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Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:40AM (#49890495)
and it seems pretty likely that's exactly what was happening.

The idea that a nation-state was/is running a child sex trafficking ring, and we're *not* turning over heaven and earth to investigate that so that country faces unprecedented consequences...I don't even know what to say

Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:32AM (#49890436)
> but how come the source post is always blatantly anti Israel?

Same reason blatantly anti Nazi sources have a higher chance of staying up compared to pro nazi sources. I'll let you process that one.

It's an insult to all of our intelligence that guys like Joe Lonsdale + Alex Karp think we won't make the connection that they say just happen to be Zionists and then say horseshit like this. We know they value the lives of their in-group at 1000x more than everyone else, they don't even try to hide it anymore.
Re:OpenJev on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:12PM (#49768848)
This is probably why:

Jev was founded by TypeSafe AI, a San Francisco-based startup co-founded by Diogo Almeida, Erik Gafni, and Sasha Sheng.

Diogo Almeida (CEO) is a former OpenAI researcher and primary author of the InstructGPT paper, which laid the groundwork for ChatGPT and GPT-4; he is also credited as a co-inventor of RLHF.

Re:US interest rates raised for first time in three years on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:43PM (#49745569)
A small price to pay to serve the interests of a certain Levantine country whose civilization is built on the [Dark Triad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad)
Re:US interest rates raised for first time in three years on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:36PM (#49745500)
עבודה טובה, פעיל הסברה.
Re:Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:17PM (#49589258)
> downvoted to oblivion because of the hive mind

Not just the hivemind, Reddit has been thoroughly astroturfed for a long time now. The vast majority of large subreddits have at least 1-2 mods who stifle/amplify discourse in the service of companies, think tanks, and certain Levantine pariah nations.

> It isn't even a settled question that there is a genocide.

Israel themselves seem pretty settled on it:

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260902-israel-orga...

Re:Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:54AM (#49488426)
OpenCode IDE + Serena MCP (for the indexing part)

[1] https://opencode.ai/

[2] https://github.com/oraios/serena

Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon on Saturday July 04, 2026 @06:23AM (#48784308)
That was me
Re:Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:56PM (#48740779)
> a mechanism to make that obvious.

Say they prove that foreign labs are distilling their models, then what?

> we never had free unlimited texts. Internet was cheaper than calling/texting

I always found this peculiar, you would think it would be the other way around. I wonder why that is?

This is a huge detail that further complicates the picture, ASML's lithography technology heavily benefitted from United States DOE research:

> In 1997, ASML began studying a shift to using extreme ultraviolet. Two years later, it joined a consortium, which included Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) it operates under is funded by the US government, licensing must be approved by Congress.

There have been several spywares developed in Israel and that have been used by them and other governments against civilians, below are just a few examples. Why wouldn't you lump Israel in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragon_Solutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytrox#Predator

Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:05PM (#47926623)
It’s technically true that the plan prices haven’t changed, it’s just the value you get from those plans has plummeted. It’s classic deceptive sales language.
> Mexico’s government was also the first purchaser of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware

> Grupo Seguritech was founded in Mexico City in 1995 by father-son duo Shimon and Ariel Picker as a small company selling alarm systems for homes.

It's remarkable that even in a country where Jewish people make up no more than 0.05% of the population, they excel in this cybersecurity/surveillance arena. The talented ability of Jewish moms to always know the gossip of the community seems to pass down to their entrepreneurial kids!

Re:AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:28PM (#47725173)
It's just a form of sanctimonious virtue-signaling that's trendy right now.
> This would be a great opportunity for the government to get involved

They have been:

https://www.energy.gov/oe/transformer-resilience-and-advance...

I like how you think

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