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mrzarquon in most places, internet person. Tech cynic, renewed ttrpg nerd, would prefer to bake bread and help others build art. So tired.
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Chris
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Annoying side effect of Apple re-using tech names: I want info on restoring / using their original 1.44 MB Superdrive, not their later USB DVD-RW Superdrive. (I may be re-homing a Macintosh Plus in the near future)
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Chris
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Compared to other moments of France's political history, this is quite tame really.
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Chris
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Yeah, nothing inherently wrong with charities, they existed when the top tax rate was 95% and exist today.
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Exactly - he literally created the Boring Company and HyperLoop to kill public transit projects because he hates busses. You don’t want the sociopaths the “free market” selects for CEOs being the ones to spend public funds.
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Chris
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Nope fuck that, that’s literally the agenda of Effective Altruism. They don’t get to decide where the millions of capital they extracted from society, society gets some back to spend on boring shit like rail and estuary restoration.
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Chris
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we can celebrate his charity but also agitate to tax the fuck out of the 1% (among other things)
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Reminder on how cooked the vote distribution is here. Labour didn't win, Tories just lost. I don't see Labour removing FPTP because it gave them this landslide, but if they don't it will likely spell their future defeat while STV would shore up a left / progressive movements against Reform.
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I say let them have a little Independence Day as a treat - they're the single greatest cause of them.
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.
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Chris
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The frustration at not being able to vote today is tempered by the fact that there's little influence a NI seat will ever have in Westminster anyway. I did just get my 🇮🇪 citizenship approval letter, so I can look forward to being able to vote soon for maybe useful local politics for a change
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Is it crazy I'm jealous of this - here all roads are managed nationally (like all Northern Ireland), so even if every person in a village or town wants a bike lane, we need to convince five people who won't admit induced demand exists before it happens - even if they are funded to build bike lanes
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Chris
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The irony is the real luxury isn't the crown molding or a minimalist design, it's affording the staff to keep it clean. The conditioning of luxury to be associated with commodity goods is to convince people to be happy with consumption. Don't eat the rich, you can have the same dishwasher as them.
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I was about to make the same joke
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I'm so disconnected that I thought the use of un-alive was more about trigger prevention than demonetization and didn't introspect that any further. Future linguists will have pre and post algorithm eras won't them?
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Southland Tales (2006, dir. Kelly)
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Fast Company just did an interview with Sam Reich (CEO of dropout) and how he salvaged the company - youtu.be/qRK_gNfFdP0?...
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Chris
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You can turn the soles around so it looks you're going the other direction. I call them Sneakies! -Rusty Venture
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The Ugly Machine
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Behold, the Cool S Sword.
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Chris
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Checking out Q-Con today, the local anime/gaming convention that predates the internet conspiracy groups by 30 odd years - www.q-con.org.uk
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The downside I think he may regret is now most people assume openAI is doing all the work behind Siri, because Altman's PR machine has convinced everyone that's the only "good" AI.
Apple's own research results is really impressive: machinelearning.apple.com/research/int...
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Chris
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Cook is pretty open on how the value of the technology is the problems it solves - ChatGPT is a solution in search of problem still. But there's pressure to include it, so they added it in the most at-distance way.
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Chris
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The fact that OpenAI is a bolt on afterthought, and they've openly discussed making it possible to swap to gemini or other cloud LLMs, means Apple really wants to make those systems distinct from their own local / context specific offerings.
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Chris
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Glad to see you point that out - Apple's focus (and implementation) of the tech is different than openAI's. They're anticipating stage 11/12 of the grand AI hype cycle - where people who focus on problems being solved not the implementation tech are the winners - blog.glyph.im/2024/05/gran...
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Chris
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That’s essentially Apples Secure Enclave story/pitch for fingerprint and Face ID storage - it’s what they led with.
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Chris
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Mafia rules strike again, surprising no one. I love this news is breaking before the shareholder vote on letting him reincorporate in Texas to keep his illegal in Delaware bonus.
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Chris
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- Electric converted Cord 812 Phaeton
- Fund and build an eco co-housing project like www.thevillage.ie or www.lilac.coop
- In a village similar to Hay-on-Wye or Wigtown
- That somehow has rail and greenway access to denser populated areas
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some ai company (and former blockchain scam it looks like, looking to make money from their stockpile of graphics cards) appears to have bought the login to Kathleen Hanna's old twitter account and is using it to promote their main feed:
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The fact that PT Barnum was a (quite celebrated) Mayor of Bridgeport,CT was of no surprise to me, but floored my wife is probably illustrative of the differences between European and American ideas of democracy.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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The AI writers have a lower footprint than humans reminds me once again that people keep losing the plot and beyond ignoring that it's still additive shows a graphic misunderstanding that the point of cutting CO2 emissions is to maintain habitability for humans and not you know for emissions sake.
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Chris
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End up on a depressing walk along the Dublin canal, as they’ve resorted to spend millions on fences instead of housing. All so they can keep the landlords happy.
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Tiocfaidh ár lá
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Untitled Goose Game, obvs
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This meeting could have been an email, but instead we've boiled three lakes worth of fresh water for 4 AI agents to meet for 30 minutes and generate no outcomes except decisions requiring more emails to resolve, with everyone swapping their input prompts to understand what was supposed to happen.
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Chris
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This is reminding me of all the tech we used to have to send faxes. Like the service that you'd upload a PDF to, it would dial the number, transmit the fax to the server on the other end which would then convert whatever was sent to a PDF and email it the person associated with the #.
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Chris
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Beyond the Hallowed Sky (start of a trilogy, 3rd book just came out), Ken MacLeod A long way to a small angry planet (Wayfarers series, a few books in the universe), Becky Chambers
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HACKERS absolutely rules as a movie. It's also one of the most politically relevant films, even more so now than in 1995. Diverse group of youth activists take on Wall Street and corrupt law enforcement to stop an environmental disaster pinned on young activists nslayton.substack.com/p/the-eerie-...
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I was one of five graduating students for my weird highschool that closed 20 years ago. We’ve met up since and joked about it being a reunion (one friend lived with me for three years, so when a third showed up - instant reunion!)
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Yeah - it’s not the distance in this part of the island but the roads - it’s 100 miles to the ferry terminal - but on essentially what we’d call two lane country roads in the US. If you’re lucky you don’t end up behind a tractor.
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I should add it’s also a single 90 minute bus ride from Hereford, where one can get a train to the ferry terminal or London and the rest of the island, etc.
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We did the Dublin route this time - beautiful but exhausting drive through Snowdonia.
This was roughly the route:
maps.app.goo.gl/JmayTKGCGR3v...
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It’s either an 8 hour ferry to Liverpool then a 5 hour drive, or a 2 hour drive to Dublin, 3.5 hour ferry, and a 4 hour drive.
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Living in Belfast is the reason we're able to make this a regular trip - travel here is a ferry ride + long drive.
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The festival is really only 20% of the experience, the town is where it's really at (and probably a better book hunting experience outside of festival week), so if you end up in the UK at some point, it's worth the 2 day detour to visit Hay-on-Wye.
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It’s our second year going, it’s amazing. Hay-on-Wye is such a weird town. Saw a bakery for sale and realized it was immediately a plot hook. “Burnt out tech person buys bakery in village with 16 bookshops”
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Chris
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Hello from Wales, where we're camping by a river a few minutes walk from a book festival. Earlier today I got to see Stephen Fry read from his just finished and not yet published book about the Odyssey.
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There is so much investment capital wrapped up into AI hype as a way to destroy labor movements that they're trying to will it into existence by brute force at this point.
*points to stage 11/12 on AI Hype Cycle* blog.glyph.im/2024/05/gran...
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his job is not beach, his job is 'sun deck'
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except for this guy
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Following the discourse on the latest Fantasy High episode and it's easy to find the folks who would also argue you need to debate fascists in the marketplace of ideas, as that's the polite thing to do.
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