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dfansteel · 2026-08-27T12:03:55

It surely doesn’t help that Meta’s corporate behavior has them being flagged by Amnesty International.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/meta-new-poli...

dfansteel · 2026-08-04T12:00:51

The original was published as a one page story. It was later reprinted in a longer format.

dfansteel · 2026-07-31T03:25:06

For the lawyers: If an AI hacks a company, who should be charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

dfansteel · 2026-07-20T18:56:28

The effort frontier model providers are going through to generate a permanent client base would make Philip Morris blush.

dfansteel · 2026-07-14T16:45:57

> Taylor Sheridan can do a new series where a Ranch owned by a family for many generations is targeted by a Datacentre company.

It’s all fun and games until the cost of beef and oil skyrockets.

dfansteel · 2026-07-13T03:12:58

Look at the host name and learn to temper your expectations.

dfansteel · 2026-06-16T12:00:26

That’s a pretty uninformed argument.

For most of the global south USAID was the arm of America they were most likely to interact with. It was food and schools and medicine and disaster relief. It was soft power and goodwill.

Not only has the longest charm campaign in history ended, but a door to China and others been opened.

dfansteel · 2026-06-08T13:13:18

Both are valuable and present in a well rounded life. The Diary of Anne Frank and Those Who Leave Omelas cause you to question life in different ways.

dfansteel · 2026-05-26T05:30:14

It still has a monopoly on my heart.

spwa4 · 2026-05-27T08:07:59

Now I'm picturing your heart as having a neon flashing heart-shaped sign.

arctic360 · 2026-05-26T07:14:25

How would they lose it? It’s quite a big box.

dfansteel · 2026-05-24T03:45:25

The University of Iowa has a Social Sciences department that has professors in for Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy, and other fields. It’s an accredited institution.

pstuart · 2026-05-24T16:58:08

But this isn't about the University of Iowa, it's about the "Center for Intellectual Freedom", which was created specifically to promote conservative values.

I'm all for challenging assumptions and learning about differing viewpoints, but this smells of indoctrination.

Conservatives hate colleges because they are "liberal hotbeds", but "reality has a liberal bias" and a lot of education on reality runs counter to their ideology. Case in point: studies on Critical Race Theory are considered to be blasphemous by the right but those studies are based upon the fact that the United States was built on systemic racism and is still deeply ingrained is a depressingly significant portion of the population.