He says that he made up the credit card number, but it doesn't pass the Luhn credit card checksum test, so there was no reason to filter it.

That proposed SEC rule on reporting stock lending to FINRA (second link in last paragraph above) is about naked short sales used to manipulate the market. It's not about investors borrowing against assets to avoid taxes.

Well, that is very good news indeed! All we need is one zero-cost threat to cancel out all the other threats!

Which Russia conspiracy turned out to be false? What are you even talking about?

Weren't all the 9/11 hijackers fully identified before they boarded? How will more identity tracking keep us safer? What exactly is the TSA supposedly protecting us from?

Isn't definition 3 pretty much the original meaning when the term originated in the 1930s(?)? Like, if you're black, you have to be aware of all the ways the system is stacked against you?

Is it funny because it's impossible to oppose, yet DeSantis opposes it anyway?

ChatGPT gets Maya dates wrong. I have asked it to convert Maya dates into Gregorian, and it always gets them wrong. When I tell it what the correct date is, it apologizes and tells me I am right.

John Linden and Victoria Bricker, the authors of the article being discussed, are well-respected scholars. So these are not the normal nut-jobs that talk about the Maya Calendar. I have yet to read more than the summary, but will read the article in the next few days. I am sure that Linden and Bricker got the math and astronomy right. However, I am very suspicious that this is how the Maya actually used the 819 day count. There are only about 21 of these 819 day counts recorded in the Maya inscriptions, so proving anything about these is very difficult. 819 is the multiplication of 7x9x13, three periods frequently used by the Maya, so it is more probable that it is just a larger period that comes from these three smaller periods.

How can he be an "ex-founder"? Does he now no longer have founded the company, though he did have before? Can any time traveler help me out with these verb tenses?

Nobody's going to waste a zero-day on this kind of attack. They will use exploits that are years old and already well-known. It's only a risk for older or otherwise unpatched devices, which are actually very common in real life.

Bleet.

It is not.

Thirtyies ... Fiftyies

It's an attempt to make encryption failure seem more significant to people who think, "I have nothing to hide, why should I care?"

I can't see how that's a stupid question. It seems very important for AI and transhumanism, and the answer is neither obvious nor well-established. Is there some reason the question should not be asked?