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Judge Orders Biden Administration to Resume Permits for Gas Exports
  • Is it? I thought he was just continuing the same policies from the Obama Admin. Limiting exports doesn't sound like a way to limit fossil fuels being extracted, it sounds like a way to keep the domestic market cheaper. But idk

    And the pause was only started in January. So I don't see how you could blame courts for the previous 3 years. He's an Obama Democrat. He loves drilling.

  • US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official, not private acts
  • The main thing you're missing is that the words of the court are meaningless. They'll always be able to use the next ruling to bend the outcome to the conservatives' whims.

    This is a government of men, not laws. Always has been.

  • Scientists find desert moss ‘that can survive on Mars’
  • The article has lots of reasons why maybe not. Not using Martian material is one of them.

    But moss typically doesn't need soil. The first mosses evolved on earth before soil was a thing. Mosses don't have roots that extract nutrients/water from soil. Instead, they have rhizoids that just kinda anchor them in place, but don't transport nutrients/water

  • Here, I translated it from Troll into English for you
  • I think the genocide in Gaza broke a lot liberals' brains. Something snapped. The mask is off. Leftists are the enemy. Dissent must be crushed. Everyone they disagree with is a troll/bot/Russian/Chinese

    The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters

    ❤️ To you, though. Not everyone is like this. Not even all libs are this callous. But it is a growing trend 😞

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    Biden Administration Opposes Surgery for Transgender Minors
  • Look at the article, though. IMO it looks like HHS was trying to keep quiet, navigating political pressure and recent research. It's the NYT that decided to box the administration into this very public position. It's effective Advocacy journalism for terfs

  • Fuck up a book for me please
  • Yeah, this is a rare application of LLMs that kinda makes sense. It's essentially just rephrasing text based on statistics. That's what LLMs are good at, and it's pretty low stakes if it gets something wrong.

    There's definitely an ick factor, considering all the problems with "AI", like exploiting labor and wasting energy. But this is exactly the sort of things LLMs can do well. Rephrasing things.

    Would it be better to just get a human to do this? Yes. They already do with abridged versions and cliff notes. Best case scenario, this service is using LLMs to just make these people's jobs easier (doubtful, I know)

  • Open source e reader

    I recently got a Sony prs 600 e reader from 2009. The battery is at the end of its life (It lasts about 3 days with heavy reading, and a couple weeks without reading). No backlight, no Wi-Fi, just an SD card that I can load epub files and small PDFs. The screen is slow and the contrast isn't the best. The "touch screen" is the old resistive type where you really need to press with your nail or a stylus. Despite all those flaws, it's fantastic. It's just good enough for reading books.

    I read with large text so I don't even need to put on glasses, and it's easier to read than an actual book. Combined with Anna's archive, I'm reading more than I ever have before. No Wi-Fi nd slow screen make the experience feel closer to an actual book than a smartphone. It's great to just have a device do one thing without distractions popping up every minute.

    It's all old technology, but it's so rare to see anyone with an e-reader. Probably because they're still expensive and designed to microtransact the fuck out of you.

    So do you think there could be a simple open source e reader? I see pine64 is making the "pinenote", but it's still just the developer version, it's expensive, doesn't have an sd card, and looks like it's trying to be a lot more than an reader. Maybe it'll come down in cost, or they'll release a simpler version? The biggest obstacle for making an e-reader seems to be the screen, so maybe the pinenote's screen could become something of a standard.

    Or maybe I'm overthinking it, because there's already so many old Kindles and nooks out there that could be improved with a new battery and maybe new firmware too.

    Thoughts?

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    Bangladesh opens mosque for transgender hijra community
    www.aljazeera.com Photos: Bangladesh opens mosque for transgender hijra community

    The South Asian nation has, since 2013, officially allowed members of the hijra community to identify as a third gender.

    Photos: Bangladesh opens mosque for transgender hijra community
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    Democracy rule

    I need y'all to understand: Biden isnt losing votes from the far left. He never had those votes, and could never get them.

    He's losing the votes of Muslims and Arabs in Michigan and Philly. He's losing the votes of moderates who are watching Israel's final solution in horror. He's losing the votes of Latinos and Haitians who see the southern border is getting more militarized and more violent every year

    [Edit] to be 100% clear: If you oppose Israel's war on Palestine, but plan on voting for Biden this November,this post isn't about you.

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