 In 2022 alone, the US carried out 100 sanctions against others, involving 82 countries and regions. The number of entities on the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions list has increased from 912 in 2000 to 9,421 in 2021, a net increase of 933 percent. OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so. https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant An important point people pushing VR seem to forget is that every gadget competes for attention with all the rest. Pulling out your phone and using a social media app to pass time is easier than putting on a VR headset. In order for people to choose the latter, it has to be that much more compelling. I think this is the precise reason Meta was dead on arrival. It simply doesn't offer anything compelling enough to warrant the effort of putting a headset on for. @yogthos VR is to social media like LSD to cigarettes.  @yogthos I wonder how much Meta factored in a new era of virtual feudalism in the metaverse. Maybe the fictitious capital got to their head. Millions of Americans are about to be forced to cut up to $258 a month out of their grocery budgets as emergency food stamps suddenly end in March https://www.businessinsider.com/millions-americans-will-lose-snap-benefits-groceries-march-2023-2  @yogthos isn't why rail workers were going to go on strike, the safety issues? @yogthos Check this! ๐The local police blew it up๐ "Ohio right now (ed. yesterday morning) That's a giant cloud of polyvinyl chloride and a ton of other bad chemicals The local police blew it up like a beached whale, now megatoxins are Chernobyling Ohio and there's a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging em..." https://twitter.com/FalconryFinance/status/1624051231554510848 Google's Go may add telemetry reporting that's on by default https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/googles_go_programming_language_telemetry_debate/ @yogthos It's supposed to be for 'slower' devices and 'unstable' connections. So add a background operation. Right? ๐คช The Case Against Liberal Imperialism is a careful analysis neatly demolishes all of the fallacies behind American imperialism. https://philippelemoine.substack.com/p/the-case-against-liberal-imperialism China's Covid Deaths and Severe Cases Both Slide 98% From Peak Levels https://archive.ph/J2Ttw After Ohio derailment, Buttigieg has no plans to reinstate Obama's brake rule, despite a warning to Congress that without it โthere will be more derailments.โ DOT is now considering a proposal that may weaken safety rules. This video shows Ohioโs commander of the National Guard, Adjutant General Maj. Gen. John C. Harris Jr., attacking a journalist trying to cover the toxic chemical spill. @yogthos Oh man, the kids are fighting. The media isn't aligned with the interests of corporations and the state. NewsNation must be doing something right (https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/us/newsnation-reporter-arrest-evan-lambert-ohio/index.html) love how they bury the purpose of the Chinese satellite at the bottom of the article... > Daqi-1 was launched last year and serves a similar purpose to ICESat-2, being designed to monitor atmospheric pollution using lasers. Understanding of the dollarโs world role is dominated by the ideas of โdollar hegemonyโ and โUS hegemonyโ. In this paper, based on their extensive past work, Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson reveal how these ideas are ideologies, not theories. They reveal an understanding that is theoretically sound and accords with the historical record, a geopolitical economy of the international monetary system of modern capitalism. Bok globules deep inside the Carina Nebula. The big one is almost 2 light years across. It contains molecular hydrogen, carbon oxides, helium, and around 1% (by mass) silicate dusts, and may go on to form a double or multiple-star system. (Credit: NASA & Stuart Rankin) |
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