2023-02-18
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
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'AI.com' now takes you to ChatGPT. OpenAI evidently paid millions for it
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A Concerning Trend – Neil Clarke
Towards the end of 2022, there was another spike in plagiarism and then “AI” chatbots started gaining some attention, putting a new tool in their arsenal and encouraging more to give this “side hustle” a try. It quickly got out of hand
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Microsoft limits Bing chats to 5 questions per session, 50 questions per day
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Over the Course of 72 Hours, Microsoft's AI Goes on a Rampage
TechSuck
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing
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Next Week, the Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About the Internet
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Biden refers to Maryland’s first Black governor as ‘boy’ in speech
“You got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore. He’s the real deal and the boy looks like he can still play,” the 80-year-old Mr. Biden said. “He’s got some guns on him.”
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Bird leaves S.F., blaming ‘the most onerous regulations’ in the world
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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That could be one of our balloons – downed object may belong to amateur club
There has been particular interest in one of our pico balloons, one that transmits call sign K9YO. As noted on our “Locate and Track” page and blog, the last transmission from that balloon received and reported to the WSPR system was on February 11, 2023, and indicated that balloon was near Hagemeister Island, off the southwest corner of Alaska. Since we have not found a transmission from that balloon since that time, we have declared it “Missing In Action”, as we have with previous flights. At that time, K9YO had circumnavigated the globe 6 times and was nearing the completion of a 7th lap. Unfortunately, that’s where the factual information on its location ends.
As has been widely reported, no part of the object shot down by the US Air Force jet over the Yukon territory has been recovered. Until that happens and that object is confirmed to be an identifiable pico balloon, any assertions or claims that our ballon was involved in that incident are not supported by facts.
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US has formally determined that Russia committed crimes against humanity