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Wait, who is my third cousin twice removed? Oh

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The Largest Source Of Imports By Country More about the map: brilliantmaps.com/imports-b...

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"Given that the US economy is entirely dependent on Chinese sources for vital goods (pharmaceutical stocks, cheap electronic chips, critical minerals) it's wildly reckless not to ensure alternate suppliers/adequate domestic production before cutting off trade" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Bologna has recently published a Report on the first year of implementing the 30 km/h speed limit in the city. For the first time since 1991, no pedestrians were killed, road deaths decreased by 50%, crashes by 13% and urban traffic pollution by 30%. 👍 www.comune.bologna.it/notizie/citt...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Llama 4's massive context window is impressive! However, the best Llama model for long-context understanding over books is still Llama 3.1 405B. Llama 4 Scout is especially bad at our NoCha benchmark, performing below random chance.

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Reading David Brooks's apologia. Mostly fine and good. Then you get to this paragraph: Yes, but the left really did drive us to it. I'm going to go through these claims one by one. 1/x

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

La mejor respuesta a los aranceles es poner barreras a los servicios digitales estadounidenses controlados por multimillonarios. Para ganar en autonomía y para llevarlo a un conflicto de clase, no entre trabajadores. Esta propuesta de Francia podría ir en la dirección adecuada:

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After the massacre of 15 Palestinian medics, Israeli anti-Zionist activists from Voices Against War are calling on Israeli medics to "refuse to cooperate with a state that murders their colleagues". This is a video of them occupying the offices of the Israeli Medical Association in January.

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