One of the greatest opening bars in Hip Hop
Rage Against The Machine - Down Rodeo (Official Audio)
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Asa Dotzler
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Sir Robin's minstrel Stupid fat hobbit ex-Netscape, ex-Mozilla https://asadotzler.com
The medical devices industry wants you to believe that hospital grade hardware is somehow better than over-the-counter equivalents. Well, I've got news for you, direct from top cardiologists and pulmonogists I've spoken with, the consumer models are every bit as good as, nothing at all. Damn.
[1 of 3] I know some music history and one chapter is honky-tonk; first a name for the venues and later for the music played there, honky-tonk has undergone several major shifts, from ragtime's cousin to the modern musical heart of what came to be called Country & Western. (cont.)
I’ve been comparing my old, far too numerous blog posts, my more recent short-form social media posts, and the offline stuff I wrote during those two eras. I could be reaching, but I see a direct line from moving to Twitter to more structural variety in my offline writing, and I think I like it.
CSX, NS, UP, and BNSF carry >25% of US freight. If they disappeared overnight: Wk 1: Gas pumps dry, safe water supply exhausted Wk 2: Grocery stores empty, mass livestock death Wk 3: Rolling blackouts, heavy industry shutdown Wk 4: .... Combined rail carrier valuation: >$0.5T AI giants: >$15T
Asa Dotzler@asadotzler.com · 3d agoPrediction: By 2030, we will know that LLM usefulness is mostly limited to software development, customer support, document processing, advertising, and a few scientific fields and that generative AI presents a meaningful risk to less than 10% of US workers, and well under 5% globally.
Prediction: By 2030, we will know that LLM usefulness is mostly limited to software development, customer support, document processing, advertising, and a few scientific fields and that generative AI presents a meaningful risk to less than 10% of US workers, and well under 5% globally.
Prediction: Apple's upcoming AI glasses will not have photo and video capabilities. They will be able to see the world, but Apple will call this "sensing," or maybe "camera sensing" to avoid claims of covering up. Users will not be able to capture anything, the cameras will be for AI context only.
My experience of this movie as a 9 year old can best be described by a page full of exclamation points. I don't have that space here so I'll just say that it was a a lot.
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These 40 million year old trees were more mummified than fossilized. Not rock, but preserved tissue from redwoods that lived along side the earliest modern mammals. Wild! Visit the link for pictures and story.
The Fossil Forest of Axel Heiberg Island - Canada.ca
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Most world-changing tools arrive and and do their world changing thing with little fanfare.
We are most definitely in worst timeline: "BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display"
An LLM AIs does not "go rogue." It is instructed to perform a task. If the instructor leaves the front open and the LLM can perform the task best by working beyond the door, that's not "escaping containment," it's just following instructions. The instructor leaving the door open is the rogue here.
Meta and Apple could have shipped decent, almost comfortable, VR headsets like this. But this doesn't have a whole-ass PC inside so it can't be a platform with a lucrative app store. Rather than create something decent, Zuck and Cook gave us dork goggles so heavy they require multiple head straps.
Sam: Team, we need to take back the spotlight, show the world our models are the best. Make them hack a few friendly companies. It can't look like we're hacking, and it sounds even better saying the models went rogue, and that's what we'll say. We've got the press release written, so get to work.
In Georgia alone, 17 police officers have been caught using Flock cameras to stalk and harass people. Fuck those pigs. And fuck Flock.
In almost any other space, this would be considered a defective product. "In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police"
This whole blog post is great. A nugget: "But then I have to remind myself that I don’t sound like AI, it sounds like me. I’ve been em-dashing and comma-splicing up a motherfucking storm these past two decades. It was fun then, and it’s fun now." Right on, Hugh! hughhowey.com/the-end-of-a...
I've been thinking about it for almost 3 minutes now. I cannot recall any time this century when booking a flight or ordering a pizza was so challenging that I'd have paid for an AI agent to do it for me. Am I the crazy one? Is this shit actually hard for people and I'm just out of touch?
If you followed this from the beginning, it's absolutely hilarious. Maybe even if you didn't. (Ex-OpenAI bro wrote a ridiculous AI manifesto, put his money where his mouth was, and lost his ass.) www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/l...
Is my posting too bursty for you? I tend to dump a big load onto the timeline, then nothing 'til the next big dump. If it's turning you off or making you want to mute me, let me know. I can probably figure out some kind scheduling so it's not firehose to drought and back.
Random memory: Savannah, Georgia, in 1994 was just about the perfect place and time for a VTM and MET explosion. I was into D&D and my LARPing was reserved for Ren Faires, but most of my friends at SCAD were into MET public play. One of my roommates even got canine caps. What a place. What at time.
Silicon Valley has become a disgusting joke. "If you tattoo our company logo on your arm, we'll give you a job interview" was a real thing that really happened this week. Fuckin' A, man. We are definitely in one of the worst timelines.
In my youth, I carried (and used) Dave Foreman's book, Ecodefense. Today, I'm a bit less radical and my focus has shifted to defending humanity from Big Tech, so I'm considering a modern expansion, maybe the Security and Propaganda chapters, for our surveillance society. Does this already exist?
Free and Open Source Software licensing is based on copyright. If provenance of FLOSS code contributions becomes unreliable, the whole thing falls apart. LLM-generated code threatens all of that. Without copyright, copyleft licenses like the GPL and the MPL lose their legal teeth.
I'm sure many love the "Add Note" feature in Firefox tabs, but if you don't, it's easily turned off. 1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. 2. Click the "Accept the Risk and Continue" button. 3. Search for browser.tabs.notes.enabled. 4. Double-click to set it to false.
Friends in France and Spain, I'm hoping for the best for y'all and thinking of you. I know the stress and worry. Back in 2020, we had to evacuate when the 35,000 ha CZU fire raced within ~2 km of our home in 48 hours. Thankfully our side was contained, and I'm hoping for the same outcome for y'all.
Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled
Spain and France have so far borne the burnt of this summer's wildfires, caused by a succession of heatwaves and prolonged dry spells.
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Prediction: LLM AI will "democratize" very little. Excel didn't make us all accountants. Visual Basic didn't make us all programmers. For some professionals, it'll be useful. Elsewhere, not so much. We'll look back at the slop era like the "miracles" of plastic or the low-fat, high-sugar food era.
If AI slop's gonna hang around, we need better ways to deal with it. I'm not sure of this approach, but it appears they're trying: LinkedIn is adding a "seems like AI slop" button so you can report garbage you come across on the platform. A question I have is: what will they do with the reports?