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- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 6 days ago:
“You’re Going to Have to Trust Us”
Is that anything like “Don’t Be Evil”? (Google motto, 2004. No definition of evil followed.)
Reagan once said “Trust But Verify”. So … where can we do that at? (and who pays?)
- Comment on A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone. 1 week ago:
I guess that’s okay, if we really got our money’s worth.
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- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a back-up, science paper on MOF from Nature with measured numbers. 8 liters per KG per day isn’t 1000 gallons until you get to 2 tons … but it’s about 200 liters per out of 25 KG … easily carried.
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58405-9
"The effects of temperature, relative humidity, and powder bed thickness on the adsorption-desorption process are explored for achieving optimal operational parameters. We found that Zr-MOF-808 can produce up to 8.66 LH2O kg−1MOF day−1, an extraordinary finding that outperforms any previously reported values for MOF-based systems… "
- Comment on Webb and Hubble: IC 5332 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I didn’t notice the image ‘flip’ in the ‘source’ until I moved the mouse around. Oh well
- Comment on Webb and Hubble: IC 5332 2 weeks ago:
permalink to that image apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260226.html flips back & forth between the two hugely different
- Comment on US tells diplomats to lobby against foreign data sovereignty laws 2 weeks ago:
Same fella that just told the EU that the US is its child and always will be. Hmmm, how many parents take the advice of their young teenaged kids?
- Comment on Review: ‘Beam Me Up, Sulu’ Documentary Covers New Ground And Offers Hope In Troubled Times 2 weeks ago:
Just wanna chip in a big RIGHT ON! to thank Gene Roddenberry for his vision of the future !
- Comment on Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne 3 weeks ago:
Holding on to one’s preferred human culture and values is not being ‘left behind’ in any sense … they may in fact be ‘left ahead’.
- Comment on ‘Pure bullshit’: Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech 3 weeks ago:
The sooner EUrope has a firm handle on its own IT ecosystem, the sooner it can tell the US to go pound sand. Macron is spot on.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 3 weeks ago:
" … Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism." Oh wait, the NYT is the holy of holies… never mind …
- Comment on DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts 4 weeks ago:
It might get better just before the next election …
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 4 weeks ago:
"Reportedly.’
That headline may be true. Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism. By now that’s hundreds of millions of names to go through. Maybe that will help them burn through their remaining funds faster.
- Comment on You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore 4 weeks ago:
Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?
Also, sites that are ‘strange and a bit obscure’ are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They’re likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.
- Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media 4 weeks ago:
I think it could change, here in the US … whenever it’s clearly demonstrated that that’s what’s going on … and if parents then pressure legislators (if they can find enough willing to fight corporate interests) to control it. In the meantime, ‘saving the children’ will be up to parents who take measures themselves.
My mom, whenever I asked for ANYTHING I saw on TV, NEVER reinforced that behavior. Kids that scream when the phone’s taken away should NEVER get them back.
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 4 weeks ago:
Very true, I’ve had whole cited paragraphs removed by non-registered users. Of course, IF you’ve got the time, you can look through the article history pages. For recently embarassed subjects, it’s not hard to spot the deletions over the past month or two.
- Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t doubt it if they did. BUT … PBS had services for children as well. Were Bert and Ernie or Mr. Rogers ‘addictive’? I have no idea what YT for children is like, but I wouldn’t have handed my kids over to them to babysit without checking them out … frequently.
- Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media 4 weeks ago:
“addiction in children’s brains”
I don’t think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group. Kids are not ready for alcohol or cars or pron. Did they care? Probably not.
OTOH: I recall times when parents oversaw what their children consumed. They didn’t need to buy them smartphones or laptops, and they could have enforced rulse on their use. Parenting isn’t for everyone.
- Comment on Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 5 weeks ago:
From the article:
“A total of 178 out of the 3,078 articles came back as flagged for AI … About half of our staff spent a month during summer 2025 painstakingly reviewing the text from these 178 articles…
Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source.”
- Comment on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native 1 month ago:
This is the guy who bankrupted 4 casinos. Clearly what he’s best at.
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- Comment on Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit 1 month ago:
Cash they’ve got. Jail time for CEOs will work better.
- Comment on AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive 1 month ago:
Richard Stallman sez we should call it ‘PI’ … pretend intelligence.
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 1 month ago:
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 1 month ago:
Headline suggests that this is an observed fact, rather than the result of a simulation based on a model created by several EU scientists.
Furthermore the article asserts that “The observed motions … can only be properly explained with this “flat” mass distribution.” That premature assertion, based on this paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02770-w
will have to stand up in the court of opinion of scientific peers. I hope to see Sabine go after that headline.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 month ago:
Profit?
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 month ago:
That’s a really fancy way to say ‘dumb terminals to the mainframe’ … only without wires.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 1 month ago:
The link says ‘zero-emissions-cooling’
The article sez: “It relies on the temperature change of materials called shape memory alloys (SMAs) when they are stretched and released.”
How do you stretch something without producing any emissions?
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 1 month ago:
Hmmm. And this is the work of the ‘Genius at Davos’, you say? And where was the electricity generated … that state that ran out of electric for weeks a few years back?
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 1 month ago:
The bot shouldn’t give lethal advice The person or company that runs the bot that gave lethal advice should be charged with homicide.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 1 month ago:
A LOT of fraternities have gotten in BIG trouble for hazing practices that led to the death of a ‘candidate’.