Link. “you can quickly deploy your Mastodon-compatible server on top of Cloudflare and connect it to the Fediverse in minutes, and you don’t need to worry about maintaining or protecting it from abuse or attacks”
I’m late to the party, didn’t realize this launched so long ago.
Link. “One of the men said he watched a friend taken off to be shot — or “zeroed”— by a Wagner enforcement team for protesting deployments that sometimes led to hundreds of fighters a day being killed in and around Bakhmut…
… Ilya said he would advise other convicts not sign up. For one thing, he said he has never been paid.”
Link. Lots of large PTCs and Gov orgs are like this. Process paralysis.
Link. Ten years ago 50s was old at CrossFit. Now it’s routine.
Link. He was fired. His cognitive science background likely informed his definition of sentient. Many laughed at him. I did not laugh then, I do not laugh now. #beafraid #AI #ChatGPT
Link. Happy accident.
Link. We need competition.
Link. I did not know: “A Kubernetes cluster is an abstraction. It’s a big abstract virtual computer, with its own virtual IP stack, networks, disk, RAM and CPU. It lets you deploy containers as if you were deploying them on one machine that didn’t run anything else.”
Link. We need an iPhone setting to disable it.
Link. Even with an optimal regulatory framework this would be a heavy lift.
Also, US workers have lives: “In Taiwan, engineers work long hours and weekend shifts, joking that they “sell liver” to work for the chip manufacturer”
Link. They thought they were safe. They lack imagination.
Link. Media coverage was arguably worse in the 70s and 80s than it is now. Washington reporters disliked Carter.
Link. Maybe, but he’s more liberal than Obama. The populism and non-college focus is his superpower.
Link. Nicely done.
Link. Anyone with mpox needs HIV test.
Link. WaPo project. Insightful.
Link. Prigozhin is worried. That’s good.
Link. Yeah, we do nanotech now.
Link. Unsurprisingly he was really really good at woodworking. This is only part of the article. Ask them to provide the rest — FineWoodworking@omeda.com
Link. And many of the women profiles were clearly fake. This is quite sad, like country music wish fulfillment songs. Women don’t marry down.
Link. “Inside Fox, the prime-time stars and senior executives raged against the network’s reporters not because they doubted that Biden had won, but because the truth was too disturbing to the audience that had made them rich.”
Link. Dark Brandon strikes.
Link. It’s moving very fast.
Link. Bivalent still quite good. Yay science.
Link. Unexpected response. There will be much more like this but it’s years from patient care.
Link. “rapid secularization (the decline of Christian identification accelerated from the 1990s onward) and increasing social and sexual permissiveness — extending beyond support for same-sex marriage to beliefs about premarital sex, divorce, out-of-wedlock childbearing, marijuana use…”
Basically pre-Vatican II Catholicism with some carve-outs for gay marriage and ambiguity around birth control. A good reference.
Link. I’m afraid. It’s been a while since I’ve done a retrospective post on this topic; it’s impressive how often warnings about our trajectory have been widely mocked — even as we just keep moving faster and faster.
Link. And then it all went to shit. A lesson on the risks of prediction.
Link. I’d love to see him revisit this article, but he was widely mocked afterwords. So he’s probably done with this.
Link. Another old post resurfaced in writing a new one. I’ve sometimes looked for this and been unable to find it.
Link. I’d forgotten that we started seeing large numbers of garbage web sites as far back as 2009. Google fought back for a while but then gave up.
Link. SS does not work the way you think it does.
Link. SCOTUS has been evil many times in US history. The Roberts court is not unprecedented.
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Link. “The threat of AI hacking our democracy is legitimate and concerning, but its solutions are consistent with our democratic values.”
Link. “models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax”
Not a quick read. Via Pluralistic. #AI
Link. Problem detected early so no passenger risk.
Link. Age 63 – what I’ve learned over 10y of my CrossFit addiction. #crossfit #aging
Link. I used to be able to search only the most recent 5000 posts. Now I can find a post from July 2003. Search now has new operators; sort:-published shows posts in reverse chronological order. I don’t know if this a fluke one-off or if Google is going to try to resurrect Blogger.
Link. I figured the US military wanted to ignore it. Dyer explains how it navigates and how it went off track.
“US intelligence services saw the balloon launched from Hainan island off the southern Chinese coast in late January – and it was headed straight east for the US-owned island of Guam.”
Link. “5.8 million residential buildings were regularised by the last amnesty, issued just before the presidential election of 2018. Another amnesty is planned for the near future, since there is another election coming up this May…
… To get the reconstruction aid he needs, he would have to lift his veto on Sweden and Finland joining NATO, stop selling drones to Russia, stop threatening NATO ally Greece with a Turkish attack “suddenly one night”, and a good deal more.”
Link. Only HCR makes the payoff clear. The GOP embraces corruption. Also, JD Vance lies about FEMA but that’s a dog bites man story.
Link. There used to be Mac power user web sites and blogs where we learned about things like this.
Link. Decades of corruption and dishonor. There is plenty of money now. The problem is trust and capability.
Link. “If a physics class explains how greenhouse gas emissions can change the climate — well, that’s more liberal propaganda.”
College corrodes religious fundamentalism. The culture war is Faith vs Reason. Same as it always was.
Link. College Board is in a no-win world, esp after SAT tests were deprecated to reduce admission advantage of academically inclined cultures.
Link. Xi does not believe in science. Carbon tariffs likely.
Link. I have wondered whether Laura and Tucker were more insane or more evil. Now I lean to evil. (Rupert we know.)
Link. I read several of his related 2016 blog posts and lost interest; he didn’t know the terrain well enough. Six years later he might.
Link. Hard to get approval for the US, China might try it.