2024-09-25
Cars software sux, lament for the minivan, how to colo, the pasture complains about the sheep, Altman says stuff, astrounauts land (no, not those), Harris got bux, Routh son nabbed for CP, "last" Navy oiler br0ked,
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Floppy vs Stiff Concepts - by Robin Hanson
We also have large STEM areas built on systems with many related more abstract concepts. In these systems, stiffness is obtained via a dense network of tight (often mathematical) interconnections between these abstract concepts, and also some concrete concepts. You can’t change any one of these concepts much without changing many others around them. Floppy concepts, in contrast, can be changed individually, requiring only minor matching changes to related concepts. Non-STEM folks in the humanities and the arts are often proud to see themselves as having special social roles re status, norms, and values, roles for which they see STEM as less-suited. And we probably actually accept them in such roles because our usual status and norm concepts are in fact floppy. But they don’t obviously have to be.
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(2014) You Can’t Dig Upwards – Evan Miller
if you want to write extremely good software — in any language — you should ignore all the advice to learn Python, or heaven forbid, Lisp, and instead begin your journey with C. The view from the top is nice, but if you aspire to climb mountains, there’s no better place to start than at the bottom.
Horseshit
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'Places to heal, not to harm': brutal prison design kills off hope
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CrowdStrike: Company to face questions over global IT outage
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Anoyone still using their software is asking for the cactus to be applied to their tender bits again.
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You'll own nothing and be happy- Jaguar Land Rover now offer a car subscription
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The Death of the Minivan - The Atlantic
The minivan arrived, way back when, as a savior. When Chrysler, under the former Ford chief Lee Iacocca’s direction, first conceived of the design in the late 1970s, Americans who wanted room to cart more kids and goods had only a couple of options. One was the land-yacht-style station wagon, perhaps in avocado green with faux-wood paneling. Lots of kids could pile onto its bench and jump seats, while the rear storage, accessible by hatch, allowed for easy loading. These cars were somewhat functional, but they didn’t seem that safe. The suburban family’s other choice was the full-size van—a big, boxy transport or utility vehicle. The gas for these was also pricey, and their aesthetic felt unsuited to domesticity. By cultural consensus, vans were made for plumbers, kidnappers, or ex–Special Forces domestic mercenaries.
- The minivan was invented because "gas guzzler" laws made station wagons difficult to sell. The van was bigger and sidestepped new regulations, the station wagon became unavailable, the families needing versatile cargo/people hauling had no other economical option. Lots of people would still buy 1960s tech, air cooled VW Bugs if they were allowed to do so.
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A Mysterious School for the Network State Crowd Is Now in Session
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Life for Haitian Immigrants: Jobs Nobody Wants and Sleeping on the Floor
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The fall of Intel: How gen AI helped dethrone a giant
- Bullshit. Intel peaked with the PPro and has tried to maintain market dominence through supression of advances ever since. They've been chopping bits off their tree for two decades, "AI" is irrelevant to their fall.
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Coca-Cola is pulling its newest 'permanent' flavor from store shelves
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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The metaverse didn't die. It moved inside Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
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Spurned by Social Media, Publishers Chase Readers on WhatsApp
- "Spurned"? Weren't there lawsuits about "pay us for links" and various contries passed laws to that effect? And now they're upset theres no links...
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Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software
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How Meta's Smart Ray-Ban Glasses Spawned a Silicon Valley Hit
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Logitech Launches MX Creative Console – A Stream Deck Alternative
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Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain why it takes photos
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The crawlers are gathering the collective information published on the internet in order to present it through their language models or the APIs, chatbots, and other tools built on top of the models. Once we understand all these tools in the way that Mr Lanier encourages us to, we may say this about the dynamics that have taken root today: the animals are loose on the commons. They're eating the grass. They're chasing off the groundskeepers.
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Google is about to update Street View images across countries
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Valve announces Frog Protocols to bypass slow Wayland development
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As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the 'Fediverse'
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The New York Times will now charge for past episodes of its popular podcasts
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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If this is old hat to you, great! It means you're probably a grizzled 1990s sysadmin just like me, consarn it! This isn't for you, then. This is for the newer folks who might not have realized that there's an alternative to paying tribute to one of the three churches of the Clown: M, G, or A. If you want to "get your stuff online", there are other ways... and there always have been!
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45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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What's illegal under California's 9 (and counting) new AI laws
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Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into 'god mode' with latest AI post
Not everyone shares Altman's optimism and enthusiasm. Computer scientist and frequent AI critic Grady Booch quoted Altman's "few thousand days" prediction and wrote on X, "I am so freaking tired of all the AI hype: it has no basis in reality and serves only to inflate valuations, inflame the public, garnet [sic] headlines, and distract from the real work going on in computing."
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It's Now Officially Illegal to Use AI to Impersonate a Human Actor in Hollywood
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Why prompt engineering is one of the most valuable skills today
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AI can generate recipes that can be deadly. Food bloggers are not happy
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Cloudflare's new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for scraping
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US nuclear plants won't power up Big Tech's AI ambitions right away
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Deep Blue Aerospace hop test suffers anomaly moments before landing
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NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Crewmates Return from Space Station - NASA
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson completed a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Monday, returning to Earth with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. The trio departed the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at 4:36 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, making a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 7:59 a.m. (4:59 p.m. Kazakhstan time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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In critical Ohio Senate race, crypto cash looks to tip the scales
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US Capitol Hit by Dark Web Cyber Attack
Personal information of more than 3,000 congressional staffers has been leaked across the dark web in a wide-ranging cyberattack on the Capitol, according to reports. Internet security firm Proton found over 1,800 passwords used by staffers in Congress available on the dark web, through an investigation of exposed accounts among U.S. political staffers, according to The Washington Times.
Harris / Democrats
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Harris embraces crypto, in overture to young men.
In an aggressive overture to business and young men, Vice President Harris used a packed fundraiser on Wall Street yesterday to declare her friendliness to cryptocurrency — and promise to work with major companies. Harris is trying to convince businesspeople she'd be better than former President Trump, despite his promised tax cuts — and would work with them more than President Biden, who rankled many CEOs. The fundraiser at Cipriani Wall Street raised $27 million — the biggest single-day haul of Harris' presidential campaign.
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How to give effectively to US Dems — EA Forum
You can donate more effectively than giving directly to the Harris campaign. Harris will outspend Trump by a lot and the quality and quantity of Harris ads are already very high. It's better to donate to more neglected key races where the marginal value of a dollar is high — where the good candidates are getting outspent and thus really need the cash. Americans should donate up to $63,700 ...
- to their "chosen candidate" shell shill page. I recall when the limit was $5k and the standard cut for employees "donating" for their boss was 10%.
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This is an insane example of media propaganda on full display
"Harris gets stunning endorsement from group that normally backs Trump." The Police Leaders for Community Safety was ESTABLISHED IN JUNE 2024.
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Behind Kamala Harris’s Rise: Silicon Valley’s Wealthiest Woman - The New York Times
Few figures have cultivated a more consequential friendship with Ms. Harris, now the Democratic nominee for president, than Ms. Powell Jobs, who for decades was married to one of America’s most famous entrepreneurs, Steve Jobs. Over the past 20 years, she has become one of Ms. Harris’s most essential confidantes, providing counsel and money, and helping to expand Ms. Harris’s public profile. Now, in this year’s presidential race, the wealthiest woman in Silicon Valley has emerged as a powerful player behind the scenes. She has quietly contributed millions of dollars to an organization backing Ms. Harris, according to three people briefed on the gifts. She played a hidden but key role in helping usher Mr. Biden out of the race, which cleared the way for a Harris run.
Biden Inc
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Joe Biden spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in what is likely his last big world speech to close out his 50 years in political life. Unfortunately, he's going out after having left the country in shambles. He's leaving because he was shoved off his reelection bid by his own party, who knew he was going to lose. His condition was much in evidence as he spoke, despite the fact that he had a teleprompter. A handler even had to indicate to him where the podium was that he was supposed to speak from.
it was this line — about his decision not to seek reelection — that garnered the most applause from the packed audience, which included leaders from the body's 193 member states. Several delegations did not react during Biden's 25-minute address — notably, the delegations from China and from Russia, who did not clap for any of his remarks. "My fellow leaders, let us never forget some things are more important than staying in power," he said. "It's your people."
Trump / Right / Jan6
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Labelling Trump lies as disputed makes supporters believe them more, study finds
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Son of Ryan Routh, accused in Trump assassination attempt, arrested for child pornography - ABC News
The son of Ryan Routh, the man arrested in connection with the second apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, has been taken into custody on federal charges of possessing child pornography. Investigators say they discovered "hundreds" of files with child pornography during a search of Oran Routh's residence in Guilford County, North Carolina, on Saturday conducted "in connection with an investigation unrelated to child exploitation." The two charges he faces include receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography. The "unrelated investigation" referred to Routh's father -- who remains in custody after a judge ordered him detained pending trial Monday -- a spokesperson with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Carolina confirmed to ABC News. Investigators said the pornography was found on a Samsung Galaxy Note device located inside Oran Routh's primary bedroom in the residence, as well as another Galaxy Note device in Routh's possession.
- (Sep 16) ‘Not the man I know’: Ryan Routh ‘isn’t violent’ but does hate Trump, reveals son | The Independent
The son of the man arrested on suspicion of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump has insisted that his father isn’t violent – but admitted he does hate the former president. Oran Routh, son of 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, told CNN that the accusations against his father “doesn’t sound like the man I know” and that he hopes “things have just been blown out of proportion.” “I don’t have any comment beyond a character profile of him as a loving and caring father, and honest, hardworking man,” he said. Speaking to the Daily Mail, he described his father as someone who is not violent, claiming he has had only “a couple traffic tickets,” but noted that he does hate Trump, as “every reasonable person does.”
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Failed Trump Assassin Had A List Of Everywhere Trump Would Be August To October - modernity
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Criminal charges filed against Trump and Vance in Springfield
The leader of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance filed charges against former president Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, for the chaos that ensued from their uncorroborated statements about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets, according to the Cleveland law firm representing the agency. The Chandra Law Firm says the nonprofit used a state statute allowing private citizens to "file an affidavit charging the offense committed."
Through the filing, the nonprofit asks the court to affirm probable cause and to issue arrest warrants. The court must have a hearing before rejecting the affidavit as part of the legal process.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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US Navy Oiler Runs Aground, Forcing Carrier Strike Group to Scramble for Fuel
gCaptain has received multiple reports that the US Navy oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground yesterday and partially flooded off the coast of Oman, leaving the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group without its primary fuel source.
World
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
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Heavy metal exposure could increase cardiovascular disease risk, study finds
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Anti-Aging Enthusiasts Taking Rapamycin to Extend Their Lives
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The blood microbiome is probably not real
- We'd like to think we're the only entities in our bodies.
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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the US Is Backsliding into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters
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Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds
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World Leaders to Kick Off Money Fight with Renewable Goal Update
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Why millions of Americans give up control of their thermostats
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Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green but Still Sells as Much Fossil Fuel