Local news chyron said “SpaceX rocket expected to have crashed into moon.” Very interesting use of “expected”: in my ideology it’s for future actions, not events that could have occurred but are uncertain
Huh, SPCX was down 12.5% yesterday. No, wait, it’s down that much today. The market opened four minutes ago.
Local bourse has one weird trick to end war
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d agoStill wild to me we’re literally fighting a war entirely outside of trading hours
Still wild to me we’re literally fighting a war entirely outside of trading hours
Note that, despite transphobic policies being much more advanced in the UK, only a small portion of the discourse has been about trans women in sports This rhetoric was specialized for the US, where, yeah, we care way too much about children’s sports
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d agothe obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.
Don't pass this offer up. You'll thank me after you finish each book.
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Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
yeah he sees himself as being in a negotiation with Iran but at war with Minnesota
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d agoStill can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on a 1938 VW Beetle
And it was successful and was a key part of the British service economy bringing in lots of cash. And it’s being destroyed by bigots, idiots, arrogant twats and private capital.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d agoBetween the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)
I did a few years as a poll worker; this has fewer options than any US ballot I've ever seen
Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more
The list of 34 candidates standing in the Clacton by-election is nearly a metre long.
bbc.co.uk
"the teenage hitmen are recruited on social media, and are given their instructions in a 'gamified" way', imitating how computer games work." Frustratingly, we're living in a @cstross.bsky.social novel
Foxtrot Network: The shadowy gang recruiting teen killers across Europe
The Foxtrot Network is thought to be responsible for about 35 murders in Europe, and uses violence-as-a-service tactics.
bbc.co.uk
So: instead of "I could score a point against Serena Williams," what world-class athlete do you think you have a chance against in *any* physical sport of your choice? Keeping the Serena theme, I think this is my best bet
Mike Wasson@mikewasson.net · 4d agoI’m trying to think of a physical “sport” i might have a chance at and I’ve landed on
*going through last night's tabs* why the fuck was i reading a "proof" of the riemann hypothesis
Looking at number 5 here and thinking I must be misunderstanding something
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
openai.com
This needs to be said more: LLMs will supply the checks that’ll reduce process failure that should’ve been happening anyway but didn’t because of some combination of cost and failure tolerance. This will be due to LLMs reducing coding cost, not because LLMs will be part of the process
Ed@ed3d.net · 4d agoA LOT OF IT! A WHOLE FUCKING LOT OF IT! Though to be fair it's not just "should have thought of", it's also "did not have the effort budget to do". Like people build shitty workflows held together by human attention and human effort and then stop. They do this *all the time*. I do this all the time
I think this is both likely true and absolutely not in tension with LLMs as useful tools These things require skilled operation and the biggest problem with their release is that nobody had the time to actually figure out how to use them first to not torch normal people. sry @golikehellmachine.com
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoSuresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/
Anakin Skywalker was a kid who lived on a desert planet who liked tinkering with both electronics and mechanicals. Yeah, it makes sense that he hates sand so much. Especially when your hobby project is a protocol droid talks back and is catty.
Warren Zevon should’ve been a Travelling Wilbury. Give him Bob Dylan’s slot
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
My first thought was the birth control pill, but of course that cutoff is too late.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 5d agoI like this brainstorm: greatest achievements since 1969. Number one for me: eradicating smallpox What else?
doing the things a lesbian cann
Actual names@actualnames.bsky.social · last wk.Lesbian Mann New York, State Census, 1915
The thing about this is - the fact that this is even a goal for them makes it clear that SM are flat out just in the business of trying to humiliate a social minority. They just hate trans people, there's not more to their campaign than animus.
Astrid@astridsramblings.bsky.social · 5d agoSorry for the SM graphic but they have lost their JR attempting to ensure that trans people must, under all circumstances, be searched by a police officer of the same sex assigned at birth - including intimate and strip searching. Occasional good news
it's so funny they simultaneously want to win the "AI race" and also nuke graduate students in America, most of whom will take their expertise back home
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6d agoU.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“A Half-Mile Closer to the Moon” brand high altitude cherries, grown half a mile above sea level in Washington state: yeah I don’t think that’s ever true. There’s always a place at sea level whose distance to the moon is less than half a mile more than the farm’s lunar distance
hearing that Infantino's chances of winning the Fifa Peace Prize are shrinking fast
John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 6d agoSo Concacaf sides with Uefa. FIFA's financial power grab is done. What's funny is Infantino would probably have just about got away with this if it wasn't for the Balogun thing. As i said at the time, that scared the absolute shit out of the European FAs. So they instantly closed ranks on this.
Was just reminded that Guy Reschenthaler is still in Congress, somehow. Man, this world of ours.