There 👏 is 👏 no 👏 such 👏 thing 👏 as 👏 a 👏 secure 👏 backdoor.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/07/the-30-year-old-internet-backdoor-law-that-came-back-to-bite/

Edward Frenkel is a bigshot mathematician who has worked with Ed Witten. But starting at 2:41:30 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_oPMcvHbAc&t=9690s

he points out the failure of string theory - and worse, how the leaders of string theory have not yet acknowledged this failure.

He mocks the string theorist Andy Strominger, who now says string theory's original goal of unifying all the forces and particles was "really a small thing."

Frenkel says:

"Remember Moses? He took the Israelites out of Egypt and he told them that he would lead them to the promised land. Imagine that Moses, after 40 years of wandering in the desert, says 'You know guys? This idea of a promised land - it's not such a big thing. Look how much we've learned! We've learned about the desert. We've learned so much about the sand. Who cares about the promised land?'"

"People call it "moving the goal-posts". This is not moving the goal-posts! This is going to a different stadium and starting to play a different game - like you used to play soccer at one stadium, and you move to a different stadium and start playing baseball, but you say you're still playing soccer."

The best part is that he admits his own small role in this game - playing along, acting like string theory is doing better than it is.

"I have been paying lip service to this community, and I have to admit - you see, in the interest of following my own admonition... I was never a string theorist, but I paid lip service because it was convenient to me, it was nice for me to feel I was collaborating with such great physicists."

“AI is going to take our jobs!”

AI:

"If they don’t like it they can fuck off back to France."

Not Britain First. Not the National Front. Not the BNP. Not the British Union of Fascists.

The Deputy Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

Hard to tell the difference these days, ain't it?

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules