Random News not worthy of own thread

[burger1]

Might not be the first: The first American academics fleeing Donald Trump's America for France have arrived.

https://www.politico.eu/article/meet-fi ... e-program/

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05 ... om-the-us/

NOAA cuts for climate change groups

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-envir ... ding-cuts/

[matthewfarmery]

There are a few starship size comparisons floating around the internet. Some 2D drawings. some videos. Anyway, I saw this video and thought it was worth a mention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG8uC24Gbos

Very well done, while it doesn't include ever ship, it does a good job of showing off a wide range of ships, like "The Librator" from Blake's 7" a few star wars and star trek ships. and some from games.

So yeah, very well done indeed.

[Chips]

Seen a fair few of these over the years, but holy crikey this one seems very comprehensive. Not seem the flight of the navigator ship before Also, it's not correct i'm sure

Meanwhile, in other news, a hand bag sold for $10,000,000 dollars.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8zvexp42o

It's a bit of leather... with some history. But honestly

[burger1]

X ai's chat bot Grok (aka MechaHitler) goes on a racist twitter spree. Recommends Adolf Hitler as best person to deal with anti-white issues.

https://youtu.be/qnL5GuLUHzw?list=PL3zI ... wxG-bH_yWs

[notaterran]

Here are some religious folks, it must be liberating living your life with zero self-awareness. These people have no clue how hypocritical they come across:

I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage

Link

[burger1]

Nvidia becomes the most valuable company. Not by companies buying ai stuff but countries. Sovereign ai is now the highest demanded ai. Ai bought by countries to control the country including the people.


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/El5t8jZlSi4

[clakclak]

X ai's chat bot Grok (aka MechaHitler) goes on a racist twitter spree. Recommends Adolf Hitler as best person to deal with anti-white issues.

https://youtu.be/qnL5GuLUHzw?list=PL3zI ... wxG-bH_yWs

Will be interesting to see how that works with X ai's new feature. Elon Musk’s Grok AI Now Includes a P****graphic Waifu Chatbot. Apperently the personality is, at least partially, based on Elon Musk's previous partner, the singer Grimes.

EDIT: I am probably not the only one who finds this insanely creepy right?

[mr.WHO]

More like super irritating and cringe - it's a new record:
I was tired of AI Balenciaga videos after a month.
Yeti selfie AI videos after a week.
Grok AI waifu was over for me after just one day.

I think it's because the way it talks, it reminds me that NPC imitating tik tok girl from 2-3 years ago.

[chew-ie]

I'm so happy that I don't have the slightest idea what clakclak and mr.WHO are talking about... (and of course I won't click that link)

[clakclak]

I'm so happy that I don't have the slightest idea what clakclak and mr.WHO are talking about... (and of course I won't click that link)

Sorry to shatter you illusion, but the link leads to a Vice article, with the same headline as my linktext. There is also nothing deep here, it is exactly what the link text says.

[chew-ie]

I'm so happy that I don't have the slightest idea what clakclak and mr.WHO are talking about... (and of course I won't click that link)

Sorry to shatter you illusion, but the link leads to a Vice article, with the same headline as my linktext. There is also nothing deep here, it is exactly what the link text says.

Me and my illusions are safe - I stopped reading after Musk & Grok.

[clakclak]

Australian conservative feminist group Collective Shout wins another victory against the depiction of NSFW themes in video games. In the past they had managed to get numerous games delisted from Steam for, to be fair, morally reprehensible content. Now they managed to get itch.io to deindex all NSFW games on the site. The group wants to ban any depiction of anything deemed by them as ‚pornographic material‘, from the internet. To do so, they target companies that deal with payment processes to sites like Steam. Games they have targeted in the past but not yet managed to remove from Steam and other storefronts include the Cyberpunk game Detroid become Human and the GTA series of games. (If anyone is wondering why these games in particular, they both feature scenes taking part in strip clubs, a locality the group does not want to see depicted in any type of media.)

[mr.WHO]

Australian conservative feminist

There is so much to unpack after just 3 words, but I'll simply pay my condolences to Australian men.
Seems like the world is not cruel enough - pretty much everything want to eat you, now you have one more freak of nature to deal with

[mr.WHO]

Aparently Thai-Cambodian war has started - air strikes, tank battles and casual shelling of civilian settlements.

[fiksal]

Australian conservative feminist

There is so much to unpack after just 3 words, but I'll simply pay my condolences to Australian men.
Seems like the world is not cruel enough - pretty much everything want to eat you, now you have one more freak of nature to deal with

I think conservative men are fine since "conservative" usually means "traditional values" that usually means that men must have more rights than women.

Which means this name is an oxymoron of course, as feminism is defined as "equal rights of men and women".


Often I see these contradictory terms surface when a group wants to hijack certain supporters