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  1. Comment on US to Canada package forwarding service? in ~talk

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    I use https://www.shipito.com/ with no issues. Mostly for clothing that isn’t sold in Canada.

    I use https://www.shipito.com/ with no issues. Mostly for clothing that isn’t sold in Canada.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire with Tehran saying it will reopen Strait of Hormuz in ~society

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    I think the most likely thing is Trump had some side deals going on that required the "ceasefire" to occur at a specific time, so he just agreed to all the terms with no intention of keeping them.

    I think the most likely thing is Trump had some side deals going on that required the "ceasefire" to occur at a specific time, so he just agreed to all the terms with no intention of keeping them.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire with Tehran saying it will reopen Strait of Hormuz in ~society

  4. Comment on Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others in ~science

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    It’s like a textbook machine learning problem. Form them into an ensemble of weak classifiers. A optimization in this case might be using something like Cohen’s Kappa statistic to progressively...

    It’s like a textbook machine learning problem. Form them into an ensemble of weak classifiers. A optimization in this case might be using something like Cohen’s Kappa statistic to progressively evict people with weak inter-judge agreement from the ensemble.

    Setting aside the question of whether intelligence can be unambiguously ordered of course.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Project Glasswing: securing critical software for the AI era in ~tech

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    Major software companies are all involved in multiple trade associations, particularly in the security space. This doesn’t seem unusual to me?

    Major software companies are all involved in multiple trade associations, particularly in the security space. This doesn’t seem unusual to me?

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this morning that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of deadline in ~society

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    I’m absolutely certain a fortune was just made by Trump’s inner circle. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/7/iran-war-live-trump-warns-of-devastating-attacks-as-deal-deadline-nears I...

    just insider trading to the most extreme degree

    I’m absolutely certain a fortune was just made by Trump’s inner circle.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/7/iran-war-live-trump-warns-of-devastating-attacks-as-deal-deadline-nears

    An social media account that monitors suspicious bets on Polymarket – an online prediction platform that lets users bet on the outcome of world events – has flagged two suspicious bets on the US ceasefire with Iran.

    A single user made $400,000 with two perfect bets predicting the exact start of the US “operation on Iran” and the date of the ceasefire, which was reached with Iran on Wednesday, according to the X account Polymarket History.

    I wonder who that was. I assume the big money was in shorting oil futures in the past couple days though.

    6 votes

  7. Comment on Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this morning that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of deadline in ~society

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    He is definitely talking about infrastructure though. This is what he means by bombing them into the Stone Age. I think it’s evident that “end of civilization” is shorthand for no electricity, no...

    He is definitely talking about infrastructure though. This is what he means by bombing them into the Stone Age. I think it’s evident that “end of civilization” is shorthand for
    no electricity, no running water, no transportation.

    I don’t think this takes away from the genocidal aspect. Destroying that infrastructure will lead directly to the deaths of tens or even hundreds of thousands of people.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

  9. Comment on Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this morning that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of deadline in ~society

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    I do think he is probably making a killing on the markets by manipulating oil futures, and there’s huge potential to cash in again by TACOing with how much this tweet has spiked prices, but I also...

    I do think he is probably making a killing on the markets by manipulating oil futures, and there’s huge potential to cash in again by TACOing with how much this tweet has spiked prices, but I also think that at some point he does intend to kill a whole bunch of Iranians. Just once he has made enough profit. Maybe that will be today? Hard to say.

    12 votes

  10. Comment on Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this morning that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of deadline in ~society

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    I think it’s kind of important that the world sees exactly what he said in this case. There’s no room for ambiguity, or claiming the media is exaggerating. Maybe both? US President Donald Trump...

    I think it’s kind of important that the world sees exactly what he said in this case. There’s no room for ambiguity, or claiming the media is exaggerating. Maybe both?

    US President Donald Trump plans genocide: says a 'whole civilization will die tonight’.

    30 votes

  11. Comment on Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this morning that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of deadline in ~society

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    I feel like the president of America proclaiming his plan for genocide in unambiguous terms is newsworthy no matter what channel he announces it on.

    I feel like the president of America proclaiming his plan for genocide in unambiguous terms is newsworthy no matter what channel he announces it on.

    73 votes

  13. Comment on From $250 million megadeal to empty offices: the unraveling of Bad Robot in ~movies

  14. Comment on Mamma mia! ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ karts $372M+ in global debut, best for Hollywood pic YTD; ‘Project Hail Mary’ on path to half billion in ~movies

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    PHM is still new IP though, yeah? Like it is not part of an existing universe like Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana jones, Lego, Marvel, etc.

    PHM is still new IP though, yeah? Like it is not part of an existing universe like Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana jones, Lego, Marvel, etc.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on An ED resident and developer built a free, medically accurate clinical casebook for every patient of The Pitt in ~tv

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    Hah, I came here to post this myself. The existence of this website has made me want to actually watch the show itself — I had no idea it was this medically accurate.

    Hah, I came here to post this myself. The existence of this website has made me want to actually watch the show itself — I had no idea it was this medically accurate.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on 3D printers, do you use glue stick? in ~hobbies

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    I’ve never used glue on my Bambu X1C, and I had actually never failed a print. I’m surprised that it’s such a commonplace practise.

    I’ve never used glue on my Bambu X1C, and I had actually never failed a print. I’m surprised that it’s such a commonplace practise.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy in ~tech

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    This is among the least useful polls I have ever seen. Especially notable though, Kenya: 125 respondents = 12.0% of the survey, versus about 0.71% of world population India: 190 respondents =...

    This is among the least useful polls I have ever seen. Especially notable though,

    Kenya: 125 respondents = 12.0% of the survey, versus about 0.71% of world population

    India: 190 respondents = 18.25% of the survey, versus about 17.79% of world population

    Why am I interested in these in particular? Because of who this poll is really measuring.

    The survey was conducted in seven languages across 64 countries, with participants recruited through Prolific, a paid research panel platform, ensuring inclusion of people across a range of income levels and contexts including those who do not use AI tools. The interactive format combined standard poll questions, open-ended prompts, and peer voting on each other’s statements.

    I am deeply familiar with this subset of the population, as is anyone who has worked with Mechanical Turk, Upwork, and other platforms that offer mass scale “human” piecework employment. These people are among the heaviest adopters of AI tooling, as they automate their own processes to maximize their task throughput. I’ve spent a lot of time on the worker side forums reading about which micro jobs are best suited to automation, trading greasemonkey scripts to fill forms, documenting ban rates by employer, and so on.

    All this to say: I would be shocked if AI hadn’t had its hands in directly answering a large percentage of these answers.

    17 votes

  18. Comment on Suggest media in which the antagonist is an idea or an abstract concept rather than a person or intelligent entity in ~talk

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    I don’t want to tell you much about it because it would ruin, not a surprise exactly, but something — but the video game “The Outer Wilds” feels like it is what you are talking about. It is not...

    I don’t want to tell you much about it because it would ruin, not a surprise exactly, but something — but the video game “The Outer Wilds” feels like it is what you are talking about. It is not your classic “alien antagonist” plot. Maybe someone else can explain in a non-spoiler way what I’m trying to say.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I have been reading old stuff off Project Gutenberg. Right now I’m working my way through all of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and for the next couple months my plan is to just read...

    I have been reading old stuff off Project Gutenberg. Right now I’m working my way through all of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and for the next couple months my plan is to just read “classics”.

    9 votes

  20. Comment on 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' TV series lands at Peacock in ~tv

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    i hope the series gets finished before they film anything and we don't end up with a game of thrones shitshow at the end

    i hope the series gets finished before they film anything and we don't end up with a game of thrones shitshow at the end

    2 votes