Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@FrankPasquale

“My cancer knowledge is extremely limited,” one of Ms. Towle’s frequent critics texted. “Please respect my privacy.”

Eeeeeeeaaaaaaaggggghhh. It's impossible to even parody these people. Another one is "the privacy officer for Valley Health System, headquartered in Bergen County, N.J., where she shapes and manages the organization’s patient privacy practices, according to her LinkedIn profile."

It's just surreal. I know I sound like a Redditor when I say I hope that latter one loses her job, but seriously, it's appropriate here.

@beebrookshire The guy who said "it's wildly inconsistent" is missing the point. It's very consistent in one respect: it will say anything but "I don't know". Anything at all.

@beebrookshire

It's not like people are asking it on purpose. They stick it at the top of your search results and there's no direct way to turn it off. (Though you can put a custom url in your browser search settings to get a version of google search that doesn't have it.)

@EugeneMcParland Which is just the sort of thing a good mediator says, eh?

@w7voa We still have inspectors general?

@Fife4Europe Is it even espionage if the target simply walks up to you and hands you more than you ever dreamed of?

@rahmstorf Private industry has profited enormously, indeed in many senses almost exclusively, from government and academic investment in pure research. The enormous strides taken in digital technology and pharmacology, aerospace, etc, were not the product of the benefiting firms' own R&D. You and I paid for it. This has been the foundation of American prosperity at least since the second world war.

@jalefkowit There are people at work cracking the problem of developing Kodachrome. This is from 2017. https://shootfilmco.com/blogs/shoot-film-co/kodachrome-processed-in-color-seriously
But the amount of undeveloped film still sitting out there must surely be diminishing: by the time someone perfects a homebrew process that gets good results, there'll be nothing left to do it to.

@andreamm @1br0wn
Now if only they'd make the display convex with rounded corners and take a minute to warm up, provide a vertical hold knob to keep it from flipping, and have it shrink to a little dot that continues to glow for a full minute when you turn it off.

@w7voa
"My question is, have you ever engaged in bestiality? Go down to the farm and git you some, and then come back here and say 'This is a terrible thing."

Golly. It works for any damn thing.

@w7voa You'd think an administration that's this frightened of everything would be easy to bring down, wouldn't you?

@bruces
They also serve who only stand and wait (for the light to change).

Don't mind me, just catching up with some remedial study

https://archive.org/details/Artificial_Intelligence_Projects_for_the_Commodore_64_1985_TAB_Books/mode/2up

@inthehands Imagine you're in the middle of taking on a lifetime of debt for the privilege of attending Columbia, and next thing you know its administration is destroying your hard-won education opportunity by self-unravelling out of cowardice. Is that grounds for a class action lawsuit?

@w7voa "would have beat him with a hammer"? Cue days of speculation on Fox that he's the governor's gay lover.

@dimpase @cessie @stux @loke @notjustbikes

Some cities have experimented with giving transport drivers the ability to issue citations, but the possibility of an encounter with an aggressive owner means you pretty much have to leave that to trained law enforcement.

@w7voa
So in other words, key products made entirely in China will have low or no tariffs.

Whereas similar products built in the US which include materials and components from China will become more expensive, typically a great deal more. And of course, we have zero ability to make those materials and components here at this time.

Sheer genius on display here.

@mcc
An interesting question is whether it will produce _predictable_ defects.

One thing that has been a rich source of exploits was the culture, which held for decades in Windows development, of copy-pasting MSDN code without troubling to understand it.

This has enabled hackers of both hats, having found exploits in standard boilerplate, to correctly anticipate that those exploits would reliably exist in the wild, in huge numbers.

The AI-generation issue is subtler, but has a similar origin: lazy programmers who don't analyze what they're given in the context they'll be using it. That it will produce defects is a given, but is there a recurrent character to the _kind_ of defects, and will that prove to have results that are usefully predictable to someone?

@mtconleyuk @bruces Given that the subject is the white house, one can only hope it was a pun about the imperial presidency

@1br0wn In the US you can't even require the auditing of voting machines. "Why not" is one of those questions to which the most cynical response is almost certainly the correct one.