This is what Ian Welsh supports too. Evil motherfucker.
The General
The debate about Artificial General Intelligence is in most ways an irrelevant distraction because by any defensible definition, most humans are not GI. Not even close.
T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant.
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W. HAVE YOU SEEN “Q?”
Give your ideas some legs: the positive effect of walking on creative thinking.
Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis.
AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’.
Gas prices are about to take a big jump, analysts say, with the worst still to come.
‘Crisis even bigger than Covid’: American business owners are barely getting by.
A Shortage of Oil Tankers Is Threatening to Keep Gas Prices High.
Client States
That is exactly right. And the plan is working rather well.
Bisc
Can’t even buy something from Monoprice as it thinks I am a bot and/or scraping. Bro, I just want a coupler. I just want a biscuit box. I just want to do my little project.
Bro, let me buy my stuff for my little project. Bro….
No Del Ever
What’s one type of data you regret not backing up earlier?
WHY WOULD YOU DELETE THAT?
What kind of cracksmoker does that? Some of those items (as this person discovered) cannot be found again. Copyright is evil because it means much gets purged, when it should be required to be archived somewhere.
Dirty Bombs Etc.
Ukraine is clearly winning now against Russia. This is the most dangerous time, then. If Ukraine continues to embarrass Russia, that increases the risks for Putin personally. And that might lead to some quite crazy things.
Law Firms Have a Big Problem: Senior Partners Aren’t Retiring.
Germany’s Military Rebuild Is Making Its Neighbors Nervous.
Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep.
Will Russia Ever Be ‘Normal’? Empires inevitably decline, and Putin’s project will be no exception. Ian Welsh and ilk are bereft I am sure.
The Business-to-Industry Index and the Geography of Global Capitalism.
Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at 81.
The Race to Save Florida Orange Industry From Total Collapse.
No Comp
I hate most “smart” people because they are no competition but should be.
Dasher
I was using em dashes before most of y’all were even born. Get out of here with this “it must be AI” shit.
Rogued
Goddamn, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is such a great film.
If you think you do not like Star Wars, get the fuck over yourself and just watch the movie. It’s a great work in any genre (and I am not a Star Wars fan). It’s one of the few films I think about a few times a week. And Felicity Jones is so very great in that movie.
Why can there not be more movies like that one?
Actually Terrible
What commonly regarded good advice from women is actually terrible advice?
If advice from women to other women is counted, it’s this:
“Have sex immediately with guys you don’t really like but do want sex from, but make the ‘good’ guys wait for sex.”
This has the exact opposite effect as the one intended. It’s terrible advice and a horrible practice if you want a quality long-term relationship.
That doesn’t mean you as a woman (or as a man) must jump into bed on the first date, but it does mean you are vastly more likely to alienate and drive away the good guys you want to stick around while the guys you don’t want stalk and harass you. It’s utterly moronic to do this.
And if I (as would many guys) found out that a woman had treated me or thought about me like this I’d dump her immediately, no questions asked.
Gabrielle Cavassa – Diavola
Wow, this is excellent.
Face It Down
Never mind passkeys (which are garbage), what kind of doofus authenticates to their phone or anywhere with facial recognition or a fingerprint? A very doofy kind of doofus for sure.