Anon OpinPeople like to think Asimov predicted the current technology known as "artificial intelligence". They are wrong. It was Douglas Adams when a computer spent untold resources just to return an answer which is both irrelevant and poses further questions.
mlp
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Tired old sysadmin in the monastery since the early 90s, now insecurity.
Rep. Shontel BrownAgency watchdogs track down waste, fraud and abuse.
Trump fired them all.
The Government Accountability Office monitors federal spending.
What Elon Musk is doing isn’t oversight.
An unaccountable billionaire doesn’t have the power to cancel spending he disagrees with.
Elon is not an elected official.
He is not a senate confirmed appointee.
He is leading a fabricated dept. without Congressional oversight
And he clearly lacks any understanding of government.
He is dangerous and must be stopped.
He is not a senate confirmed appointee.
He is leading a fabricated dept. without Congressional oversight
And he clearly lacks any understanding of government.
He is dangerous and must be stopped.
Perrin42There's a lot of things Biden could do, but won't. Republicans are "effective" because they will use power maximally (and beyond) and shamelessly. Democrats are ineffective because they won't. They are more concerned with acting "in good faith" while refusing to recognize that their counterparts haven't done so since at least 1980. The party of America's enemies has won because Democrats prefer to preserve collegiality while our social contract is burned in front of them.
Jenny ListOk, a bit of good news from this year.
Dora Richter was one of the first trans women to receive gender reassignment surgery, in Berlin.
She was for years believed to have died in the Nazi raid on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the world's first gender clinic, because she disappeared afterwards
Last year it was found that she got away from Berlin to her home village in what is now Czechia, survived the war and forced relocation to Germany, and died an old lady some time in the sixties.
TJ1001
adafruit🖥️ 🧸 a new (old) approach for 21st-century kids using computers... chronological order
as our kiddo gets older we are going on a journey with her, focusing on the evolution of computing from where it started, and using each one, in order.
our adventure begins with retrofitting a 1998 littletikes/ibm playset to house the early computers, providing her with a tangible way to interact with these machines.
Jim SalterAlgorithmic automoderation without a significant human backstop is the fucking worst. Downright Orwellian.
Ciarán FerrieThere's going to be a lot of fingerpointing today about why Kamala Harris didn't win but the bottom line is that 70 million Americans knowingly voted for a racist, misogynistic, narcissistic, rapist and liar who is a convicted felon.
There's no excusing that.
MostlyTato@ccferrie
They not only did that, they did it for a second time. There is manipulation in the background of course, but they were still gullible enough to fall for it. Again. Utter, utter idiots. They will pay the price first, but we all will in the long run.
They not only did that, they did it for a second time. There is manipulation in the background of course, but they were still gullible enough to fall for it. Again. Utter, utter idiots. They will pay the price first, but we all will in the long run.