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The harm unlocked by tying criticism of the state of Israel with anti-semtism hurts my heart
The stack of insanity that the SpaceX IPO unlocks grows like a jenga tower: This dilution would benefit exactly one person: the one person in the world who currently has a higher wealth-number than anyone else, and would harm everyone else who happens to be invested in that stock (or in living on a planet…
Ignoring the fact that Hinton lost the plot many moons ago… LLM researchers are NOT creating beings. They are creating interactive fiction that is trained to predict the language of actual beings. Those two are NOT the same. And Hinton should know better. The brainfuck that is ELIZA is amazingly powerful. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-pope-appears-to-understand-ai
This video starts as a fairly typical “whale being unseated by minnow” kind of story – but it turns into something more fundamental. It shows how eschewing the software status quo can both return software to it’s social roots and also be fabulously profitable. It is a story about how vertical integration can enable companies…
About 10 or so years ago I was privy to the mechanics of a prominent left-wing party here in NZ. The single thing that stuck out: they were afraid of winning, because that meant they had to be The Man. It is very hard to be The Man when you’re identity is tied up in…
One erstwhile worker told the publication they wouldn’t ride in a Tesla robotaxi “if you f**king paid me.” https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-insiders-self-driving-disaster
“Like most bad ideas,” wrote Mitchell Duran for Yahoo Finance, “Enhanced Games was born from a mix of grievance and the belief that, with the right amount of tech, financing, and new-age, untested science, any human being can transcend any and all natural limitations.” Tech and money sure do make a lot of damn winners in this…
Here Stephen Miller tries to convince us the paying welfare is somehow making governments broke (obviously ignoring military spending): It turns out that Tony Blair leans on the same shitty neo-lib maths in his latest missive: It is no coincidence that Miller and Blair are trying to convince us to “other” the sick and weak…
Blairs treatment as some sort of left-wing voice has mystified me. Even the Wicked Witch of the West saw through him: In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”…
Good riddance… Why would Citizen Thiel abandon the downunder bosom, swap the land of the hobbits for the land of the Pumas? Is he mad about Rod Drury, one of his referees on his application for citizenship, being awarded New Zealander of the Year before he was? Is he mad about the authorities rejecting his bid to…
The tool, which was deployed across its North American stores, was designed to automate inventory management with the goal of providing accurate real-time information that could help Starbucks address ingredient shortages at its locations. But according to previous Reuters reporting, the error-prone AI frequently miscounted and mislabeled items, confusing different types of milk and sometimes forgetting to count…
The tech leaders of the 80s were/are problematic (Woz, much less so)… but there was a distinct feeling that improving the human condition was the goal. “You should always try to think different,” he said. “Don’t follow the same steps as a million other people. Think, is there something I can do a little different?”…
Exactly 24 hours after Stephen Colbert signed off from “The Late Show” on CBS for the very last time on May 21, 2026, a small community show episode mysteriously appeared on a Michigan Public-Access station without warning—hosted by none other than Stephen Colbert.
There are many disappointing things about working for an a16z funded start up (which I have done). Near the top of list is the depressing experience of having a breathless all hands just so you get to hear Marc Andreesssen bloviate. Here is a perfect example of his vomitious commitment to his own profundity: Andreessen…
The slow inexorable decline of fossil fuels continues… and remains a sole bright spark. Given that renewable growth greatly exceeded demand, there was nowhere to go for fossil fuels but down. Overall, they saw a drop of about 3 percent year-over-year, with an absolute change similar in magnitude (if not sign) to the growth in…
Muna has been consistently awesome, release after release. Their latest is no exception. https://youtu.be/vT-Nd5I10iE?si=0znBh1KhDhLRgGPV
… Bezos doesn’t understand the most basic facts about taxes, nor did he make any effort to inform himself. He went instead with some numbers he thinks he heard somewhere — numbers that tell a story he wants to hear. As I said, billionaire brain. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bezos-backlash-and-zombies Evidently the man who owns the world’s biggest library…
A charisma-less Vice President JD Vance was met Friday with humiliating silence when he tried to transform a memorial event into a political stump speech. https://newrepublic.com/post/210542/jd-vance-crowd-stays-silent-speech The billionaire class are way over their skis… and it’s starting to show
The team used semiconductor catalysts to turn carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and ethylene, a hydrocarbon commonly used to produce spacecraft propellants, according to the SCMP. “This technology mimics the natural photosynthesis process of green plants through engineered physical and chemical methods, utilizing carbon dioxide resources in confined spaces or extraterrestrial atmospheres to produce oxygen…
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