Blah. I went to see it on Thursday and while the action scenes and the cinematography we top-notch as expected, there was no story. I wasn't invested at all in anyone in the movie (well, Grogu because he's so damn cute). Sigourney Weaver was wasted in the movie. Though watching Hutts wrestle was kind of amusing, there was nothing for me to invest in. Granted, it was better than episode VIII, but that is a pretty low bar. Rogue One was a much better story - even though once you knew they were stealing the plans to the Death Star you knew where the story would go after, but how they got to the end...

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

...like "Tell me about Tiananmen Square" or "Tell me about Xinjiang".

Is this what you want for the future?

My thoughts back when R1 came out:

https://www.afcea.org/signal-m...

Aside from its strategic military position, the island is famous for its massive annual crab migration, where over 100 million of red crabs make their way across the island to spawn in the ocean. That's notable because the tech giant has applied for environmental approvals to build a subsea cable connecting the 135-square-kilometer island to Darwin, where US Marines are stationed for six months each year.


What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Also, TIL that US Marines are stationed in Darwin, Australia 6-months out of the year...

"If each human worker has a personal crew of agents which helps them produce more work, economic abundance could follow..." Even if we imagined that we're anywhere near technically capable of doing thing, this is an absolutely preposterous thing to suggest How tf are broke humans under capitalism supposed to have apersonal crew of agents Absent massive changes to our economy and an abandonment of capitalism literally all this would plausibly do is further concentrate all the wealth into the hands of the precious few who control everything. It's also obviously not seriously this person's proposition because if it was then what VC in their right mind would fund something that would render capital irrelevant ? All they care about is an exit and how exactly is that supposed to happen when you've achieved post-scarcity ?

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

And the likeliest explanation is things connected with the GDPR "right to be forgotten":

https://mashable.com/article/c...

Thank you. I had heard that on the "Titans of Nuclear" podcast and was fascinated. Reading the derivation was even or fascinating.

Don't you get sick of hearing this? These people have never read a Supreme Court decision. They're rarely about what the headlines state. I believe they didn't hear the case because there doesn't seem to be any contention in the Federal Circuit (yet). It's a single Circuit (1st) that basically had a tie vote. This needs to be heard by the lower courts again and in a different circuit.

FINALLY...someone gets it! BIG DONUT (not to be confused with BIG DOUGHNUT and DONUT HOLE) is ruining this country. Who is going to stop them?

I'm in Germany...financial services company...3 months minimum notice period. From Officer through VP. MD and above...not sure. It's similar across all of Europe. I just hired in Poland in November. Start date had to be February because they had to give 3 months notice as well.

Lying, deluded, possibly both and neither. There are things that can bring cheaper energy prices but that isn't the only thing that can effect an economy.

In general, I'm not a fan of Keynesian economics but I won't deny some things will alter the economy artificially.

What exactly did Trump do to keep the stock market floating? And what exactly did he do to set a bomb ?

Here is the thing. Under Trump we has cheap energy. Almost every time we have had cheap energy, the economy does well. High energy costs and it suffers. It's just that simple. It doesn't matter who is in office or what party they belong to, the economy has tended to do well. It takes a bit of time to get rolling but that is just a trend that has seemed to follow over the last 50 or more years.

I completely agree. I mean sanders uses to say the millionaires and billionaires and changed that to just billionaires once he became a millionaire, but at least when questioned he stuck to his guns and said you can go out and make a million dollars too.

I forgot which home he was staying at when he gave those quotes. I've managed to lise track of how many he owns.

Slashdot has always had their fair share of midwits. You were likely one of them at some short point in time too. Except you likely know continued further up the inteligence chain and are now able to look around to recognize it.