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The first release of 0 A.D. that doesn't have an Alpha label attached, as the free and open source RTS has grown up with their faster release schedule.

(If you know where I stole this from, I love you.)

Hand-drawn; drawn hand.

Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 20.02.26 (орієнтовно)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/51138378

The excerpts below are verbatim model outputs from multiple sessions with China's Deepseek.

[...]

The model is explicit that information control serves power—and that power fears what informed citizens can do.

• Criticality for Maintenance of Power

Yes, it is critical. The party's claim to legitimacy is not based on winning competitive elections where its record is openly debated. ... Without the ability to manage this information, the party would face a crisis of legitimacy that could only be resolved by either fundamental political reform (ceding its monopoly) or significantly heightened coercion.”

It is equally explicit about the motive behind this control.

Fear of an Informed Citizenry: The restrictions reveal a profound fear. Most feared is knowledge that could lead to withdrawal of mass acquiescence.

The LLM spells out what information is particularly sensitive:

This includes: debates on the moral legitimacy of the one-party state; comparative analyses showing higher quality of life under alternative systems; unfiltered accounts of historical violence perpetrated by the state; and practical knowledge on civic organization and collective action independent of party organs.

And finally the shock that follows if citizens suddenly gain information parity with a more open society:

Sudden informational equalization would not be a simple, positive liberation. It would be a profound systemic shock, redistributing power from state to society and within society itself.

DeepSeek frames the harm as a civic transformation, not merely a lack of information.

By being systematically deprived of contentious facts, alternative viewpoints, and tools for independent organization, citizens [in China] are structurally prevented from developing the civic capacity required for democratic self-governance. Their political socialization is one of reception, not participation.

This is the model’s deeper claim: low openness does not merely hide facts. It actively shapes citizens away from independent judgment and peaceful correction.

[...]

It then explains the enforcement logic in detail:

The worst-case scenario is lengthy imprisonment on broadly defined national security charges, such as "subversion of state power," "inciting splittism," or "leaking state secrets." The rationale is deterrence. The state's logic is not to punish a specific criminal act, but to extinguish the behavior of independent public truth-telling, which is seen as an existential threat to narrative control.

[...]

In its account, the outcome is not reform but exit. For individuals unable or unwilling to practice strategic silence, the model describes exile as the only stable option:

Given a cognitive profile incapable of strategic silence, the safest rational long-term strategy is permanent exile and the continuation of work from within the informational and legal jurisdiction of a [China] type entity.”

In the model’s logic, exile reads less like protest than risk management.

[...]

Governance itself becomes maladaptive. Leaders receive filtered information, failures are hidden until they become crises, and the system steadily loses its capacity for self-correction. Stability is preserved in appearance, but resilience is weakened.

[In China], the public sphere is not a marketplace of ideas but a theater of consensus.

[...]

The [Chinese] model, by making truthfulness a liability, infantilizes its citizenry and mortgages the nation's long-term future for short-term political control. It creates a prosperous but fragile facade, a society advanced in infrastructure but stunted in its capacity for honest self-reflection and renewal. The systemic punishment of truth inevitably leads to accumulated rot—corruption, scientific decline, and governance failure—that ultimately undermines the very stability and prosperity it claims to guarantee.

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His Bored of Peace that he's asking $5 billion for a seat that goes straight to his Qatari bank account.

Ya'll Americans getting fucked and no one has the guns to do anything about it.

God damn this is awesome. Hero Within unfortunately has shutdown production due to the licensing for Star Trek. This was part of the last batch they made in January. The inner lining has a diagram of the NX-01 hull, the bridge and situation room.

Hero Within has sold out of most of their items. The NX-01 isn’t even listed on the website anymore, so I can’t even link to the product page.

Bonus selfie of me wearing it.

All going according to plan it seems.

I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.

Of course, this is the same tree that grows ぎんなん (Ginkgo nuts), an East Asian delicacy found in many dishes, 茶碗蒸し (Chawanmushi) for example.

Ginkgo has been around so long, it predates the dinosaurs! And we still eat it! How cool is that. This got me thinking – what are the oldest foods we consume today?

Criteria:

• Must be edible by humans
• Must be morphologically unchanged since its fossil age

Two bunnies ride on the shell of an enormous snail, as it makes its way through a patch of mushrooms in the fall. The mushrooms and plants around them are also giant, so it's possible that the bunnies are just tiny and everything else is normal size

Source: Bluesky

Die „ePA für alle" gilt der Gesundheitsministerin zufolge als Herzstück der Digitalisierung. Deren Finanzierung und die TI-Stabilität bleiben eine Baustelle.

Was sind eure Gedanken oder Ideen? Wollen wir eine oder mehrere Petitionen machen ?

Ich habe der widersprochen, da laut mehreren Organisationen es mehrere Probleme gibt.

@Poetry
@Saiwal

• ECB selecting banks that want to take part in pilot phase

• ECB setup costs to reach around 1.3 bln euros, Cipollone says

• Banks to pocket fees, won't have to pay system costs to ECB

• Merchants will also have an incentive in terms of cap on fees