weapons. Strikes from Israel's weapons that cause deaths are a far higher number–that big bulge.
PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
(Cross-post from The Bad Place) I suppose we're doing this again. This is incorrect: the Roman army relied heavily on non-citizens throughout nearly the whole of Roman history, including periods of its greatest success in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, when Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean.1/
Here's a new piece from ex-Copyright Office GC Jacqueline Charlesworth that generative AI proponents will hate, laying out a straightforward case for courts to rule against fair use for LLM training. Not a prediction or agreement, but I'd be unsurprised if the Second Circuit adopted ~this reasoning.
Oh FTLOG... Someone explain to the idiot how NATO works please? This headline is effectively "Boris Johnson considered starting a war with the USA". It's all a bloody joke to him, isn't it? www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...#borisjohnson#nato#theguardian
Former prime minister admits in extract from forthcoming book that he discussed possible aquatic operation at height of pandemic
Beautiful early morning colours here in Glastonbury today. Taken about half an hour before sunrise.
DESNZ (is that the acronym?) with some somewhat suspect definitions (or indeed somewhat suspect physics) here. Heat pumps are A Good Thing, but muddling definitions helps nobody. #efficiency#physics#heatpumpstwitter.com/energygovuk/...
A reminder that the Stansilav Petrov story is both more complex and more terrifying than people think. I did a full deep dive into it, but importantly WHY the USSR was at launch-on-warning (which is what would have caused catastrophe) many years ago. medium.com/lapsed-histo...
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved…
This is how you know AI is snake oil (well, one way, anyway). It's people like this trying to sell it to you.
