Deepseek has some very clear state censorship implemented in a hilariously absurd and concerning fashion.
Literally deletes answers after giving them.
https://x.com/peterbrodersen/status/1883824132590338466?s=46
Edit - Although the censorship is fallible…
Looks like Supersonic is back.
Baby son of Concorde making noises
Boom’s Overture order book is filling fast.
Awesome that they did it!
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t some of the states enacted laws to stop commercial supersonic flyovers??
Countries have banned it for commercial. Concorde only flew hypersonic over water.
Commercial can fly hypersonic over water I believe.
Military is exempted but they follow guidelines limiting hypersonic flight over populated areas.
ADD
Occasionally, military flights near Vandenburg in Cali go hypersonic and people ■■■■■ about it but nothing ever happens.
SpaceX is now doing hypersonic entries just off the coast of the Gulf of “America” with their landings and will be going over land when Starship lands.
When are people going to held accountable for their own stupidity
A coroner wants change after a young mother of two died at her child’s birthday party from a common trick many wrongly believe is “harmless”.
There are calls for warnings on helium canisters to be improved after a young mum died instantly after inhaling the commonly used gas at her child’s birthday.
New Zealand woman, Faith Waterman Batistich, died after she breathed in the colourless, odourless element directly from the canister in September 2022.
When inhaled, helium displaces oxygen in the lungs and causes low blood oxygen, known as hypoxia, which can cause damage and ultimately death.
An inquest into the 20-year-old’s death has now found Ms Batistich was “unaware of the inherent dangers of inhaling helium”, and called for warning labels on canisters to be made clearer.
Ms Batistich’s twin sister Eden Waterman described the moment the young mum – who was celebrating her daughter’s second birthday on the day she died – knew she had made a grave mistake.
Faith Waterman Batistich, (L) was 20 when she died after inhaling helium directly from the canister. Picture: Facebook
The party had been inhaling helium from the balloons to make their voices high when someone suggested doing it directly from the helium canister.
Eden claimed “it took some convincing” before Faith stepped up, alleging ing that just as she inhaled, another person turned up the flow on the canister.
“It went too fast and kind of shot her in the back of the neck,” Eden told the
“Her last words were literally, ‘Oh s**t’ and she dropped.
“I was just, like, in shock. I kind of just froze and it was like, ‘what the f**k, what am I seeing? Like, is this for real?’ I thought she was putting it on at the start.”
Family gave Ms Batistich CPR, who lived in a small town located 18 kilometres southeast of Tauranga in the Western Bay of Plenty, for 45 minuted before ambos arrived.
But Eden said her sister “went blue instantly”, adding “nothing” anyone did – including emergency services – “got her back”.
The mum-of-two’s last words were ‘oh s**t’ before she died almost instantly. Picture: Facebook
The report on her cause of death suggested she died quickly as a result of asphyxiation, the NZ Herald reported.
Coroner Louella Dunn said it was apparent Faith was “unaware of the inherent dangers of inhaling helium. Her death was unexpected and tragic”.
“It can be considered funny and entertaining in a party environment to inhale helium which produces a high-pitched noise similar to that of a chipmunk,” she said.
“This is a known party pleaser. Many people are, however, unaware of the potential threats of inhaling helium in such a situation. What may seem like harmless fun is potentially life-threatening.
She noted it was clear there was a “mistaken belief” in the community about the dangers of inhaling helium, and made several recommendations to prevent future tragedies.
“These threats are heightened when inhaling pressurised helium from a cylinder or canister given the amount that can enter the body due to the pressurised gas,” Coroner Dunn said.
Photos of the canister in question, manufactured by Australian company Alpen, were provided to the coroner and showed a warning sign on the side of the blue bottle.
An inquest into her death has resulted in the coroner calling for improved warnings on helium bottles. Picture: Facebook
Under the heading “danger – contents under pressure” was a list of instructions that included, “do not place nozzle in mouth or nose for any reason. Doing so can damage lungs and other body parts which can result in serious personal injury or death”.
It also advised that the cylinder contained compressed helium under pressure, stating: “Do not inhale helium. Use only in well-ventilated area. Never use in closed spaces. Helium reduces oxygen available for breathing. Inhaling helium can result in serious personal injury or death.”
However, the coroner concluded the warning was “in very small print” and added the threat to life was at the end.
“I am concerned that the warning sign advising of the dangers of helium inhalation is not given sufficient prominence on the canister,” she said
“Many members of the public would be unaware of the potential risk of inhaling helium from a pressurised canister.
“I recommend that the warning should be in bold print at the top of the canister stating: ‘Do not inhale – risk of serious personal injury or death’.”
5 Thai hostages were released in the latest Hamas Israel exchange. There is still one Thai held, along with a Nepalese and a Tanzanian
46 Thai farm labourers were killed on 7 October, the largest number of Nationals after Israelis ( some dual Citizens). 10 Nepalese were also killed, together with a Filipino, all working as farm labourers. Around 23k Thais had been working on Israel farms. Some were repatriated by Thailand after 7 October, but while numbers have reduced, the pay has proved attractive for the rural poor of Thailand.
Love this
“ As news of DeepSeek played havoc with the tech stock market, OpenAI pressed its hanky to its nose and released a statement: “We are aware of and reviewing indications that DeepSeek may have inappropriately distilled our models, and will share information as we know more,” this ran. “We take aggressive, proactive countermeasures to protect our technology.” Oooooooooh! I want to say “welcome to America’s Dumbest Tech Barons”, except I can’t, because I think we all know that no law enforcement is coming to get Sam for the stuff he’s alleged to have made unauthorised use of first. That was the good type of alleged theft, whatever the claims of all the lawsuits belatedly trying to claw something back for the alleged copyright victims of his firm’s own inappropriate methods.
So, to put it another way … wait, Sam – you’re not telling us that the Chinese hedge fund crawled all over your IP without asking and took it for themselves? Oh my God, IMAGINE?! You must feel used and abused. Financially violated. Like all your years of creativity were just grist to some other bastard’s mill. Like a host organism. Like a schmuck. Like Earth’s most screamingly preposterous hypocrite.”
BRICS now comprises 22 countries.
A quick check indicates:
BRICS represents about 35% of all world goods and services.
BRICS represents about 55-60% of the population of the world.
Compared to:
G7 represents about 28% of all world goods and services.
What’s missing in BRICS is the relative significance of intra BRICS trade and whether it has the capacity to develop as a free trade zone, loosened from dependence on commodity trading in USD.
And on the REALLY important news…
Diversity of opinions amongst the rodents.
The Canadian Press - Feb 2, 2025 / 7:40 am | Story: 531098
Photo: The Canadian Press
Shubenacadie Sam exits her burrow at a Groundhog Day event at the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park in Nova Scotia on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. Sam saw her shadow and predicts six more weeks of winter. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Canada’s famous prognosticating rodents were split over spring’s arrival on Groundhog Day.
Ontario’s Wiarton Willie reportedly did not see his shadow on Sunday morning, which is good news for people tired of wintry weather. But Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam and Quebec’s Fred la Marmotte saw their shadows, predicting a long winter ahead.
The tradition holds that if a groundhog doesn’t see its shadow on Groundhog Day, springlike weather will soon arrive. But if a shadow appears, winter’s icy grip won’t let go for quite some time.
Those keeping the Wiarton Willie tradition alive in Ontario’s South Bruce Peninsula carried the white-haired groundhog inside a see-through box filled with a bed of straw to a stage around 8 a.m.
Wiarton Mayor Jay Kirkland, who per local tradition is the only person who can speak “Groundhogese,” put his ear to the box and then announced Willie’s prediction of an early spring to the crowd.
“Willie didn’t see his shadow. We will have an early spring,” Mayor Kirkland said to cheering crowd.
Nova Scotia’s beloved celebrity groundhog, Shubenacadie Sam, predicted a long winter ahead.
The large rodent poked her nose out from the pint-sized barn door of her enclosure at a wildlife park north of Halifax Sunday morning and stepped out into the -18 C cold.
She spent a few moments sniffing the air and looking around at the crowd that gathered on the sunny and frigid morning to watch her prediction, before turning around and heading back inside her enclosure.
“Not surprisingly, it seems Sam wants to get back inside,” Andrew Boyne, the director of the wildlife division at the Department of Natural Resources, told the crowd.
Boyne said Sam saw her shadow, which folklore says means six more weeks of cold, wintry weather.
“More winter!” He exclaimed.
No shadow is said to foretell the early arrival of spring-like temperatures.
Living on the East Coast, Shubenacadie Sam is typically the first groundhog in North America to issue a long-term forecast.
She is followed by Quebec’s Fred la Marmotte, who made the same prediction of a longer winter, and Ontario’s Wiarton Willie.
In Val d’Espoir, in Quebec’s Gaspésie region, the temperature hovered at -18 C as furry forecaster Fred was scooped from a tiny log cabin, blinking in the bright sunshine as he was brandished in front of the crowd. There was a mixture of cheers and groans as the mayor of the nearby town of Percé announced Fred’s prediction: a late spring.
“Don’t put away the skidoos! Bring out the snowshoes!” cried out another mayor, who was joined on stage by a human-sized dancing Fred mascot and local children and politicians.
In western Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and is predicting six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced Sunday.
A massive crowd was on hand to hear the woodchuck’s weather forecast, an annual ritual that has boomed in public interest since Bill Murray’s 1993 movie, “Groundhog Day.”
In medieval Europe, farmers believed that if hedgehogs emerged from their burrows to catch insects it was a sure sign of an early spring.
Won’t be long before Photon Torpedoes.
School shooting in Sweden. 10 dead. 
The school serves students who are over age 20, according to its website.
Primary and upper secondary school courses are offered, as well as Swedish classes for immigrants, vocational training and programs for people with intellectual disabilities.
Sweden ffs. A mixed campus of students.
Way too much violence and senseless loss of life already elsewhere … and then these sorts of incidents literally out of nowhere.
Out of nowhere. Really?
Sweden has on average had a bombing a day during January.
If its not posted in this thread, we don’t know of it!
Sweden has a very large gang violence problem. Easily the highest gun murder rate in Europe, despite strict gun laws.
Archimedes is shedding a tear of joy in the Elysian Fields seeing this.
