Trying to stop China’s semiconductor progress by letting them keep DUV machines and allowing “technical talks” is exactly like trying to stop Japanese clockmaking by letting in one Jesuit clock repairman.

For however advanced is YouTube's AI, it still gets things hilariously wrong sometimes. For example, it put a suicide notice on a video from a Buddhist monk talking about extreme tantric practices like self-immolation in Buddhism.

The Epstein files are the definition of what Marx called false consciousness. If you care more about them, than about inequality, you are playing their game. The further back in time the events therein recede into the past, the more discussion of them drowns out actual political concerns.

A 50-year mortgage has to be the stupidest thing Donald Trump has come up with so far. To live at the same address for 30 years in this economy is barely achievable for most people. But 50? Who even knows what the world will look like in 50 years? Survey says much of Florida will be underwater

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at how easy it is to make ChatGPT repeat communist ideology back to me. Something tells me that it will not be an ally in actually building that communism, though.

What upsets me the most about this is that if this were an open platform where you were in charge of finding someone to control Neo, be it yourself or somebody that you would either directly hire over freelancing or just someone you know irl, it could be incredibly useful as an accessibility tool.

We spend a lot of time teaching kids outdoor survival skills, such as with the Boy Scouts, but none at all teaching digital survival skills. And let me tell you, if you invite this thing into your house, you have absolutely zero digital survival skills.

I was finally recommended a YouTube short that was educational, funny, and well put together. I did not think such a thing could exist. How to Mug a Utilitarian? www.youtube.com/shorts/g34si...

you know it's a good movie when the first ten minutes are the star/writer/director/executive producer talking down the barrel of a camera about how successful she is and how much she loves donald trump

I just got a much better signal by taking advantage of the fact that La Mega WEMG is also available as an HD radio stream alongside 97.3 (HD1). I can decode it with `nrsc5` and then I can listen to it. :D nrsc5 97.3 1 -g 1.4 -o - | ffmpeg -i - -f s16le -ar 44100 -ac 2 -f wav - | ffplay -

I just got a much better signal by taking advantage of the fact that La Mega WEMG is also available as an HD radio stream alongside 97.3 (HD1). I can decode it with `nrsc5` and then I can listen to it. :D nrsc5 97.3 1 -g 1.4 -o - | ffmpeg -i - -f s16le -ar 44100 -ac 2 -f wav - | ffplay -

I have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with my local Spanish hits radio station, which is WEMG La Mega 93.9. I like listening to it because sometimes it has the news from my area, South Jersey, in Spanish, and I can also practice even when it's ads or music. So I like listening to it for practice.

Been messing around with software-defined radio. It's fun, but a lot more complicated than I thought to get good reception. I have managed to get passable reception of my favorite FM station, 93.9, but to receive digital television or AM radio is going to take a more complex antenna setup, I think

The film I'm (re)watching this morning is Breakfast at Tiffany's. I like how it starts with an actual breakfast at Tiffany & Co. I always forget that funny little joke in the beginning.

Am I a dick for thinking that when the Ukraine war is firmly in the rear view, we're going to get a bunch of cool video games where you are a drone pilot? I mean they'll have to get the next generation excited about flying drones somehow.

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Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

If you ever think you're having a hard day, at least you're not in charge of the Russian Central Bank. Where whatever you do, you are almost certainly on a path to a gulag.

The line «I'm Utah, I got multiple bitches,» is still one of the funniest rap lines I've ever heard to this day. (Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It)

Here's what I mean when I say the UK is a window into the future of the US, a decade of flatline "labor productivity growth" in order to return to the mean determined by capital intensity.

I just don't understand how everyone can know that global warming will destroy property values in Florida/South Texas in the next 30 to 50 years and yet property there can still go for over a million dollars🤔

lol

Jay helped me give this ghost decoration I got at IKEA a temporary home, he'll get a more permanent place to haunt by Halloween

The House of Mirth (2000) was recommended after my earlier posts. It's quite a bit different from Blue Jasmine etc, but I can see how it's in the same vein. I'm quite enjoying it. This scene cracked it up, and the drama of who she'll choose and how she'll settle her debts is interesting, I confess.

All this has led me to wonder, is the archetype of the socialite dead? Has the influencer totally replaced the socialite? Or does the young socialite still exist? Just in society so high, it is out of our reach and we hardly even make films about it anymore.

For some reason I decided to rewatch Blue Jasmine (2013) today. I honestly don't know what appeals to me about the archetype of films about rich socialites. I also love The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Legally Blonde (2001). I guess the signs of not being straight were always evident.

Late-stage capitalism is needing to pay for the neoliberal explanation as to why you're poor. This is the only story on CNN's homepage right now that is marked for subscribers.

Perhaps they are more like fundamentalist Muslims than they think, as I find little actual space between “USA! USA!” and “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!”. What is the world coming to?

I also wonder why right-wingers have the impulse to scream “USA! USA!” during assassination attempts. I can't help but find it funny though it's dreadfully serious. Indeed…this does only happen in the USA (USA!). Indeed…your politics are the reason why. What kind of relief does screaming USA give?

Japanese idiom of the day: 目糞鼻糞を笑う。 (Me-kuso hana-kuso o warau.) Lit. The shit in the eye laughs at the shit in the nose. ("Shit" could be understood as "mucus" or "booger".) This is an idiomatic way to get across much the same meaning as "the pot called the kettle black".

I don't usually post about current events anymore but that Charlie Kirk died of gun violence literally while he was doing one of his ridiculous “Prove Me Wrong” campus events and dodging a question about gun violence is the most American politics thing to ever happen.

Rust types look really ugly when you write them out, I hate the reuse of the for token. E.g.: type RangeClbk<'a> = &'a dyn for <'b> Fn(&'b usize) -> bool;

everyone thinks they're the first to consider whether 4chan/8chan is run by Mossad/the CIA/the FSB/the PSIA lol

It's possible you may find some proof 4chan's funding isn't as it states publicly, but I doubt it as channers have tons of their own conspiracy theories about it, you'll likely just add more noise to the pile. If dark money props it up, the trail is very well hidden.

Because I was a long time chan user, and if I saw a Turing test on a board I was a user of, I would indeed post a fail on purpose to mock the OP. Now, my behavior is perhaps peculiar, but given I know for sure I would do this, I assume other channers would have done so too with no prior agreement.

One should hope human users have the common sense to understand that as so little identity information (PII) is needed to post, that 4chan is now outdated technology doomed to be forevermore overrun by bots. It cannot be otherwise with LLM's existing so ubiquitously on even basic consumer hardware.

Let me expand a bit on this answer. While in the past it was just «schizoposting» to say that either the majority or a large minority of posts on anonymous BBS's like 4chan were written by shills or bots, with the emergence of large language models, it is now a near certainty that this is the case.

i sure would write weird comments on drugs lol

Dumb tip for avoiding spam calls. Try to get a phone number that is in an area code completely across the country from where you live. For example, I kept the number that I got when I was in LA because spam callers will often try to make it look like they're calling from the same area code "as you".

This is fucking horrifying for some reason and since I had to see it you have to see it too.

When I saw this screen a few days ago, I said, oh Jesus Christ, holy fuck, I thought I installed malware. 😂 Seeing it in my screenshots again was funny. PortProton may have gone a little overboard with the gamercore graphics, at least as far as the comfort level of Linux users is concerned.

Wow, even in Japan they got knockoffs of Nintendogs.

These examples of how to write the character 台 in calligraphy start out normal and then they hit you with the squiggles. 😂😇🖋️

Both of these flowers came from the same seeds. Genetics isn't everything.😊

Does this little Sierra Entertainment mascot guy have a name?

I'm 31 and just saw somebody on YouTube around my age explain what radio is for his "younger audience". Cars still have radios. I can't imagine anybody, even a 12-year-old, not knowing what the concept of radio is. I am glad that I am not this cringe yet.

I wonder if I would get fewer spam calls if I had an app that would allow me to play fax machine noises in the ear of spam callers.🤔