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Almost all of these new donors are connected to a group that indicted Chinese financier Guo Wengui created with right-wing agitator and ally Steve Bannon, called the New Federal State of China (NFSC). The Hark Herald singled out a number of these donors, almost all of whom contributed the maximum amount to Santos—$3,300 per election—despite never previously giving money to any federal candidate.

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The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can (responsiblestatecraft.org)

Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data acquired by Responsible Statecraft.

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TaxPayers Alliance is key player in attempts to end trials of shorter working week in public sector

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Carbon Brief explains the key sticking points at the 2023 IMO talks in London and what nations ultimately agreed on emissions targets.

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The Element drives itself continuously at around two miles per hour over farmland, using an advanced computer vision system to identify crops and unwanted botanical invaders. With two-axis robotic arms positioned close the ground, it can flick weeds out of the way where they’ll dry out before they can grow seeds and spread.

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Bonds linked to the world’s biggest oil company have ended up in ESG funds, highlighting a major flaw in how the sector is regulated.

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US Air Force colonel Matthew Strohmeyer says they have fed the models with classified operational information to inform sensitive questions. The long-term aim of such exercises is to update the US warhorse so it can use AI-enabled data in decision-making, sensors and ultimately firepower.

[-] haddockseyes@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I think people on Twitter (especially on smartphones) and people watching TV have very different attention spans in the first place.

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A new study found that a CEO’s political ideology was correlated with the decision of whether to leave or suspend operations in Russia following the 2022 invasion.

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His first show brought in over 26 million “video views,” which is a Twitter metric that records a view as anyone who watches a video for more than 2 seconds. While the metric’s reliability has been questioned, it has nevertheless declined significantly since the show’s launch, with Carlson’s most recent show only getting 3.8 million video views, marking a drop of 86 percent.

[-] haddockseyes@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

There's a pretty famous thought experiment about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

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Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish red objects from a darker background

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Talks to combine two of the biggest newspaper publishers in Canada have fallen apart.

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Beijing bolstering position as global renewables leader with solar capacity more than rest of world combined

[-] haddockseyes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Just because they're inland, I think.

[-] haddockseyes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

As a kid, the big twist in Hordes of the Underdark blew my mind.

[-] haddockseyes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Amazing game. I only have one complaint about it but unfortunately it's a huge spoiler.

[-] haddockseyes@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Nice, picking up Disco Elysium.

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