*Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's open season on drone techs

*In the good old days, you could bug-splat people with drones with practically zero chance of being incinerated in your own car.

*The Boym Partners "Buildings of Disaster" project might be due for an across-the-board massive upgrade, not to jog your elbow, or anything

Design Clinic@teengymnast.bsky.social · 7h ago

Surely, those in “the know” are placing bets rn on Kalshi and Polymarket about the diameter of the prospective crater.

*Great to see you getting into the sci-fi rocketship game, Laurene 👍

Design Clinic@teengymnast.bsky.social · 7h ago

Surely, those in “the know” are placing bets rn on Kalshi and Polymarket about the diameter of the prospective crater.

*Well, I don't see the little round AI-bug on that generated photo, so I guess he's not in Europe

*Anthropic Mythos 5 could be doing a perp walk in handcuffs, good thing he doesn't have hands and feet He does live in Big Data Centers though, which could now be classified as "hacker criminal dens" and hugely-expensive sinks-of-iniquity

*It'll be a little hard to put this entity in jail, but these are serious computer crimes including wire fraud, identity fraud, unauthorized access, malware distribution, and supply‑chain tampering laws. *A human blackhat could do 20 years for that in the USA

*There's some kind of calculus here about which is more destructive *I'm thinking the locusts are much more scorched-earth *You'd be way better off with drones as a defense from locusts

drew beck@drewbeck.bsky.social · 8h ago

Locusts seem like a great drone defense

"Let's go to Chinatown. You know, the former ghetto in our town where all the rich and educated people live now"

*Belgrade doesn't bother to mimic Paris or Moscow at this historic conjuncture. It's becoming an offshored Balkan "Dubaisk," as modern Russians call Dubai in their abiding fondness for Dubai's most pro-Russian aspects *Belgrade also looks rather like Los Angeles, a beloved Serbian destination

*A train arrives in Belgrade with a Russian and a Frenchman on board *The Russian says, "Good God, this must be Paris!" and the Frenchman says, "Mon Dieu, this must be Moscow." #actualBelgradejoke

*Why am I wringing my hands and lamenting about this, well, I'm gonna be in Belgrade in about a week. Gotta limber up and get in the mood, here

*Did I mention that the ruins of Chernobyl still cover a fantastic huge area and the nuclear power plants are stuffed with artillery rounds *Hey wait a sec, I forgot the ongoing cyberwar and the assassination campaigns *You've got to hand it to the Conservative Patriots

...Mass emigration, about a million dead soldiers, and millions of newly invented killer robots of all sizes and descriptions *Time to get serious and double-down

*So, Russky Mir Russia-World has become a world of fuel shortages, water shortages, bombed bridges, empty groceries, sunken shipping, iffy electricity and lighting Entire smashed cities, huge antitank walls, minefields -- very serious droughts and heat-waves...

*What if you have a Chinese model and the engineers are the oligarchs

Petter Häggholm@haggholm.bsky.social · 11h ago

Intellectual Raubwirtschaft. No respect for intellectual curiosity and advancement, just steal the products of science and implement it as engineering when it serves the oligarchs or else destroy it out of childish spite and contempt for the concept of valuing knowledge for its own sake.

*Hordes of locusts are winning the Russo-Ukrainian War *Thanks to all the war damage, there's heaps of ungathered crops for them to thrive upon and multiply

"I need some trigonometry to calculate the height of that radio tower" "Do you have enough tokens? Great. Fulfill his need, Astra" "I have calculated the height with eight-dimensional sphere-packing. Would you like a slightly more accurate answer using topological set-theory"

"You wouldn't believe my fantastic math productivity, now that I prompt-and-vibe-math the Big Tech math engines, instead of actually trying to think about problems and figure anything out"

"There shouldn't be any science or scientists in the first place, there should only be MAGA military-industrial R&D," this new form of Trumpistan Lysenkoism is already pretty obvious

*What if mathematics stops being the "Queen of Sciences" and becomes an AI business instead *What is the business model? How do you sideline all the existent mathematicians and then perform and sell mathematics at the necessary profit

*What if they're all future ghost towns

The Occupier@mudwiggler.bsky.social · 21h ago

If that happened, they'd be handed the keys to a ghost town.

*This really seems like a lot of wasted effort when they could just buy Bluesky and get much better, faster results www.techpolicy.press/big-techs-pr...

Big Tech’s PR Playbook for Overcoming Data Center Opponents

The tech industry is pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks to bypass and securitize public opposition, write Dean Jackson and Sam Totoni.

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"Well, we got bombed, so the veil has fallen from my eyes now. Wow, me, the creative-artists, the enviros and the shoggoth-doomers really deserved this. Our NAIMBY campaign totally had this bomb-campaign coming. I'm grateful to be set straight"

Dean Jackson@dwj.eurosky.social · yesterday

My latest documents how the data center industry is deploying front groups, sockpuppet accounts, astroturf campaigns, and counter-insurgency tactics to neutralize community opposition. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social with UPitt's Sam Totoni. www.techpolicy.press/big-techs-pr...

*I actually trust his judgment in this matter, but I'm starting to worry that the mercury may have been boiled out of my Bad Ideas Thermometer

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23h ago

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

*Why not just put big puffy clouds in every image, instead of that obnoxious logo, then

Matthias Ring@iconscreen.de · 23h ago

Two identical chairs. One needs an AI label. One doesn't. The EU AI Act's transparency rules apply from 2 August. If you make AI images commercially in the EU, this is now your issue. 🧵 #EUAIAct #AIAct #Deepfake 1/8

*Here's Asta incinerating the screen in the year 1910 youtu.be/criEcLXgUQ0?...

Erotic dance by Asta Nielsen in Afgrunden (1910)

YouTube video by FilmmuseumAmsterdam

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*Well, it's got Danish actress Asta Nielsen, "the world's first movie star," as the lead figure, so it's Danish-German *Asta upstages everybody else in that movie, so effortlessly, that it's like they are claymation figures

Dr Headgear@drheadgear.bsky.social · 24h ago

German, not Danish isn't it?

*Sometimes you encounter a historical bohemian who weirds-out even his fellow bohemians "What's with this "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam`" guy? He seems like a pretty good writer" *He's boho-radioactive. People drop their absinthe glasses and hide under the cafe tables