Oh god no. This means I would not even be able to use Windows for work, which I mainly do now only to experience what the users do.
But this abomination would end that right quick.
Author: Chill
The Tyranny of the Complainers.
Canadian NORAD Commander Explains Urgent Need For Better Sensing.
Ukrainian F-16 Pilot’s Account Of The Challenges Of The Air War.
The Return of the IPO Could Spell Trouble for Private Equity. Good.
Vaccine Changes Will Make American Children Suffer Again.
Hiring in the Age of AI Means Proving You Need a Human.
Dynamic Large Concept Models: Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space.
US House breaks with Trump to revive Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas could upend models.
A Shadow Fleet Smuggles Illicit Oil Across the High Seas. This Is How It Works.
Select V
It is amazing that even with videos like the below each side sees exactly what they want to see. Even without AI manipulation, video and photos are worthless. They are often worse than having nothing. The confirmation bias and selective vision is too strong for most to overcome.
ICEd
The woman’s wife who got killed is an idiot. The woman who got killed was also an idiot.
I still don’t think it’s a justified shooting. But it’s also not prosecutable. The ICE agent was pretty clearly not in fear for his life, but when you do stupid, unpredictable and completely-avoidable shit around not-that-bright men with guns, very bad things tend to happen.
I don’t think Renee Good intended to run over that agent1, but I don’t think she cared if she did or not. Bad decisions all around. And as with most things of this sort, no side will agree and nothing good will come of it.
RW Mor
That was right-wing moronicism at its most moronic, I agree.
Not the Cause
Gen Z is not able to deal with complex thoughts; they do not read and have no sense of nuance. And they are huge prudes, which also harms cognition. What a cursed generation.
But it’s not their fault! We did this to them.
Big Cash
What is the most money you have made in 24 hours?
~$100,000 in 1998.
Amazon and Yahoo stocks, as well as some others. Bought them, they went up 400%, sold them. That’d be nearly $200,000 in today’s money.
Those were some wild times. I’ve never had as much fun while also white-knuckling it. And that’s also why I don’t seriously day-trade anymore.
Not Even Wrong
This is something that I’ve debated with a couple of friends about. My position is that most social phenomena are too multicausal, too contingent on unknown factors and too multivariate to model. On the other hand, they generally argue that having any analysis is “better than nothing.”
I do not agree. Often, a “scientific” analysis produces false certitude and absurd conclusions that are then taken as truth while in no way resembling reality — and in fact, that in many cases that are farcically absurd on their face. One good example is the “scientific” contention that there are no differences between generations. There are many more.
Knowing is better than not knowing of course. But false knowing is even worse than either of those.
Let There Be Lux
If you call me anything other than “His Glorious Majesty, Conqueror of the Known Realms, Future Overlord of All Realms, Ruler of the Spaces Between and Beyond, Chosen of the Unknown and Unknowable Numens of the Infinite Black, Dreamer of All Dreams, Finder of All Lost Things, Scourge of the Gutless and the Insipid, the First and Only of His Name: The Eternal Galactic Overlord Lux Null,” you are deadnaming me.
And I will not stand for it.
18 to Now
Sopro TTS: A lightweight text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning.
This tool only requires 3-12 seconds of audio to do voice cloning. And it’s not even a very large model. The Reddit “wisdom” is that voice cloning takes hours of audio and/or is “impossible.”
And, sure, voice cloning did require that much audio — in 2018. Things are changing faster than people can keep up.
Most Most
Most people are wrong about most things most of the time, but never seem to learn anything from it at all.
That’s humanity, I guess.
We learned nothing from Jan. 6.
The Efficacy of Vaccines Is Settled Science.
Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago.
Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement.
Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty.
How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation — and Blinded Us All.
Does Congress Even Exist Anymore? The fast fade of a co-equal branch of government.
Big Tech promised jobs. Cities gave millions. Where are the workers?
The downside to using AI for all those boring tasks at work.
Michigan man learns the hard way that “catch a cheater” spyware apps aren’t legal.
Homes Remain Less Affordable Than Historical Average in 99% of U.S. Counties Analyzed.
Poppy-larity
Too much of the liberals/left believe that if everyone can’t do something, you shouldn’t be able to, either.
And to that have a simple yet effective riposte: fuck all y’all, I do what I want.
Extend
Think about the below as you’re exercising.
Longer life and longer health; every minute you work out extends your life (on average of course) 5-9 minutes and your healthy years perhaps even more than that. Also, people treat you vastly better when you’re fitter. Fair or not, ethical or not, it’s true. I’ve had a cute airline staff girl offer to walk me to my gate that I could see clearly from where I was standing, and a DMV woman who spent a long time on the phone on my behalf and waived all my fees because she thought I was hot.
None of that ever would’ve happened before I worked out and got super fit.
Also, and this matters more to me than any of that, it’s worth it to be the best version of myself I can be for me and just as importantly, for my partner. Why reach for mediocrity when you could instead reach for greatness? Why be a formless lump when you could be as a god?
Dream big, strive hard, do amazing things. It’s worth it and so much better than the alternative.