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American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Captainant replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-air-traffic-control-system-upgrade-bill-congress/ -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Captainant replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
It's basically the same thing he said on Jan6, which is also what's basically happening now except they're in power -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Captainant replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Thing is - that's just unprofessional. Data classification exists in every organization, hell I just had to re-up my compliance training on that with the new year and I certainly don't work for the government. These idiot children are going to crash grandaddy's old jalopy and we're all gonna end up paying to replace it -
Wow. Great episode and incredible set design
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/ "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right," Nikolay Bashlykov, a Meta research engineer, wrote in an April 2023 message, adding a smiley emoji. In the same message, he expressed "concern about using Meta IP addresses 'to load through torrents pirate content.'" By September 2023, Bashlykov had seemingly dropped the emojis, consulting the legal team directly and emphasizing in an email that "using torrents would entail ‘seeding’ the files—i.e., sharing the content outside, this could be legally not OK." Emails discussing torrenting prove that Meta knew it was "illegal," authors alleged. And Bashlykov's warnings seemingly landed on deaf ears, with authors alleging that evidence showed Meta chose to instead hide its torrenting as best it could while downloading and seeding terabytes of data from multiple shadow libraries as recently as April 2024. -
Oligarchs are finally getting some relief https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-disbands-task-force-targeting-russian-oligarchs-2025-02-06/
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Holy shit that sounds horrible man. Hope you're healing well and feeling better
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Yeah ICE and CBP would have no reason to change official policy to allow enforcement actions in schools, churches, and hospitals if they weren't gonna do that, huh? Frankly, he would be more credible not making that claim on the defamatory and lying State news channel too -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Captainant replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/musk-doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-social-media-posts.html “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” @nullllptr tweeted on X in September, the Journal reported. “Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” according to the Journal. “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July, according to the newspaper. In June, the account tweeted, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the Journal that Elez resigned after the Journal inquired about the account. A White House official confirmed Elez’s resignation to CNBC. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I mean, I linked a news article to start the thread. It was updated this morning with a statement from CBP saying they would "never target school busses and children", which rings hollow when they also updated their guidelines to no longer explicitly deny entering schools, churches, and hospitals to deport people. -
I was fortunate to take a course from him, focusing on the 1890's through the lens of his book The Reckless Decade. Hands-down one of my favorite courses I took in my time at Texas
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
A small addendum - on iPhones it's hold the down volume and lock buttons for a couple seconds. This puts you into the "SOS" mode, which you can just cancel out of, but it does not accept faceID or touchID to unlock the phone. On android there's a "lockdown" mode that requires the device PIN or password to unlock. The click the side button five times thing was for like iPhone 8 and earlier, so probably not useful info anymore lol -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Captainant replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Huh I just also came across a Vanity Fair article from Oct 2024 about bird flu in Texas cattle herds. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bird-flu-response Wouldn't you know it, they looked the other way and didn't cull herds, and now there's two variants in cattle that's uncontained. -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Captainant replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
I have a cousin that is a realtor and she would not take "no" for an answer from my wife and I when we were/are house shopping. Along the lines of what yall are saying, it just doesn't make sense to have a major financial transaction wrapped around a family relationship or friendship -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Captainant replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Wild there hasn't been more news about this. I guess we're getting the same pandemic playbook as last time with this particular president - ignore it and hope it goes away. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usda-detects-bird-flu-strain-dairy-cattle-not-previously-seen-cows-according-2025-02-05/ Reuters: Second bird flu strain found in US dairy cattle, USDA says Wild that the CDC and FDA have said nothing about this - it's already impacting the egg supply (if "we" still "care" about that "issue" lol), and is poised to impact milk supplies if it starts to impact cattle and taint milk. Even moreso if that milk is no longer being pasteurized. Fucks sake, man.
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