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"They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." \- Mark Zuckerberg[0] [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-fa...

> “asking the right questions” is built on years of experience doing the things now being offloaded to AI https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eat_one%27s_seed_corn#English

https://github.com/dglent/meteo-qt It is using 122.7 MB at present.

If you like visions, perhaps you also like stories. https://www.mediafire.com/file/htq0zr310se30v3/Last_Day.pdf

> “But what’s funny about Musk is, the stuff he likes actually completely defeats and defies all of his political beliefs,” she said. Musk is only the most recent in a long line of…

A while ago I noticed that car crashes were the leading cause of death for age ranges too old for infant mortality and too young for heart failure. I checked again before making th…

It occurs to me that none of those metrics include numbers.

The current administration has taken the edge off Hanlon's razor. Now I prefer saying "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."

They don't decide what gets played.

https://lwss.github.io/Kisak-Black/#ai-debugging

It is the government equivalent of El Muskito buying Twitter and then wantonly disabling components with the assumption they do nothing.

I closed the tab as soon as I saw it slowing down everything. Then I blocked the whole site in ublock origin to ensure I don't visit the site again by accident. The filter: ||earen…

Collect solar power in orbit (where sunlight is uninterrupted) and microwave[0] it to earth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Microw...

I do not speak for anyone else, but whenever I encounter a phrase resembling "an entirely new payment option that we think you’ll love" I stop reading and throw the whole thing in …

I find that choice of words more likely to cause people who already disagree with them to fixate on it rather than the substance of their comment.

A lot of Christians have also argued that god would not allow a species he created to go extinct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction#History_of_scientif... So perhaps holy bo…

> I think the article greatly underestimates our archaeological capabilities. "they found a single forerunner to their idea of deep time. It came not from science, but from science…

Try letting the blame trickle down from the pyramid's apex instead of blaming the footman. Here is the first iPhone ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bvfs4ai5XU The ad depicts i…

I get the impression there is some deeply entrenched individual in the Mozilla Foundation with an abiding hatred for Tree Style Tabs who will never let it deliver what users want w…

> Eich donated to Republicans and pro-marriage causes, yes. Pro-marriage as in "prohibit marriage", I presume, since that is the cause to which he donated.[0] https://www.pcmag.com…

Imagine an empty cafeteria. You and your friend enter, get your meal, sit down, and enjoy quiet conversation. Then two other people do the same thing and, because your voices rever…

> Their purpose is to be the human delegate that represents the corporate entity. A simulacrum of accountability to be replaced in lieu of ever acknowledging fault. No machine coul…

In case anyone likes to play Quake with a gamepad I recently made this add-on which adds Dark Soul III style target lock. (Click L3 to toggle. Breaking line of sight breaks the tar…