Only Israelis & Palestinians are in any position to fix their conflict. Except to defend international law & universal rights, other parties getting involved is a foolish endeavor.

crazy expensive

Citation missing, so unconvincing. We’re not talking about a general purpose LLM here. Are pretrained, domain-specific LLMs or SLMs “crazy expensive” to run?

Would it? Game developers can run anything on their own servers.

Is an API key necessary? Pretty sure there are local LLMs.

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Do commenters know they can copy text instead of break web accessibility?

From the article

The partnership, announced in October 2025, integrates Ring’s Community Requests feature directly into Flock’s law-enforcement platforms, FlockOS and Flock Nova, allowing police departments to request Ring camera footage through Ring’s Neighbors app.

Ring Community Requests feature

Community Requests

What is Community Requests?

Community Requests is a privacy-protected service that enables public safety agencies to put out public requests for help and efficiently and securely collect and manage digital evidence. Public safety agencies can post a request in the Neighbors feed asking community members within a specific area to share Ring video footage or information that may help their investigation. Videos customers choose to share in response to Community Requests go directly to Axon Evidence, a secure evidence management system where they can be verified for authenticity and integrity. This also creates a complete audit trail of how and when public safety agencies collect information.

Participation is always voluntary, and public safety agencies can only see what you choose to share.

The owner chooses what to share in response to a request. Just like IRL when the police knock on an owner’s door to request information.

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon?r=1t17zr

Did OP know the form to create/edit posts has a field named URL?

Are you saying deplatforming doesn’t work & open discourse matters? Someone’s got to break it to the purists here.

Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

I totally misread that & thought what a beast.

He was 19. Cut this victim blaming bullshit.

No, fuck not holding dumbfucks responsible for being dumb as fuck.

Blast them with piss, fling feces in their faces, go full primate. 🐒

So, they disagree with the idea that

• morally, individuals are categorically equal & have equal fundamental liberties
• the coercive power of government is dangerous, so it needs to be denied authority to abuse those liberties
• government exists for the people, who have a right to change & replace it?

These ideas are compatible with leftism. Rejecting them seems dangerous & incompatible with leftism.

The art of not giving a fuck, which humanity has known for millennia, is pretty effective.

The incredibly short treaty (I’m surprised the comments haven’t linked yet) lacks an expulsion provision. At best, per article 13, every other party may (with 1 year notice) withdraw from the treaty & join a new treaty excluding the party they want to expel. Article 8 prohibits parties of the treaty from entering “into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty”.

A unanimous agreement to change the treaty to enable expulsion is another possibility.

Nothing bad ever came from this.

Except everything bad that came from it? That’s some serious selective attention.

I truly believe things would not have gotten nearly as insane as they are had Google not decided to ban him.

Popular culture became complacent by over-relying on censorship instead of openly educating, criticizing, and discrediting idiots as was effectively done before with deference to free speech values.

What about censoring neo Nazis?

ineffective, disastrous, & still no bueno. better to educate & discredit their weak reasoning.

limits on hate speech

which is bullshit: not being merely offended is not a fundamental liberty, no imminent risk of damage to an interest a person has a basic right to results from merely expressing an opinion.

such laws are readily abused

• German repression of political expression: live police suppressing pro-Palestinian protests as anti-semitic, raids & arrests over calling a politician pimmel, internet patrols penalizing vitriol, insults, & satirical images of politicians showing fake quotes
• UK repression of political expression: designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, arrest pro-Palestinian protesters, arrest someone over a social media post backing Palestine Action

& ineffective at preventing the ideas & ideologies they oppose from taking root & gaining power. the advocates of repressive policies are only mildly inconvenienced or continue undeterred underground. the German AfD isn’t struggling. far-right parties like Reform UK keep going. so, they fail to keep anyone in check while also undermining basic freedoms.

ability to justify truth & correctness is far more important than attempting to coerce conformity to correctness through dogma, taboo, & censorship. weak ability to justify makes people incompetent defenders & weak believers of correctness. individuals hone justifications & acquire competence to deliberate effectively through practice of vigorous & open deliberation with adversarial positions. censorship, even of incorrect belief, robs both those whose speech is suppressed and their audience of open deliberation they need to justify their beliefs and actions competently & effectively.

only cowards fear words.

there’s no such thing as “governmental overreach” in a well working system that is FOR the people and BY the people

Nope: two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

Coercive power can be turned against the individual democratically. A system that gives government the power necessary to protect individual liberty but also denies it authority to abuse liberties is necessary.

civil disobedience, not by corporatist overreach

“corporatist overreach” can be civil disobedience & legal challenges.

With all the cranks on here, downvotes are a sign of doing something right. Some instances hide downvotes entirely. Others offer settings to not show them.

Not sure blocking them affects the downvote count shown to you.

So, your argument is that

explanation = approval

? That pathetically superficial take pretty much amounts to media illiteracy^[1]: see fallacy Confusing an Explanation with an Excuse.

Can anyone factually explain atrocities in your presence without you treating any explanation as a defense even when it’s explicitly stated that the explained subject is immoral?

They answered the question & your not liking the answer doesn’t make it less true. There are better ways to deal with facts than insufferable irrationality.