Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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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. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
"Russian soldiers have nearly stopped concealing their crimes feeling total impunity for their looting in the country's border areas."
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@gloopsies @thomasfuchs
Hey, how many people remember what "Meme" was really coined to mean, as opposed to "smart-assed text over a JPG"? Or what "Avatar" meant, before they repurposed it to "web forum profile image".
"The street finds uses for things" - William Gibson, 'Neuromancer'. In like sense the intarweb finds spectacularly dumbed-down uses for words.
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The biggest problem with “AI” is probably that it’s used as label for two completely different things:
1. Specialized neural networks trained to do highly specific tasks (e.g. cancer screening) which often work reasonably well as a tool to support human experts
2. Generative AI which thoroughly produces the most mid bullshit
It doesn’t help that neither are intelligent in any way, they’re both statistical pattern matching.
If one of the 21st century's greatest threats to the Constitution says you're a threat to the Constitution... you're probably a threat to the Constitution.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-president/index.html
I haven't the slightest idea who's paying me more money than I ever saw before in my entire life, now gather 'round to hear my in-depth analysis of geopolitics.
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just a few of the things people aren't in prison for:
- Grenfell
- inciting rioting
- PPE corruption
- excess Covid deaths
- probable Russian collusion
there's some common connections, but i can't put my finger on it
Stewart Lee in the Guardian, re undead Oasis self-resurrecting at next years Fringe:
"Edinburgh fringe performers’ and audiences’ whole month’s accommodation budget would go in a night, so by my reckoning the first two weeks of the festival just got totally fucked, Oasis singlehandedly murdering what 14 years of the Tories’ war on the arts couldn’t quite kill off. Sorted!"
Or return everything he's looted; not just by the soldiers ad hoc -- that stuff's probably irrecoverable -- but on a wide scale, as a state act. Russia's hollowed out Eastern Ukraine of a huge amount of its cultural and material wealth.
Boeing didn't learn the Sears lesson. Sears should have been what Amazon is now: up to the 90s it had an unstoppable distribution network, priceless brand equity and its own credit card. But they went Gordon Gecko and self-cannibalized, while Jeff Bezos went Jeff Bezos and built what they could have been relatively effortlessly, from scratch.
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Odds that Boeing C-suite execs have worked out that a combination of aggressive cost-cutting and profit-taking is not how you build or sustain a cutting-edge business: 0
Did you know that having a relative who shares things with you on Facebook is equivalent to having degrees in virology and political science? What an astounding age we live in.
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Allegedly, this is a new "Russian joke":
Putin has a nightmare because of events in Kursk, and the ghost of Stalin appears to him.
Putin pleads with Stalin: "The Nazis are invading Kursk! My army is retreating! What can I do?"
Stalin tells him: “Do just as I did in 1943! Send your best troops from Ukraine to the front, and get American supplies!"
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This is just priceless:
Ukrainian soldiers have begun reviewing Russian restaurants and cafés on Google with wonderful compliments along the lines of
“Excellent food, but the parking spaces were too small for our Abrams tanks”,
and
“Great service, but the restaurant did not have tables for all 2,000 of us”,
etc., etc.
Enjoy Vladimir!
😀
The housepainters are just finishing up. We went with a fairly subdued dark blue color, with the front steps and porch slab in a kind of sand or dijon. Now that I get to see the total effect, it's rather more Ukraine flag than you'd expect. I swear it was unintentional.
"If you're a retired F-16 pilot, your services may be wanted in Ukraine.
"That's according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, in comments made just after meeting with President Zelenskyy in Kyiv."
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@andrewbarss @LeslieBurns @mattwilcox
it's wild, right?
elections are run by states in the US, making it a total smorgasbord, or shitshow...depending on perspective
in some states the elections are run by an appointee (done by the governor), in other cases that person is elected. sometimes it's just the Sec. of State, sometimes it's an Election Board person. good times. in these disunited states
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-runs-elections-in-your-state-use-our-map-to-find-out
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The true measure of a person's worth is the inverse of that of his detractors. Therefore strive at all times to make utter tossrags disparage you.
[Jeff Foxworthy voice:]
"If you ban your citizens from using the same social media services that you use to spread disinformation abroad.... you might be a dictatorship."
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The relationship between Valinor and Middle Earth is the same as the relationship between Barbieland and the real world
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
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. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
