I eagerly await the follow up articles on the whereabouts of DB Cooper and the identity of Jack the Ripper.

The thing is though, this really should have been caught early and prevented by swedens intelligence services.

Like a lot of these sorts of mini tech scandals they seem to be about non tech people accidently doing something stupid that tech people probably wouldn't. You can't expect some bodybuilding security guard to be a guru on IT security. He's a big dude who punches people for a living. He's not hired to redteam the presidents comms stack. He's hired to punch strange behaving people in the head if they get too close to the president.

But Swedens security services SHOULD have had a bunch of policy on tech items. Ie leave your iphone in your locker at the start of the day and take a work issued locked down iphone that has social media etc apps blocked and just has the basic stuff he needs to get his job done, if the wife needs to urgently call, leave a message with the office and they'll forward a message, etc, plus a bunch of training on how to behave securely.

Clearly that never happened, and its a BYO phone scenario with a bunch of dumb shit installed. Its not just the exercise app thats tracking them, its candy crush, facebook, stupid web browser gps queries, etc. This can be dealt with, but it has to be dealt with by policy and procedures, not trusting some meathead who punches good to know what to do.

When we look back in 30 years time at what caused America to fall, energy prices, spending too much on nuclear, and failure to compete in renewable energy is my best guess.

"Being run by Inbred Klan Fuckwit Republicans" will be pretty high on the list too.

Battery Storage works fine if you have diversified energy production. Dumb Klanwit Arkansas doesn't, of course, because it's 50th in Education and one of the Klan Garbage States...

Hey, remember when the Retard Fuckwit Pedophile Republicans in Texas woke up the Whole Damn State, all the way from Texarkana to El Paso, because some sheriff got shot up way north of Dallas?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers...

But how will the Retard Pedophile Republicans scare the elderly about supposed "child abduction rings" that don't exist then???

There's always Debian.

It was a strange move. HBO has a reputation for high quality stuff. The Wire, Game of Thrones, Sopranos. Thats 3 of my top 5 shows of all time (The others being breaking bad, and The Expanse). People *like* HBO. Why bury the lead when it comes to naming. Nobody knows or cares what "Max" is, they care about HBO.

Just like the subject says, supersymmetry, an elegant solution to a number of problems, in particular the best theoretical extension to the Standard Model, slides closer to oblivion with each large scale and small scale (accelerator) experiment meant to find these large supersymmetrical particles.

So. If folks want to actually read the article, theres a preprint of it here on arXiv dot org, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.078... . Dont stress, its legit, thats how preprints work.

Anyway. From best I can work out, this is a fairly game-theoretic approach. But essentially "rationality" here would seem to mean "makes decisions that would get the highest utility according to funky bayesian scoring system" which, its totally a thing in economics and also corners of the internet obsessed with that kind of thing, though its an approach psychologists are a bit suspicious of, and philosophers tend to consider it somewhat tautological. But for some applications its a pretty good way to determine if someone is making a "rational" choice.

Beyond that, I'm gonna say "dont ask me", the approach in this paper is definately outside of my academic expertise as to judge its soundness.

... where will you find experienced workers seven years from now? Seems like someone's making a really big bet on AI improving a whole lot soon. And when the next AI winter comes, a lot of people will be paying a lot more for the workforce they need.

Back in my University days , 1990s, early 2000s (I was there a decade, grad, postgrad all that) I was a fairly regular bar-fly at the on campus student pub. Learned more in that pub talking to academics and other students over pints than I ever did in the classroom.

Around half way through my degree a new face turned up, a man in his early 70s with a polite british accent, Kev, walked up to our table with a jug of beer and introduced himself. We where a pretty diverse lot, so we made a space, and all of us became fast friends.

He had retired a while back, had a career as an industrial chemist that sent him around the world, spent a lot of time in africa, and generally had an almost endless stream of stories to tell. After a few years of retirement, he decided to go and do a chemistry degree again, because when he had retired he felt the world had left him behind in his knowledge., so he went back to scratch to catch up on all the developments the previous 40 years had brought. No intention of working again, but he didnt want to spend his twilight years as a bored retired person with 20 cats and a drinking problem.

He had a blast too with his newfound circle of 20yo friends. Smoked his first joint, discovered the joys of 90s indie pop, occasionally got himself in trouble with the ladies, but generally had a polite british demeanor that got him out of a lot of trouble too. We all knew his morals came from a different era, so we cut him a bit of slack. We dubbed him "The worlds oldest teenager".

I visited him a few months ago. Age finally caught up to him, and I doubt he has much time left. He ended up hooking with one of our groups elderly mothers (that was..... awkward) and ended up looking after her after her son died and she fell to pieces, but its clear he hasnt got much time left. His body is just falling to pieces.

Still, I thoroughly recomend to anyone who's retired to consider going back to university if, or you've got the funds to pay for it. Too many old folks just retire and stop doing anything, and the lack of activity in both the brain and body end up killing them. And don't worry about all those young folks. If your a friendly, fun and active person, chances are all those young folks will adore you for your stories and wisdom, and you get to have a second youth.

While I think the high end models are actually very impressive, the one on top of google search results is a drooling idiot and regularly just makes up nonsense. Just yesterday I searched for information about radiation suits on the "Dune Awakening" game (very fun), and it utterly hallucinated a big bunch of nonsense about it being 3 piece, with exchangable breathing apparatuses and the like. None of that is true. I *think* it was cribbing details from Fallout. (It mentioned "Radaway" tablets, which are from fallout) but it was so matter-of-fact about it being part of the Dune awakening, and clearly the results bellow it on the search directly contradicted it. Its not a good implementation of generative AI.

For those that have attended a Christian wedding ceremony there's often a biblical passage read about the need for the man and woman to break ties with their parents and create a new family.

- But why should I give a crap what it says in your cult's shitty book full of rape, murder, incest, and other bullshit?

Ah yes, this moral panic is totally different than all the other times people have been whipped into a frenzy by an almost bon existent problem.

We have real problems to solve. I'll leave the fake ones to people like you.