Cool.

So, are you for or against being a catalyst for change which is known to be *DEVASTATING* for humans and other living creatures on this planet?

Seems like a rewrite of interfaces (and, everything), in Rust would be of large benefit.

How many more code-injection vectors do we tolerate? Especially, with automated fuzz testing (etc) of agentic connectomes.

Seems like the 20th century modality needs to go the way of DOS 1.0 EDLIN. It's bad for UI/UX, and is poor separation of concerns/security from the implementation/integration/maintenance side. :/

> just give it a push and let it fall in

This not how orbital mechanics works. Getting something from Earth orbit to intersect with the sun is highly complex, simply slowing it down a bit does not make it fall into the sun, it just lowers the orbit slightly.

The *WHIPLASH* of these two statements:

'Improvements to LinkedIn's detection systems have resulted in a 40% decline in views of content classified as AI slop, the platform said last month. That's not to say LinkedIn is entirely opposed to AI, Roth said, adding that "not everyone is a born communicator."'

YET -

'Roth said. "A lot of times now today, they'll run it through Claude or Gemini or wherever, they'll post it on LinkedIn and it will perform poorly. And then they come to the team and they're like, 'Why did this do badly?'" Roth said. "And the best thing you can do is give it back to them and be like, 'Did you enjoy reading this? Do you see yourself in this?"'

Essentialism is lame; people are born as a human. So participate. Learn to speak. Learn to read. Don't be illiterate. Don't be inmumerate. Rise above. Master yourself, and in so doing, emancipate yourself.

Use your self-awareness to improve and add to the palette of skills and abilities through your life.

It's not that hard. And I'm a programmer, so you *KNOW* I am the ultra-laziest in terms of applying time and space to problems (aka optimization!).

I get that different people have different priorities, but -- in the way that a radio transceiver is useful IF you know things like frequency, signalling mechanics, signalling protocol -- humans learn languages and use that to reason. To not develop your mind, is to throw away your greatest strength.

It's one thing to say "You have no expectation of privacy in public" and quite another to have someone following you everywhere you go, recording all you do and providing that information to government agencies without a warrant. Someone out filming a concert and you happen to be in the shoot isn't the same as having a detailed tracking record created on you, this is digital stalking.

This needs to end, it's a clear violation of the 4th amendment.

Person, the reason the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... -- has the NULL HYPOTHESIS as "no correlation", is because OF THAT. Your senses LIE!!!!

Fucking take your left and right hand, and 3 buckets if water of different temperatures. Let's say ONE is HOT, ONE is COLD, and the final is LUKEWARM/GOLDILOCKS.

Put your left hand and right hand into C and H, respectively. Wait. Minute.

Put both in the lukewarm.

Do your hands agree on temperature?

No. Fucking pay attention to your mental biases. That's why science is a DISCIPLINE OF MIND.

FFS.

"This ALPR mass surveillance â" the indiscriminate, continuous collection and retention of location data on every driver, regardless of suspicion â" should not exist. But because it does..."

Because of all those who predate upon those with lack of critical thinking skills.

"Wake up to reality" is the double-think that they say is dumb when they pejoratively call people "woke."

"Woke" is just a word for "slave that doesn't know its place."

It's one thing to be "seen" in public spaces, it's quite another to be subjected to "surveillance" in those public spaces.

One is everyday life, the other is being stalked. Last I heard, stalking was not legal.

> August was the joint-hottest month ever recorded, tying with July 2023

So which is it? Was July 2023 the hottest month ever recorded and August 2026 a repeat three years later?

Just trying to understand what they're really saying here - it was super hot in July of 2023, not as hot for the next three years, then it got equally hot again this past August. I don't think that's the data point they think it is.

> What could go wrong?

Insurance companies are offering discounts as much as 50% for every mile you drive in FSD on the Tesla 3. They wouldn't do that unless the actuarial tables are telling them it's significantly safer than when a human is in control.

Can things go wrong? Always possible - this is the real world we're talking about. Do they go wrong more often with the average driver behind the wheel vs FSD? Yea, definitely does.

Tesla FSD is safer.

People generally feel less secure only because they are giving up a measure of control but it appears to be statistically more dangerous to ride in the back of an Uber than a fly by wire Tesla.

I expect the prevailing thinking among the so called "tech giants" is that before the loss of level 1 talent would normally impact level 2, AI will be replacing level 2, and so on up the chain.

It's a risky gamble but the end game is clear - the job market WILL be disrupted and the ramifications of so many displaced workers may provoke an uprising.

Datacenters near O'hare airport were directed to switch to generators during the recent heatwave so ComEd could maintain the load. The datacenters complied.

I find it fascinating that they are failing to apologize to the people they traumatized, but very quick with the press release that it's "not Flock's fault".

While your chances of being shot by the police are tiny, they are additive the more times you get pulled over in this manner. The press release from the police should have been a mea culpa, a confirmation the error has been corrected, and an apology to the victims whose lives were put in very real danger, not the defense of the massive surveillance system that amplified their error.

Yeah.

They completely ignore panserpmia.

They just quote Isaac Asimov's writing from almost half a century ago (Europa). Ignores Enceladus, Titan, Venus, Mars; all of which have *BIOSIGNATURES* of a probability curve not too dissimilar to Europa.

They are likely a dilettante. Those folks do not do "prior art" research because they believe in the Auteur Myth.

  "An auteur is a filmmaker whose personal style and thematic focus are so distinctive that they are considered the 'author' of their films, a concept known as the auteur myth."

Real science isn't that. Real science is a rational discipline. The null hypothesis -- know what that means. Prior art -- know what that means. Mental biases -- know those, too; you'll see what you want to see, hear what you want to hear. Science is the discipline of mind that ensures you're not just spewing random nonsense. You verify what you think; that's the discipline.

As Isaac Newton said ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), "nani gigantum humeris insidentes."

Ignore them.

Everything seems obvious once it is explained.

Why do 12-14 steps of algebra, when calculus works in 2?

Obvious. People should know calculus.

Yet they don't.

Define Green's Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... -- is obvious.

Everything is obvious *IN HINDSIGHT*.