I wonder if Russia will use its own convict units to shoot NK soldiers who try to surrender or defect, or if NK will supply their own?
This is the most SF thing I've seen in the news yet. It's like something @davidbrin would have come up with in the early 1990s.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/softbank-emotion-canceling-ai-tones-calmer-tones
#Stanford’s top #disinformation #research collapses under #RightWing efforts
Stanford #Internet Observatory, which published some of the most influential analysis on the spread of false info on #socialmedia during #elections, has shed most of its staff & may shut down amid #political & #legal attacks that have cast a pall on efforts to study #online #misinformation.
#law #Policy #CyberSecurity #Congress #propaganda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/14/stanford-internet-observatory-disinformation-research-lawsuits-politics/
@w7voa "Prominently displayed" on Twitter/X just means you're paying $8/mo and therefore whatever shite you come out with floats to the top.
Brexit Silence: The Elephant in the Room
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5p-0VqreK0k&si=BMVA_gTl7AGoXVj2
Now that a 20-year NDA has expired, one of the original producers of The Apprentice exposes every step of how they concealed the real character of Donald Trump and created a new public persona for him -- one that almost certainly made it possible for him to run for President and win. It's every bit as bad as you might imagine.
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html
#China #AliExpress stopped processing #Russia rouble and shipping to Russia.
None of this inevitable and none of it has to stay this way.
Humans designed the "AI"/LLM/GPT systems, trained them, designed their interfaces, and then packaged them into everything they could get their grubby little human appendages on with no fucking opt-out (let alone opt-In) recourse all because those humans got the money-money-money FOMO brainworms and literally could not be arsed to envision a different, better way forward.
None of this inevitable; none of it has to stay this way.
Basically the tech equivalent of the guy I see every week across the street with a gasoline-powered leaf-blower doing things like spending the better part of a minute chasing a single leaf into the gutter.
BBC Cut Most Of My Comments Criticising Rishi Sunak & Brexit So I’ve Added Them Back In!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ETmRTU7IWb8&si=Ydj2s9nC_rZJC3rf
*I blame realistic utopias, in a public lecture with 35 slides
https://medium.com/@bruces/utopian-realism-a-speech-by-bruce-sterling-c315be2b0f44
Not to assume you wanted to know what's trending over on that other place, but if you did, it's not only #SleepyDon, but also the hilarious #DonSnoreleone
My latest, in The Atlantic: “In MAGA World, Everything Happens for a Reason.” From earthquakes and eclipses to QAnon, here’s why Christian nationalists and people like Marjorie Taylor Greene are allergic to explanations rooted in science or randomness: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/04/maga-conspiracy-bridge-eclipse/678017/
I love those videos where a guy cooks a big meal -- bread, steak, veggies, tea -- in the wilderness, with nothing but a knife, tea kettle, and a big flat rock.
... And the $50,000 vehicle that brought him to the wilderness, and ten grand of video editing equipment, and an entire global trade system that brought him his spices and oils and meats and veggies...
People watching that thing thinking, I'll be ok when civilization fails, I know where there's a flat rock.
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. 🥧