If anyone tells you our Country is at risk because people in charge of mass government censorship campaigns got fired then they're your enemy domestic.
Unless you're one of them and they're your partner in crime.
We must move past not trusting spooks to ignoring spooks, except as to understand the situation vis-a-vis enemy intelligence.
PS Free Snowden!
Just yesterday there was a news story about
Predditors organizing to mass copy a YouTuber's content to try to wreck his revenue.
A court forced Reddit to hand over their identification and he is suing them. Ethan somebody.
There's quite an ethos over there about organizing crime and apparently if it's leftwing they just leave it alone. e.g. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Flgbt%2F... nobody pushing back against crime.
Most neutrally the company may not want to deal with subpoenas and they don't think the crimes are justly constructed.
But it's weird which kinds of illegal-in-some-jurisdictions subs get adult gated and which ones are freeworld. e.g. drugs are legal in some countries and being gay is illegal in others. Region settings seems to have no effect. Rightwingers get ejected post-haste. Tech subs are often great, sometimes conquered by schizo mods. So unpredictable over there. I go there sometimes like I go to failed neighborhoods sometimes - only when the need arises.
The fatigue seems to be mostly about other humans who believe LLM's are omniscient and inflatable.
Or even good conversationalists.
As an information retrieval tool or a radiology diagnosis assistant, sure, hardly anybody is complaining.
OK, maybe some lesser radiologists.
no points, but you refuted 90% of the "article".
Perhaps they assigned an LLM to write this story.
> what the fuck is wrong with you
They can make profits with paid upgrades and paid support and face no liability for the havoc that will ensue.
Perhaps you've heard of Bill Gates and his personality structure that was infused into Microsoft's essence?
They could even face a shareholder lawsuit for not screwing a few hundred million people. Corporations are legally required to be psychopathic in the modern USA.
I like how we have cool engineering and cool computer science posts today instead of just legal battles, doomer gloom, and political intrigue.
> They now embark on a new task...what's wrong with Google these days?
That's pretty much status quo. They do some stuff, get users, get bored with it, kill the project.
(open source Android reader)
The more important anomaly is the JWST observation of galaxies that formed when the Universe was "too young for those galaxies to form".
If you push back the age of the Universe to allow those galaxies to form then you push on the coefficients of expansion and those need to agree with theory which they do not under current theory.
Some theories are compatible but lack a Big Bang which is taken as an article of faith by most and need more observations to consider.
Scientists not agreeing *is* science. If the schools fail to teach that in 13 years that's a massive indictment of the schools.
It's more like the System 7 icon, but still unnecessarily skeumorphic.
Who is going to buy a Macbook and think that's what their internal storage looks like?
Make Icons Icons Again
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik...
Alphabet can absorb way more fines than prison sentences.
Hopefully they won't be Evil.
The Earth's magnetic field is weakening which is measurable by the accelerating traversal of the magnetic poles. That's why a relatively small CME last year caused the same Northern Lights all the way down to Hawaii as the Carrington Event which was 10x stronger. The beauty is unquestionable but the impacts will cause us difficulty.
There was a recent solar storm which ionized the atmosphere more than we are used to as "normal" in our recent history, which sets up the conditions for lightning to travel further. The physics on it are pretty simple with all variables considered.
We're going to see more of these than we're used to as the pole shift continues to accelerate.
This happens every 6000 years or so and we're right on schedule but we're really unprepared to handle it. Preparing for this ought to be a planet-wide project for our species, and to help out the other species that rely on geomagnetic migration for their reproductive success.
As a kid in the 80's we only needed to update our compass calculations for variance to True North every 20 years or so; now it's yearly.
I wish Humanity could not plant their heads in the sand on this one but I'm planning like we will.
Little known fact about Middle Earth: The Hobbits had a very sophisticated computer network! It was a Tolkien Ring...
