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The Argentine navy is just a bus sunk in flash floods a decade ago
Iran designates Argentina's navy and air force as 'terrorist organizations' reut.rs/4sTR6WZ
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It's endlessly funny to me that people in coastal US cities have had to synthesise a new socially acceptable form of racism that's exclusively aimed at the nicest people in the country
I understand that NYC transplant hate is just misdirected anger, but it’s so mindless. People from around the world coming to NYC is what MADE it NYC. It’s like the whole thing!
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They're actually East Anglian and out of the goodness of our hearts we keep London powered while it gives another gazillion to Wales for beekeeping classes for disabled Burundians or whatever
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We've made civilisation too advanced and now people who shouldn't be concerned with anything other than next year's turnip harvest have to contend with the idea of water cooling. We've gone too far.
Let me try and explain: a Krispy Kreme uses water to make doughnuts which can be eaten and coffee which can be drunken. The workers wash their hands so the food is sanitary and the customers use the bathroom. In a data center, all that water is wasted with no treats.
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The more you interact with Linuxy people you realise they'll *never* be happy.
> project that makes people use Linux annoys them
> hardware projects sponsoring OSS annoys them
> giving debian maintainers support from LLMs annoys them
Very spiritually British
My god with the ego. It takes serious nerve to put your personal byline on an entire OS when five 9s of the heavy lifting was done by upstream Linux and Arch maintainers. Even Linus didn’t put his initials on the cover like this.
I was gonna try @omarchy, saw this, and immediately said no thanks, I’m not joining your cult.
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No it's probably a result of an old woman who supports a much milder party recently being beaten to death in her own home by a lunatic the police failed to properly investigate for some mysterious reason
Surely not wanting to be in a picture showing which political party you endorse is a sign that you may be in the wrong
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> manipulate the pathologically empathetic in the West to make systems they don't understand much less reliable and more expensive
> do the opposite at home
Easiest win ever, unfortunately
Almost all the growth in global coal use since the late 1980s has come from China.
Outside China, the world’s use of coal has barely changed since the late 1980s. It was just over 20,000 terawatt-hours back then, and almost four decades later, it is still the same.
But the change has been very different in China. The country has increased the use of coal enormously, and today, China is burning more coal than the rest of the world combined.
The future of global coal use, and the emissions that come with it, depends heavily on what happens in China.
(written by @MaxCRoser)
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Me, a budget-conscious car expert: Lets buy an Alfa Romeo
>>>For the last year I’ve been dailying a 2012 Alfa Mito 1.2 diesel. It cost me £1,800 to buy with £0 in repairs & maintenance after a year, road tax is £20, insurance is dirt cheap, I get 50mpg
How is buying an EV going to save me money & make my life better?
*Note the supply of EVs is not finite as suggested, they’re not going to suddenly run out
**Also note as more people are suckered into EVs the government will increasingly use them as cash cow (see pay per mile)
***In the middle of a diesel crisis (which won’t last forever) now is a good time to consider picking a diesel up on the cheap as people panic ~ be a contrarian
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The headline: the "richest" / "top earning" households will be given money
The reality: The metric used (top 20% based on income) is...£50,000 p/a. Lots of nurses, teachers etc in this bracket
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Notes from the Privy Council at the time and from the Labour Minister make it abundantly clear that nobody was invited by any stretch of the imagination, this is a hagiographical retelling spectator.com/article/the-wi… . As citizens of the Empire they could move, but no invites
The Ayatollah has relocated all nuclear infrastructure to the small British city of Norwich. The ones without flippers are Iranian scientists
Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $20 million and possible relocation for information about Iran’s nuclear program, including its facilities, equipment, and associated personnel, such as those in the scientific community, or the movement of any of the above.
Submit a tip: rewardsforjustice.net/reward…
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You would have to earn £45k to pay £9k in tax (university home rate). 10 years for ILR means this individual is earning under £50k. The obvious correct choice is to insist on the international rate, else the worker is a financial bomb to public finances
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Why is it named after a Geordie saying "alright?"
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
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