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It’s amusing that it is mind-blowing to Gen Z and younger Millennials that in the past once a year a big book was delivered to your house with everyone’s name, address and phone number in it.

They literally cannot comprehend it.

Go Lun

VB Knives (@Empty_America) / X

The doubters themselves were acting out of fear as they knew AI was real, which made and makes them seem utterly unhinged, which further serves to confirm AI is the real deal.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, on the other hand, did not elicit such strangely lunatic philippics and paraeneses, which is one way you could tell they were not that consequential. Only something true and scary makes people go completely mad.

Clowns All Around

Any idiot clown who thinks AI is “fake growth” because companies buy shit from one another does not understand even a little bit how economies work, how large corporations function, how they scale, what is involved in gigantic high-CapEx businesses, why circular buying and entangled supply chains are incredibly common1, nor why certain models not only make sense but are inevitable in certain fairly-predictable situations.

Jesus Christ, you fucking mooks. Read a book. Read anything. But mostly, just shut up.

  1. Take a peek at China.

MXMS – OMG | Sofar Los Angeles

That’s a damn good mic. Too good; you can hear background noise (sirens). But even though in actuality it’s kind of poor sound design I like it. You can hear Ariel breathing, and swallowing, and her lips opening and closing. Just makes it more human in an age of AI songs and ubiquitous autotune.

A condenser mic was probably not the right choice here, especially without a mic shield, but it was nevertheless the perfect choice in this instance.

The Missile Genius America Lostโ€”and China Gained.

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back.

On Google declaring war on the Web.

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale.

I think we are in the process of discovering that humans are bad at mathematics. Correct. Humans have no business doing math themselves.

U.S. Militaryโ€™s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Is Getting Hivemind Swarming Capability.

Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to โ€˜China Shock 2.0โ€™.

Nissan to close UK production line, cut 900 jobs across Europe.

JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away.

The Kalecki Profit Equation: Why Government Deficit Spending (Typically) MUST Boost Corporate Earnings.

Actual Observed

The culture is more overall sex-negative and sex-phobic in general than any time since perhaps the 1740s. I mean in practical terms and observed behavior, rather than “I saw someone in revealing clothing on TV, therefore people are sex-positive.” That’s a wholly different thing (and is dumbass logic to boot).

Seaside

That is deeply ok. Not a fan of that style in general. And I do not say this because it’s revealing (women should be able to wear revealing clothes IMO) but it kind of looks like she’s wearing her underwear on the outside.

But mainly, it’s just not goth-y enough for me. Too sunny.

Client Side

Exhausted Everything – Mail Disappearing.

Some of the commenters are correct. This is clearly a client-side rule running on some other device (personal computer/laptop, tablet, something). I’ve seen it too many times. It always looks just like this.

Find that and problem will be solved.

Worst one of these I got was in 2013 or so where a user had some rule set up on a tablet that he had not used in two years. I tracked it down by making him assemble all his devices, even ones he “didn’t use,” and go through mail rules+settings over the phone with me device by device.

Found the rule deleting email on a first-gen (IIRC) iPad and all was well. I was the ninth or tenth person to work on that problem over the course of a few months and I solved it in a day.