[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago

TikTok is only banned if the Chinese Communist Party maintains control of it - it’s not the app that’s the issue, it’s the CCP.

Apparently the evidence US Intelligence has is so compelling that wide margins of both the House and Senate supported the law seeking disvestiture - unusual with the current congress.

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150 million Americans aren’t getting their “news” from Temu.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 days ago

The big difference between Ellison and Ware is that Ellison can actually represent his constituents’ interests, because he has constituents.

The Green Party trifecta of Divisive, Unpopular, and Incompetent means they are never in a position to represent anyone.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 days ago

Almost feels like he was reading a telepromter that had split the word “mig-rants” across two lines

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 days ago

They say supercomputer, but do they count Google/Amazon datacenters or just “named” supercomputers like the DoE’s scientific clusters?

AWS surely has more total compute capacity across its many datacenters

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 2 days ago

Water is another issue for xAI. Data centers use massive amounts of water to cool their servers; xAI says it will need 1 million gallons of water a day

“It would put stress on the wellfield,” says Scott Schoefernacker, science director for Protect Our Aquifer. He adds that “a lot of the water is just being used as cooling and it evaporates.”

Presumably it’s for evaporative cooling towers? I can’t imagine they’re heating it up from ambient and dumping it down the drain.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 days ago

Calling voters murderers is an outstanding electoral strategy

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 3 days ago

The more you repeat this, the more clear it is you have a very childish understanding of electoral dynamics and voter motivations.

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Yes, that’s definitely a relevant and insightful comparison to the US electoral system.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 3 days ago

This is like saying the dude blocking traffic by wandering around in the street ranting to himself is a “threat to the automobile industry’s power so they must be afraid of him”.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 3 days ago

Weird thing to say about a group that routinely takes majorities in national elections.

Surely a party that, on a good day, gets 1% of the vote, and on a bad day, can’t manage to file the right paperwork to get on the ballot, is really what the people want.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 3 days ago

Implicit in “profit so much that money becomes trivial” is that they think this tax rate should apply to very high profit businesses/individuals.

In fact the US’ top tax rate was 90% for almost a decade and over 70% for 40 years - during a time many would consider “golden years”.

They could have worded their statement better though.

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Pro-Russia social media accounts amplifying stories about divisive political topics such as immigration and campus protests over the war in Gaza.

Influence operations linked to Russia take aim at a disparate range of targets and subjects around the world. But their hallmarks are consistent: attempting to erode support for Ukraine, discrediting democratic institutions and officials, seizing on existing political divides and harnessing new artificial intelligence tools.

"They're often producing narratives that feel like they're throwing spaghetti at a wall," said Andy Carvin, managing editor at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which tracks online information operations. "If they can get more people on the internet arguing with each other or trusting each other less, then in some ways their job is done."

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The effort includes artificial intelligence, fake social media accounts and a spike in state-sponsored Russian propaganda.

By Dan De Luce

Russia is seeking to exploit America’s divisive debate over Israel’s offensive in Gaza through overt and covert propaganda, with the aim of aggravating political tensions in the U.S. and tarnishing Washington’s global image, according to two sources familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter.

In its ongoing information war against the United States, Russia has shifted its focus in recent months to the Israel-Hamas conflict, seeking to inflame existing divisions in the West and to portray Washington as fueling the violence, the sources said.

A favorite theme of Russian information operations is to paint America as a failing democratic state, according to U.S. officials and researchers.

At an event last week in Washington, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said Russia works to denigrate America’s standing in the world, to undermine democratic institutions and processes and to exploit social, political and economic divisions “in our culture and in our society.”

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Which ones have you tried, which ones did you stop using, and which ones are the best of the bunch?

I am using Memmy and it’s not quite there - difficult touch targets, poor infinite scroll implementation, and crashy search are the big issues.

EDIT: I installed Voyager, it’s working great! Thanks for the suggestions!

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