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bagels··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
It can fit on augmented reality glasses, eventually.
bagels··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
I wonder if manufacturers are using LLMs to find all the dumb loopholes in the laws that they can.
bagels··on America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
No, houses were much cheaper compared to income.
bagels··on America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
It's shocking how poorly built these houses are. No insulation, broken roof trusses, gas leaks, concrete property walls falling over.

It's not like houses were always perfect in the past though. My 1953 house has construction debris mixed in to the concrete foundation in the corner of the garage, where I assume they ran out of concrete, and knots in the roof planks patched with garbage as well.

bagels··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
They probably asked claude how to do it.
bagels··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
People with a legal right to vote.
bagels··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
It's gray because people downvoted it.
bagels··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
You think they wouldn't use it? They're using all the things they can get their hands on. The census also has side effects on the franchise.
bagels··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
The US Government is the entity that weaponizes the data. The most obvious example is the Census Bureau compiling lists of people of Japanese descent to imprison during WWII. That's just the most obvious one that I know of without looking up more.

The real push for this now is to form lists of people to disenfranchise.

bagels··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
How were they not already auditing access to customer data?
bagels··on Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
Did he have to? Some of that sounds like choices, especially in the start.
bagels··on Three of our worst VC stories
For some reason they're not threaded on the twitter link, but you can see them threaded on the xcancel link:

https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2062860530360959273

bagels··on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
Starlink is growing. Valuation is too high, but it is growing.
bagels··on Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
Low earth orbit includes orbits that take from hours to centuries to decay, depends a lot on altitude/apogee/perigee. Starlink for multiple reasons places satellites in the range where it takes ~5 years to decay, thankfully. Kessler syndrome is real though, and satellites do collide or break apart in LEO.
bagels··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
Using c++ templates wrong in the year 2000 exposed me to real compiler bugs in the Microsoft c++ compiler at the time, the kind that would make the compiler crash.
bagels··on That Methyl Methacrylate Tank
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bagels··on That Methyl Methacrylate Tank
I think the passive version is the tank stays in a pool all the time.
bagels··on How to convert between wealth and income tax
It's a wealth tax. You're just describing what the funds are used for. Other types of wealth tax can pay for those things too.
bagels··on How to convert between wealth and income tax
Homeowners already pay a wealth tax.
bagels··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
What intermediate is involved?
bagels··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
I think that stretches what it means for a company to "be" a 125b company, but that is still awful.
bagels··on The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
That isn't how it works anymore, as far as I know (it used to). The dealerships now can print paper license plates with numbers on them.
bagels··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
I wish they weren't privacy invading, and abusing open source, but I love how good the printers are. I want to print practical things, not continually fix design flaws in the printer (as was the case with the Creality Ender).
bagels··on Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog
"Luis" Vuitton is the knockoff brand, but point taken.
bagels··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
It's been a long time since I was in school. What does this software do?
bagels··on Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks
"The RSA algorithm was publicly described in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman at MIT"
bagels··on 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
$30 devices don't have apple screens.
bagels··on Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
There was a lot of open dissent on workplace from what I recall.
bagels··on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
I guess this is a new word basically meaning conscription by force.

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

bagels··on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts
You need a license for most frequencies.
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