Comment Re: (Score 1) 110
The important thing is that some dingbat academician got a publishing credit.
The important thing is that he got a job offer from google.
Comment Can't stand the competition (Score 4, Insightful) 151
People are treating AIs as God-like.
They are asking all kinds of questions, spiritual and existential.
Commonly assuming that the AI is all-knowing, all-seeing etc.
So there is a shift from the established God to the ones we have created.
No wonder he is worried.
Comment Re:Game Devs are DEI and Marxist. Unions are Marxi (Score 1) 163
A.H. himself, in his autobiography told us repeatedly
Thanks for posting your reading list in its entirety.
Submission + - Big Tech could make nearly $1 million from your data and you get nothing (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: A new report from the Web3 Foundation claims Big Tech and AI companies could generate as much as $831,497 in inflation-linked lifetime value from a single American internet user. The report argues that modern internet platforms are monetizing far more than targeted ads, with everything from search queries and shopping habits to chatbot prompts, uploaded images, location history, and behavioral data feeding AI systems and recommendation engines. Companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Anthropic are specifically mentioned as examples of firms benefiting from large-scale personal data collection.
While the report comes from a Web3 advocacy organization and should be viewed with some skepticism, its core argument may resonate with privacy critics and anti-AI users alike: the internet stopped being âoefreeâ a long time ago. The paper argues that AI has made user data even more valuable because human-generated content is now being used not only for advertising, but also to train increasingly capable machine learning systems. Meanwhile, ordinary users see little transparency, control, or financial participation in the value created from their digital lives.
While the report comes from a Web3 advocacy organization and should be viewed with some skepticism, its core argument may resonate with privacy critics and anti-AI users alike: the internet stopped being âoefreeâ a long time ago. The paper argues that AI has made user data even more valuable because human-generated content is now being used not only for advertising, but also to train increasingly capable machine learning systems. Meanwhile, ordinary users see little transparency, control, or financial participation in the value created from their digital lives.
Comment Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off (Score 1) 70
Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off
What exactly does this mean?
Submission + - The world has 6 months to avert major food crisis, says UN (politico.eu)
fjo3 writes: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz could trigger a severe global food price crisis within six to 12 months unless governments act quickly, the Food and Agriculture Organization warned Wednesday.
Decisions now by farmers and governments on fertilizer use, imports, financing and crop choices will determine whether food prices spike later this year or in early 2027, the agency said.
"Start seriously thinking about how to increase the absorption capacity of countries, how to increase their resilience to this choke, so that we start to minimize the potential impacts," FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero said in a podcast published Wednesday.
Decisions now by farmers and governments on fertilizer use, imports, financing and crop choices will determine whether food prices spike later this year or in early 2027, the agency said.
"Start seriously thinking about how to increase the absorption capacity of countries, how to increase their resilience to this choke, so that we start to minimize the potential impacts," FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero said in a podcast published Wednesday.
Comment Re: Federal Bribery and Taxpayer Abuse. (Score 1) 101
Imagine if Nazis had access to modern technology when they were tracking every Jewish person.
They *are* in power. And they *are* tracking every Jewish person. And Muslim person. And Catholic person. And Protestant person. Etc.
Comment Google *really* wants your phone number. (Score 1) 99
with users able to unlock the standard 15GB by adding a phone number.
Seems like a good reason not to give it to them.
Comment Conspicuously Absent (Score 1) 108
They shoul have asked as well:
1) Do you use AI
2) Do you pay for it
I'm sure that there are people who do, but don't wont datacentres. NIMBY
Comment Jumped the shark (Score 1) 67
The decline and fall of the Fecebook empire began some time ago.
Submission + - Guy Built an Entire Wikipedia that's 100% AI Hallucinations (x.com) 2
schwit1 writes: It's called Halupedia
Nothing on the site existed before you clicked. Every article was generated the second you arrived.
The site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it.
It looks exactly like wikipedia, same fonts, same layout, same scholarly citations, same "stumble" button for random articles.
The only difference is none of it is real.
Here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia:
> the great pigeon census of 1887
> the ministry of slightly wrong maps
> Chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden
> Armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair
> The society for the prevention of unnecessary Tuesdays
Every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present."
The creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year:
"an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it"
The entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. One guy. One description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time."
Nothing on the site existed before you clicked. Every article was generated the second you arrived.
The site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it.
It looks exactly like wikipedia, same fonts, same layout, same scholarly citations, same "stumble" button for random articles.
The only difference is none of it is real.
Here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia:
> the great pigeon census of 1887
> the ministry of slightly wrong maps
> Chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden
> Armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair
> The society for the prevention of unnecessary Tuesdays
Every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present."
The creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year:
"an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it"
The entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. One guy. One description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time."
Submission + - Trump on Iran war's cost: "I don't think about American financial situation." (the-independent.com)
fjo3 writes: President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the plight of Americans finding it harder and harder to make ends meet and rising gas and consumer prices simply aren’t on his mind as the months-long Iran war and impasse over the Strait of Hormuz continue to fuel surging inflation in the United States.
Trump made the stunning brush-off statement as he departed the White House for Beijing, where he will be feted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a state visit, including a lavish Thursday night banquet at the Great Hall of the People.
Trump made the stunning brush-off statement as he departed the White House for Beijing, where he will be feted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a state visit, including a lavish Thursday night banquet at the Great Hall of the People.
Submission + - Russian Ship Carrying Nuclear Reactors Was Heading To North Korea When It Sank (artvoice.com)
schwit1 writes: A Russian cargo ship carrying what its own captain later admitted were components for two submarine nuclear reactors sank off the coast of Spain in December 2024, and a CNN investigation published Monday May 12, 2026 reveals the full picture of where those reactors were likely headed, what they were for and what may have caused the ship to go down.
The vessel, the Ursa Major, also known as Sparta 3, sank approximately 100 kilometers off the Spanish coast on December 23-24, 2024, after a series of explosions killed two crew members.
The Russian state-linked owner called it a terrorist attack. But a Spanish investigation obtained by CNN suggests the hull may have been pierced by a Barracuda supercavitating torpedo, a high-speed weapon possessed by only a handful of the world’s most elite militaries, including the United States.
The suspected destination was not Vladivostok, as the public shipping manifest claimed.
Russian captain Igor Anisimov, per sources familiar with the Spanish investigation, believed he was taking the reactors to the port of Rason in North Korea.
The vessel, the Ursa Major, also known as Sparta 3, sank approximately 100 kilometers off the Spanish coast on December 23-24, 2024, after a series of explosions killed two crew members.
The Russian state-linked owner called it a terrorist attack. But a Spanish investigation obtained by CNN suggests the hull may have been pierced by a Barracuda supercavitating torpedo, a high-speed weapon possessed by only a handful of the world’s most elite militaries, including the United States.
The suspected destination was not Vladivostok, as the public shipping manifest claimed.
Russian captain Igor Anisimov, per sources familiar with the Spanish investigation, believed he was taking the reactors to the port of Rason in North Korea.
Comment Re:I see no Ford option for me... (Score 1) 214
Yet I still see a lot of older F-150s on the road.
Of course you do. They were the bestselling vehicle for the last 20-50 years.
That doesn't mean that they are reliable or inexpensive to maintain.
Because they're not.
Comment Re:All according to plan. (Score 1) 214
Trucks sold in volume have a pretty well defined purpose. And that's to be used as a truck.
You are utterly incorrect, and have no idea what you are talking about. Trucks are sold to make the driver feel like a macho man.
Look ar the advertising. Look at the styling. Look at the price. Look at the Village People.
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