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Mathematics doctorate with a cybersec degree. 32 || Male || Somewhere in Upstate NY Discord handle: ml2 Matrix handle: @mathlover2:matrix.org (not active right now)

The statement goes on ... "The messages referenced in recent reporting about planning details do not appear to be Discord messages. These were communications between the suspect's roommate and a friend after the shooting, where the roommate was recounting the contents of a note the suspect had left elsewhere." Authorities say Robinson's roommate showed them Robinson had made "a joke" on Discord and then showed investigators the messages, which included "'Tyler' stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush ... and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel." Discord seems to be saying these communications were not on its platform ... rather on a note that Robinson had written, off the site, to his roommate.
A Discord spokesperson tells TMZ ... "In the course of our investigation, we identified a Discord account associated with the suspect, but have found no evidence that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord."
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BREAKING: FIRE statement on Trump administration revoking Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification The Department of Homeland Security’s decision to escalate its assault against Harvard University by revoking its ability to enroll international students is retaliatory and unlawful. Secretary Noem’s letter warns that the Trump administration seeks to “root out the evils of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in society and campuses.” But little is more un-American than a federal bureaucrat demanding that a private university demonstrate its ideological fealty to the government under pain of punishment. The Department’s demand that Harvard produce audio and video footage of all protest activity involving international students over the last five years is gravely alarming. This sweeping fishing expedition reaches protected expression and must be flatly rejected. The Department is already arresting and seeking to deport students for engaging in protected political activity it disfavors. Were Harvard to capitulate to Secretary Noem’s unlawful demands, more students could face such consequences. The administration’s demand for a surveillance state at Harvard is anathema to American freedom. The administration seems hellbent on employing every means at its disposal — no matter how unlawful or unconstitutional — to retaliate against Harvard and other colleges and universities for speech it doesn’t like. This has to stop. Since 1999, FIRE has fought for free speech and academic freedom at Harvard and campuses nationwide, and we will continue to do so. We know there is work to do. Whatever Harvard’s past failings, core campus rights cannot and will not be secured by surveillance, retaliation, and censorship. No American should accept the federal government punishing its political opponents by demanding ideological conformity, surveilling and retaliating against protected speech, and violating the First Amendment.
ChatGPT prompt. Question: What would be an easy way to calculate the tariffs that should be imposed on other countries so that the US is on even-playing fields when it comes to trade deficit? Set minimum at 10%. Answer: Calculating tariffs to balance the trade deficit is a complex economic problem and cannot be accurately reduced to a simple formula. However, if we are looking for a basic approach, one way to conceptualize it is by considering the trade deficit ratio between the US and a trading partner. Simplified Approach: 1. Calculate Trade Deficit Ratio: Trade Deficit Ratio = Trade Deficit with Country / Total Trade with Country 1. Tariff Calculation: Tariff = max(10%, Trade Deficit Ratio x 100%)
Interview Question: "I think an anxiety for many people is, will we only really realize how bad things are once it becomes too late to do anything about it? How would you counsel people who are wondering how you know that it’s time to try to get out? Response: "Not my business. My business is to describe what’s happening. And you can read what I write and decide for yourself, but I’m not going to make other people’s decisions for them. I’m not into moralizing or lecturing; that’s not my thing. I’m an intellectual. What I do is I describe reality as I see it. I would love to live in the United States, but I want to live in the United States because it’s a place that is free. A lot of Americans don’t care about freedom. If you look at the polls, they say that Americans don’t value democracy at all. I have a different set of values. Democracy comes before the price of eggs. But what I think is particularly foolish and naive and stupid is to give up democracy and raise the price of eggs."
According to RealClearPolitics' poll aggregator, Trump's net approval is now -1.9%. His disapproval rating has gone from 44% to just under 50%, and his approval rating has gone from 50.5% to just under 48%. Keep in mind: we haven't seen the stuff that people who don't watch the news will notice yet, but the effects of tariffs are going to be hard to ignore, as will social security checks not being sent out.
As cited by Ramos, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli reported that in fiscal year 2022, New York collected $361.8 billion in federal taxes and received $383 million in federal spending. That represented a shift from the pre-COVID era, when New York traditionally supplied more money to the feds to make up financial shortfalls in other states. Ramos said the state now faces a shift back to subsidizing those other states since federal pandemic-related aid has cratered. “We are here to say, ‘Not in New York.’ It is not melodramatic, and it is not hyperbolic to say this is the accelerating creep of fascism, and bending the knee is never a good strategy when dealing with fascists,” Lasher said. “Blue states like New York have the power to protect our people and the power to protect our state.”
A chart of Trump's approval and disapproval ratings for the last 30 days from RealClearPolitics. Net approval has gone from +2.8 to -0.2 over that time.
Sanders talking about the counterproductivity of despair.
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ChatGPT is asked "What is the ordinary power series generating function of the cubes of the integers". ChatGPT sets up the initial sum correctly, but then proceeds to make errors along the way, ending up with the incorrect answer of x*(1+x)*(1+4*x+x^2)/(1-x)^5.
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Social Media Is Not a Viable Business Model I could end this column right here. But that statement — social media is not a viable business model — isn’t entirely true. It’s actually two different true statements glued together by the transitive property. Friendship is not a viable business model. Social media is not friendship.
This Is Bluesky’s Red Pill Elon figured out pretty quickly that if you’re going to productize your users with the digital town square model, you need to be a free speech absolutist for it to work.
This Is Bluesky’s Red Pill Elon figured out pretty quickly that if you’re going to productize your users with the digital town square model, you need to be a free speech absolutist for it to work.
Secret Service details, communications vehicles and other support vehicles (including a lot of heavy-duty SUVs) follow the presidential limo, according to The Drive. The rear of the convoy includes vehicles carrying members of the press, an ambulance and more local police to protect the rear of the motorcade. The Secret Service always is in charge.
Usually, it’s the fascists who are projecting a notion of order and control, of grim authority, against the wildness from the other side. Here, it’s the left and progressives who have become the party of the fused ego and superego.
That’s Trump now. To make sense of his speeches, you have to know what the old speeches were like. At that moment, you start to appreciate his weird genius. To vary the comparison, there is a touch of John Ashbery, the poet whose whole technique was to make the poem change topic, scene, etc, so suddenly that no summary of the poem can be made. That’s Trump in his late stage. An hour speech is an hour summary. In the past few days, he has gone beyond that. With his decision to stop a town hall Q&A a few minutes in and just play music and have the audience dance, he has reached the Sun Ra free-jazz stage of American politics. Ra — the leader of a large collective whose mission, at some point in their endless tours, became the summoning of interplanetary spacecraft — had concluded that what was getting in the way of the pure communion he had sought in music was music itself, and that he should break it apart from within.
North Carolina authorities arrest armed man after threats against FEMA workers Rutherford County sheriff’s office confirms it made the arrest Saturday after learning of threat to Federal Emergency Management Agency employees working on hurricane relief.
Probably one of the best examples of this dynamic is the copyright fight. For years, record labels, entertainment companies, and book publishers had pushed to increase copyright terms and worsen the terms of the deals given to artists. When file sharing came along, those companies worked with government to attempt a massive crackdown, but it wasn’t hard to turn public sentiment against them as it became incredibly easy to get access to far more music and media than people could ever imagine. Anti-copyright campaigners sided with the tech companies that wanted to violate the copyrights held by those traditional firms instead of trying to find a middle ground, even defending Google when it began scanning millions of books as part of its Google Books project. At the time, it was very much a David vs Goliath situation, with the tech companies in the position of David. But that fight — and many others like it — helped enable the growth of tech companies into the monopolists they are today.
Fragment of a comic (linked in text) showing a man hiding from Mormons going door to door on bikes. While hiding he tells his daughter that he's a fan of Buddhists and Jews because they don't go door-to-door and try to convert people. Comic cuts to a different, parallel universe where Jews *do* proselytise.
France As of 2011 and since 2004, the law for trust in the digital economy [fr] (French: Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique; abbreviated LCEN) mostly liberalized the use of cryptography. * As long as cryptography is only used for authentication and integrity purposes, it can be freely used. The cryptographic key or the nationality of the entities involved in the transaction do not matter. Typical e-business websites fall under this liberalized regime. * Exportation and importation of cryptographic tools to or from foreign countries must be either declared (when the other country is a member of the European Union) or requires an explicit authorization (for countries outside the EU).
Post from FurAffinity Discord, originally from Xitter: "The reason Fur Affinity went offline around at 12:48am is due to someone hijacking our account with @netsolcares. Even though we worked quickly to correct the situation, their customer support has stated they cannot lock or freeze the account and we have to wait 24-48 hours for proper assistance. We have contacted them multiple times expressing urgency in this matter, and they've responded saying there is nothing they can do even though we have proven without a doubt that we are the proper owner and the account has been hijacked. This is a serious security issue and oversight on their side. Refusal to take this issue seriously has caused undue stress and misinformation to spread. We need action now to get the domain back into our control. This is unacceptable that customer support at @netsolcares can identify a hijack but not stop or freeze the account immediately."
Nathan J Robinson: I have this wild notion that Trump might conceivably run to Biden's left on Israel-Palestine in the general election, like he did with Hillary and Iraq. He's been noticeably quiet on this issue since Oct. 7.
"And last summer, after California passed a law to prevent social media companies from tracking and extracting data from children, a federal court blocked it, arguing, in effect, that the surveillance of children is also a form of speech protected by the First Amendment." --- Excerpt from NYT-op ed linked earlier in thread.
The command is `cat states.txt | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | grep -E '^([a-z]).*\1$'`. The four states listed are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, and Ohio (in lower case).
Not all of this can be explained by Elon Musk or by direct political backlash from the right. The existence of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act means that social media platforms have wide latitude to do nothing. And, perhaps more importantly, two state-level lawsuits that have made their way to the Supreme Court that allege social media censorship means that Meta and other social media platforms may be calculating that they could be putting themselves at more risk if they do content moderation. The Supreme Court’s decision on these cases is expected later this week.
The problem: The starkest divide — Trump-branded conservatism versus the rising political left — may be the one where no one is interested in reconciliation. “We have to be focused on what we call the exhausted majority — that’s 65 percent of Americans,” said Stephen B. Heintz, the president and chief executive of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a major financial backer of the proliferating groups trying to promote common ground. “It’s just not an efficient use of time to convince true ideologues to compromise.”
The lawsuit against Activision and Meta was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of approximately 45 family members of the victims. It accuses the gaming company of desensitizing young men to acts of mass violence and grooming them to seek out weapons like those featured in Call of Duty. While Instagram prohibits the marketing of firearms on its platform, the lawsuit claims Instagram fails to enforce firearm guidelines while rigorously enforcing other types of content guidelines.
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Google search for "moon". News is one of the options, and there is a spread about the recent private moon mission.
The sheriff and the deputy from the Andy Griffith Show.
HTML code for the title displayed in the browser when visiting WP. The title on the page is "How to grow houseplants that help — not hurt — the planet - The Washington Post"
Quote from a news article, presumably from The New Yorker, regarding Musk and ketamine. "Elon Musk has long touted ketamine as an alternative to antidepressants—but some of his associates suggested to The New Yorker that his personal use of the drug has been on the rise recently, perhaps contributing to his erratic behavior. 'A little bit of ketamine has [end of screenshot]"
Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888): Elon Musk is going to put Apple out of Business! slate (@PleaseBeGneiss): did he buy it