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Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
Florida business owner guilty of murdering man who urinated on his property in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

Ok, but the thug needs to pee on the rug first. I envision it as a sort of rug-John-Wick short where the dude enlists Joey and Walter's Vietnam surplus store arsenal to lay siege to Lebowski's mansion. Joey dies in the battle, of course...

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    • Florida business owner guilty of murdering man who urinated on his property in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
    Atomic scientists set 'Doomsday Clock' closer to midnight than ever in c/world@lemmy.world
    [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Wait until Sweden, Poland, Japan, Australia and SKorea all get their own nukes, because captain dumbass would rather extort them when they need support...

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    Going Dark: Looking for the End of the Internet, Part 3: The Gemini Project (2020) in c/programming@programming.dev
    [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Specialists are usually boring, that is good, it means they aren't just superficial hype guys just trying to dumb things down to get attention. To make them interesting, you need to ask good questions and to care about the answers you will get.

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    • EU inks 'mother of all deals' with India amid global trade turmoil in c/world@lemmy.world
    EU inks 'mother of all deals' with India amid global trade turmoil in c/world@lemmy.world
    Utrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next week in c/europe@feddit.org
    TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture in c/technology@lemmy.world
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    China reveals 200-strong AI drone swarm that can be controlled by a single soldier — ‘intelligent algorithm’ allows individual units to cooperate autonomously even after losing communication with oper (www.tomshardware.com)
     

    cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/hardware/p/1701506/china-reveals-200-strong-ai-drone-swarm-that-can-be-controlled-by-a-single-soldier-inte

    The PLA just introduced a new weapon in the drone arms race.

    Peter Thiel comes to Paris to speak about the Antichrist in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
    An alternative decentralized internet for sharing text and media: The Gemini Protocol in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    Peter Thiel comes to Paris to speak about the Antichrist in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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    Peter Thiel comes to Paris to speak about the Antichrist (www.lemonde.fr)
     

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/54149315

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    Peter Thiel's visit to the Institute of France, a learned society in the heart of Paris, was kept secret until the very last moment. There, behind closed doors, he was due to speak at a meeting of members of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, a working group intended to discuss "the future of democracy." The group, chaired by former minister Hervé Gaymard, has previously interviewed 25 figures, all French, mainly legal scholars, political scientists and historians.

    Even Xavier Darcos, chancellor of the Institute of France, who oversees all five of its academies, was only informed of Thiel's invitation at the last minute. The invitation has caused a stir within the institution, not only because Thiel, the American billionaire who co-founded the online payment system PayPal and Palantir Technologies, a data analytics giant that works for many governments, is one of the biggest investors in the American tech sector. Rather, it is Thiel's political ideas, which openly contest democracy, that make his presence at the academy event decidedly provocative.

    According to an outline of his speech sent to the academy, of which Le Monde obtained a copy in French, Thiel intended to introduce himself as "a moderate Orthodox Christian and a humble classical liberal, with one seemingly minor deviation from classical liberal orthodoxy: I worry about the Antichrist."

    Through Thiel, however, the academy is about to encounter a far more radical worldview. The Antichrist, a figure he has given sometimes-cryptic talks on, drawing from both the Book of Daniel in the Bible and the writings of 16th-century English philosopher Francis Bacon, does not, according to him, refer to the rise of artificial intelligence or the proliferation of imperialist leaders. Thiel claims that today's Antichrist is anyone who expresses alarm about climate change, stokes fears of nuclear war or seeks to regulate the use of screens and social media platforms, all in order to promote the emergence of a "world government" – something libertarians, who are hostile to all forms of state regulation, dread above all.

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