George Takei 
š³ļøāššš½Literacy is the GOP's worst nightmare. https://www.comicsands.com/missouri-gop-cut-parton-funding?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
ziplock
- 11 Followers
- 56 Following
- 541 Posts
-$10K in one week. I bought bitcoin when it was around $10 but sold out when it reached my profit goal. It helped me reach my comfortable retirement but I should have stuck with it. You gotta know when to hold them and when to fold them. I can't complain.
Kees van der LeunTrump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the worldās most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-takes-aim-at-crucial-ocean-monitoring-network/
AkaSci š°ļøEd Zitron:
"LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who donāt want to code, the researchers who donāt want to research, and the lawyers that donāt want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMsā outputs tend to be people with low standards."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
2/n
Revenge of The Business Idiot
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. Itās $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter thatās usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAIās
Christian WaltherHere is a 4-way QR code with no moving parts, using parallax!
I first tried to make it out of cardboard, painted with the plotter, but that turned out too imprecise, so 3D-printed it is.
Kyle ClarkNEW: Tina Peters speaks out in defense of Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), says the Democratic censure of Polis for granting her clemency is further evidence of an election rigging coverup.
NEW: Coloradoās League of Women Voters has withdrawn a planned āLeader of Democracyā Award for Gov Jared Polis after he gave clemency to Tina Peters.
Birds Are DinosaursSnow Crash delivers a fairly grim vision of America's future, but it was overly optimistic about our ability to maintain global supremacy in the field of high-speed pizza delivery.
tanteIn Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.
May we all find a friend as loyal as the Denver Post editorial board is to Governor Polis
Backed Polis' Prop HH (voters defeated it by 20 pts)
Backed Polis' Bridge to Nowhere (94% in Polis' own online poll opposed it)
Backed Polis' clemency for Tina Peters (results TBD)
Backed Polis' Prop HH (voters defeated it by 20 pts)
Backed Polis' Bridge to Nowhere (94% in Polis' own online poll opposed it)
Backed Polis' clemency for Tina Peters (results TBD)
