sojournTime @sojournTime@qoto.org

Oh no the Chinese are doing the useless thing that gives wrong answers cheaper

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/tech/deepseek-stocks-ai-china/index.html

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@caten Linear programming was basically invented for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich

@masukomi just in case: https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/1i7v7hg/my_teams_intern_just_found_a_critical_bug_by/

how an interns attempts to familiarize themselves with a codebase, and spice up the comments resulting in finding a major security vulnerability. Via Reddit, via 🤷‍♀️

Upon Googling, I discovered that Ben #Garrett did not come up with the repulsive phrase "the #sin of #empathy": there has for several years existed a whole cottage industry of right-wing Christians dedicated to propagating the idea that empathy is a sin. I've been calling out #Christian #hypocrisy for as long as I can remember, but I think never in my life have I seen any doctrine quite so contrary to the #Gospels as this.

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068

Update: the National Archives have preserved the old whitehouse.gov site, including the PCAST report page at https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/pcast/documents-reports/

As of today, the reports of the #PCAST committee I served on are no longer available on the whitehouse.gov web page. As a temporary solution, my former PCAST colleague, Eric Horvitz, has made them available on his page: https://www.erichorvitz.com/PCAST_reports_2020-2025.htm

I feel like there were about 100 easier ways of doing this but I fully buy that OK Go actually went to these lengths because it's *no fun* otherwise and this is why I don't believe that anyone will ever give a shit about AI art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEULOSVNK4

11 years ago Klint Finley laid out how neo-reactionary thought was taking hold in Silicon Valley

"many professionals, rather than admit to their role in gentrification, wealth disparity and job displacement, are casting themselves as victims. "

It remains an an amazing primer

Better than that horseshit NYT interview of "intellectual" Curtis Yarvin

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

Remember: When someone tells you democracy needs to be replaced, they're not making a political argument.

They're pitching a regime.

Because in the end, that's what gives them away. They don't want to end democracy to save society. They want to end it because, in their minds, they're already sitting on the throne.

Watch what happens when you suggest someone else might lead their proposed new system.

Watch how quickly their enthusiasm dims.

This isn't about ideology. It's not about left or right. It's about individuals so consumed by their own certainty, so convinced of their own superiority, that they see the fundamental equality of democracy as an obstacle to be overcome.

They don't hate democracy because it's inefficient. They hate it because it constrains them. Because it forces them to persuade rather than command. Because it treats their voice as equal to, not greater than, everyone else's.