2025-04-29


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  • Bombshell new report reveals who made fatal mistake that caused Black Hawk to collide with jet and kill 67 | Daily Mail Online

    Not only was Lobach flying her Black Hawk too high, but in the final moments before the impact, she failed to take advice and instruction from her co-pilot to switch course. Lobach's piloting skills were being tested during the evaluation on the fateful night, before the crew were informed that an aircraft was nearby, according to the report. Just 15 seconds before colliding with the commercial airplane, air traffic control told Lobach and Eaves to turn left, but she did not do so. Seconds before impact, co-pilot Eaves then turned to Lobach in the cockpit and told her that air traffic control wanted her to turn left. She still did not do so. Investigators may never know why Lobach did not change course that day.

Horseshit


Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • Online campaign urged far right to attack China's opponents in UK

    Working with the anti-racism group Hope Not Hate, the Guardian found more than 150 posts from 29 accounts on three days in August 2024 that sought to draw the attention of anti-immigrant groups and the far right to Lau and other Hong Kong exiles. Cybersecurity experts who have reviewed the posts say they exhibited some similarities to a major online influence operation that a Chinese security agency is suspected of orchestrating.

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

  • Internal Documents Reveal Pervasive Pattern of Racial Discrimination at Harvard Law Review

    according to dozens of documents obtained by the Free Beacon—including lists of every new policy adopted by the law review since 2021—race plays a far larger role in the selection of both editors and articles than the journal has publicly acknowledged. Just over half of journal members, for example, are admitted solely based on academic performance. The rest are chosen by a "holistic review committee" that has made the inclusion of "underrepresented groups"—defined to include race, gender identity, and sexual orientation—its "first priority," according to resolution passed in 2021. The law review has also incorporated race into nearly every stage of its article selection process, which as a matter of policy considers "both substantive and DEI factors." Editors routinely kill or advance pieces based in part on the race of the author, according to eight different memos reviewed by the Free Beacon, with one editor even referring to an author’s race as a "negative" when recommending that his article be cut from consideration.

TechSuck / Geek Bait

  • Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge

    a Winter Olympics sports game developed by MindSpan and published by Accolade in 1991 for DOS and Sega Genesis.

    The hidden copy protection checks are real! The game performs more hidden code wheel checks throughout the game, in each of these 6 locations. If the main code wheel check is merely skipped, these hidden checks will fail and the game knows you tried to circumvent the copy protection. When that happens, it will mess with the game in more subtle ways, to sabotage your illegitimate play session. This is a sneaky additional layer of copy protection, where if you try to crack the game and remove the obvious checks, you might not even realize these additional checks exist, unless you pick up on the gameplay alterations.

    When the copy protection check fails, any attempt land a ski jump beyond a certain distance fails. More specifically, beyond a distance of 86.7m, the game won’t recognize you pressing Enter to land your jump anymore

    Now that we know what a failed copy protection check looks like, we can check each of the game versions and cracks we found to see whether they work correctly. As it turns out, ALL OF THEM, except for one, FAIL THE COPY PROTECTION CHECK! That includes even the official releases: Both the 1996 US release and the 2020 GOG release are broken.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

  • People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer – new study

  • "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could take control from humans

  • Professor's perceptron paved the way for AI – 60 years too soon

  • Reality Check

    So you're saying this experimental software launched to an indeterminate amount of people that barely works is going to make OpenAI $13 billion in 2025, and $29 billion in 2026, and later down the line $125 billion in 2029? How? How? What fucking universe are we all living in? There's no proof that OpenAI can do this other than the fact that it has a lot of users and venture capital!

    In fact, I think we have reason to worry about whether OpenAI even makes its current projections. In my last piece I wrote that Bloomberg had estimated that OpenAI would triple revenue to $12.7 billion in 2025, and based on its current subscriber base, OpenAI would have to effectively double its current subscription revenue and massively increase its API revenue to hit these targets.

    What I believe is happening is that reporters are taking OpenAI's rapid growth in revenue from 2023 to 2024 (from tens of millions a month at the start of 2023 to $300 million in August 2024) to mean that the company will always effectively double or triple revenue every single year forever, with their evidence being "OpenAI has projected this will be the case."

Left Angst

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