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Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI
  • Current status, definitely not an ongoing hazard. At the time, though, a husband-wife team that joined up as a radiation monitoring technician and a senior surveillance technician, the Thompsons, spoke out about a health/dosimeter badge coverup and had to flee town after a stranger warned them their life was in danger. When they settled in NM and began working on a book about it with the wife's brother, him and the husband were run off the road, killing the brother while a manuscript of the book that was in the trunk went 'missing'. Epidemiology links increased rates of health issues that stem from ionizing radiation to both the locations surrounding the incident and the areas downwind. Jean Trimmer, in the area, reported a flash of heat and rain, followed by bad sunburns, hair turning white and falling out, and an idiopathic atrophy of the kidney that warranted presentation to a symposium of doctors nearby from how strange it is. None of these are consistent with the official estimates of exposure, but do match the symptoms of acute exposure of a much higher dose.

    Of course, this was also a time when the Soviets presented an information warfare challenge. On the same token, disasters of any size and sort are often covered up when there's a cold war justification. See: the pandemic (ongoing, unabated)

    Potentially, the only difference between this and foreign radioactive disasters is the competency of US intelligence. I would not be surprised to learn much later that a coverup was instituted, which would have been perfectly possible especially in the information environment of the time. I recommend nuclear energy advocates cease condescendingly using it as an example of nuclear panic, and instead make an effort to compassionately address people's concerns over potential health hazards and lack of government support in the future. At the very least, to avoid potential embarrassment and backlash if a "full story" ever comes out about the incident.

  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom for Switch discussion thread
  • looks like it will be fun, but I'm still waiting on Punished Zelda in a 3D adventure. I'm excited to see the multi-item system, though, I always felt 2D adventure games with distant milestones for new items or abilities didn't match up with the pacing I'd want

  • Cornel West proposes COVID “Truth Commission” that definitely isn’t founded on anti-vax attitudes
  • Yeah I'd believe any of this was about pharma impact if ANYBODY on their side was mentioning that Moderna and Pfizer get their vaccines approved before other manufacturers and to greater demographics, or the fucking moneybags we gave them by privatizing the vaccines in exchange for truncating their market by falling into institutional pandemic denial

  • Crystals
  • The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the most complex and sensitive particle physics experiment ever constructed. If it hasn't found evidence for "dark matter" or "cosmic strings", some billion-dollar camera you stick in space is not gonna do it either.

  • Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online
  • As always, things will focus more on vibes and credentialism than critical thinking, because conspiracy theories are a mainstay of all the 'serious' papers and conspiracy itself is just how power has functioned for the last few centuries

  • Fed to be Harris' VP's Chief of Staff
    www.nytimes.com Senior U.S. Diplomat Will Lead Kamala Harris’s Running Mate’s Team

    Elizabeth M. Allen, who heads the State Department’s public diplomacy office, served as a top aide to Ms. Harris in 2020 and in the Obama White House.

    Senior U.S. Diplomat Will Lead Kamala Harris’s Running Mate’s Team

    > Ms. Allen joined the State Department as a college intern and has handled its public diplomacy duties since April 2022

    >The public diplomacy office was created in 1999 and was perhaps best known for promoting the United States’ image in the Muslim world

    >and later for countering online propaganda

    >In recent years, its mission has shifted to focus on great-power competition with countries like China and Russia,

    >Colleagues said Ms. Allen played a larger, intangible role as a key member of Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s core team.

    >Ms. Allen said in an interview. “The components of public diplomacy — and in particular, strategic narratives and countering disinformation — have never been more important.”

    HOW COME EVERY AMERICAN THINKS THEY'RE IMMUNE TO THIS

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    I love how AI went from being a cool fun thing to play around with, to something everyone now hates because capitalism can't help but ruin everything.
  • part of the samey style is that the closed off models like ChatGPT don't have temperature control, which is somewhere between randomness and creativity as a thingy. it's a self-defeating thing where the laziest people are using the LLMs, so they're also too lazy to get granular and set up one that won't be so obvious

  • U.S. told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda effort
  • They only ended this small portion covered by the limited hangout because getting BACK TO WORK and killing yourself for profit meant that they had to slow down the anti-vax portion of their propaganda. The expose itself on this issue confirms that it was much larger than just this alone, the anti-mask psyops likely never stopped, and Biden gave this same company HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS MORE TO KEEP DOING THIS.

    The fire isn't put out. It's burning in your balls, bone marrow, and meninges. You either have the virus fucking with you and causing chronic immune activation or are getting infected until you do.

    edit: unless you stop catching it as much, which you can kinda do at any time despite the government encouraging spread

  • North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say
    www.wired.com North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say

    Thousands of exposed files on a misconfigured North Korean server hint at one way the reclusive country may evade international sanctions.

    North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say
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