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Arthur Besse

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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

  • New clean energy comes out. look inside It’s just boiling water again…

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  • i'm not a physicist but iiuc orbiting the sun is actually pretty necessary 🤔

  • Imagine thinking a country literally called "Coast of Ivory" is landlocked

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  • The colors match? It's true the color next to the Côte d'Ivoire label does correspond with a blob which could overlap with the country's actual location, but... none of the countries depicted here correspond with the shapes of any actual countries. The entire thing is generative slop.

  • Imagine thinking a country literally called "Coast of Ivory" is landlocked

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  • Human trafficking, generally, is a politically correct term for slavery

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  • i see you're replying to the joke comments but ignoring the ones posted many hours earlier which helpfully explain what is wrong with the premise of your post (eg, this and this and this).

  • NSFW

    20 years ago today, the Israeli Air Force bombed a three-story residential building in the Lebanese village of Qana, and then bombed it again minutes later, killing 28 civilians including 16 children.

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  • you could also manually change the thumbnail picture to a different one

    good point, i should have thought of that myself. it's changed now but unfortunately for some reason it doesn't look like the thumbnail change federated to your instance. setting it NSFW also didn't federate at first (despite the edit date appearing to have federated) but then it did after i deleted and undeleted the post... but the thumbnail change still hasn't. so, i'll leave it NSFW for now and maybe revert if if i see the thumbnail change actually appears on other instances later.

  • Thursday

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  • It's Alistair Hennessey:

  • NSFW

    20 years ago today, the Israeli Air Force bombed a three-story residential building in the Lebanese village of Qana, and then bombed it again minutes later, killing 28 civilians including 16 children.

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  • After you comment I edited it to add the tag but then i remembered that that hides it from non-logged-in users so i removed it again. If the community mod asks me to i will add the tag back, but otherwise I'm not keen on hiding relevant historical events due to their unsightliness.

  • Risa: Your Home Away from Spacedock @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Compare them on the issues that matter

  • Star Trek @lemmy.ml
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    Compare them on the issues that matter

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    IEEE 754

  • Not the Onion @lemmy.ml
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    Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings

    www.theguardian.com /education/2026/jul/28/school-shootings-pepper-spray-drones
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Thursday

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians, among them two children, and wounded more than a dozen others in three separate strikes across the Gaza Strip early Thursday

    www.telesurenglish.net /israeli-strikes-kill-three-in-overnight-gaza-attacks/
  • Anniversaries: X years ago today @sopuli.xyz
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    6 years ago today, NASA's Mars 2020 mission launched aboard an Atlas V rocket. It included the Perseverance rover, which is still operating today, as well as the Ingenuity helicopter.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_2020
  • Anniversaries: X years ago today @sopuli.xyz
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    70 years ago today, Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation which changed the US national motto from E pluribus unum ("Out of many, one") to In God We Trust.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/In_God_We_Trust
  • Anniversaries: X years ago today @sopuli.xyz
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    110 years ago today, munitions awaiting shipment in New York Harbor were detonated by German spies resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Tom_explosion
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Bolivia Orders Arrest of Former President Evo Morales Amid Political Crisis

    www.telesurenglish.net /bolivia-orders-arrest-of-evo-morales/

  • It's been long enough

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  • Iran is cheating by fighting back.

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  • them fighting back is really unfair. fortunately the US has fiercely independent journalists who are willing to call them out for it:

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  • AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (and destroying them after) – 404media paywall removed 😎

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  • “Responsible physical sourcing is not book burning,” ISBNdb’s site in a section about why it’s crucial to recycle the destroyed books. “It is the completion of a book’s lifecycle: from tree to knowledge to tree again."

    they're... making trees out of recycled paper? 🤔

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy

    www.techspot.com /news/113264-sam-altman-ai-wont-shorten-workweek-because-humans.html
  • Not the Onion @lemmy.ml
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    Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy

    www.techspot.com /news/113264-sam-altman-ai-wont-shorten-workweek-because-humans.html
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.ml
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    Wildfires in 2026

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wildfires_in_2026

  • ICE is murdering and abducting our neighbors, bringing them to concentration camps, ICE is a fascist paramilitary just like the gestapo / SA / SS

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  • Moving in the right direction

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  • Fake news? On my social media??

    I'm surprised that this post is still up so many hours after i (and i'm sure others) reported it, especially given the large number of moderators that this community has.

  • Moving in the right direction

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  • New York State not New York City.

    I don’t know why Mamdani is pictured

    the text in this image is also just flat-out wrong: the proposed legislation does not actually "ban AI from answering questions" on these subjects at all, as this post claims it does.

    https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/kristen-gonzalez/ny-state-senator-kristen-gonzalez-her-bill-address-ai explains that her bill is strictly about impersonating licensed professionals:

    We have documented instances of AI chatbots providing false medical license numbers to users and documented cases of real harm from AI chatbots providing misinformation. This is what my common-sense legislation addresses—protecting users from misinformation, scams, and fraud. This legislation does not prohibit a user from asking a chatbot questions or receiving general information and advice, as long as the chatbot is not presenting that information as a licensed professional. It would also not prohibit licensed professionals from consulting AI technology in the course of their work.

  • Centrists

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  • Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps?

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  • 640B ought to be enough for anybody

  • Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps?

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  • MICROS~1

  • How do I survive the US immigration?

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  • It is risky to carry encrypted devices across the border which you are not prepared to give them the passwords to.

    In most cases they won't ask you to decrypt anything, but they do sometimes randomly and when they do if you refuse then you can/will be denied entry and/or they'll keep the device(s) indefinitely.

    One approach to avoid this problem is to create an encrypted disk image (your operating system hopefully comes with a program to do this, you shouldn't need to install anything) and then store it online somewhere and then download it after you've crossed the border. Read about how to pick a strong yet memorable passphrase.

    It was reported last year that the US was going to start requiring that you disclose all of your social media accounts used in the previous five years, but that did not actually go into effect in December as it had been announced that it would. Something along those lines could still happen later this year though: Here and here are articles from March and May of this year about it.

  • Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps?

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  • but actually (as the other comment says) uppercase file extensions were a holdover from when the entire filename could only be uppercase

  • The Work Phishing Email Test Was Suddenly Halted

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  • The Bullshit thing about these phishing email tests is if you look at the actual headers they are allowed past the server level spam filters and in a back door to your email address. They would never pass the basic filters.

    Being able to bypass the automated filtering is entirely logical, because they are testing and training humans and not the spam filters.

    They are not even training you for reality.

    They are training you to be the next line of defense after the automated filters are defeated. Which is, obviously, a thing which does happen frequently - eg, in every real phishing attack which succeeds.

    These “online safety” companies create this baloney meat training so that your IT manager can say they are doing something, and your company can report compliance with whatever code they are responsible to, so they can be insured.

    There is some truth to that, but on the other hand at any large enough organization many people will still fail these tests. And, even if you're sure that you're too smart for them, don't you think that being periodically subjected to these tests probably does actually make some people a bit more cautious?