In other news, billionaire technology wizard doesn't know a ridiculously obvious enhancement artifact when he sees one.
Think about the fact that there are people who want a man this stupid to put chips in their brains.
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government.
[via @adzebill.bsky.social]
[Follow IA on BS if you wish: @eotarchive.org]
#internetarchive #archives #uspol #USPolitics
https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/
The New European: The Brexit report that names the guilty parties.. and why it will be so hard to rejoin
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-brexit-report-that-names-the-guilty-parties-and-why-it-will-be-so-hard-to-rejoin/
Apparently the swift, direct, modern, and well-appointed train service that currently exists between these two cities has the defect of not dumping enough carbon into the atmosphere, eh?
Just watched the 2013 film "Coherence". Easily one of the best "soft" #SciFi screen works I've ever seen; like a long-form, really superior episode of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits or Black Mirror.
Also, very impressive use of no budget whatsoever. Somehow it ends up being a strength of the film.
DON'T read any reviews, and don't worry if your early reaction is to not like many of the characters. Liking them isn't the point.
Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.
Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.
When someone continues to go on about something despite you giving no indication of sharing their outrage, never say "how about I just give you my proxy, so you can care about it twice as hard for both of us?"
On account of it smarts, if their reaction the dozen or so times I've done it so far is anything to go by.
How democracies quietly transform into oligarchies without anyone noticing.
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧