"I'm still waiting for my 401K transfer to go through, don't crash the market until Wednesday, please"

Example #394 of why life is better with your own mail server. In my experience these shitweasels are spammy fucks with zero respect for anyone else.

I have never done business with them and don't use the address they spam for commerce anyway. And they will not stop spamming you once they start. I just checked my mail log and they're still at it as of this morning.

Tractor Supply: more pathetic bottom-feeder trash doing anything for nickel.

help assess problems with a welfare system for automatically penalising jobseekers.

So humans outsourcing their judgement to a robot to write a report about humans outsourcing their judgement to robots.

From Deloitte's perspective, the problem here is that human judgement is still involved in the payment processing chain.

Apparently it would fail miserably to record anything actionable and then forget it is talking to a cop.

The Tamagotchi was a far superior useless electronic friend. This is simply obvious.

More seriously, what is supposed to happen is pretty straightforward. These folks get a subpoena, they search their stored surveillance for hits, probably with an account identifier as a selector. They send responsive documents back along with some legal boilerplate and a signature.

In this case, I would guess these folks would struggle to correctly respond to a subpoena, because they don't appear to be a functional company yet.

It is an easy number that roughly correlates to scale. The people who care about the number are not interested in technical details, they are interested in big numbers and Line Go Up.

The thing is, everyone knows this party is going to end badly. The numbers involved are a huge multiple of the money that evaporated in the dot.com crash, and a healthy multiple of the 2008 crash.

So the game (particularly for those with big exposure to OAI or their investors, but really everyone, because this is going to tank the market) now is timing. And you never want to depend on timing the market. So...

What's your 401K invested in? If you left it in the Target 20x0 fund, do you know what that even holds? The big companies are asking their version of that, too.

weird that Microsoft decided to shift away from AMD for their Ai processors (and go for internally designed ones), only for OpenAI (a partner of Msft) to pick up the AMD chips.

I don't think it is any weirder than other big tech shenanigans (the Space Nazi Junky buying Twitter?). Microsoft knows OAI cannot sustain their valuation and doesn't want to be pulled into the crater. OAI isn't getting the moat they thought they would out of Microsoft. They both want independence from the other and are scrambling to disentangle.

The BCS is a feature of many small businesses. It usually starts out as an ad hoc attempt to understand where money went, and eventually metastasizes into a parallel accounting/inventory/time management/asset tracker/exercise reminder system.

Usually built by the owner, sometimes the bookkeeper, an important aspect is only the author understands it well enough to change it. Others might be allowed to enter stuff in specific places, but otherwise altering the BCS will result in months of recrimination.

One way to distinguish a BCS from a lesser monstrosity is a BCS will have known bugs, but fixing them makes it "stop working".

When you've encountered one of these, you know.

Anyway, now we'll get robot-mediated BCSes. This will allow an energetic small business owner with a bad case of NIH incremental increase in complexity before it collapses into incoherence again, and probably increase the total volume of dead code, unnecessary indirection and general weirdness, but won't change a whole lot.

Did USF do anything illegal? I don't see it.

If USF wants to hire a carnival barker and announce every single passerby, I still see no problem.

So what's the problem?

Aside from direct-to-TV movie-plot scenarios, there is no market for this.

If you disagree, please describe the workloads which require being in space and have an ROI justifying both deployment and ongoing maintenance costs for this stupidity.

OK, I normally defend the kids-these-days, observing that at they pretty clearly are on average more well-adjusted and less self-destructive than my cohort was, something reflected in crime stats. But I will bang them on this.

A lot of the 20-somethings we employ write like this in chat. They're perfectly capable of competently writing more formal documents like functional specs or performance reviews, ditto decent code. But in slack or other chat environments, they type utterly lazy, typo-ridden messes of messages.

I can see how growing up texting other kids from when you can operate a phone results in... let's call it a highly permissive spelling environment. And it is clearly contextual behavior. But it is jarring.

I predict there are crackheads thinking about EMPs right now, and wouldn't be surprised if drones start getting shot at.

But if they fly low enough, I bet you could take one out with a water hose. Of one of these.

And we all know where Google ended up.

Bias in search indexes was fun and all, but bias in robot friends is going to be *lit*.

I don't know a lot about those folks. From what I've read, there seem to be several related motivations around opposing capitalist exploitation, combined with some of the same incoherent anger you see in the Gropyer crowd.

Anyway, I think Starbucks is just a highly salient symbol of globalized capitalism, and angry people like to break things. Not sure it is much more complicated than that.

In my view, flashy and messy disorder, but cheaper than cop riots and you end up with a lot fewer people hurt.

From the perspective of causing change, pretty well, I'd say.

His death motivated his followers to a massive rampage of hurting certain others, which was one of his goals. Particularly getting professors fired - that was one of his favorite things.

Martyrdom is powerful.

I could make an ethical case that Luigi acted in a morally acceptable manner. I don't really believe it, but one arguably could.

As a practical manner, assassination usually does not lead to the outcomes the killer seeks. People in general don't like targeted violence, most individuals are not essential, etc.

As a secondary matter, Luigi is smart, sexy, and clearly dedicated to his beliefs; if his impulse control worked a little better, he probably could have learned to be extremely persuasive. That's how you change things - by making other people want to change them, too.

The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets sure seems to be intent on becoming a mean little shithole.

There's always been a nasty streak there, but creeping incompetence seems to be making it worse.

Glad I saw some of it when I did.