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Why going cashless has turned Sweden from one of the safest countries into a high-crime nation | Fortune Europe

fortune.com/europe/2024/06/21/

> In just a decade fraud has almost doubled from just under 9,000 to over 23,000 in 2023.

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Replaced the BS Zelda "hit" sound effect with a stock asset. It kind of reminds me of Terraria.

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We’ve Got a Serious Compliance Problem: You're not going to comply your way out from under the largest government in history.

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2023/10/weve-got-a-serious-compliance-problem/
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_Homeschooled Students Outperform Public School Indoctrinated Students_

FTA: A variety of academic testing data actually shows that parents of public school students have much more to fear, as homeschooled students have outperformed public school students in key areas like math, reading, and social sciences.

Homeschooling may become more popular in recent years as the political climate in public schools becomes more toxic and academic standards at these schools continue to decline. Homeschooling may be a viable route to improve your child’s future academic success and to provide them with an environment with more emotional and social support. Parents who are concerned about factors like isolation should strongly consider joining forces with other like-minded members in their community.

https://deskooled.substack.com/p/homeschooled-students-outperform
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AI needs high-quality human-generated data for training. That comes from the internet. But the internet is becoming increasingly overrun with AI-generated garbage. How screwed is future AI training? Absolutely fucked.

techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/model-collapse-scientists-warn-against-letting-ai-eat-its-own-tail/

>But the thing is, models gravitate toward the most common output. It won't give you a controversial snickerdoodle recipe but the most popular, ordinary one. And if you ask an image generator to make a picture of a dog, it won't give you a rare breed it only saw two pictures of in its training data; you'll probably get a golden retriever or a Lab.

>Now, combine these two things with the fact that the web is being overrun by AI-generated content and that new AI models are likely to be ingesting and training on that content. That means they're going to see a lot of goldens!

The paper in Nature is pretty technical.

nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

...and the supplementary content even more so, but in the Tech Crunch article there is an image that explains everything. In just four steps, the AI goes from a fairly representative idea of dogs to complete garbage.

static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-024-07566-y/MediaObjects/41586_2024_7566_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
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The past couple of weeks have truly been historic. Take a moment and just consider some of the major events that we have witnessed, bombshell after bombshell...
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/3-major-bombshells-just-dropped-that-everybody-should-be-talking-about-right-now.html
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Stalin called the Farmers "the enemies of the people". By expropriating them, the state took control of food production. Then, 7 million Soviet people were starved to death.

Now, 100 years later, the World Economic Forum is opening the war on farmers.

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In September the United Nations’ 79th General Assembly will host the highly-anticipated “Summit of the Future” where nations will sign the “Pact of the Future”, representing a major step towards the creation of a world government.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/the-un-will-sign-the-pact-of-the-future-in-60-days-heres-why-it-matters.html
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Is the President a King in Disguise? The Anti-Federalist Argument
During the debates over the ratification of the Constitution, Antifederalists repeatedly warned that the President would become like a king - and the worst kind of a king - an elected one.

Path to Liberty: July 24, 2024 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1662912888982999054
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