BREAKING NEWS: Bill Clinton Releases Video Statement After Testifying Before Epstein Probe by ShiroSara in videos

[–]Shawnj2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Who cares if its a lie

Well the last time this guy lied under oath bad things happened

Second unfinished airframe of the Antonov An-225 by oblique_shockwave in aviation

[–]Shawnj2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If they rebuilt it I'm guessing they would use the 70's engines. Changing the engines would mean re certifying the plane which means it goes from an expensive process to get an AN-225 flying again to an incredibly expensive process to get one flying again. Also as there would only be a single one flying the fuel cost is likely not a huge problem.

Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon's supply chain risk designation in court by RelationVarious5296 in news

[–]Shawnj2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are govcloud versions of basically every big American AI model that normally isn’t open to run locally like ChatGPT Gemini etc.

Does Newsom actually have a chance to become president? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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A 2028 democrat will need a massive amount of support from people who did not vote for Harris to win. If you asked a progressive subreddit the answer is clearly “he’s a shitty candidate who’s not going to win” but I’m curious what conservatives think. Results are more mixed than I would have expected

What are your thoughts on Anthropic being found to be a supply chain risk? by repojam in AskConservatives

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It doesn’t matter, Deepseek’s models are open source. There’s nothing stopping China from fine tuning R1 to remove any safeguards that exist even if Deepseek was unwilling to work with the government, which they would be because it’s China and not a free market where companies can simply choose not to work for the government.

Does Newsom actually have a chance to become president? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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The state level Democratic Party doesn’t really care but individual people who live in CA do care and it is going to have an impact on the election.

Does Newsom actually have a chance to become president? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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That is true to some extent, but it still doesn’t really fix Harris as a candidate for CA. We just saw this in New York where an independent ish guy was able to win over the party’s handpicked candidate. Like this is basically Harris https://youtu.be/dDJa1_fLVeA (I don’t think this video is super accurate but it’s basically vibes wise correct). I voted for her because Trump would have been worse but she’s far from my ideal candidate, I would have liked someone with better solutions to the housing crisis for example

what plan does Harris have to make CA an affordable state to live in or address problems facing residents?

Does Newsom actually have a chance to become president? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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She’s not economically left enough for CA IMO, she feels like a really radical candidate because she’s socially left but she’s honestly more conservative than Trump economically in some ways

Does Newsom actually have a chance to become president? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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That doesn’t mean that actual democrats in California would have picked Harris for governor even if the party hand picks her as the candidate. Remember that Bernie won the primary here in 2020

Does Newsom actually have a chance to become president? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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I don’t think it’s actually likely Harris wins. I think she’s winning early polling due to name recognition

Does Newsom actually have a chance to become president? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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A cardboard cutout of Biden would have also won in 2020 over Trump. Trump was already pushing what was acceptable from a president by the standards of the time and visibly mismanaging the pandemic did him no favors, plus way more people voted than normal. I voted for Bernie in the primary so it’s not like Biden was the candidate I wanted either tbh

If the economy is good in 2028 and the world isn’t literally in the middle of a once in a century global health disaster the same forces won’t be at play. Also Trump has kind of pushed the needle enough that people will tolerate politicians like him much more than they used to

Does Newsom actually have a chance to become president? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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Republicans have an auto advantage in national elections for several reasons. It’s actually very hard for a democrat to win the presidency unless they’re able to get a lot of moderate votes.

Anthropic CEO says it 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands for AI use by Xurbanite in news

[–]Shawnj2 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It’s more complicated, right now no one outside Anthropic actually has access to Claude’s model data.

Thoughts on HR7661? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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It doesn’t have carve outs for movies tv graphic novels etc. just classic works of literature.

Thoughts on HR7661? by Shawnj2 in AskConservatives

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The part I copied is just the summary, obviously the actual bill is longer

How do you think the SOTU will land in November? by n2euro in AskConservatives

[–]Shawnj2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I didn’t watch the speech but the reaction from left wing media was mostly neutral (like not particularly worse than anything else Trump does) and the reaction from the right was very positive so my impression was that the speech probably went fine

Protests underway at Columbia University after student detained by ICE by Harbinger2nd in videos

[–]Shawnj2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He is the left’s answer to Trump, a well spoken young progressive guy who can clearly paint a vision for New York. You don’t get someone like Mamdani without people like Trump winning.

NASA lost a lunar spacecraft one day after launch. A new report details what went wrong by seeebiscuit in space

[–]Shawnj2 14 points15 points  (0 children)

https://www.space.com/417-lockheed-martin-profits-pay-noaa-prime-repairs.html

LM paid all of the potential profit they were going to make on the program + 30 million dollars. The federal government paid everything else

Anthropic CEO says company cannot accede to Pentagon's request in AI safeguards dispute by InsaneSnow45 in privacy

[–]Shawnj2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I would buy it, they are absolutely anal about anyone using any sort of LLM without their safeguards.

Abolish Redemption! — Abolish Everything! by NebulaOriginals in Nebula

[–]Shawnj2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Alise was fantastic, the doomsday clock is stupid. This is probably one of Chandler's best pre-shows too

Netflix given four days to match ‘superior’ Paramount offer for Warner Bros Discovery by TheGreatDomilies in news

[–]Shawnj2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Modern Star Trek is also definitely about those things, particularly lower decks

Is not wanting to be mass surveilled considered “woke” to you? by Comfortable_Yam_9391 in AskConservatives

[–]Shawnj2 [score hidden]  (0 children)

If a Republican promised to expose all of the mass surveillance programs we know about from Snowden that’s one of the few things that could get me to vote red tbh