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Comment Not all slop is equal (Score 1) 35

I've heard some pretty sad excuses for AI slop (Shunned at a Funeral) but some very clever uses for it too (Amelia). "The best thing the government did...was invent me!"

As long as they're honest about it being AI I'll decide what I want to listen to. It's hard for it to show any creativity, but creativity is sorely lacking in all current music.

...laura

Comment Numbers without percentages (Score 2) 189

Obviously NYT is just about narrative construction but it would be nice to know some figures like:

* what is that in percentage of researchers?
* and grants
* how many are typical in a year?
* what is the net in each direction for this time period?
* and for a typical year

I happen to know rwo researchers who got a position in Canada and several Canadians who got positions at US schools. That just seems normal from my limited perspective but maybe it's just because I feed them Molson and poutine so they keep coming around.

Remember, numbers given without percentages and percentages given withouts without numbers are always propaganda.

This has been your Defense against the Dark Arts class for today. Do your homework.

Comment old news, and Project 2025 (Score 3, Informative) 75

Old news. We heard all this back in the 20th century.

1998,
  LOpht testifies before Congress
https://commdocs.house.gov/com...

Clinton weighs in to protect us from all this in 1998
https://clintonwhitehouse5.arc...

and countless other incidents

And now we have DOGE eviscerating CISA because Project 2025.
https://www.darkreading.com/th...
https://www.americanprogress.o...

The problem with CISA is that cyber security measures previously taken have served to make Russia look bad and did nothing to prove Trump actually won in 2020.

Comment Re:Good luck getting insurance to cover it (Score 1) 54

Have you tried doing carnivore for thirty days?

I did the beef / tallow / salt only thing a couple years ago and it gets old very fast but the metabolic changes hit fast after about 15 days.

Surprisingly it was cheaper than a regular grocery bill (not counting labor for roasting).

Probably a bit better with a CGM but I only had test strips.

I dropped 15 lbs which wasn't my primary goal but could have kept it up if I needed to lose more weight.

Comment Re: Mitch McConnell (Score 2) 38

Watch the video of the EMT's loading the ambulance at his home.

If they were any more non-rushed they would have had time for a card game.

If there were even the faintest pulse they would have screamed out of there with sirens blazing.

But TPTB didn't want Massie running in a special election.

Day by day the populous is realizing that "Democracy does not exist".

Comment Re:Windows MALWARE back door (Score 1) 39

The headline and summary make it sound as if this functionality was built into Windows itself.

It's not. It's malware.

The only people affected are people who installed Windows and THEN installed the malware. Probably as part of a phishing campaign, or by downloading something that pretended to be legitimate software.

That ^^^ or perhaps some legitimate software that was OK when installed, but later got a supply channel hack of an update that included the malware.

Comment Re:Help Me Understand (Score 4, Informative) 39

It sounds very similar to how a Wake-on-LAN trigger works. Based on how that works, it requires another machine on the LAN with a foothold to send the magic packet?

So, we're looking for the machine with the foothold and anything that even vaguely related to that PoS ESET?

The real problem here is the eternal Windows problem of dll side-loading.
That allows a system dll to be impersonated and evade sfc scannow protection. How it gets activated is by far less of a problem than that the bad code is already resident in memory waiting for instruction.
Also, there's the problem that someone has gotten the privilege to put it there.

Comment Re:What can be done in case of a positive test? (Score 0, Troll) 47

Ironically there are treatments that show efficacy but they range between not FDA approved and illegal.

You can go to Mexico or the Caribbean for some of them (or find underground psychiatrists).

Getting lots of regular sleep, exercise, and going ketogenic can dramatically slow progression but there is a tau prion aspect that is difficult to halt. Lots of Omega-3's can keep your astrocytes healthy.

Some evidence supports ultrasound treatment but it's probably the higher harmonics which are not well characterized or even understood outside a few labs (ASU, et. al.).

Use protection as the tau prions don't stay in the brain.

Comment Re:This reads like fake news (Score 1) 39

We deserve better psyops.

If the reporter had read Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent they could have done a better job but let's not give them any ideas.

BBC has always been in the business of narrative construction in service of the powerful to control the population.

And also Benny Hill.

Comment Re:Haha "particles" (Score 1) 40

The mid range of the standard distribution thinks particles are real physical objects.

One end of the curve thinks that sounds like nonsense - the other end knows they're mathematical abstractions with no intent to claim a physical description.

Some people are working on a physical model (bounded surface area / Pauli exclusion) but in the odd world of Mathematical Physics the physicists Interested in the physical are sneered at.

It's reminiscent of "that bitch is so ugly" heard from the mids about the prettiest girl in the room.

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