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clydethefrog

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    Comment #49216932

    You might want to research such things as "feedback loops", the effects a high CO2 had in the past million year with extinction events and the almost impossible task of reversing t…

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    Comment #49167346

    LRB had a great article about Palantir and the NHS in their latest issue. [1] What I mostly enjoyed reading is the insight that their actual software is quite "rubbish", something …

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    Comment #48776448

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Rafi%27-Nia...

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    Comment #48776366

    Can you share concrete examples of the outputs that are fueling your excitement?

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    Comment #48751666

    Meanwhile the Dutch news just has a headline that NATO fully embraced Palantir’s Maven Smart System, so I wonder how true this ban is.

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    Comment #48652455

    The European Press Prize this year went to "What the wounds are telling us", an investigation into the wounds of Palestinian dead children. I recommend you read it. https://www.eur…

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    Comment #48567412

    They are provided for free because a quick scroll through the playlist shows they are soft propaganda tools for Australia's geopolitical interests. These video essays "explaining" …

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    Comment #48478380

    Almost all Musk related negative news gets [flagged] and never hits the the front page, so there is still a silent base on the other "team" apparently.

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    Comment #48443264

    This was described in a 2016 essay in the Verge, coining it "airspace". It has been going on so long that indeed it has become the standard now, see this recent analysis, claiming …

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    Comment #48443113

    There was a major campaign the last decade from many pro-capital and libertarian thinkers to label Adorno and other philosophers as the root cause of many people grievances. Rememb…

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    Comment #48354354

    There was another research in Austria into phone-free living among 46,000 young people shows that three weeks without a smartphone leads to better sleep and less depression. The pa…

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    Comment #48354315

    In our liberatarian paradise where everything is ads and poison because of the ruthless aim of maximizing profit, the biggest enemy is heavy regulation from to some other body that…

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    Comment #48233441

    You can see the result from this operation in this photo series. https://apnews.com/photo-essay/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-page...

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    Comment #47995663

    Related story - in February 2026, the baggage of a Dutch diplomat was confiscated. It contained three Starlink satellite modems and seven satellite phones, concealed inside a suitc…

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    Comment #47652928

    They announced they will veto military actions to open Straight of Hormuz in the UN security council.

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    Comment #47476962

    Some of these newsletters were also edited and published in opinion pages of the Mediahuis publications.

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    Comment #47445201

    They could stage a "Operation Spiderweb" inspired attack [0], but this seems highly unlikely with the current powerful surveillance state of the USA. I once read a wild theory that…

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    Comment #47440141

    Just last night: "It’s worth pointing out that Hezbollah has managed to get rockets right down to the south of Israel today – and that is unprecedented. Never before has Hezbollah …

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    Comment #47440034

    Strange how there are so many progressive radical groups and somehow the anti-nuclear activists are the only ones that manage to change the energy agenda in favour of the very powe…

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    Comment #47427678

    Crazy to see how all the comments here are AI bots. Thankfully we have the green usernames to make it more obvious.

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    Comment #47427550

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_in_Iran

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    Comment #47121808

    Pinterest has the honour to lead the leaderboard from #1 tot #7 in the blocked domain list. https://kagi.com/stats?stat=insights

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    Comment #47059267

    I remember the writers of SV actually somehow had to tone down the ridiculousness of the SV setting. See this quote from The New Yorker [0]: >“His [Teller, working for Google] mess…

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    Comment #47037410

    There has been recent academic research (+ book) about how it's the opposite - Israel relied on foreign intelligence (Club de Berne) for it's most famous operations. [1] https://ac…