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Societal collapse?

Del Woppio said:
www.theguardian.com

Elon Musk-led group makes surprise bid of nearly $100bn for OpenAI

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, responded that he would not accept and offered to buy X instead
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

This dude needs popping pretty smartish. I can't believe the ease in which he's got his fingers on government systems and data, I'm not sure that combining that access with AI is a great idea
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Palantir CEO is also part of the bid.

This bloke

gizmodo.com

Palantir’s Billionaire CEO Just Can’t Stop Talking About Killing People

Slow your roll, Alex Karp.
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Definitely, disgraceful company with fingers in many pies.
 
Del Woppio said:
www.theguardian.com

Elon Musk-led group makes surprise bid of nearly $100bn for OpenAI

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, responded that he would not accept and offered to buy X instead
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

This dude needs popping pretty smartish. I can't believe the ease in which he's got his fingers on government systems and data, I'm not sure that combining that access with AI is a great idea
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really interesting to learn that musk is grabbing access to data here, there and everywhere, yet since purchasing twitter he has restricted access to the data it collects. double standards much?
 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study

The research draws on every tweet posted between 2017 and 2022 by every member of parliament with a Twitter (now X) account in 26 countries: 17 EU members including Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, but also the UK, US and Australia.
It then compared that dataset – 32m tweets from 8,198 MPs – with international political science databases containing detailed information on the parties involved, such as their position on the left-right spectrum and their degree of populism.

Finally, the researchers scraped factchecking and fake news-tracking services to build a dataset of 646,058 URLs, each with an associated “factuality rating” based on the reliability of its source – and compared that data with the 18m URLs shared by the MPs.

By crunching all the different datasets together, the researchers were able to create what they described as an aggregate “factuality score” for each politician and each party, based on the links that MPs had shared on Twitter.

The data showed conclusively that far-right populism was “the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation”, they concluded, with MPs from centre-right, centre-left and far-left populist parties “not linked” to the practice.
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Thing is, that piece of text you've just quoted there...it's great, it shows the situation clearly and unambiguously. The problem with it, is that those that need to read it won't get past the first two sentences. Woke experts blah.
 
24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker has been detained at the scene and identified as the suspect, police confirmed. The suspect was previously known to the police in relation to drug and theft incidents
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I mean there were at least 1400 victims in just Rotherham, so it's not a wild take. Obviously they don't actually care about the victims (especially those from paedophile rings made up of white men) but we can't pretend it's not a problem just because racists are weaponising it.
 
An interesting map of Germany, ahead of tomorrow’s elections, showing which party is leading in the polls in each state.

Those of a certain age may recall the resemblance to the old Cold War border between West Germany- EU member and western outlook and East Germany- under a Soviet controlled puppet regime.

The reasons for this division go deep, from the relatively recent arrival of democracy after hiatus of more than half a century the yearning for a society where everything was provided for and the way in which despite billions in state investment in the east, those states were plundered by western businesses leaving a legacy of unemployment and low pay.

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leedswolf said:
An interesting map of Germany, ahead of tomorrow’s elections, showing which party is leading in the polls in each state.

Those of a certain age may recall the resemblance to the old Cold War border between West Germany- EU member and western outlook and East Germany- under a Soviet controlled puppet regime.

The reasons for this division go deep, from the relatively recent arrival of democracy after hiatus of more than half a century the yearning for a society where everything was provided for and the way in which despite billions in state investment in the east, those states were plundered by western businesses leaving a legacy of unemployment and low pay.

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AFD won't be in government, that is for sure, but the CDU manifesto is not much different to Reform's, on immigration.

www.euronews.com

CDU plans to move Germany to the right on immigration, manifesto says

Germany’s largest opposition party is heavily favoured to form a government after snap elections slated for February 2025.
www.euronews.com www.euronews.com
 
leedswolf said:
An interesting map of Germany, ahead of tomorrow’s elections, showing which party is leading in the polls in each state.

Those of a certain age may recall the resemblance to the old Cold War border between West Germany- EU member and western outlook and East Germany- under a Soviet controlled puppet regime.

The reasons for this division go deep, from the relatively recent arrival of democracy after hiatus of more than half a century the yearning for a society where everything was provided for and the way in which despite billions in state investment in the east, those states were plundered by western businesses leaving a legacy of unemployment and low pay.

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Thank you for this. Much appreciated. I live as west as it gets near Trier and sat right on the border with Luxembourg. Even here there is an ugly AFD presence.
 
Wellen Wolf said:
Sadly, impossible expectations for civilised life especially with a continued demand for satisfying me, me, me underline the irreconcilability of much of life even here in relatively prosperous western Germany.
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As you would know, Germany has been in recession for almost 2 years. The trains are even less reliable than in the UK and the car industry, which is the main industry has taken a huge hit.
 
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