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In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
22 October 2025 - 08:16 PM
Tiste Simeon, on 22 October 2025 - 07:14 PM, said:QuickTidal, on 22 October 2025 - 06:04 PM, said:Tiste Simeon, on 22 October 2025 - 05:51 PM, said:I'm surprised he's paid for someone to destroy the WH.
Oh, I just assumed he was going got stiff them on the bill like he's done for the last 99% of his life with contractors.
Hah good point.
Or, seen as it's likely a lot of the contractors are not white, he'll just have them rounded up by ICE once the work is finished.
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ICE's new annual budget places the federal agency among the top 20 most well-funded militaries in the world, sitting between Canada, which spent roughly $29.3 billion in 2024, and Turkey, which spent $25 billion last year.
It surpasses the annual military budgets of Iran, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Iran, and at least 23 countries in the top 40 military spenders
https://www.newsweek...l-trump-2093456 -
In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
21 October 2025 - 03:14 PM
Great news for the future of humanity:
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Nonlocality-enabled photonic analogies unlock wormholes and multiple realities in optical systems
... but no, that doesn't mean it'll let us escape this timeline... however:
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Researchers have harnessed nonlocal artificial materials to create optical systems that emulate parallel spaces, wormholes, and multiple realities. [...]
"We're not building real wormholes or multiverses, but we're making these concepts practical for engineering," the researcher noted. "This could revolutionize a range of fields, from highly integrated photonic chips and compact optical systems to photonic information processing, by leveraging nonlocality as a new degree of freedom."
This breakthrough could transform integrated photonics by enabling denser optical devices without crosstalk and multiple functions coexisting in the same space.
By emulating high-dimensional physics, this work opens a gateway to multifunctional devices that transcend their dimensional constraints, heralding a new era for photonics and beyond.
Nonlocality-enabled photonic analogies unlock wormholes and multiple realities in optical systems
As transistors get smaller and smaller they're going to collide with the limits of quantum mechanics, requiring a switch to new technologies to improve computing power. The two leading candidates are photonics (for conventional computing) and quantum computers (for tasks where there's a quantum advantage). -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
21 October 2025 - 02:56 PM
QuickTidal, on 21 October 2025 - 01:09 PM, said:In today's edition of "If Obama or Joe Biden did this the MAGA and R's would be melting the fuck down on the news for weeks".....Trump has bulldozed part of the East wing of the White House for his stupid fucking ballroom...I can't even....every single day this man does something that if the democrats did it, you would NEVER hear the end of the screeching. EVERY. GODDAMNED. DAY.
In loosely related news... for anyone who might have missed this:
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No one can imagine a Democratic president suggesting he can s--- on Americans with impunity. That would be a weekslong scandal. Yet reporters tend to shrug when Trump does it, because they accept as true the argument that Republicans are the only legitimate Americans.
[...] It's outrageous for the congressional Republicans to defend the video or pretend they don't know Donald Trump posted it. It's outrageous, moreover, for the press corps to bend over backwards to avoid describing in plain English what everyone can see for themselves.
I mean, "brown liquid"! Jesus God, c'mon.
Trump's nose has been bloodied — and now he's furious - Alternet.org
Hey wait a second... are you sure he's not a Canadian agent? Destroying the White House... seems pretty Canadian.
But seriously---yes, and it's not just the Republicans, it's also much (most?) of the mainstream media.
OTOH there has been a little bit of Republican pushback on the federal gun registry and some other things... enough Senate Republicans have said they're going to vote against Trump's special counsel nominee (after leaked group chats revealed him saying he has a "Nazi streak" and using racial slurs etc.) that he probably won't be confirmed. Four Republican senators even criticized Trump's punitive withholding of funds to blue stataes. Other Republicans are at least worried that Trump's blatant corruption and other Republican ethics scandals will make it very difficult for Republicans to wiin the midterms (without cheating). And Senator Chuck Grassley is insisting on funding the courts despite the government shutdown, probably in part because they've been one of the few checks on Trump's abuses of power (when he deigns to comply... because he doesn't want to seem like too much of a dictator too soon---he wants to slow-boil the frog in shit).
Pro-gun groups accuse AG Pam Bondi of doing what gun owners have long accused Democrats of wanting to do: create a registry of gun owners – AnneLandmanBlog
Republican senators indicate they won't confirm Trump special counsel pick after 'Nazi streak' comments – US politics live
GOP senators condemn Trump's 'punitive' targeting of blue states - Alternet.org
Republicans fear 'growing public backlash' to Trump's corruption will lead to midterm loss - Alternet.org -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
14 October 2025 - 04:52 PM
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Americans Are Getting Much Dumber
At the start of the century, American students registered steady improvement in math and reading. Around 2013, this progress began to stall out, and then to backslide dramatically. [...] The decline began well before the pandemic, so COVID-era disruptions alone cannot explain it. [...]
These learning losses are not distributed equally. Across grades and subjects, the NAEP results show that the top tenth of students are doing roughly as well as they always have [...]
The experience of a few outlier states gives reason for optimism. [...] The "Mississippi miracle" should force a reckoning in less successful states and, ideally, a good deal of imitation. But for Democrats, who pride themselves on belonging to the party of education, these results may be awkward to process. Not only are the southern states that are registering the greatest improvements in learning run by Republicans, but also their teachers are among the least unionized in the country. And these red states are leaning into phonics-based, "science of reading" approaches to teaching literacy, while Democratic-run states such as New York, New Jersey, and Illinois have been painfully slow to adopt them, in some cases hanging on to other pedagogical approaches with little evidentiary basis. "The same people who are absolutely outraged about what" Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "is doing on vaccines are untroubled by just ignoring science when it comes to literacy," [...] Some promising educational reforms, moreover, seem to brush up uncomfortably against liberal political priors.
[...] One optimistic theory is that artificial-intelligence tools, which will only grow more powerful over the coming decades, will correct for this economic catastrophe by letting everyone externalize their thinking to superintelligent computer programs. The once-ironclad relationship between schooling quality and earnings might break down just in time, a somewhat literal deus ex machina.
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy - The Atlantic
Hmm, since the top 10% are unaffected I'm tempted to think it's not going to have all that much of an impact on the vanguard of scientific, technological, or intellectual progress (granted, there are outliers who do very badly in some subjects or blow off schooling and still make major contributions, but I'd guess they're rare enough not to have much of an impact on education statistics). The much bigger issue will probably be the Trump administration scaring off the smartest and most creative, capable, and ambitious immigrants from around the world.
I'm also a little skeptical about the exclusive focus on pre-highschool grade levels in the statistics cited.
Obviously near future AI could simultaneously largely solve the economic problem (heavily assisting or outright replacing white collar work for the bottom 90%) while exacerbating the educational problem... some sort of brain-computer interface may be the longer-term answer; and if young people already have their internal brains hollowed out by dependency on AI, they may be more willing to volunteer for such interfaces (hopefully surgical implants will eventually not be necessary... something electromagnetic and wireless, or at least a portable helmet or armor... AI AR bullet-hail-and-other-climate-catastrophe-proof space suit...). -
In Topic: Music
13 October 2025 - 05:39 PM
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Moth's technology was developed in collaboration with Brazilian composer Eduardo Reck Miranda.[... r]enowned for his research on computational creativity, Miranda has written an entire book on quantum music. Last year he released an album called Qubism made up of quantum computer-made songs.
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Unlike generative AI tools like Suno or Udio, [Moth's] Archaeo doesn't create songs from scratch. Nor is it trained on vast quantities of music scraped from the web (often without consent). Instead, it learns from small samples from a specific artist, whom it then helps to make a new song.
"It feels very refreshing to use a technology that has been built to work with you — not simply replace you," said ILĀ. "This approach produces something much more human led which feels more authentic in creative terms."
While Moth's technology is still in early development, the company hopes it will redefine creative industries including music, art, and gaming.
Gamers could use tools like Archaeo to generate custom content — music, art, or dialogue — based on their own creative inputs, allowing for deeper personalisation and modding.
"We're not just building tech for tech's sake, we're building tools that empower, inspire, and drive a new era of media and creativity,"
Listen to the 'world's first' song made by a quantum computer and AI
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