Tech Tangents: “@thomasfuchs My biggest frust…”.
So much clownery from all sides regarding AI. None of these people understand it, have any kind of valid thoughts about it, or really have any basis for even pondering it. And they are worthless losers.
Also, I don’t care about copyright at all, in any context. Destroy it forever. I’m glad the AI companies trained on all that copyrighted material. I hope they do much more. Ingest it all; create the world mind.
To me, audiobooks are worthless time-wasters. I have a thousand thoughts between each word. So painfully slow. I tried listening to an audiobook once and wanted to kill myself.
I read somewhere between 8-20x as fast as the average person speaks, depending on the complexity of the work, so I have no time for the glacial pace of audiobooks. Just no.
This is the best cover of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight.”
There used to be a great live video of the band playing the song. Now lost, like most things on the internet. Sarah has great enunciation and her voice is single-tracked and unprocessed (very rare now and then). Just such a great cover with more heart than the original, and a far better voice.
This song has a nice lead-in, build-up, lead-up and lead-out.
Anyway, y’all, I like it.
Europe Girds for Another Hike in Energy Bills This Winter.
Anti-Tax Sentiment Is Trending, Even In the Bluest States.
US Housing Is a Buyer’s Market. Trouble Is, There Aren’t Many Buyers.
AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li Warns of Risks From Growing Tech Backlash.
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code. Pure evil.
Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks.
The Rise of Anger: Emotions and Policy Views.
AI Is Helping Patients Solve Medical Mysteries.
Even As Disease Outbreaks Abound, American Vaccination Rates In Children Fall. We are morons.
It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well.
U.S. Workers Are Paying More for Healthcare, and Next Year Will Be Worse.
The US munitions crisis goes back further than Iran.
Why Is It Absolute Hell to Buy a Movie Ticket Now?
Gaming Consoles Are Getting Wrecked by High Prices.
They're the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday.
“Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)” by Lou Bega.
If that’s not the most annoying song in the world, I can’t think of what is. Aliens will probably destroy the planet once this song makes it to their solar system. And they’d be right to do so.
New Slowwves, awww yeah.
Democrats Really, Really, Really Don’t Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising.
NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory.
Whistleblower Arturo Béjar leads testimony in landmark trial against Meta.
Former Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens pleads guilty to concealing COVID-related records.
South Korea’s Highly Mobile 155mm Artillery System Wins U.S. Army Howitzer Contract.
U.S. Not Prepared To Handle Drone Attack From Inside Homeland: NORTHCOM Deputy Commander.
AI Is Changing Military Morality.
Why Warehouses Are Rolling In More Robots.
Why many birds add fresh plants to their nests remains unclear despite signs of healthier offspring.
The 100 Best Grateful Dead Songs.
I clicked this thinking it’d be just an empty list. Which is what it should be.
PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans.
I suspect most of the DRAM and eMMC shortage is fake, manufactured, to drive people to cloud services. AI is the convenient excuse. This has been attempted in other guises for years, but now the cloud providers et al. have found a good cheat code.
You will own nothing and be happy.
According to many fucktard busted-ass shit-for-brains extroverts (ask me what I really think), introverts do not exist and it’s just some correctable personality flaw.
But being around a bunch of people like at this conference makes me so tired that I sleep significantly more.
Extroverts really have no theory of mind (with a few exceptions). They are just noisy and nosy.
The cultural footprint of comedians has shrunk dramatically over the past few years because there are fewer and fewer norms and orthodoxies to transgress. And now transgressing the New Morality brands you as immediately evil as Gen Z does not understand humor or satire.
Employers are ghosting college grads and rescinding offers, destroying morale.
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone.
On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis.
“Sabotage”: Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research.
We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked.
On the first official day of this conference1, the talks were quite bad. I was like, “Why did my company pay all this money for me to attend something with people droning on about PowerPoint slides?”
But the second day the talks were really good. It pretty much made up for the first day of toneless zombies. It’s very much luck of the draw with these things.
I’m glad I attended in person, though. How people withstand virtual conferences I will never know. That’s just not for me.
Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock.
Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt.
Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems.
Electron apps use so much memory.
Italy’s mythic ‘month off’ in August was hard won. It would be good for us all.
Protein language models are overly constrained by covariation.
DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It. When the absolutely predictable occurs right on schedule.
Ghosts Of The Past & Devils Of The Present.
How to put 170 atoms in an atom.
Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents.
There’s like a thousand people at this conference and I still have the best arms.
But I’ll not rest on my laurels. Mainly because I don’t have any.