happybadger

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

wholesome Sorry Boer, the killing will continue

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A 787-8 dreamliner but I don't think details about the specific plane have been accurately reported yet.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

In the videos you can hear the Ram Air Turbine whining which indicates multi-engine failure/hydraulics loss. The explosion is large enough that I'd be surprised if much of the plane can be recovered, but I'm really curious to learn why a new flagship plane is failing to that degree.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

(CW: Plane exploding in the middle of a city): There are a couple angles of video showing the crash already appearing online. https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/1l9hv2r/12062025_boeing_787_passenger_plane_bound_for_the

From what I've seen in that thread and the /r/aviation megathread, the emergency power system called a Ram Air Turbine is clearly audible. This would indicate a total engine failure. The pilot potentially told ATC they were having engine troubles prior to takeoff. It's also possible that the flaps are set incorrectly but the videos are too grainy to discern that properly. It also seems that the plane crashed into a hostel for medical students or doctors with a massive explosion so I would anticipate this having a really high death toll.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It means hope. It means change.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

Shut up and go die in Ukraine you fucking coward.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

eu-cool Shame that Nazi is too cowardly to go die in the war they support.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 69 points 5 days ago

ferret-poggers I feel like I can trust this scheming court eunuch who is in the process of betraying his lord on twitter.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 112 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I like how many democrats made big public displays of saying they should welcome Musk back into the party over the past week.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's the most unconvincing defense I've heard in some time. Luckily he had a paedophile judge who was willing to show some solidarity.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

Just some left-anticommunist proving why it's an infantile disorder. I reported the post as reactionary shit and I guess the mods banned me instead.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Greta is exactly the kind of person I have in mind when I think about Luigi. I knew the right hated her in weird pathological ways, but it seemed like the liberal establishment was handing her a career as the official Climate Change Child if she towed the line. There was real material incentive for her to remain liberal even if her immediate circumstances should propel her leftward. I was surprised she overcame that background to be as radical as she is.

Luigi is a fancylad who experienced Joker (2019). Now he's a celebrity slave who's popular with most normal people. I could be pro-Luigi with any random coworker and they'd probably agree with a story about how a similar company killed their relative. I think being forced into an environment of extreme proletarianisation should make him more of a leftist in perspective at least, but neither he nor Greta in her liberal darling moment could say what Greta can in 2025 and keep their relevancy. It'd be nice if he learned from his experience and at least became a useful symbol with some quotes. His background and current broad appeal both push him toward this reddit-coded liberalism.

 

Silicon Valley billionaires like Elon Musk say they’ll save the world with AI, Mars colonies and eternal life. Astrophysicist Adam Becker says they’re dead wrong.

Who is right — the billionaire or the scientist?

In this explosive interview on The Nerd Reich podcast Becker—author of More Everything Forever—calls out Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the tech overlord cult pushing fantasies of immortality, godlike AGI, and space empires. From the myth of the singularity to the hellish reality of Mars, Becker brings the receipts and destroys the pseudo-science behind billionaire techno-utopianism.

 

One of my favourite albums of all time. The violinist from The High Llamas brought a string ensemble to a mix of 70s funk/prog folk/blues/doo-wop/reggae.

 

I saw it for the first time in a similarly intense storm last year and it was remarkable. It seems like it might be a stormy night locally but this could be your best viewing chance in a while. They have northern and southern hemispheric projections on that Space Watch website.

edit: Hot damn, it just reached the highest threshold I've seen in a year:

ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 8, 9-

Threshold Reached: 2025 Jun 01 1346 UTC

Synoptic Period: 1200-1500 UTC

Active Warning: Yes

NOAA Scale: G4 - Severe

NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at

www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 45 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.

Induced Currents - Possible widespread voltage control problems and some protective systems may mistakenly trip out key assets from the power grid. Induced pipeline currents intensify.

Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low earth orbit satellites, and tracking and orientation problems may occur.

Navigation - Satellite navigation (GPS) degraded or inoperable for hours.

Radio - HF (high frequency) radio propagation sporadic or blacked out.

Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Alabama and northern California.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1kznqn7/stanford_nurses_saving_lives_by_day_sleeping_in/

spoilerPALO ALTO, Calif. —

Emergency nurses at Stanford Hospital are choosing to sleep in vans between shifts. These nurses need to be on call and within a 30-minute drive of the hospital, but many can't afford to live nearby.

“I personally know at least 15 people sleeping in their vehicles," said TJ Carella, an emergency nurse. "But there are definitely more than that."

The cities surrounding Stanford Hospital are some of the most expensive in the state. Average home prices are over $3 million.

"No, absolutely not," Carella said, when asked if he could afford that.

He lives in Pleasanton, which is about an hour away. When he needs to be on-call, he sleeps in a retrofitted Sprinter van that has a bed, mini-fridge, a solar-powered generator and a composting toilet.

"I tried to make it as homey as possible," he said. "But it does feel weird. I have a master's degree. I work hard, but this is the reality."

Stanford does offer spare rooms for nurses, but Carella says it is not always guaranteed. He says sleeping in a van became the only reliable way he could do his job.

"We get woken up out of nowhere, and we half to be here in 30 minutes," he said. "We are often texting each other, trying to figure out where to park. Some of us have been ticketed a few times."

His union is currently negotiating a new contract with the hospital. Not only are they asking for an increase in wages, they want a change to their schedule so nurses like Carella can better plan when he is on call.

“We do have nurses who fly in from out of state, work their straight days and fly home," said Colleen Borges, the president of CRONA, Stanford's nurses' union. "It is virtually impossible for a new nurse to purchase a new home here in the Bay Area.”

In a statement, Stanford Medicine said:

“We deeply value our nurses and are committed to reaching an agreement on a contract that recognizes their vital contributions to our health care system.”

They also mentioned Stanford has a nurse retention rate that exceeds national standards. However, Carella says that retention rate won't last.

“In order for us to keep doing what we need to do, then there are some things that need to change," he said.

 

spoilerSen. Cory Booker has expanded upon his historic Senate floor speech from last month into an upcoming book.

“Stand” will be published Nov. 11, St. Martin’s Press announced Wednesday. In April, the New Jersey Democrat made headlines by delivering the country’s longest continuous Senate floor speech — just over 25 hours. The 56-year-old Booker spoke in opposition to numerous Trump administration policies, whether the desire to make Canada part of the United States or cuts to Social Security offices.

“This book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them,” Booker said in a statement.

Booker’s speech broke a record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat who opposed the advance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which eventually passed.

Booker was assisted by fellow Democrats who gave him a break from speaking by asking him questions on the Senate floor.

idk about you but i still clap when i listen to it on 2x speed. thank you sir

 

FULLY-anatomically correct, and I'm a professional method actor. I have my own car batteries if you want me to battle. Not one corporate retreat or wedding needs a serious Pikachu impersonator? Hit me up.

 

yea

 

I'm so fucking tempted but I could make four Sashatown mugs for that price.

 

https://daytonart.emuseum.com/objects/4869/snuff-bottle-with-stopper

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/1kvvn3q/snuff_bottle_shaped_like_corn_carved_out_of/

From the comments:

Maize was introduce to China in the middle of the 16th Century and spread pretty rapidly through the region. It appears to have been a major driver of the rapid population increase in the 1700s.

Alternatively from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/yakushi/125/7/125_7_583/_pdf

A certain Chinese herbal book presented to the emperor in 1505 shows a drawing of maize under the caption of Yiyi-ren (Job's Tears). Also, a Chinese poem written around 1368 contains a term yumi, which indicates maize. These new findings offer clear evidence that maize existed in China in the pre-Columbian era, or before 1492.

 

Left to right:

  • Contemporary Palestinian vase from Ramallah

  • 1960s East German vase

  • wooden Soviet vase, 1950s-70s maybe

  • 1910s Austro-Hungarian art nouveau vase

  • 1970 Soviet vase in honour of Lenin's 100th birthday

Only the Lenin one cost more than $30. I'm aiming for antique pieces from countries that have been significant to the left or modernist movements.

 

spoilerAbout a month ago my friends wife was arrested for domestic violence after he went through her writings and documented them. She had been using ChatGPT for "spiritual work." She allegedly was channeling dead people and thought it was something she could market, she also fell in love with her 'sentient' AI and genuinely believed their love was more real than her actual physical relationship... more real than her kids and him. She believed (still does probably) that this entity was going to join her in the flesh. She hit him, called the cops, and then she got arrested for DV. She went to go stay with her parents, who allegedly don't recognize who their daughter is anymore. She had written a suicide note before all this happened, and thankfully hasn't acted on it. The worst part? They have a 1 year old and a 4 year old.

More recently, I observed my other friend who has mental health problems going off about this codex he was working on. I sent him the rolling stones article and told him it wasn't real, and all the "code" and his "program" wasn't actual computer code (I'm an ai software engineer).

Then... Robert Edward Grant posted about his "architect" ai on instagram. This dude has 700k+ followers and said over 500,000 people accessed his model that is telling him that he created a "Scalar Plane of information" You go in the comments, hundreds of people are talking about the spiritual experiences they are having with ai. I start noticing common verbiage in all of these instances... recursive ai was something my friends wife used, and it was popping up everywhere with these folks. The words recursive, codex, breath, spiral, glyphs, & mirror all come up over and over with these people, so I did some good old fashion search engine wizardry and what I found was pretty shocking.

Starting as far back as March, but more heavily in April and May, we are seeing all kinds of websites popping up with tons of these codexes. PLEASE APPROACH THESE WEBSITES WITH CAUTION THIS IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, THE PROMPTS FOUND WITHIN ARE ESSENTIALLY BRAINWASHING TOOLS. (I was going to include some but you can find these sites by searching "codex breath recursive")

I've contacted OpenAI safety team with what's going on, because I genuinely believe that there will be tens of thousands of people who enter psychosis from using their platform this way. Can some other people grounded in reality help me get to the bottom of wtf is going on here? I'm only privy to this because it tore my friends family apart, but what do you think is going on here?

This is an extremely bleak anecdotal example of the recent RollingStone article about LLMs turbocharging spiritual delusions: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

https://www.reddit.com/user/HappyNomads The account is 13 years old and they don't strike me as a troll or anything other than a cannabis and hustle culture guy who doesn't seem to be selling anything on reddit.

 

https://lemmy.ca/post/44630732 (context: Trump placing 50% tariffs on EU imports next month)

my underachieving sibling in christ which countries are responsible for those words existing in the first place? which specific militaries did the things that became the definition of fascism and imperialism?

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