We give them a lot of leeway because they have a hard job, it's stressful, and it's very difficult to keep people on the police force for more than 5 years. Most of the cops I know that lasted through the first 5 years are Army or Marine combat veterans. None of that gives them the right to violate people's rights, and I'm not sure why they do it. They'll get paid the same whether they actively seek out cases or not. I think some of them are the kinds of people who seek conflict. That tracks with the domestic abuse statistics in cops.

Low pay, high stress, high burnout rate, high turnover, difficulty of recruiting means cops don't get fired unless they do something really bad. Even then it takes a while.

I imagine Anthropic etc are doing behavioral analysis/segmentation on all user accounts to detect bots and other interesting things, because why wouldn't they, and the distilling botnets are tuned to fit acceptable organic-appearing behavioral segmentation. Don't look random, look meaningful. Don't be a super-power user, but be productive enough not to set off any alerts.
I was always wary (maybe in hindsight) of the free data thing. It goes both ways as we have seen.

Who urinated in your Golden Grahams this morning? Is your name Mullenweg?
"Some employees said they were “ecstatic” or “relieved,” but others had mixed emotions because the move creates more instability." - tfa
Guide the ship. Don't piss into the wind and get the crew wet. If you do that, they should make you walk the plank.

When all the people you work with don't like you, maybe you're the problem.

At first I was like "who the fewk cares about this story/these people anymore" and then I watched the trailer. Holy shit I don't even think I can watch that. She's an absolutely terrifying creature wearing a human skin mask.

Just like me stealing your knowledge by asking you a bunch of questions over time. But I'm paying you.

The administration are setting up (or being set up) to blame China for the AI bubble collapsing. They need a (godless communist) scapegoat for the corruption and collusion that's causing the huge dumping of public money into private corporate pockets.

is the answer Bitcoin?

help me understand...

These are The Economist's "estimates", also known as bullshit. You know, The Economist: the weekly magazine of classical economic liberalism where the journalists are anonymous, photography is of the stock variety, and the articles are business friendly. Also the leading advertiser for the fossil fuel industry.

Assume differently! This is the USA. The only thing the DOJ is doing is protecting Trump from prosecution and maybe going after what he thinks are his enemies.
Trump appointed his own lawyer as the AG after firing Pam Bondi, another one of his lawyers, for not rounding up all of his enemies fast enough and appearing on TV too often, making a fool of herself.
The DOJ is no longer separate from the executive branch in a way that it would or could perform an investigation on members of the executive branch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This sounds like Palantir's Gotham at work. All your data is available to LLMs that are used by any agency involved in national security to detect security threats, including narcotics trafficking small amounts of weed.

DHH might identify as a classic liberal .. because he's rich. Enormously rich. So rich he gets to complain about Copenhagen having too many gypsies, London not having enough white, English "native brits" when he's not even a fucking Englishman. He lives in Chicago where I do. Where there are homeless people on every corner downtown, migrant kids selling chocolate on the corners, bum shit all over the public transit system. He's given up on America I guess because the plight of the UK and his home country's influx of non-white, non-Danes breaks his rich little heart.
His "As I Remember London" post is turgid with pride for the far-right nationalists marching in London. (Which he visited once as a teen) He's upset about things he's experiencing via video and tweets.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolv...
"When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them."

I had Audacity on linux and never found a use for it. I guess if you're cheap and you don't need the full capabilities of a DAW, Audacity might be good enough. I guess it's more like what pro-tools was - a file based recorder with editing capabilities. I don't know if anyone in their right mind uses it in place of something like a DAW, most of which you need to pay for.

"I hope it isn't too late to avoid the most concerning architectures and that OpenAI will stop here"
Why hope? If OpenAI thinks it will give them an edge, they'll pursue it as far as it will go. If they don't someone else will.

I thought that's why our C-suite kept spending hundreds of millions on stock buybacks, but then we got bought by a company nobody ever heard of at a pretty hefty premium. Meanwhile, people have actually seen their salaries decrease (you tech workers are overpaid compared to the rest of company! actual thing an executive said) and the idea of retaining talent is just an idea they're looking for ways to solve that don't involve paying the proles more money.
I thought they were creating a stock control "moat" but really they were just building up the amount of stock they controlled so they can walk out with hundreds of millions rather than tens of millions. So not only will they get a huge premium on the existing stock when it's taken private, they'll get huge payouts to leave once the new overlords decide to shift them out and replace them with people they like.