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Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026)

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Steve Randy WaldmanApr 16, 2024

someone should write a mystery novel in which the murder weapon is a paintbrush and then a hose to quickly spray away a very temporary white line.

from #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/elon-musk-threat-or-menace-part-4.html

"So that's all there is to Autopilot. No radar, no lidar, no GPS, no map, no geofencing, no proper driver monitoring. It just uses the camera to follow the lines. It doesn't disengage if it can't see the lines, it just keeps going."

Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 4

The previous post in this series, Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 3 , was based on the impressively detailed reporting from a team at the W...

Steve Randy WaldmanApr 14, 2024
"The fundamental problem is that most layers in the software stack are highly concentrated, starting with the three operating systems. Network effects and economies of scale apply at every layer. Remember "no-one ever gets fired for buying IBM"? At the Ethereum layer, it is "no-one ever gets fired using Geth" because, if there was ever a big problem with Geth, the blame would be so widely shared." #DavidRosenthal #DSHR on how "Decentralized Systems Aren't" https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/decentralized-systems-arent.html
Decentralized Systems Aren't

Below the fold is the text of a talk I gave to Berkeley's Information Systems Seminar exploring the history of attempts to build decentrali...

Qanno - Oct 28, 2023

I just love Deus Ex Human Revolution. The Micheal McGann score is amazing. Even if this one is an hommage to the OG game.

With the whole sound design it really pushes you into this techno-noir world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYwK2H2Q-Sw&t=235

#deusex #humanrevolution #dshr #ost #soundtrack #videogames #MichaelMacCann

Sarif vs. UNATCO Extended | Deus Ex: Human Revolution

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interfluidityAug 31, 2023
“The attraction of cryptocurrency investment for VCs is the way List And Dump Schemes provide much faster liquidity than developing a startup to the point of IPO or acquisition” #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/prof-hilary-allen-on-venture-capital.html
Prof. Hilary Allen On Venture Capital

After writing Predatory Pricing , via David Gerard , I found Prof. Hilary Allen's Interest Rates, Venture Capital, and Financial Stability ....

Steve Randy WaldmanJun 13, 2023
#DSHR on getting a locally run LLM up and running. https://blog.dshr.org/2023/06/a-local-large-language-model.html
A Local Large Language Model

I wanted to see what all the hype around Large Language Models (LLMs) amounted to, but the privacy terms in the EULA for Bard were completel...