ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Brad Smith is Microsoft’s secret weapon when it comes to lobbying.

The company is taking a two pronged approach to regulatory capture in AI where Sam Altman talks up how scary AI is and Microsoft proposes regulation which happens to work out great for them both.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/25/brad-smith-microsoft-ai/

“A better world is one in which we have a dynamic system that can seek equilibrium against a variety of activities and circumstances.

Where rather than having to hope that every time the world changes Mark Zuckerberg guesses right…

And if he says that our future is being legless, sexless, low-polygon cartoon characters in a heavily surveilled Metaverse named after an idea from a dystopian science fiction novel…”

(@pluralistic with the mic drop)

https://youtube.com/shorts/v_gUDx0nlPI

PPPoE stands for PowerPoint Protocol over Ethernet and thus belongs in the Presentation Layer (layer 6).

Prowides.

#comics #comicstrips
#GeorgeHerriman #KrazyKat

#RandomComicBook today. Cover artist #RCrumb

#comics #Comicbooks

“Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”

- Wanda Sykes

Russ Heath 1954

#Comics #comicbook #ECComics

The name of Sonic's sidekick, 'MIles "Tails" Prower', IS A PUN ON MILES-PER-HOUR HOW AM I JUST FINDING THIS OUT TODAY?

babe are you ok, you've barely touched your lorem ipsum dolor & cheddar wrap

Still looking for a good website/blog which covers recent scientific info about reptiles, amphibians, and other #herpetology stuff. I've got a lot of science blogs I follow, but I only get a trickle of my favorite subject there :(. #science

And yet another entry in The Histories has arrived!

Say hello to Tammy Orville Coxen, Empress of the Campari Express (1893-2005)

You can read this entry (and 38 others) right here: https://www.shaunduke.net/thehistories/doku.php?id=wiki:tammyorvillecoxen

Thanks to Tammy for the support. This one took a lot of research to write, but the final product came out well, I think!

If anyone else wants an entry (or get something added), deets are here: https://www.shaunduke.net/thehistories/doku.php?id=wiki:buyhistory

Thanks for reading! #writing #sciencefiction #althist

The question that many gay and trans people are wondering is not, “Can Ron DeSantis get elected?”but instead, “How many of us will end up dead if he does?”
#USpol #politics #LGBTQ #fascism

Saw a Bunny!
#bunny #rabbit

i think it's weird that HBO changed their name to be the same as Netflix's failed PS3 app

Overnight, Microsoft announced "Windows Copilot" - which integrates ChatGPT-like features across the entirety of the operating system used by hundreds of millions of PCs.

Rolling out before the end of the year.

So yeah, that's pretty huge.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23732454/microsoft-ai-windows-11-copilot-build

I have been refusing to upgrade Windows 10->11 without having any specific one thing to point to to justify this decision and I feel, at this moment, that I have been totally vindicated https://mastodon.social/@mpesce@arvr.social/110420390278715544

Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 05/23/23!

Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.

#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork