Jerry2

>Why are the tying laws not enforced in the US, or Canada

Regulatory capture and legalized corruption aka "lobbying".

>In May, we got a glimpse into the inner workings of Google Search, from a leak of twenty-five hundred pages of the company’s internal documentation. The files seem to have been uploaded to GitHub by an unknown party, in March

Does anyone have a link to this repo?

I've been using it for years. Being able to quickly add arrows and highlights is fantastic.

My only wish is for it to be able to open existing files. I wish I could just open an image, make some edits, and save it. Unfortunately, you can only make edits to screenshots.

I haven't heard anything about Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison's criminal cases in a while. Anyone know the status of cases of these two? What kind of sentences are they expected to receive?

I have two sisters and they're identical twins so I've read a lot about twins and they've told me numerous factoids and research into twins that they've come across.

What's fascinating is how various cultures treated twins. For example, the West African tribe Yoruba loved twins and worshiped them as Gods [1] while Australian Aboriginals had one them killed because they thought it carried an evil spirit [2].

[1] https://cwp.missouri.edu/2014/twins-in-west-african-culture-...

[2] https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/12/infanticide-in-trad...

I tried to run that app like 5 times since it was released and it failed to connect to the server every single time.

Since no one else asked... how is this done? Are there any specialized programs for this sort of graphical/visual programming? Or is this just a bunch of Python scripts using 3D/math/plot libs?

What it some bug lays a nest there? Or some dust flies into it? There's so many ways to disable this even without discussing the types of materials used.

Was this converted by hand or by using some vectorizer? Really impressive!

Anyway, are there any ML-powered vectorizers out there?

Since moving to 10-bit color, I've had to abandon GIMP because it doesn't support it. It's the only application that's giving me trouble so I've just switched over to Krita for occasional image manipulation.

>Despite many ups and downs, we eventually managed to obtain all the stages used in this attack, including four zero-day exploits reported to Apple, two validators, an implant and its modules.

Looks like NSA still hasn't forgiven Kaspersky for exposing STUXNET [1]. It seems that this latest attack on Kaspersky was expensive. Losing 4 zerodays must have been painful. It's also possible that Israel and Unit 8200 [2] was behind this but my money's on the NSA.

[1] https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-st...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/israe...

Do we know which bacteria/microbiota is causing this? Any benefits from taking probiotics?

My favorite is Red Dead Restoration: https://www.youtube.com/@RedDeadRestoration

Canada is taking in around 2 million immigrants per year. They're taking in over 900,000 students per year alone. [1]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6948733

Exact same things is happening with TSMC's $40 Billion plant in AZ. [1]

[1] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/tsmc-delays-40bn-...

>billionaire owned platforms

Do not refer to them as 'billionaires' since they're oligarchs. I have expunged the word 'billionaire' from my vocabulary.

I wish they would add Linux support. I use Linux and macOS almost 99% of the time and don't use Windows. Please Apple, make it happen.

Is it me or does this sound exactly like MS's 'Embrace, extend, and extinguish' strategy?

>"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE),[1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate",[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] that was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Thanks! I wonder why all of my devices are offline. Really weird. I also found their Instagram account (about the only social media account still around) and they haven't posted anything in over a year and there's a bunch of complains there: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbvSqTLs6fH/?hl=en

I'll try emailing them.

They probably had special NSA implants inside of them and didn't want it getting out. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

Thank you so much shagle! I still have not seem much info on how these things are actually implemented internally.

Related story:

"American IQ Test Scores Show Recent Declines, According To New Study" [1]

>American IQ test scores have dropped during a recent 13-year period, a remarkable finding that runs counter to the well-established trend of increasing IQ scores throughout much of the 20th century.

>The study found evidence of a reverse “Flynn effect” in a large U.S. sample of almost 400,000 individuals tested between 2006 and 2018 in several ability areas. The Flynn effect refers to the well-replicated finding that IQ scores increased consistently through much of the 20th century, with increases ranging from three to five IQ points per decade.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/03/23/amer...

Does anyone have any info on how the "guardrails" are implemented in GPTs? I haven't been able to find much info.

Yes, that's how it works. There's this amazing animated movie from 2011 that explains how banking works and the history of banks: "The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation" [1] It has almost 10 million views.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII9NZ8MMVM

Whenever I install a fresh Linux distro, the very first thing I do is I install a macOS cursor and replace the default one. I just can't use a mouse without this cursor. Every other cursor just doesn't look right to me. I know, I know... I'm sure others tend to install whatever they're familiar with.

This article is very short on details.

>"Indeed, high blood levels of lipopolysaccharides and certain short-chain fatty acids (acetate and valerate) were associated with both large amyloid deposits in the brain.

Any indications which bacteria produces these amyloids?

>Complete lunacy.

Exactly. I was being sarcastic. Yet this is what passes as intelligence these days. After Sy Hersh's exposé on what happened to those pipelines [1], they had to come up with an alternative theory and that's the best they could do. This wouldn't pass the second reading of a B-movie plot.

My point was that undersea cables and undersea pipes are now a "fair game" and in the future we will see these kinds of infrastructures suffer all kinds of incidents. It's lunacy to go forward in today's geopolitical climate with massive projects that have an attack surface that's thousand miles long.

[1] https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...

According to NYTimes [1] Die Zeit [2] and Financial Times, a rogue billionaire with a yacht and a team of 6 people can blow up natural gas pipelines that were hardened under concrete.

So how on Earth do you expect to secure such a massive length of cable?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/politics/nord-stream-p...

[2] https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2023-03/nordstream-2-ukr...

Hersh's report adds up more than "Russia did it" nonsense that's coming out of CIA-approved sources.

>"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

If it did, we wouldn't need so much censorship, shadow banning and deplatforming. Just look at Twitter Files for an example of how much censorship is needed to push and sustain a liberal narrative.