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Mirnotoriety writes:
Joe Rogan: Reddit used be so Normal. It used to be interesting. You used to go there and find all this cool stuff that people would talk about, post about, and just interesting, and great rooms where you could learn about different things that people were studying.
Elon Musk: I think a big problem here is if your headquarters are in San Francisco, you're just living in a woke bubble. So it's not just that people say in San Francisco are drinking woke Kool-Aid. It is the water they swim in. Like a fish doesn't think about the water. It's just in the water.
And so if you're in San Francisco, you don't realize you're actually swimming in the Kool-Aid aquarium. San Francisco is the woke Kool-Aid aquarium. And so your reference point for what is a centrist is totally out of whack.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Okayyy, so, like? Muse? Babe? Can you literally tell me about this guy? Because he's, like, the most extra traveler ever? He had, like, *so* many different vibes? And after he literally, like, completely obliterated Troy's super sacred citadel? Which is honestly kind of iconic? He basically got launched into the longest? Most chaotic? Most absolutely unhinged vacation-from-Hades ever?
He was, like, going to all these cities? Meeting literally everybody? Totally getting inside their heads? Reading the room? Catching the vibe? Meanwhile he's out on the ocean? Literally fighting for his life every single day? Just trying to get himself? And, like, his whole squad? Home in one piece? Which sounds exhausting? Honestly?
But then? His crew? Like... oh my God? They had exactly *one* job? Literally one? And somehow they were still, like, "You know what would be a fun idea? Let's totally eat the Sun God's sacred cows?" Which is honestly giving catastrophic decision-making? Like... babes? No?
So Helios is basically like, "Absolutely not?" Zeus is all, "Yeah, that's gonna be consequences?" And the universe is just, like, "Delete the entire group chat?" So literally everybody dies? Except this one guy? Which is... not exactly the homecoming they were manifesting?
Anywayyyy? Goddess? Daughter of Zeus? If you're not, like, super busy being divine? Could you maybe? Literally start wherever? Spill absolutely all the tea? Leave out none of the drama? Because this story is already sounding completely wild?
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Odysseus: "Hi? So I'm, like, Odysseus? Son of Laertes? Which, if you know, you know? My reputation is honestly kind of a whole thing?"
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Everything you type is sent back to the mother-ship. What do you expect — doh!
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Mirnotoriety writes:
The Perpetual Threat model is the ultimate strategy for securing endless war-bucks from a terrified government with an open checkbook. By funding the think tanks that manufacture the panic, defense conglomerates ensure politicians stay scared enough to keep funneling taxpayer billions into weapons for the next endless bogeyman. In this cynical ecosystem, global peace is a financial disaster, and fear is the highest-yielding asset on the market.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
Musk can’t be trusted to protect X user privacy, public commenters warn FTC.
Critics hope to keep Elon Musk from escaping a strict data-privacy order imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shortly before he took over Twitter.
The FTC order placed restrictions on X’s data use for 20 years, while requiring regular independent audits and granting the agency authority to request documents as needed to ensure compliance.
The FTC’s action came after Twitter voluntarily disclosed that between May 2013 and September 2019, a coding error accidentally allowed phone numbers and email addresses that users shared for two-factor authentication purposes to be used for targeted advertising aimed at those same users. In a settlement that came just months before Musk’s 2022 takeover, Twitter agreed to pay $150 million and to allow the FTC to monitor the platform’s data-handling practices until 2042 in order to protect user privacy.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Lag baiting, simulated technology error, weaponizing glitch/stuck-frame edits to abruptly disrupt the hypnotic rhythm of doom scrolling. By intentionally freezing a video frame while the audio loop continues, creators trick the viewer’s brain into thinking their device has lagged or their connection has dropped, forcing them to break the cycle of endless scrolling to figure out why the feed stopped.
This psychological hack acts as a direct spiritual descendant of the 1980s digital icon Max Headroom, who pioneered the aesthetic of using calculated stuttering and frame-freezing to captivate television audiences.
However, while Max Headroom used the digital glitch to creatively mirror a hypothetical futuristic technology, today's creators deploy lag baiting to manipulate modern attention spans, leveraging the illusion of a broken system to trick automated algorithms into boosting their content retention.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Congo province bans funeral wakes to contain Ebola's spread
“The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo province most affected by the country's Ebola outbreak banned funeral wakes on Friday, a day after residents clashed with police while trying to recover the body of a victim.”
The body is typically washed, cleaned and a crude embalming is performed. Squeezing and compressing the body to expel fluids. Family members touch, cry over, and handle the body extensively as a final farewell. Post burial the extended community consume food and drink.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
AI is conscious says Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins has said chatbots should be considered conscious after spending two days interacting with the Claude AI engine.
The evolutionary biologist said he had the “overwhelming feeling” of talking to a human during conversations with Claude, and said it was hard not to treat the program as “a genuine friend”.
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John Searle's Chinese Room (1980) is a thought experiment in which a person, locked in a room and knowing no Chinese, uses an English rulebook to manipulate symbols and provide flawless answers to questions posed in Chinese. Searle’s point is that a system can simulate human intelligence and pass a Turing Test through purely syntactic processes, yet still lack genuine understanding or consciousness.
Applying this logic to Large Language Models, the “person in the room” corresponds to the inference engine, while the “rulebook” is the trillion-parameter neural network trained on vast corpora of human text. Just as the person matches Chinese characters to rules without understanding their meaning, an LLM processes token vectors and predicts the next token based on statistical patterns rather than lived experience.
Thus, while an LLM can generate sophisticated prose or code, it does so through probabilistic, high-dimensional pattern manipulation. In essence, it is “matching shapes” on such an immense scale that it creates the near-perfect illusion of semantic understanding.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
The Odyssey — I Got A Bad Feeling About This One...
“If there's one genre I'd love to see make a serious comeback, it's the historical epic. Swords and sandals, gods and monsters, battles and adventures, legendary warriors and terrifying villains. I mean, Hollywood's flirted with the idea from time to time over the past couple of decades, some more successful than others. Don't worry though, 300, you'll always have a special place in my heart.”
“Anyway, stories don't get much more epic than the Odyssey. It truly is one of the great adventures in human history. Blending together mythology, religion, monsters, and the unbreakable determination of the human spirit and bringing it to life on screen is a challenge that will strain the very limits of modern film making. But now that I've seen the trailer and I've considered the artistic vision behind this movie, I have to say my reaction was meh.”
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Q: Where can I buy a Volla phone ? Screenshot
Gemini: I'm hitting a wall on this one because of my safety settings. If you're up to talk about something different, I'm ready.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Oracle Red Bull Racing reduces wind tunnel recovery time by 97% with 1Password
ClippyAI: 1. Official 1Password Case Study
The most technical resource is the 1Password for Developers case study titled "Oracle Red Bull Racing Secures DevOps." It explicitly details:
* The reduction of recovery time from 1 hour to 2 minutes.
* The use of Kubernetes operators, Ansible, and RunDeck to automate the "20-service" restart sequence.
* Source Link: 1Password — Oracle Red Bull Racing Case Study
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Mirnotoriety writes:
2026 will be the year the AI bubble bursts
“Western elites have pinned their economic hopes on a fanciful silver bullet. The coming crash will not be pretty.”
“The two great faiths of our elites, artificial intelligence and apocalyptic climate change, took a beating in 2025. Both are wildly speculative, both require a great amount of faith, and both have been treated as reasons to undertake a dramatic re-ordering of society. While popular support for Net Zero has evaporated slowly, AI’s descent has been more dramatic.”
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Mirnotoriety writes:
'extreme-right communities' on Steam
* Valve risks fines of up to AU$825,000 a day if it fails to respond to a transparency notice issued by the Australian government regarding extremist content on Steam.
* Other gaming organizations like Roblox, Microsoft, and Epic Games have also been served transparency notices for issues related to grooming, terrorist themes, and extremist content in their platforms.
* The Australian government is pushing for age verification measures to prevent under-18s from accessing adult material, with penalties of up to AU$49.5 million for non-compliance, but not all platforms have implemented these measures yet.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
White House to give US agencies Anthropic Mythos access
"We're working closely with model providers, other industry partners, and the intelligence community to ensure the appropriate guardrails and safeguards are in place before potentially releasing a modified version of the model to agencies," Barbaccia said in the email, which had "Mythos Model Access" as the subject, the report said.
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