I get so tired of hearing, “But…but…but…people can’t do the things you do!”
I don’t care. I just do not care. I’m not magic. I’m not even a genius. Do or do not, etc. But leave me the fuck out of it.
Mother Soki – Thicken
Now that is some nice dreampop.
Bloat
Micron demonstrates 512GB DDR5 RDIMM reaching 9200 MT/s.
I’ll need two of those for Firefox alone soon enough. These days, though, that’d cost about a trillion dollars.
Stark Diff
Something that for years was not allowed to be discussed and that is also really foreign from men’s experiences and understanding is the hatred attractive women often have for other attractive women.
As a dude with mostly female friends, I have to admit I still do not comprehend it. There is not a guy in the world who has ever thought (consciously or unconsciously1), Damn, I wish George Clooney weren’t so attractive! That should be stopped! That is just not how male intrasexual competition works, to the extent it even exists post high school.
Like, it’d never occur to a man that because there are more attractive male athletes than they are on TV, that those athletes should not be shown or should be forced to cover up. This is not a thought a man would have in a billion years. But it’s how many women seem to operate by default for some reason. And I think that it’s gotten far worse over the past couple of decades. Like most things, since the 1990s it has metastasized into something dark and dangerous.
It’s disconcerting to think that women would be more ardent supporters of sharia law than most men because they’d see it as disadvantaging their competitors. We should probably do something about that. Not sure what, though.
Lage
It’s easier for the feral third world rape gangs to rove around assaulting and pillaging if there is not enough power to run the lights.
What is Europe doing, indeed? Do they not know how much trouble they are in?
Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption.
25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough. Fuck yes.
America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster.
American Businesses Have No Idea How to Set Prices Right Now.
Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here.
Dystopian Surveillance is Becoming a Reality.
The genius harmonic sequence that gives Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ its emotional power.
More Americans worry tech will take their job, poll finds.
Are Drone Incursions Europe’s New Normal?
10-Year Treasury yield hits highest level since 2007 ahead of Fed rate decision.
Russia plotting to kill Ukraine allies in US and Europe, FBI says.
The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA’s expectations.
Army Now Testing Anthem Long-Range Strike Weapon Built for Mass Production.
Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush.
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data.
Hating Syd
A lot of pseudo-feminists really, really loathe Sydney Sweeney. It makes me laugh because it’s all so transparently based on envy. I am certain — as she is clearly intelligent and self-aware — that it amuses her too.
May she keep pissing them off and making them hyperventilate as long as possible. I love it.
Laugh Lie
This is absolute nonsense.
Personal example: I work for a small SaaS company. I do not typically write much about my day job. However, I’ll make an exception for the moment, with specific and identifying details omitted. Anyway, for various reasons two developers recently departed. We will not replace them because Claude can do their jobs as well as they did them or better.
If another dev leaves, we will also not be replacing that person.
In addition, recently, a person from the support team left for greener pastures. Because we now have AI on the front end of our support process and it answers questions pretty well (has been trained on many, many past tickets), it has reduced actually-entered tickets a human has to handle by 30%. Which means that support role went unfilled as it was not needed.
That’s three actual jobs, deleted. Like I said, the company is not that big, so that’s a significant percentage of our workforce. This is happening all over the world now.
So, yeah, what Ben is peddling is a laughable lie.
Unash
Agreed. She’s a good actress; she has skills. But it really, really pisses many pseudo-feminists off that she doesn’t pretend she’s gutter swine. She’s attractive and knows it. The same women who want to ban showing women athletes on TV unless they are in burqas (and maybe not even then) utterly despise Sydney too, and for the same reasons: she’s visible, attractive, and unashamed.
Elmer Dawn – Overtime
What a great sound. Messy, jangly, discordant yet still cohesive. And I really like her voice; she’s a good bad woman vocalist.
Xanadu – Wet Lips
A small artist with a song I like a whole lot. Nice vibe.
Nome
Unfortunately, this is utter self-serving nonsense. It does not take a fucking $100 million lab to bionegineer a dangerous virus, you asinine idiot mook. The smallpox genome is on the goddamn internet, you utter lying moron1.
What this really is: an attempt to prevent regulation of AI models that might be able to do dangerous things. That’s it. That’s all. Don’t look beyond that because there is not anything beyond that.
World View
That’s the Windows on the World restaurant that was on the 107th floor of the North Tower of the WTC in NYC. Judging by the hair and lapels, that photo was taken between 1976-1978 (the restaurant itself opened in April 1976).
At that time, this would’ve been an extremely high end restaurant. In today’s money it would’ve cost at least $165 and more realistically around $200 per person to dine there. So of course these people were dressed up; this was something special to them. This would not have been their typical attire.
That said, I do tend to agree. I think we do owe it to others to not look like dumpster slime in public. This is one of the main reasons I always despised the Fat Acceptance movement. I firmly and fully believe that there is a duty to others to not go around looking like Jabba the damn Hut. And a duty to one’s self.
Nato jets shoot down drone violating Lithuania’s airspace.
For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit.
Driscoll’s Gave China Its Blueberries—Then China Swiped the Secret to Growing Them.
The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it.
4,400-Year-Old Tomb of an Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors Still on the Walls.
The biggest dinosaurs couldn't sit on their eggs. Scientists say they did this instead.
Most people prefer traditional architecture.
EPA to Power Plants: Flood the Air With As Much Coal and Oil Smog As You Like.
Give Me Some Science
Is anyone doing any real got-damn science around here anymore?