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...Adobe? What interest do they have in data harvesting so much from vehicles?

>at what point does a company become a collection of impenetrable siloes, where nothing really does what you expect?

Around the year 2015.

>I know the UN claims that "Correcting cartographic distortions of continental sizes constitutes an act of cognitive justice and memorial reparation." but it's purely symbolic and changes nothing geopolitically.

Symbols are arguably the most important aspect of geopolitics.

Trump is dangling them in front of his opponents and the public.

"Lake America" is a literal nominal change that will have no lasting impacts that anybody actually cares about. But because it's so wild and outrageous, it captures so much attention that you probably haven't heard about the following:

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/31/trump-say...

* https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/31/politics/homeland-security-vo...

* https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/aug/31/trump-plans...

* https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/why-the-editor-of-stars...

* https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

* General Iran War stuff

* The failure of American-Canadian tariff negotiations that precipitated the lake rename

Dangling shiny keys in front of people remains an effective method of narrative control a decade on.

There are several hundred federal judges, and cases like this can be brought before virtually any of them. As a consequence at least one judge has ruled practically every single action by the Trump administration is illegal. These rulings are typically overturn at some point in the appeals process up to the Supreme Court, which has mostly upheld them as legal.

Level 10 spec is 2^40 pixels, which is a ~1 million x ~1 million pixel square.

An active "yes/no/cancel" prompt is a paragon of usability compared to the modern standard of constant yes, except for when it fails with a silent no.

You probably have a bad Thunderbolt chip. No way around it besides SPI flash (which is honestly pretty easy):

https://gitlab.com/MobileAZN/lenovo-t480-thunderbolt-firmwar...

The contrarian in me wants to say Margaret Mitchell.

What? Gold underwent a massive revaluation with the end of Bretton Woods in 1971. It was prior to then that government were actively involved in making the price of gold artificially low.

Fun fact: under 31 U.S. Code § 5117 a troy ounce of gold is still valued at 42 and 2/9ths dollars.

Per their status page, the main product now has one 9 of uptime.

It continues to astound me that no one has given LLMs the full Derrida treatment.

Rwanda has prospered for the past three decades while Malawi has floundered because Rwanda is run by an effective dictator engaging in developmentalist nation-building. Malawi has no equivalent power center, and certainly none with the beneficence to try and raise up their countrymen.

Had this statue been erected in 2006, it would’ve been an immortal masterpiece. Had it been sculpted in 2016, it would still have been a great statue but flawed. But it was made in 2026. Alas, what can one say?

Well yeah, LLMs generate resumes (and other text) that they judge as superior to alternative plausible texts. Why would that judgement change just because a different instance hasn't seen it before? To anthropomorphize it, it's like having a hiring manager write a resume, get amnesia, and then have to judge it among other resumes.

I mean, the name of that whale is now Teresa T. You gave it that name.

The idea of using the moon as a weather satellite is rather ingenious.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that it took over two years for this data to be released after it was collected.

>which makes buildouts difficult without significant state support

Which is why I said to subsidize it as state policy in the original comment.

>cost to build is significantly higher in the US because land is privately owned

Which is why I said there should be liberal use of eminent domain in the original comment.

The U.S. spends $500 billion a year on electricity[1]. $2 trillion dollars worth of bonds to lower the price per kWh is modest, especially given that it would enable new tax revenue from manufacturing and chemical production, where electricity is usually the highest input cost, even in China.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62945

I am speaking from a position of total ignorance, so this is probably a dumb take, but I don't see why rich nations[1] don't simply subsidize mass nuclear energy production as state policy. The two main issues with nuclear are unit cost (solvable if you build dozens/hundreds in serial production) and financing (a reactor with a 30 year payback period is much more viable with 3.5% sovereign financing compared to 8% private bonds). France did it 50 years ago with more primitive reactor designs. China is currently doing it somewhat halfheartedly. I bet if the U.S. committed to $2 trillion to one standardized design and heavily used eminent domain, America would have knocked electricity costs down by half within a decade.

[1] Honestly probably only really viable in China and the U.S. plus maybe South Korea; nuclear is unpopular in Japan after Fukushima, and I doubt the E.U. would be able to coordinate everything. Everyone else is probably too poor outside of petrostates, which have the whole petro thing going on.

Just delete the model file?

See also: public school teachers. You either need to be insanely passionate or incredibly stupid to take ~$55k/year for long hours as an educator that is also a babysitter. And insanely passionate teachers are in short supply.

Also in the pipeline: elimination of jury trials

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2x01yne13o

> They've pushed AV1 (and other) encoders forward substantially.

AFAIK fansubbers were the first to adopt 10-bit video, way back in 2011.

Looking at Google Maps, there's Al Dhafra Air Base a couple of miles to the datacenter's south, an oil refinery a bit to the east, ports to the north, and a military academy to the west.

Counterfeiting money is bad, and should be illegal (the wisdom of forcing such software into printers notwithstanding). Manufacturing your own products is good, and shouldn't be illegal.