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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago

Azure

Ninja edit. I entirely forgot the song lyrics are lonely and plaintive. Oops. Never mind that.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

That's exactly them at Bluesky right now.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 5 hours ago

Liberals will say it's no biggie. Their nonsense argument will be that liberal billionaires should start buying newspapers.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 31 points 5 hours ago

this will hurt the journalists in wapo that have been posting genocide denial stories in the paper for months

I think their jobs are secure. If cutbacks are needed - the paper will fire the people least important and/or who make the least amount of money.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 5 hours ago

https://subium.com/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3l7o5ckrjya2y

Mr. Bezos sir - you are canceled.

Yesterday @apocalypticanow.bsky.social used the word "decimate" to describe what Bezos had done to his newspaper and that prediction is now made real and literal.

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I didn't put this in the dunk tank because I assume Bezos doesn't care at all. He uses the paper to advertise Prime etc. His bigger toy cost him twice as much - his $500m yacht. Also - he's clearly betting on a Trump win and he'll recoup any tiny WaPo losses via juicy federal contracts that come his way.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago

~~It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A~~

It's fun not to pay Trump rally bills

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 5 hours ago

Serious question - how in any logical fashion does this make any sense?

I'm American but I'm not understanding this. Medicaid is federal money so in other words it's basically free money for the state. I know the republicans love nonsense like owning the libs and "reducing the dependency on the government" but is there some kind of cogent argument here even in theory?

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What a great article - it's to the point.

They uncovered the hidden complex - which they have called Valeriana - using Lidar, a type of laser survey that maps structures buried under vegetation.

They believe it is second in density only to Calakmul, thought to be the largest Maya site in ancient Latin America.

The team discovered three sites in total, in a survey area the size of Scotland's capital Edinburgh, “by accident” when one archaeologist browsed data on the internet.

“I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a laser survey done by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring,” explains Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US.

Lidar needs to appear an horror movie. Something like this - For a thousand years evil was left undisturbed...

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 6 hours ago

OP - you might want to change the link - it probably has tracking. Here's the direct link...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmznzkly3go.amp

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 6 hours ago

They just can't help themselves. They're supposed to say extremist hateful things after voting is over.

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other deranged fascist

I don't know a thing about r/ShitHexbearSays but whoever Malding is - they are a uber-pro-Israel kook. And they must think of themselves as The King (or Queen) of Online Wit. In real life I wouldn't be able to stop laughing if somebody tried to cut me to ribbons with a "stool sample" dis to my face. Who does that???

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'I'm Not A Nazi,' Trump Tells US Campaign Rally

By AFP

October 28, 2024

Donald Trump told campaign supporters Monday in swing state Georgia that he is "not a Nazi," pushing back on critics' accusations that the Republican is seeking to be an authoritarian American leader.

"I'm not a Nazi. I'm the opposite of a Nazi," Trump told a boisterous crowd in Atlanta, one day after he held a mega-rally in New York's famed Madison Square Garden that was widely condemned for racist remarks that his allies made during the event.

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Mr. Bloomberg, who is 82 years old and has an estimated net worth of $105 billion, is the second largest disclosed individual donor to Democrats in this election cycle, after the investor and philanthropist George Soros. But publicly, Democrats observed that Mr. Bloomberg was donating nowhere close to what he had spent during the presidency of Donald J. Trump.

The $47 million he had given in federally disclosed political contributions during this election cycle, before his new nonprofit donation, was less than half of the $95 million he disclosed to help Democrats retake Congress in the 2018 midterms.

Look at this "journalism"...

When Mr. Bloomberg ran for president in 2020, he spent $1.1 billion in a real-world experiment on whether enormous money could buy votes. It couldn’t. He got creamed in the Democratic primaries.

A creepy, unelectable billionaire spent a zillion dollars and lost is proof of nothing. And to say in general that money doesn't influence elections is insane.

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The following is from the article but I edited it so much by moving sentences around I decided not to use the quote tag.

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The number is two to the 136,279,841st power minus one. Luke Durant is a 36-year-old programmer retired from chipmaker Nvidia in 2021. The discovery was the result of almost exactly one year of work and about $2 million of Durant’s own money. He used the GPUs, the technology he had a hand in developing at Nvidia. A typical CPU would take a week or two to test a number to see whether it is prime. It takes GPUs about a day or two.

Durant, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, found the new prime number using only publicly available unused cloud storage space. Durant, who made his money off the boom, said he put his time and money into the project to show people that they aren’t helpless to technology giants and that we can figure out massive problems if we work together. He said...

"Individuals today are dramatically more capable than any point in history. The scale of computing available in the cloud, it’s nearly unfathomable. I was able to find this number that’s astonishingly large … but I was able to do it just by using big tech’s leftovers. So it’s trying to [highlight the fact that] we have these incredible systems, so let’s figure out how to best use them."

Woltman said about 3,000 to 5,000 volunteers have downloaded a piece of software that tasks unused space on their computers to crunch these numbers in the background.

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