supersquirrel
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- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 1 day ago:
Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley though, he is on a whole different level of hallucinatory nonsense.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 1 day ago:
What was the last non-gibberish thing Altman has said?
I feel like he has been playing the “you can only speak in gibberish” improv game for as long as I can remember.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 1 day ago:
- Comment on Directions 2 days ago:
I propose Antartica adopt an irrational approach.
Decide on Antartica North as a basis, clearly this should be Antartica’s tentacle where it reaches out trying to touch the South American tentacle.
Multiply North by the square root of -1 a.k.a. i.
I propose as international law that real estate/territory claims all have to be solely defined in terms of trignometric functions on Antartica.
It would also hopefully draw irrationality from different continents acting as an irrationality sink.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 days ago:
KEVIN Birmingham’s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand.
It’s about women’s rights and heroic female editors, the First World War, anarchism and modernism, tenderness and syphilis, moral panic and about the Lost Generation and the tent it pitched at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. It isolates a great love story, that of Joyce and Nora Barnacle, one that comes with a finger-burning side order of some of the most cheerfully filthy correspondence in literary history.
scotsman.com/…/the-battle-to-publish-james-joyces…
And what a quest it was. “Ulysses” was illegal to own in most of the English-speaking world for more than a decade. It was banned, burned, debated, smuggled, and finally legalized following a 1933 court ruling. In Birmingham’s highly readable and erudite book, he infuses this story with drama, reminding us that the right to express oneself can never be taken for granted.
Readers will quickly realize the immense scope of “The Most Dangerous Book.” Modernism, obscenity, the power once held by postal authorities, vice squads, 19th century English law, Joyce’s sex life and health problems, The Lost Generation, early literary magazines, Wall Street lawyers, the suffrage movement, anarchy in America, and even the Enlightenment are all seamlessly woven into this most fascinating tapestry.
- Comment on An Israel-Funded Campaign to Link Qatar to Campus Antisemitism 2 days ago:
In 2018, I delivered a High Holy Day sermon that received some notoriety, because in it, I spoke out against one of my former congregants. I had something to say to my congregation about a policy the immorality of which I felt needed a vigorous Jewish American response — especially, in my opinion, because it was being championed by a Jewish American.
That Jewish American was Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump. Miller initiated and directed the Trump administration’s policy that forcibly separated young children from their undocumented parents, along with a score of other anti-immigrant proposals. I felt embarrassed and ashamed that a Jew in a leadership role could give voice and support to such inhumanity. And I felt further compromised because, for a couple years in Stephen Miller’s childhood, his family belonged to my synagogue.
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Look, now, at how Miller and Trump want to treat this generation’s immigrants and their children. They are willing and eager to victimize the most vulnerable among us — even though the Book of Exodus demands, “There shall be one law for the citizen and for the stranger who dwells among you.” And the Book of Leviticus clearly states: “The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
- Comment on Is 128 players too much for a multiplayer FPS? Yes, says Battlefield 6 2 days ago:
It only is if you are a piece of shit company that doesn’t allow modding of your games.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 3 days ago:
If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.
- Comment on Discovery of a Complete New Copy of the Canopus Decree 3 days ago:
his wife Berenice II
- Comment on UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure 4 days ago:
link broken I think
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 4 days ago:
No, the AI was trained the same stack overflow posts as humans would manually search out in the past.
Thus the effective difference is precisely that between an active attempt to understand and blindly copying since the AI is specifically there to introduce a stochastic opaqueness between truth (i.e. sufficiently curated training data) and interpretation of truth.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 4 days ago:
Are you aware of a little thing called the climate catastrophe that is unfolding as we speak?
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 4 days ago:
This is beautiful.
These are truly lyrics, they are begging for a banger of a pop music video.
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 4 days ago:
3dp.rocks
I feel betrayed as a geologist by this bait and switch.
- Comment on New UN resolution sees 142 countries support recognition of a state of Palestine 4 days ago:
This is a genocide NOT a war.
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 4 days ago:
Wait the teacher got to the point they have a 3d file right?
If so this seems like a job for Blender.
- Comment on I declare bankruptcy! 1 week ago:
Your flirting became too big to fail or it would crash the economy, genius!
- Comment on Drink your stoats 1 week ago:
The tragedy here is apparently that people want you to suffer this cruel fate alone.
- Comment on Biblically accurate Furby 1 week ago:
Is this before or after the stage of growth where it absorbs a human child’s soul for more power?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
No this is a contraction of the commons
- Comment on Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material 1 week ago:
Well I am all for them being litigated more then!
- Comment on Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material 1 week ago:
Never been happy for or felt hope from a successful copyright infringement case before what a weird inversion of circumstance.
- Comment on See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map 1 week ago:
Ooof phenology is way too close to phrenology in written form! My alarm bells keep going off and then my brain realizes there is no r.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 weeks ago:
When did I blame all of my problems on the West?
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 weeks ago:
I mean, yes in so far as you can generalize, of course I am jealous of that!? You think I like being stuck at the bottom of a cruel hole lined with gold and bullet casings?
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 weeks ago:
The US deserves the vast majority of the blame here along with Israel of course. The truth is, for many in Germany including those at the highest levels of power are if anything jealous to be missing out on the colonialism and genocide.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday defended his characterization of Israel’s airstrikes on Iran as “dirty work,” saying his remarks received widespread support despite some criticism.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with state premiers in Berlin, Merz stood firmly behind his earlier comments that Israel was doing necessary “dirty work” for Western nations through its military actions against Iran’s nuclear program.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 weeks ago:
This is how I see it as a US citizen. Our violence is boomeranging hard which ok I don’t wish it on others but yes absolutely this is the future of the US.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately not understanding or being sufficiently motivated by the threat of corporate social media is still prevalent among a good amount of lefties I know, but I find even when they are uninterested in leaving corporate social media they can at least understand the logic behind it in a way a lot of techy type people start to just get combatitive when you try to explain.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 weeks ago:
Intelligence and expertise is worth pursuing for the benefit that comes from learning for the sake of learning, but it is true that there is a danger to knowing more and more about something in that it becomes more and more seductive to believe that the thing you are in expert in is a key to understanding everything else and that this gives you a righteous vantage to look down upon the genius of others and judge from afar.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 weeks ago:
Because silicon valley thinks it can define reality however it wants and keep telling us not to believe our lying eyes.
