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BBC Report Portrays Islamic Child Slavery In Afghanistan As Necessary Anti-immigration movements in the US and Europe have been saying it for years:  The Islamic world is barbaric and backwards, built on archaic ideas that are completely antithetical to western values.  Yet, progressive governments and their media allies continue in their attempts to portray these cultures as "the same", or, as sympathetic.  The historical Islamic justification for child marriage comes from the story in the Hadith of Muhammad's marriage to a 6-year-old girl named Aisha, which he consummated when she turned...

Without Subsidies, Is AI Unaffordable? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Let's pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users' costs. What's already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity and requires such an immense scale of costly processing and memory capacity can be low-cost, never mind free. The major AI platforms and vendors are subsidizing corporate...

World's First Fully Robotic Pharmacy Automates Prescription Dispensing Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering, Queue, a California-based robotics startup, has unveiled the world's first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy, designed to automate prescription dispensing, verification, and delivery. Queue has deployed its robotic pharmacy with a major US pharmacy chain for early commercial use.Queue The platform accepts sealed wholesale medication bottles and produces filled, verified prescriptions with minimal human intervention. Queue says the technology aims to reduce pharmacy operating costs, improve dispensing accuracy, and expand access to prescription services by enabling automated pharmacy operations closer...