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Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the kill lines at America’s chicken, turkey, and pig slaughterhouses. The plan will make one of the country’s most dangerous jobs — working in a meat processing plant — even more unsafe, labor advocates argue.

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Chicken slaughterhouses would be able to increase kill line speeds from 140 birds per minute to 175 — a 25 percent increase. Turkey slaughterhouses would be able to accelerate from 55 birds per minute to 60. Pig slaughterhouses currently have a maximum line speed limit of 1,106 pigs per hour, but under the new rule, there will be no speed limit.

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The proposed rules are all but certain to increase injury rates for these workers, who already have some of the highest in the nation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (and which, according to numerous federal government sources, are likely severe underestimates).

Outrage flooded social media after a video showed an activist being arrested mid-interview at a pro-Venezuela protest, fuelling questions about the state of free speech in the United States.

In the now-viral clip taken from Grand Rapids, Michigan, 22-year-old teacher and activist Jessica Plichta can be heard criticising US foreign policy towards Venezuela, arguing that American involvement abroad is inseparable from domestic accountability.

"This isn’t just a foreign issue," she said moments before her arrest. "It’s our tax dollars being used to commit war crimes, and it’s the responsibility of the people to resist a Trump administration committing crimes both at home and against people in Venezuela."

Seconds later, local police move in. As she is escorted to a patrol vehicle, Plichta repeatedly states, "I am not resisting arrest."

Local outlet WZZM, the city’s ABC affiliate, later reported that police said Plichta was arrested for obstructing a roadway and failing to obey a lawful command. In footage from the scene, an officer tells a bystander that demonstrators had been instructed to relocate their protest to the sidewalk, and alleged that the group instead blocked intersections until the march concluded.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 device-optimized quant variants without output quality falling off a cliff.

A 30B runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) achieving 8.03 TPS at 2.70 BPW, while retaining 94.18% of BF16 quality. ShapeLearn tends to find better TPS/quality tradeoffs versus alternatives.

What’s new/interesting in this one

1. CPU behavior is mostly sane

On CPUs, once you’re past “it fits,” smaller tends to be faster in a fairly monotonic way. The tradeoff curve behaves like you’d expect.

2. GPU behavior is quirky

On GPUs, performance depends as much on kernel choice as on memory footprint. So you often get sweet spots (especially around ~4b) where the kernels are “golden path,” and pushing lower-bit can get weird.

models: https://huggingface.co/byteshape/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-GGUF

The US Americans have lost their marbles.

According to the NYT article[0] "about five million borrowers are in default" which means like 1.5% of the population is about to have 15% of their wages garnished. Seems pretty intense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/student-loan-debtors-default-wages-garnish.html

AI systems exist to reinforce and strengthen existing structures of power and violence. They are the wet dream of capitalists and fascists. Enormous physical infrastructure designed to convert capital into power, and back into capital. Those who control the infrastructure, control the people subject to it.

While it sways away from the initial thesis of how the use of LLMs could be detrimental to our very being and expression of identity - at least that's how I interpret what they're saying - it ends in a fantastic claim on how AI is a tool of the ruling class. Worth a read!