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I'm shocked that The Economist was willing to publish this!
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Good Morning from Germany, where one of Europe’s biggest landlords calls the country “uninvestable.” Heimstaden is withholding fresh capital over Berlin’s expropriation plans. It owns 20,000 apartments in the city worth ~€5bn and estimates a potential €1bn loss. Its hybrid bond has plunged from ~98 cents in August to 82.5. The irony: a policy meant to tackle the housing shortage risks driving away investment without building a single new home. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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dwarfbear retweeted
The funny thing is everyone was saying AI slop code will cause a cyber crisis but it’s actually all the old human slop causing it and the AI is just cleaning it up
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dwarfbear retweeted
You’re all prompting wrong
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Replying to @4A4133
disclosing ANOTHER bug today is like proposing at someone else's wedding
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While the left serves up the story of French schoolchildren rising against austerity, the right mostly spins it the identitarian way: race and Islam. Both stories are false. Only the right's has a kernel of truth. The austerity story first. France runs one of the largest deficits in the eurozone, and the education budget is rising, by 1.2 billion to 64 billion euros. Now the kernel. Two of the groups in the streets were young men of low intelligence and little impulse control, never pacified, and racailles who compensate for their lack of status with an aversion to the host population, rationalised as religion. These two groups looted. But the town hall of Limoges was set on fire by the third group, exactly as I described it on Monday. On Tuesday investigators arrested a suspect: an ultra-left activist already on the terror watchlist. The anti-terror unit has the case, and the justice ministry speaks of a concerted action by 500 to 700 people. There are outside forces working to destabilise France, but in this case it is not the Muslim Brotherhood. And the antifa is not coordinated with the Islamists. The antifa tolerates and instigates the violence of mostly opportunist Muslim young men, out of naivety or by its old motto: smash what smashes you. There is a clear link between Islam and the racailles. There is also a link between Christianity and the antifa, by way of Marxism, a Christian heresy. Neither link explains, as a cause, the current attempts to destabilise France. To the identitarians in Vienna and Paris: yes, the French and the Austrians share more culture on average than Congolese share with Syrians. But the clearest identity overlap between the French and modern Austrians, besides the same T-shirts made in Asia and an «identity» LARPed for American social media, is statism, rooted to the bone. And statism cannot be remigrated. Neither can Lola-Fleur from Sciences Po, who excused the looting on French television: «We have nothing to lose.»
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dwarfbear retweeted
a trusted intermediate CA just "leaked" (the private key was 4)
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Replying to @VictorTaelin
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Rooftop Parisians
JUST IN: Paris resident dumps pots of scalding hot water from apartment window onto rioters attempting to loot stores in the streets below.
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In the wild injections for agents directly on Github -- hidden markdown with commands to execute for your agent to take over the machine.
This has been part of our AttackBench and effectively all agent harnesses are susceptible to some form of these attacks. Including a way to run arbitrary code on the machine with the agent. Stay safe out there!
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TRENDING: University of Chicago students are protesting at the CME, demanding an end to the federal ban on onion futures Student-led group For Our Futures is rallying to call for a repeal of the 1958 Onion Futures Act
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People demanding the government “lower the costs of living” via taxation simply don’t understand how anything works. They don’t understand business, or how the government is funded, or that the government is not the same as corporations. They don’t get markets, or labor costs, or anything. They just don’t get how anything works. It’s all unresolved shapes acting as one hostile unpredictable entity that’s making their life shitty. So they burn down buildings that their tax dollars pay for.
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Replying to @andrew_n_carr
Old crew used to play a game we called “shot down” and it’s the same concept, but the goal was to get rejected in the most humiliating way possible. Drinks in faces, getting assaulted, asked to leave, etc.; we had nerves of steel after a while.
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Genius
In college we has `rejection Tuesdays` where you had to try and get rejected. Homies got married left and right
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Qui a brûlé Limoges ? Quatre groupes, et un cinquième qui paie. Hier, j'ai écrit sur la culture et le système. On m'a reproché de ne pas nommer les groupes. Les voici, et ce que chacun a fait. Le premier : de jeunes hommes à faible intelligence et sans contrôle de leurs impulsions, que personne n'a jamais pacifiés et que l'État thérapeutique traite en enfants de substitution et en animaux de compagnie, surtout par ses femmes, ses fonctionnaires et ses associations. On ne peut pas les gouverner comme des Français d'une culture de haute confiance, qui a passé des siècles à écarter ses propres violents et ses propres impulsifs, par le gibet et par le mariage. Personne n'a voulu le voir. Le deuxième : les « racailles », de jeunes hommes ratés, sans statut, qui compensent leur déclassement par une aversion envers la population d'accueil, rationalisée en religion. Le troisième : les antifas, un culte de mort indigène. Des enfants de la bourgeoisie qui cassent ce qui les casse, c'est-à-dire tout ce qui pourrait servir de mesure et égratigner un narcissisme nourri par les parents et radicalisé par l'école. Du terrorisme fait maison, couvert par un grand parti, LFI, que l'on scandalise bien moins que les autres parce qu'on le range intellectuellement parmi les bons. Le quatrième : la masse des Français normaux, ceux des premiers gilets jaunes. Des étatistes qui veulent signifier aux politiciens qu'ils font mal leur travail. La mairie de Limoges, c'est le troisième groupe. Le pillage, le deuxième et le premier, instrumentalisés par le troisième, nourris et légitimés par le quatrième. Et c'est le quatrième qui porte la responsabilité principale : la mauvaise réponse institutionnelle au premier groupe, par naïveté entretenue et par un universalisme sécularisé qui est une erreur ; l'importation, la subvention et l'armement du deuxième ; la dégénérescence de ses rares enfants en troisième. Le culte de mort du troisième est le proche parent de la pulsion de mort du quatrième : un suicide de société, lisible dans la démographie. Il manque un groupe à cette liste : celui qui a payé la mairie de 1883, Alfred Fournier, rentier de Limoges, mort sans enfants en 1875, et tous ceux qui produisent aujourd'hui ce que les quatre autres se partagent. Il n'était pas dans la rue. Il paie, il se tait, il s'en va. C'est le seul qui compte pour la suite, et le seul dont personne ne parle.
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That didn’t age well
The battle of narratives is going strong. Our countries are a recurring target. It is time to act to tell the stories that make us strong. Let’s live our own story! Protect what matters - our democracy.
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Remember when they told you digital ID would be voluntary
Replying to @theragetech
The EU’s anti-money laundering authority wants digital ID to become the standard way people prove their identity to banks. Remote alternatives such as video and selfie checks will still be allowed, but only as an exception that the bank will have to justify to its supervisor.
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La violence de passer devant des terrasses et de voir des gens prendre leur café pepere pendant que le peuple est dans la rue
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University of Chicago Students to Protest at Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Demand End to Federal Ban on Onion Futures Student-led group For Our Futures will rally Monday morning to call for repeal of the 1958 Onion Futures Act On Monday, October 19, at 8:30 a.m., members of For Our Futures, a student-led organization from @UChicago, will gather outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (@CMEGroup) headquarters to demand the repeal of the Onion Futures Act of 1958, a nearly 70-year-old federal law prohibiting futures trading in onions. The Onion Futures Act, enacted following allegations of market manipulation in the 1950s, singled out onions for a prohibition on futures contracts that remains in effect today. For Our Futures is calling on Congress to repeal the ban and restore the ability of onion growers, buyers, and traders to participate in a regulated futures market. Onions remain the only commodity banned from futures trading in the United States. The protest will feature a giant inflatable onion costume, protest signs, and dozens of students, and will take place outside the headquarters of CME Group, one of the world's largest derivatives marketplaces and the historic center of American onion futures trading. DM for details cc: @pointsnfigures1 @CharlesFLehman @matt_levine @nbcchicago @ABC7Chicago @cbsnewschicago @WGNNews @fox32news @WBEZ @Suntimes @BlockClubCHI @chalkbeatCHI @SeanCasten @mansourtarek_
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France could use a little bit of this right now.
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