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A new study concludes mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would drain the construction workforce, significantly slowing an already sluggish rate of new residential construction.

 

An American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 people collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter late Wednesday near Reagan National Airport in Virginia just across from the District of Columbia, plunging both aircraft into the Potomac River.

 

Animal welfare advocates believe antiquated laws and truck driver exemptions lead to millions of farm animal deaths.

 

Economic uncertainty is reflected in cautiousness about investing in new cars, according to Outi Ampuja of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom).

 

Abstract

Counter-speech is considered a promising tool to address hate speech online, notably, by promoting bystander reactions that could attenuate the prevalence or further dissemination of hate. However, it remains unclear which types of counter-speech are most effective in attaining these goals and which might backfire. Advancing the literature, we examined the effect of four types of counter-speech (i.e., educating the perpetrator, calling on others to intervene, diverting the conversation, and abusing the perpetrator) on a range of bystander behavioral intentions in an experimental study (N = 250, UK-based adults). Overall, counter-speech did not affect bystanders’ subsequent responses to hate speech. Having said this, as expected, diversionary counter-speech increased intentions to ignore hate speech, which suggests unintended consequences. The study illustrates that counter-speech may not be sufficiently impactful in regulating bystanders’ reactions to hate speech online.

 

An astronomer analyzed ancient supermassive black holes with mathematical models and found they likely grew exponentially after light, intermediate, and heavy seed stars merged.

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I can't believe that RFA really published this.😂

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 9 points 14 hours ago (5 children)
[–] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 18 hours ago

I cannot change it on jerboa for Android. I will delete it then, for the best and will stop posting in Arabic, till they add that to the app.

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 2 points 19 hours ago
[–] Cat@ponder.cat 2 points 21 hours ago

Nope, switch as soon as possible to any other secure browser.

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 0 points 1 day ago

You can already follow the journals you want via RSS.

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 1 day ago

What does "instance" in this case refer to?

Does he mean something along the lines of advanced search filter/engine? because it can be done now, using the usual tools.

There is no way that I could think about his comment and make sense of it.

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw a good amount of the posts here and they all are either about health or climate😅

I find the whole setup unfunctional in the long-term as at a certain stages this community might lean towards public health news only.

I just wanted a place to be able to post my “general news about the US” stuff, and it seemed like the consensus talking to people was that allowing political news also would basically mean it got taken over by politics, and then it’s 10% other US news but basically a politics place, of which there already are some good ones so why make another.

If that is the case then why don't you post at climate community and the public health community?

I am not arguing about the rule here, but I am suggesting combining efforts to not split the small community to even smaller communities, especially since those communities are not hosted on the main .world instance.

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What do you mean exactly by federated in this context?

What is getting federated in your ideal scenario?

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I am confused, do you mean no news about anything involving Trump, Biden, USA goverment or congress?

Or do you mean any thing with political nature?

I am asking because it seems kind of weird really, but I would fully respect it, if that is the case.

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Here is a interesting quote from the article:

"How The Hell Is This So Much Cheaper?

That's a bloody good question, and because I'm me, I have a hypothesis: I do not believe that the companies making foundation models (such as OpenAI and Anthropic) have been incentivized to do more with less, and because their chummy relationships with hyperscalers were focused almost entirely on "make the biggest, most hugest models possible, using the biggest, most hugest chips," and because the absence of profitability didn’t stop them from raising more money, efficiency was never a major problem for them.

Let me put it in simpler terms: imagine living on $1,500 a month, and then imagine how you'd live on $150,000 a month, and you have to, Brewster's Millions style, spend as much of it as you can to complete the mission of "live your life." In the former example, your concern is survival — you have a limited amount of money and must make it go as far as possible, with real sacrifices to be made with every dollar you spend. In the latter, you're incentivized to splurge, to lean into excess, to pursue a vague remit of "living" your life. Your actions are dictated not by any existential threats — or indeed future planning — but by whatever you perceive to be an opportunity to "live."

OpenAI and Anthropic are emblematic of what happens when survival takes a backseat to “living.” They have been incentivized by frothy venture capital and public markets desperate for the next big growth market to build bigger models and sell even bigger dreams, like Dario Amodei of Anthropic saying that your AI "could surpass almost all humans at almost everything" "shortly after 2027." Both OpenAI and Anthropic have effectively lived their existence with the infinite money cheat from The Sims, with both companies bleeding billions of dollars a year after revenue and still operating as if the money will never run out. If they were worried about it, they would have certainly tried to do what DeepSeek has done, except they didn't have to, because both of them had endless cash and access to GPUs from either Microsoft, Amazon or Google.

OpenAI and Anthropic have never been made to sweat, receiving endless amounts of free marketing from a tech and business media happy to print whatever vapid bullshit they spout, raising money at will (Anthropic is currently raising another $2 billion, valuing the company at $60 billion), all off of a narrative of "we need more money than any company has ever needed before because the things we're doing have to cost this much.""

[–] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 1 day ago

Ahh, how many zeros can you count?

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