[Fox 31] Ungrateful shits should be conveyor-belted back to Mexico
DENVER (KDVR) — A group of migrants staying at an encampment in Denver sent a list of demands to the mayor’s desk. That group said if their demands are met, they will voluntarily stay in city-funded shelters and leave their encampment where families, including young children, still live in tents.
The migrants have been lobbied by Denver Human Services to get off the street and into shelters — an offer that remains, according to city officials. But they are holding out and said the city has reneged on its deal with them, while the city maintains it will continue to offer services to migrants that choose shelter over encampments.
"The camp as a collective came up with a list of demands," V Reeves, a migrant advocate, said.
That came after a petition by city officials to move people from an encampment near train tracks and under a bridge to indoor shelters funded by the city.
"This morning, they sent buses to take people over without presenting that document and without having any kind of signature for accountability," Reeves said.
That is how the city responded instead of meeting their demands, according to Reeves.
"We’ve been offering time and shelter, basically just trying to get families to leave that camp and come inside," said Jon Ewing, with Denver Human Services.
Ewing said shelter comes with its perks, namely getting out of conditions outdoors.
"Which comes with three square meals a day," Ewing said. "You can cook your own if you like to."
That is one of the main demands from the migrants, who have had grievances about the food provided by the city.
"There have been so many complaints about the food being spoiled or not being enough and malnutrition amongst children," Reeves said.
Migrants who stay in shelters are often put on a path toward a work permit. Reeves said the migrants at the encampment have not received the same benefits.
"They’re not receiving any kind of official housing or immigration document support, which is incredibly necessary for them to be able to navigate the bureaucracy around these systems," Reeves said.
The city said its offer comes with these benefits.
"What do you qualify for? What do you not qualify for? What might be something that is a feasible path for you to success that is not staying on the streets of Denver?" Ewing said. "We try to compromise. We try to figure something out. You know, at the end of the day, what we do not want is families on the streets of Denver."
What are the demands from migrants?
In all, the migrants presented 13 demands to the city of Denver. Messages shared with FOX31 show the demands are:
Migrants will cook their own food with fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients provided by the City instead of premade meals — rice, chicken, flour, oil, butter, tomatoes, onions, etc... Also people will not be punished for bringing in & eating outside food.
Shower access will be available without time limits & can be accessed whenever — we are not in the military, we’re civilians.
Medical professional visits will happen regularly & referrals/connections for specialty care will be made as needed.
All will receive the same housing support that has been offered to others. They cannot kick people out in 30 days without something stable established.
There needs to be a clear, just process before exiting someone for any reason — including verbal, written & final warnings.
All shelter residents will receive connection to employment support, including work permit applications for those who qualify.
Consultations for each person/family with a free immigration lawyer must be arranged to discuss/progress their cases, & then the City will provide on-going legal support in the form of immigration document clinics & including transportation to relevant court dates.
The City will provide privacy for families/individuals within the shelter.
No more verbal or physical or mental abuse will be permitted from the staff, including no sheriff sleeping inside & monitoring 24/7 — we are not criminals & won’t be treated as such.
Transportation for all children to & from their schools will be provided until they finish in 3 weeks.
No separating families, regardless of if family members have children or not. The camp will stay together.
The City must schedule a meeting with the Mayor & those directly involved in running the Newcomer program ASAP to discuss further improvements & ways to support migrants.
The City must provide all residents with a document signed by a City official in English & Spanish with all of these demands that includes a number to call to report mistreatment.
The city continues to bring buses to the encampment for any migrants choosing to leave the encampment and go to a congregate shelter or hotel.
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[Regnum] The United States of America will have to withdraw all its troops from Niger, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on May 8 at a hearing in the Appropriations Committee of the US Senate.
“You mentioned that we are forced to leave Niger. We will leave Niger,” he said.
As Regnum reported, in March the Niger authorities terminated the military agreement with the United States, which allowed American military personnel to remain in the country. Niger's Interior Minister Mohamed Toumba said the country is interested in the Russian military training its troops.
On May 3, Reuters, citing a Pentagon representative, reported that Russian military personnel entered the air base in Niamey. On the same day, a source in the security forces of the African state clarified that the US military had declared increased combat readiness due to the deployment of Russian troops in Niger.
Later, the head of the Pentagon said that the United States was closely monitoring the situation with the presence of Russian military personnel at the air base in Niger. According to him, the Russian military is located in a separate complex. He added that he does not yet see this as a significant problem in terms of protecting American forces.
The United States tried to the last to maintain a military presence in Niger, and the authorities in Niamey had to begin deploying the Russian contingent before the Pentagon removed its personnel. At the same time, with the departure of the Americans, it is likely that Niger’s military cooperation with Russia will further deepen. Ivan Loshkarev, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Political Elites at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO, shared this opinion with a Regnum correspondent.
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CBS News:
Why the military withdrawal from Niger is a "devastating blow" to the U.S., and likely a win for Russia
By Sarah Carter
April 22, 2024 / 11:06 AM EDT / CBS News
Johannesburg — After investing more than $1 billion in Niger over a decade, the U.S. military has agreed to withdraw its more than 1,000 forces from the West African nation over the next few months. It was not a move the U.S. had hoped to make, and officials tell CBS News it will be a severe blow to U.S. counterterrorism efforts in a region known to represent a number of major and growing threats.
Niger is a landlocked country surrounded by some unstable neighbors where local militias have joined forces with international terror organizations including al Qaeda and ISIS.
One senior U.S. military official who's spent time in Niger told CBS News the looming withdrawal was "a devastating blow, both for our regional counterterrorism efforts and to overall peace in the region going forward."
"Our soldiers have worked for years building the capacity and providing training to regional forces," the official said. "This is a tough blow on all levels...Following a military coup in July 2023, Niger's leaders made it clear in various discussions with U.S. officials that they were not interested in U.S. efforts to help guide the country on a path toward new democratic elections, and were instead turning to Russia for security services and to Iran for a possible deal on Niger's uranium reserves.
In March, the head of the U.S. military's Africa Command, Gen. Michael Langley, warned members of the U.S. Congress that "a number of countries are at the tipping point of being captured by the Russian Federation."
[GEO.TV] The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it strongly condemns Israel's takeover of the Rafah border crossing on the Paleostinian side and warned of the consequences of military escalation.
Yeah, yeah. You accomplished your posturing, not that it matters.
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[Regnum] The Americans are sending “tempting offers” to the Houthi rebels so that they stop attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea, the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, said on the Yemeni Al-Masirah TV channel during a military parade.
What, besides abject surrender, is likely to tempt religious fanatics who believe they’re winning?
“The US is being humiliated, seeking favor through intermediaries... We are being seriously tempted to stop supporting the Gaza Strip, but we reject their proposals because they contradict our religion, values and principles,” al-Mashat said.
QED.
He added that Washington failed in the military confrontation, and now the US authorities are trying to achieve their goals by applying “a different policy.”
As Regnum reported, on April 29, the military representative of the Houthi Ansar Allah movement, Yahya Saria, announced an attack on two US Navy destroyers and the bulk carrier Cyclades in the Red Sea, as well as the container ship MSC Orion in the Indian Ocean. According to him, drones and other means of destruction achieved their intended targets.
In early May, Yahya Sariya promised that the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) would attack ships associated with Israel or going to its ports everywhere, including in the Mediterranean Sea, if it launched an operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
On May 2, the US military destroyed three Houthi drones in Yemen. The US Central Command assured that the drones posed a threat to American warships and merchant ships in the region.
[Mail] Donald Trump is considering sending special operations teams into Mexico to kill the heads of drug cartels if he retakes the White House in November, according to a new report citing three sources familiar with his thinking.
Back when he was president the first time, he considered a lot, too. It was dreadfully amusing to watch the hysterics that stirred up.
During his four years in office he pondered whether it would be possible to launch missile strikes on cartel operations.
See?
And, with the threat of drugs smuggled across the southern border only increasing since then, he is now publicly campaigning on a platform that includes using covert means to hurt the gangs responsible.
Trump is said to be modeling his thinking on the the successful 2019 military raid that he ordered to kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
But the approach would come with the risks of angering the Mexican government.
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"... angering the Mexican 'government'?" Well, we can't have that now, can we. /sarc
If it is still a government, it is a narco-centric government. Screw them. Maybe nuclear landmines along the border. A few klicks south of it.
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The US was doing this, even back in the 1990's.
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[KavkazUzel] The court in Kaliningrad upheld the refusal to limit Nina Tseretilova’s parental rights, but after this decision she herself offered to return the children to her husband’s relatives in Dagestan, the children’s grandfather said. Their father said that he remains abroad for now.
As the Caucasian Knot reported, in March 2021, the court satisfied the request of a resident of Dagestan for custody of the children, and on July 16 limited the parental rights of the father of the children, from whom the mother was divorced. In October of the same year, the children were handed over to their mother.
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[KavkazUzel] Nadezhda Kevorkova’s publications about the events in Nalchik in 2005 concerned the torture to which detainees were subjected and irritated the security forces. At the same time, “she did not support terrorism in any form,” said journalist Maxim Shevchenko, commenting on Kevorkova’s arrest in the case of justifying terrorism.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova, during interrogation by the Investigative Committee, refused to admit her guilt in justifying terrorism. The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested her for two months, until July 6, in the case of her justifying terrorism. Orhan Dzhemal’s text, the publication of which became the reason for accusing journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova of justifying terrorism, had not previously been declared illegal.
The arguments that the publication on Kevorkova’s Telegram channel was accessible to a wide audience do not correspond to reality, the lawyer emphasized. The defense will appeal the journalist's arrest. Psychological and linguistic examination has become a punitive instrument, and in the absence of clear criteria for such an examination, it can be easily used to confirm the conclusions needed by the investigation, lawyer Timofey Shirokov pointed out, commenting on the persecution of the journalist.
Kevorkova was accused of justifying terrorism for publications in her Telegram channel. The reason was the repost of a text from 2010 by journalist Orkhan Dzhemal about the attack on Nalchik and a publication about the Taliban movement*. As follows from the publication dated September 23, 2018, Kevorkova in her Telegram channel completely reprinted the text of Orhan Dzhemal, adding only one phrase of her own. “Text 2010 Orkhan Dzhemal year on the death of Anzor Astemirov,” she wrote. In his article, Orkhan Dzhemal talked about his acquaintance with Anzor Astemirov and the miscalculations of the authorities that led to discontent among Muslims.
In recent years, Nadezhda Kevorkova no longer worked in the media, said Nadezhda Kevorkova’s ex-husband, journalist and publicist Maxim Shevchenko. “She parted with journalism, having retired, she wrote books - by the way, one of them, “Palestine, if I have to die,” was published quite recently. So those who arrested her dealt with the pensioner,” Shevchenko told the correspondent "Caucasian Knot".
Speaking about one of the publications incriminated by Kevorkova, a repost of Orkhan Dzhemal’s text about the events in Nalchik in 2005, Shevchenko emphasized that her accusers completely do not take into account the context of how this text appeared in her Telegram channel. “She staged it only because Orhan Dzhemal, her close friend, was killed shortly before. She was depressed and played all Orhan’s texts that she could find,” he said.
Shevchenko also recalled that Kevorkova herself wrote about the events in Nalchik in 2005. “She did not support terror in any form. But she wrote about the torture that detainees were subjected to, and since then many security forces have a grudge against her,” he said.
Nadezhda Kevorkova previously critically assessed the actions of security forces in the North Caucasus in general and in Kabardino-Balkaria in particular. Thus, on the night of July 2-3, 2021, security forces announced that they carried out a counter-terrorism operation in Nalchik and Baksan, as a result of which five alleged militants were declared killed. Kevorkova reported that one of those killed was Khasanbi Khupsirgenov, previously convicted in the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005. According to her, all five - Khasanbi Khupsirgenov, Anzor Barazov, Arsen Mendokhov, Mamaz Chikhradze and Khasan Shogenov - were kidnapped before the special operation, and the entire special operation was staged.
The son of Nadezhda Kevorkova, journalist Vasily Polonsky, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Kevorkova can be supported by sending her letters through the FSIN-letter system in pre-trial detention center No. 6 in Moscow.
In his Telegram channel, he clarified where to send letters. “Write to pre-trial detention center 6 in Moscow (Pechatniki), Nadezhda Vitalievna Kevorkova, born October 21, 1958. Pay for the response forms. Write the date when you send the letter so that it is clear how quickly they reach her,” he wrote today.
In the project on "Alif TV" "Jihad of Russian Literature" Nadezhda Kevorkova examined Caucasian and Muslim issues through the prism of the work of Russian writers, both classics and contemporaries. Among her interlocutors were Heydar Dzhemal, Sergei Medvedev, Lev Rubinstein. The topic of conversation was the age-old resistance to the Russian Empire's advance into the Caucasus. On the Poistine YouTube channel, Kevorkova appeared as an expert on the Palestinian-Israeli war. On the Telegram channel and social network X, she argued for the unfair treatment of Gazans, especially after the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Kevorkova was involved in the human rights protection of Muslims, in particular Chechens, on the territory of Russia and spoke out about the SVO in Ukraine, drawing analogies with the actions of security forces during the Chechen wars.
As of 22.15 Moscow time on May 8, 7,554 people had subscribed to Nadezhda Kevorkova’s Facebook page*. The last post was published on April 27, in which she asked readers not to send her requests (to add friends) and to ignore requests sent on her behalf. "Friends. Comrades. Enemies. I don't send requests to anyone. God knows who sends them. Please just delete the request," she wrote. Three more posts were published in April, two of them concern events in Palestine, another announces a book of poems by Heydar Jemal.
A total of 7,504 people have subscribed to Kevorkova’s Instagram page ; published posts partially duplicate the Facebook feed. Thus, the latest publication is dedicated to the book of Heydar Jemal. In total, three posts were published in April, two of them are dedicated to Palestine.
Kevorkova has been writing most actively lately on Telegram, where 9,693 people have subscribed to her channel. The latest publication is dated May 5 and, like most in recent months, is devoted to the Israeli-Palestinian topic. Also in May and April, Kevorkova wrote about the death of Navalny, about the prosecution of playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and director Evgenia Berkovich in the case of justifying terrorism, and asked to send her the text of one of Orhan Dzhemal’s notes.
Kevorkova has 3,668 followers on her social network page X.
Golly.
The last publication was made on May 5 - this is an archived video with Alexei Navalny, who answers questions from others. At the same time, his son sits on Navalny’s shoulders and waves his hand above his head. “What charm,” Kevorkova captioned the repost of the video. Most of the posts concern events in Palestine and their assessment in the world. One of the publications is dedicated to the murder of Orhan Dzhemal.
Russian journalist and war reporter Orkhan Dzhemal was killed in Central Africa on July 30, 2018 while filming a documentary about the private military company (PMC) Wagner. Investigators named robbery as the cause of the murder. Dzhemal's colleagues, including Nadezhda Kevorkova, criticized this version. In particular, according to Kevorkova, the investigation had the attitude “not to investigate anything.”
Let us recall that on October 13, 2005, there was an armed attack on Nalchik, the participant of which, Anzor Astemirov, was the subject of Dzhemal’s article from 2010. According to investigators, at least 250 militants took part in it. As a result, 35 security forces and 15 civilians were killed, 129 security forces and 66 civilians were injured. During the fighting in the city, 95 militants were killed, according to the “Caucasian Knot” certificate “ Attack on Nalchik on October 13-14, 2005. ”
Psychological and linguistic examination has become a punitive tool, and in the absence of clear criteria for such an examination, it can be easily used to confirm the conclusions necessary for the investigation, lawyer Timofey Shirokov pointed out, commenting on the criminal prosecution of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova.
As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova, during interrogation by the Investigative Committee, refused to admit her guilt in justifying terrorism. The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested her for two months, until July 6, in the case of her justifying terrorism. Orhan Dzhemal’s text, the publication of which became the reason for accusing journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova of justifying terrorism, had not previously been declared illegal. The arguments that the publication on Kevorkova’s Telegram channel was accessible to a wide audience do not correspond to reality, the lawyer emphasized. The defense will appeal the journalist's arrest.
Kevorkova was accused of justifying terrorism for publications in her Telegram channel. The reason was the repost of a text from 2010 by journalist Orkhan Dzhemal about the attack on Nalchik and a publication about the Taliban movement*. As follows from the publication dated September 23, 2018, Kevorkova in her Telegram channel completely reprinted the text of Orhan Dzhemal, adding only one phrase of her own. “Text 2010 Orkhan Dzhemal year on the death of Anzor Astemirov,” she wrote. In his article, Orkhan Dzhemal talked about his acquaintance with Anzor Astemirov and the miscalculations of the authorities that led to discontent among Muslims.
Publication or reprint of any material can be considered a justification for terrorism and become the basis for prosecution if the security forces pay attention to it, said lawyer Timofey Shirokov, who is not associated with the Kevorkova case.
“A psychological and linguistic examination of a specific publication in a specific account is sufficient. Law enforcement practice follows this path. And in this examination, psychologists can indicate that “the text contains an incentive to certain actions or the adoption of a certain ideology.” The person who posted this text identifies with it and also strives And it doesn’t matter that the text is not recognized as extremist, it can be any text, even, for example, an excerpt from “Hadji Murad” by Leo Tolstoy. An expert can “tailor” the conclusion that a certain person, by posting this excerpt, contributes to something and supports something. Thus, psychological and linguistic examination has become a punitive tool,” Shirokov explained.
According to the lawyer, such examinations do not have clear criteria. " And considering how and by whom these psychological and linguistic examinations are carried out and by whose order, they can tighten up anything, there would be a desire. For example, if the text is allegorical. Experts can conclude: the person deliberately observes secrecy. The results of the examination depend on the desires of those interested individuals, and not at all from scientific methodology,” says Shirokov.
Nadezhda Kevorkova was placed in pre-trial detention center 6 "Pechatniki", said her lawyer Albina Pavlova. “This is a women’s detention center. I can’t explain anything about her state of health at the moment; before her arrest she felt fine, but complained of the cold,” she noted.
According to the lawyer, the current situation will be understood after the holidays. “Unfortunately, it’s not possible to go to the detention center on weekends. I warned her that I would come to her after May 13,” Pavlova indicated.
As for Kevorkova’s elderly parents (father - 89, mother - 87 years old), they are not left without help and attention, said Kevorkova’s son, journalist Vasily Polonsky. “Yes, we are doing everything,” he told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
Nadezhda Kevorkova previously critically assessed the actions of security forces in the North Caucasus in general and in Kabardino-Balkaria in particular. Thus, on the night of July 2-3, 2021, security forces announced that they carried out a counter-terrorism operation in Nalchik and Baksan, as a result of which five alleged militants were declared killed. Kevorkova reported that one of those killed was Khasanbi Khupsirgenov, previously convicted in the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005. According to her, all five - Khasanbi Khupsirgenov, Anzor Barazov, Arsen Mendokhov, Mamaz Chikhradze and Khasan Shogenov - were kidnapped before the special operation, and the entire special operation was staged.
[FoxBusinessNews] Microsoft's AI platform for US intelligence agencies has been deployed and is in a testing and accreditation stage.
U.S. intelligence agencies will soon be using a secretive generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform from Microsoft that will let America's spies safely use AI models in the process of analyzing sensitive data.
Microsoft's generative AI model for intelligence agencies aims to get around security issues that stem from large language models' (LLMs) connection to the internet, which typically is used as a resource for training those models. Bloomberg reported that the AI tool is the first major LLM fully separated from the internet.
William Chappell, Microsoft's CTO for strategic missions and technology, told Bloomberg the AI tool was deployed to an "air-gapped" cloud environment isolated from the internet and features a model based on GPT-4 along with supporting tools. The company announced the new product at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness this week.
"This is the first time we've ever had an isolated version — when isolated means it's not connected to the internet — and it's on a special network that's only accessible bythe U.S. government," Chappell told Bloomberg.
If it’s completely disconnected from the internet, perhaps it’ll take longer for the AI to become a racist, sexist neo-Nazi…
Chappell told Bloomberg the new AI platform from Microsoft is structured so that it can read files but not learn from them in a way that would impact its output or from the broader internet.
"You don't want it to learn on the questions that you're asking and then somehow reveal that information," he told the outlet.
The new AI tool, which Chappell said could theoretically be accessed by about 10,000 members of the intelligence community who have access to top-secret data, went live Thursday and will enter a testing and accreditation phase before it can go into broader use by the intelligence community, according to the report.
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Copilot is much like Wikipedia. Utterly benign when used to look for unpoliticized information. If you want to know about Bromine Hexaflouride or the Smith chart, it won't steer you wrong.
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I wish I could just dump MS and Windows, but I have so much legacy info it is not possible. I am currently Mac based; not perfect, not bad, but I can't run things like Inventor. I am stuck.
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Your data you can bust out any time you want. Good luck using linsux.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, linsux is amazing if you dig the command line.
If you don't know what that is, Bwahahahahahahaaaa...
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What I love about Windows is all the third-party extensions are about "it just not ghey enough."
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I have two hard drives on my PC and I can boot from either one of them. Some specialized software is only available for Windows so I can boot into Windows for those occasions when I need it. But it tries my patience. It is sooooooo sloooowwwwwww and bloated. The good folks at Microslop program advertisements into Windows and all kinds of other crap that I do not need or want.
Browsers are available for Linux and they are far superior to Internet Explorer or Edge or whatever they're calling it these days.
An office suite is available in Linux that works a lot like Word and Excel only faster, better and for free.
All kinds of other applications are freely available.
The command line in Linux is a great way to get behind the scenes and find out what is really happening. You can program your own scripts to automate all kinds of tasks that would either take a lot longer to do on Windows or else they would be absolutely impossible. I admit, I worked with it for years and learned how to use it. I guess Windows is for those technophobes who shudder at the thought of a command line.
I worked with Windows too and that's why I don't think the US intelligence agencies are being very intelligent if they chose Microsoft's AI platform.
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is for those technophobes who shudder at the thought of a command line.
That would be the OS that runs my iPad so I don’t have to do anything more complicated than a few HTML thingies when prepping articles for Rantburg.
It’s not that I’m a technophobe, but I lack the mental energy to keep up with all the changes since Lotus 123. My darling 98-year-old mother, who is a technophobe, gave up in 2018, but she’s the kind of person who went to medical school in a foreign country she’d never been to, taught in a language she didn’t know… for the fun of it (and to get away from her mother and whatever the title is for the mother of one’s dead husband — who conspired together to find her a replacement for him).
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I use the Insider builds that most will never see. If Windows is slow on your computer you have a trash piece of old hardware or a lot of cruft Microsoft never asked you to load on your instance.
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TW, your iPad has iPadOS on it. Halfway between iOS on a crapple phone and MacOS on the tragically overpriced Mac hardware.
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People who cry about Windows are the over dramatic sorts Shakespeare made fun of in his works.
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#6 Ahhh takes one back to the days of "mouse pusher!".
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I started out on VAX and UNIX, still have instances of SuSE and FreeBSD in VMs. But I earn my daily bread on Windows (have done so since the late 80s) and make no apologies.
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The entire point of UNIX was to make the most of slow, expensive hardware. Hardware is stupid cheap now and linsux is still living in hippie land. We have RISC-V now and we need a new lightweight OS. There are several candidates. Time will tell.
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Many people have asked, what if MacOS was available on third party hardware? It sort of is, if your idea of fun is home dentistry. Crapple abandoned the server space (a huge market). Gee, I wonder why. It's true the internet runs on linsux but right here, what has Rantburg uptime been this year. Definitely not "five nines."
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Re #8, Powershell can do anything you can do in BASH. You can even import your scripts. Saying linsux is "more powerful / accessible / flexible" just shows you don't really know that much.
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Putting a Windows Server instance in at home once all the Arrow Lake hardware is sorted.
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If you own a slow computer that's on you, not the computer.
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Two visions of the results come to mind:
1) Queries receive a google-esque rebuke that it is racist to doubt the integrity of foreigners
2) Microsoft's coders "nudge" our evaluations.
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Look. It's a tool. If you need to use a hammer where a jewelers screwdriver is called for, that's on you. If you look up political stuff on Wikipedia or Gurgle you get what you get. If you ask Copilot how to fix an Onan generator that won't start you won't get a lefty green sermon.
GIGO has become a two way street.
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Generative AI does not do analysis. It generates things that are similar to other things that the neural network was trained on.
Everyone has gone nutty lately over Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT due to their surprisingly coherent text generation. It gives the impression of intelligence but LLMs at their core are simply good at predicting the next word in a sentence. One known problem with LLMs is their ability to generate "facts" like non-existent legal cases, fake bibliographic references, and imaginary computer code libraries. The actual term of art for this is hallucination.
AI is a broad topic despite our fixation on LLMs. There are classifiers that can find patterns in huge piles of multi-dimensional data. Image recognizers can make sense of scrawled hand-written zip codes on envelopes, or identify perps from security camera footage or read x-rays better than a trained radiologist. Anomaly detectors can give you a clue that something is about to go wrong, like the funny noise an engine bearing has been making or whether that BANG was a gunshot or a car backfiring. Useful stuff, but like everything created by the hand of Man, not always fool-proof.
Rather than analysis, I suspect this will be used to generate targeted "content" like Daily Mail articles. See the Trump to send US special forces hit squads to Mexico to assassinate drug cartel leaders in second term article in WoT Background for an example. Marketing and media campaigns will never be the same. Welcome to the brave new world!
[Breitbart] Human rights activists and Uyghur organization leaders staged a protest on Monday in Paris to condemn President Emmanuel Macron’s enthusiastic welcome to China’s genocidal dictator Xi Jinping.
Xi landed in Paris on Sunday for an extended tour of Europe also including stops in Russia-friendly Serbia and one of China’s most eager partners in the predatory Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Hungary. In France, Xi held a trilateral meeting on Monday with Macron and European Union President Ursula von der Leyen that focused primarily on economic cooperation. Reports from the meeting indicated that neither Macron nor von der Leyen address the rampant human rights abuses Xi has commanded the Communist Party to commit in China, most prominently the deliberate extermination of the Uyghur people of occupied East Turkistan.
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[Regnum] Uncontrolled migration in the United States of America and Washington's inaction on this issue will lead to terrorists infiltrating the country. This was stated by retired US Air Force Brigadier General Blaine Holt on the American TV channel Newsmax.
“There will be terrorist attacks in our country. What happens on university campuses is just the tip of the iceberg. This is a great cover for what is obviously coming,” he explained.
Holt argues that this is due to uncontrolled migration in the States, as a result of which foreign wars are transferred to their territory.
As Regnum reported, authorities in the state of Texas, which borders Mexico, transported more than 102,000 illegal migrants to other US states as part of a program for the relocation of illegal refugees.
It is clarified that Texas has transported over 12,500 migrants to Washington since April 2022, more than 37,500 thousand migrants to New York and 31,200 thousand migrants to Chicago since August 2022. Also, 16,000 illegal migrants were transported to Denver, 3,400 thousand to Philadelphia, 1,500 thousand to Los Angeles.
Texas authorities also took measures against illegal migration by fencing off a section of the state border with Mexico. Governor Greg Abbott officially declared "invasion and the right of self-defense." According to him, Texas will pursue its own policy to protect the state from the infiltration of migrants, since federal authorities are not coping with border protection. Abbott also announced his readiness to enter into conflict with federal authorities if necessary.
[GEO.TV] Police arrested several lawyers as their protest at the GPO Chowk near Lahore High Court intensified on Wednesday.
The lawyers are demonstrating against the division of civil courts and terrorism cases against their colleagues.
The Lahore High Court Bar Association has denied conducting negotiations with the police.
On the other hand, lawyers have kicked out petitioners from the courtroom of Justice Anwar-ul-Haq Pannu.
Speaking with Geo News, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations Faisal Kamran said the police will continue to show restraint, but will take action according to the law if there is a violation from the lawyers.
"The police are showing maximum patience and restraint," he said, adding that the police only used tear gas after lawyers pelted stones at them.
"One of our SHO and one constable has been injured," he said.
The DIG Operations said there are at least 2,000 personnel for the security of the high court.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[GEO.TV] Police arrested several lawyers as their protest at the GPO Chowk near 
