Mine does if I use the defrost setting. I assume it wants me to rearrange the contents, but when it beeps the contents are still one solid chunk of ice. It doesn’t make sense, especially for a device that claims to have a “smart” sensor.

It’s a bit like the excerpt. It feels like someone is trying to rewrite the American Psycho routine, but it hammers the obsessive compulsive tropes with all the subtlety of a brick to the face while simultaneously lacking an overall purpose. It’s just noise.

Sounds like I have reading to do later. This might partly explain why the Human Rights Watch records for Yugoslavia are sealed for the next 15+ years.

The records include State Department visa records, some files of U.S. Postal Service inspectors, years of suspicious transaction reports from the Treasury Department and call records from the Bureau of Prisons.

Investigative files of the FBI, DEA and other law enforcement agencies often include information about witnesses, associates of suspects and others who have never committed any crimes, officials said.

He wants to know exactly what they’ve got on him and from who. The ability to supply ICE with target lists before election time is an added bonus.

I think we can anticipate more Epstein and Ivana style incidents in the future, and certainly many more people kidnapped off the streets.

He’s a crap reproduction of Pinochet in a power suit.

WTF is this garbage in the Graurdain? “Let’s assume!” is a terrible premise for even an opinion column to begin with, but “let’s assume Musk is right and AI could allow us all to not work” is… bananas for the Guardian to publish. Even before considering that the author’s bio says he’s a business owner of a technology and financial management services company.

Hormones are so weird.

Do your feet hurt more quickly than other people when you stand for a long time? I’m imagining that you might be less able to distribute the force compared to your size 10 shoe friend.

Did the huge phase of Trump small-hand mockery really suck for you?

This is what bothers me when I see the phrase “Trump’s war on Iran”. It both diminishes the responsibility of all of the other people making it happen and erases the atrocities occurring in other places directly affected by the conflict.

I’m glad Lebanon is finally getting some coverage but dismayed that it took so much violence to get around to that. I also wonder how many more places and people are getting no coverage at all. While it’s a largely separate conflict, the near total silence about the war in Sudan is a good example.

I noticed that too which is an extra reason why I figured I’d drop the link and name in. His posts about receiving an LLM-generated happy birthday is something I think about surprisingly frequently.

I’m not telling you to tolerate intolerance. I’m telling you that what you have attacked is something entirely unrelated to their intolerance, and actually perpetuates some of that intolerance.

It’s not like I’d be spared from concentration camps either, I’m part of a few demographics which have been some of the first targets of fascism too.

Dehumanization is a core mechanism of fascism. It’s not possible to eradicate fascism by using its tools. Your statement also stands in stark contrast with your position that empathy is the most important part of a person.

The problem is, we’re all capable of atrocities, even if some are much more easily convinced to participate than others. It’s an uncomfortable truth of being human. But we have the choice to attack the parts which are actually contemptible - their words and actions. Alienating people based on their physical appearance equally alienates the people who perceive themselves to have a physical similarity, even when they hold entirely opposite views. That collateral damage is neither necessary nor desirable.

I don’t doubt they hold ghoulish views, but it has nothing to do with their appearance. They look like older women fetishizing a revolting idol while subscribed to white supremacist ideals about youth and beauty. Describing them as “things” is dehumanizing in a similar way as they would likely dehumanize us. The more ideologically revolting members of our species are still people.

had their Nazis exterminated (not all of them, but “enough”)

Did they though?

There were 177 defendants at the Nuremberg and other trials, 142 were convicted and 25 sentenced to death. But the The Office of Chief Counsel for War Crimes had identified 2,500 major war criminals, and the United States forces arrested almost 100,000 Germans as war criminals.

Even if we assume that 2500 number is truly the number of major war criminals responsible for the genocide and enslavement of millions, that comes out to a 5.68% (142/2500) conviction rate, and 1% death rate (not all 25 died by execution).

It seems unlikely that the genocide and enslavement of over 10 million people was the responsibility of only 142 people, let alone 25.

What happened to the rest of them? Many of them used the Ratlines. Germany may never have recovered from it’s Nazi problem, it may simply have exported some of it.

People. They’re people. Objectionable people with grotesque views, but people nonetheless.

It was very good, and I’m glad I clicked through to the link to Robert Kingett’s story “The Colonization of Confidence”, which deserves its own highlight.

Even if the constant reminders that I’m trapped in the machine are painful.

I considered that, but the algae wafers on the top left shelf said it’s the rug.

Your rug is upsidedown, or is a manufacturing error.

It’s a very cool room though.

Persona’s exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade

In the 1930’s, IBM subsidiary companies were responsible for the census data and concentration camp cataloguing systems in Nazi Germany (and it’s invaded territories). The numbers tattooed on prisoners were five-digit IBM Hollerith numbers, corresponding to their dedicated punch card. With an estimated 40k+ camps of different types, the machine leases would have been very lucrative for IBM. They won’t say how lucrative, and they made sure they had complex financial setups through “neutral” countries.

IBM systems also underpinned the concentration “internment” camps in the US holding people of Japanese background. But of course, they’re much louder about their 1930’s history in winning the US Social Security contract - older SSNs were also Hollerith numbers.

It would be amusing that punch cards were a more secure system if history didn’t look like it was rapidly repeating.

I have an acquaintance who was interning at Block until a couple of weeks ago. All of the team they were on was laid off except the manager, and everyone who remained got a pay rise. They’ve taken out the people who actually do the work and kept the managers, who are arguably most effectively replaced by AI… It makes so little sense.

There was a controversial article in Slate from a decade ago about “double hit” drivers killing people because of the perception that paying the compensation for someone’s death was cheaper than paying for someone’s lifelong disability care, might that be it?

But even if true, that still seems a little different than what “paying to get out of murder” implies.

They executed Bai Tianhui a few months ago for taking $156 million in bribes in his role as a financial services manager. If he couldn’t buy his way out of a bribery conviction, I’m not sure how much buying your way out of a murder would cost.

They also jailed the former justice minister 3 years ago for life for concealing his brother’s crimes and taking bribes, so I’m guessing that even if it used to be a popular option, it might be a bit harder now.

What an excellent shot, the photographer must have been very pleased with themselves!