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Too pretty? Easter poster depicting a handsome, fresh-faced Jesus prompts criticism in Spain (apnews.com)

A poster in the southern Spanish city of Seville that depicts a young, handsome Jesus wearing only a loincloth has unleashed a storm on social media, with some calling it an affront to the figure of Christ and others posting lewd remarks and memes poking fun at the image....

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They just wanted something that people would look at and think:

Oh. My. GOD.

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And yet advertisers still pay to show them ads

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Kagi is nice

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Kagi does this with web archive

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Honestly, I hope it’s around long enough. Right now it’s very good and rapidly improving. Enshittification by definition only happens when a service is large enough and successful enough. Until that happens, I’m going to keep using what for me is the best search option.

Let’s face it. Search is a fundamental necessity of the internet. How many models can functionally work?

  • It could be free for the user, but supported by ads. We’ve seen how that works. Maybe it’s run its course.
  • It could be ad-free and paid for by users. The competitive incentive at least is to give users the best possible experience.
  • It could be entirely free and provided as a utility. Literally no one is asking for a government run Internet.
  • Maybe there’s some futuristic solution like an Open Source distributed network in which users run the search themselves. As far as I know nobody has come up with a search that doesn’t require a massive database with enormous costs.
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No. A year or two ago they did a big redesign and added a lot of functionality. Of course, whenever you have changes to a software there will be some stuffy old dudes crying about it. So everywhere you look there are people who are upset because the interface is different from what they were used to even though it is way more modern and much more useful, and better for users - especially new users.

Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold (www.theverge.com)

Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold::Snap is recalling every one of its Pixy drones because their batteries pose a fire hazard. Yes, the entire drone is being recalled, not just the removable battery. Snap discontinued the drone just months after release.

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Shame. I never even heard about this. Like the spectacles, it seems like a neat idea, slightly before it’s time, and poorly rolled out. Such a creative company, but what a sad track record for project launches.

Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year (finance.yahoo.com)

Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year::The Facebook cofounder said the vast trove of photos and videos shared by users on Meta’s various services is larger than the web content crawled by search engines like those of Google and...

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So… less than the failed Metaverse®?

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Well, Dennis Rodman has singlehandedly held off North Korea for a decade already.

/s?

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Wait, does it have to be exactly 9 feet?

US moves to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela after opposition candidate barred from presidential election (www.cnn.com)

The US has reimposed economic sanctions against a Venezuelan state-owned mining company and says it could go on to reimpose further sanctions on the country’s oil and gas sector after Venezuela’s Supreme Court barred main opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado from running for president last week....

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How long can Maduro continue to starve his people and threaten his neighbors before the world steps in and does something?

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I spend a lot of time in Colombia and see the years-long stream of refugees from Venezuela who are starving and are suffering. Don’t ask me to look into their eyes and tell them it’s just propaganda.

In this case, the South American leader is the one doing the warmongering.

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Yes, because he has been impeached and indicted multiple times for charges related to violations of the oath of office of the presidency.

What are Machado’s crimes that she should be barred?

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Okay, so you don’t believe in democracy.

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As in, failing to do so will alter the global course of history? Obviously.

Why are some of our leaders in a race to establish Russia as the single world superpower?

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I’m not the genius chess grandmaster that Tate is, but somehow I have managed to avoid the inside of every single Romanian prison.

Also, I’ve never trafficked even one person. Seems like a pretty beta male move on his part.

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But did it work?

How fast does TikTok send users down the antisemitic rabbit hole? (forward.com)

Video-based content is already difficult to effectively moderate, because problematic content might be showcased visually, without keywords an automated AI might be able to check. And TikTok users are known for inventing shorthand and coded language specifically to evade censorship. There’s corn — or even just a corn emoji...

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There’s even a great YouTube video that explains why this is a terrible thing even in a landscape of terrible social media, and how it’s actually making other social media worse.

There are a lot of people who believe quite seriously that TikTok is a psyop to deteriorate Western culture and implement a massive spyware network.

Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing 3 militants (apnews.com)

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces opened fire inside the wards of the Ibn Sina Hospital in the town of Jenin. The ministry condemned the raid and called on the international community to pressure Israel’s military to halt such operations in hospitals. A hospital spokesperson said there was no exchange of...

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This is running an operation in a controlled situation in an area where they already have security control/cooperation. This is three terrorists. Hamas in Gaza is in the 10s of thousands, with a tunnel network, boobytraps, and decades of preparation. It’s out of touch with reality to suggest that they are equivalent.

A better question if you ask me is that if they could carry out this operation, why couldn’t they capture them and bring them to trial?

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Sometimes I get so sick of the jingoistic reporting from the guardian when it comes to Africa.

Above is the photo they used in the story. Here is the photo the show uses in their own promotion. See any difference?

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It’s a known problem with ai image resizing that automagically de-pixelates images. They add details not in the original based on their training data. Do you think that the training data may have included women with large breasts and exposed midriffs? It seems plausible. Still a bad editor not to catch that immediately.

AI is not neutral. It only amplifies our society’s existing biases. Garbage in, garbage out and we have a lot of garbage culture.

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I don’t have PS, but I’m surprised that they don’t have an AI unblur/depixelate tool which necessarily adds new details. I wonder if anyone here can recreate these conditions?

In either case, someone saw and approved the photo, so whether they are blaming Photoshop® or “photoshopping” it doesn’t matter. Humans are still responsible for the things that humans do with the tools they use.

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Even given that this was a terror cell actively planning a terrorist attack, this is unjustifiable. If they had the operational access to assassinate them, they also had the power to extract and arrest them. If they had evidence strong enough to compel an extrajudicial killing, then they had evidence to present at trial.

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100? That ought to do it /s

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This was one I completely forgot about. Brilliant !

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Hooray for being above average at something!

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Wait, it this a CHRISTIAN thing? I thought the sovereign citizen thing was a secular libertarian thing.

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“I never did a brain surgery on a cat, therefore humans don’t need them either.”

Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds?

Border standoff between Texas, feds intensifies as governor defies Supreme Court ruling (www.pbs.org)

This week, the Supreme Court sided with federal agents to remove razor wire put in place by Texas along the Rio Grande. The state is using wire and state agents to block Border Patrol from accessing a section of the border in Eagle Pass. Homeland Security is demanding access to the area by Friday, but Gov. Greg Abbott is...

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I hope this ends with Abbot in handcuffs.

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Aunt Jemima doesn’t seem so bad now…

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Wow, I really thought I broke the last printer I had at the office. Turns out it was HP. Too bad they replaced it with another HP.

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How can NZ continue to tolerate this kind of white nationalist politics just five years after the deadliest white supremacist shooting in history?

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Awesome list. Thanks for sharing!

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I second all of this.

They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens (www.techspot.com)

They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician’s cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens::undefined

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Not to minimize the 2016 or 2020 elections, which a lot of sources say there was not a level playing field in the DNC, but this year there is an incumbent president. This is how incumbent presidents are always treated. It’s normal and fair and strategically sound.

The same thing happened when Donald Trump was incumbent and nobody made a fuss.

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normal - The incumbent candidate has preferential treatment within the party in every election cycle. There are various ways that this manifests, and is usually different depending on the exact circumstances. If one chose, they could drill down into specific details to make it seem exceptional e.g. “It’s never been done in with this specific mechanism or in this particular state.”

fair - If you want access to preferential treatment, become President. The President is the figurehead not only of the country, but arguably even more so of their party. It would be unfair for the party leadership to undermine them while in office.

strategically sound - Incumbent candidates win elections. There is something like a 65% advantage to incumbency. Moreover, a party has limited political, social, and financial capital. If they spend that capital in the primary race, then they start the general election at a disadvantage. There is evidence (and common wisdom) that a primary race actually generates more capital, but I’ve never heard any credible suggestion that it could be a net gain in any area. Running a primary means a less unified party, less financial resources, less voter confidence in the victor.

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Blocking doesn’t really work on Lemmy like it does on other platforms. You can mute people but it doesn’t limit them from interacting with you.

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You’re actually proving the point. The people who ran against him demanded funding and equal access to Party resources, but they were denied. The incumbent party will always tilt the field toward the incumbent president.

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In every election, the incumbent is given preferential treatment and generally treated as the de facto candidate. In which election are you thinking of that this was not the case?

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That green pixel tho. I know it’s not the point at all, but I can’t unsee it.

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Oklahoma, are you OK? (couldn’t resist. hopefully they don’t outlaw puns as well.)

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I’m not sure I’ve ever heard “Yallqaeda” before, but I think it’s going straight into my lexicon.

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Seems like Iran would rather kill disabled people than give women the most basic autonomy. They just want to have the right to cover their hair or not. This is absurdity.

(Edit grammar)

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But lo, I needeth it not for this tax form. I needeth only black. Why can you not simply print using the black ink?

FTC bans TurboTax from advertising ‘free’ services, calls it deceptive (www.cnn.com)

The Federal Trade Commission ruled in a final order and opinion Monday that TurboTax, the popular tax filing software, engaged in deceptive advertising and banned the company from advertising its services for free unless it is free for all customers....

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FYI for any fellow Americans, you can probably do your taxes actually for free in minutes with well-designed software using cashapp. I’ve done it for the last two years and it is such a ridiculous upgrade from turbotax it’s hard to believe.

I have no idea about their privacy policies or anything like that but I know it’s super easy.

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Because they used all that money they made from the free filings to pay lawyers and lobbyists to show that technically - technically - it really is free from a certain perspective. If you really squint.

Scoop: Israel proposes 2-month fighting pause in Gaza for release of all hostages (www.axios.com)

Israel has given Hamas a proposal through Qatari and Egyptian mediators that includes up to two months of a pause in the fighting as part of a multi-phase deal that would include the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza, two Israeli officials said....

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Incorrect.

Hamas said the men were members of its armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

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Hamas has 30,000-40,000 fighters.

Hamas has fired thousands of rockets at Israel since Oct 7 and continues to do so.

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