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nyc_data_geek1on New Cyber-OSINT model released

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

Isn't conversation on this forum supposed to be more informed and curious? Why are you posting idle speculation?

nyc_data_geek1on Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms

Money is not speech, no matter what the courts say.

"Underground tunnels are immune to surface weather conditions (subways are a good example), so it wouldn’t matter to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the surface. You wouldn’t even notice."

Musk, Twitter, 2022

This is, on its face, an utterly idiotic and untrue statement. Look at the subways in NYC anytime it rains

nyc_data_geek1on Five tech giants are hiding $1.6T in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

You can't eat AI slop

nyc_data_geek1on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

Taste changes. Teslas now feel like janky, shoddily assembled, cheaply sourced ipad cases with wheels and a passenger compartment. Novelty wears off.

nyc_data_geek1on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

nyc_data_geek1on Jobs and Software Is Fucked

This particular technology has been trained by explicitly ripping off a lot of peoples' friends, though.

nyc_data_geek1on The Cypherpunk Library

Understood, apologize for my misconception of your assertion. Mass media, of course, is only too happy to cultivate such misconceptions on the part of the public.

nyc_data_geek1on The Cypherpunk Library

Maybe don't be so dismissive of that which you lack a thorough understanding.

Recommend reading "Against the State" by James Stout, wherein he describes history of various Anarchist societies, including Barcelona during Spanish fascism, Myanmar where they are very successfully fighting the junta which wrested control from their civilian government, and Rojava where he personally visited and gives a firsthand account.

nyc_data_geek1on Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements

If we need to check everything AI produces, every reference and factual assertion, where is the value in what it's producing? Why should we spend the money on producing this, and the time reviewing it, when I can just do it right the first time? Where is the efficiency?

nyc_data_geek1on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

Equities are underlying collateral. Prediction markets are literally just betting on an outcome, no underlying asset exists.

nyc_data_geek1on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

He could be right, or he could just be a phone company CEO trying to get you to buy a new phone, or he could be both.

nyc_data_geek1on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

Take it a step further. Words, in the financial world are largely used for obfuscation, marketing, concealing of the truth by financially motivated actors. Thus, financial literacy is looking at the numbers, market conditions and geopolitical situation, while consciously discarding whatever bullshit corporate speak is being disseminated by captured media.

nyc_data_geek1on Permacomputing Principles

The whole idea that pushing back against resource exhaustion and planned obsolescence is inherently apolitical is bunk, in fact. Politics are only "extra" and "bolted on" when you are comfortably benefiting from the status quo

nyc_data_geek1on Appearing productive in the workplace

Absolutely, and exactly my point. This boils down to wasteful make-work again.

As the bard said, brevity is the soul of wit.

nyc_data_geek1on Appearing productive in the workplace

And they are generating the longer version with AI, that you are then using AI to summarize.

This is not adding value for anyone except people whose function is to look busy, and people trying to avoid their busy work.

nyc_data_geek1on U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets

UnusualWhales begs to differ

nyc_data_geek1on Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

Because your fear is their marketing, is their valuation. There, saved you a click.

nyc_data_geek1on Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories

“The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,” with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent. Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”

nyc_data_geek1on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

Many people struggle to differentiate between illusion and reality, these days.

There's a sucker born every minute, after all.

nyc_data_geek1on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

Who's going to enforce antitrust laws in this environment, pray tell?

nyc_data_geek1on Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

It's like low-background radiation steel. There's a finite amount of information out there that's not ai garbage, and the percentage of scrapeable information that isn't tainted grows smaller by the moment.

I imagine this trend will continue, and the price will go up.

nyc_data_geek1on California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget

This is not creating widgets or lines of code, not creating a product for consumption, this is fostering the development of inquisitive minds, hopefully encouraging them to become critical thinkers and ultimately the next generation of leaders who will push the bounds of human knowledge further than ever before.

Why would better tools be expected to do enable teachers to do that for more students at a time?

There is a lot of research out there showing worse educational outcomes as class sizes increase. This is one of the areas where wealth disparities in education manifest; rich areas tend to have smaller class sizes, and historically the very rich would pay for private tutors for their kids, whereas poor kids are stuck with bigger class sizes, less individual attention from educators, and typically average worse educational outcomes.

nyc_data_geek1on The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables

Corroborates that zero-trust until now has been largely marketing gibberish. Security by design means incorporating concepts such as these to not assume that your upstream providers will not be utterly owned in a supply chain attack.

nyc_data_geek1on Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall

I will sell you hotdog default swaps. Even if I lose, I win.

nyc_data_geek1on Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall

I’m the CEO of a hot dog company. I’ve worked on hot dogs for 10 years. And I wasn’t prepared for what I’ve just seen. Your life is about to change.

So what can you do?

Buy as many hot dogs as you can. Buy stock in hot dog companies.

nyc_data_geek1on Claude Opus 4.7

Very cool that these companies can scrape basically all extant human knowledge, utterly disregard IP/copyright/etc, and they cry foul when the tables turn.

nyc_data_geek1on The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety

Cool story, bro!

nyc_data_geek1on U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile

Significant crop price increases, which tends to be bad news for anyone who eats food.

nyc_data_geek1on U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile

>>or lint traps stuffing and toilet cloggings will happen.

Thank you for your service