I ended up in the local newspaper for downloading a usenet article about how to make a D&D group in a town that didn't have one. The title was approximately, "The Internet Brings Satan to [redacted]."

I remember: "full of pervs"/"turns good kids into cybercriminals" [media], "terrorists will download nuke schematics" [discussion in a humanities class], "too many datacenters" [degrowthy prof circa 2006]. If your experience differs, that's good! But KOSA kept resurfacing from *somewhere*.

Part of the problem here is that this lying professor is well to the modern Trump sycophancy-science regime.

Idk what's more ridiculous, planning on getting clicks from computer illiterate genXers as a tech news org, or admitting you rely on using Google in a way that never worked consistently.

they’re not “replacing workers with AI” they are doing a much older thing that is making the people who are left do all the work

Folks say shit like this without realizing: 1. DDG scrapes Wikipedia without paying. Google and Bing pay 2. DDG's mostly just reserving their own ranking function over an old index and Bing. They pay Microsoft quite a lot for the privilege. 3. DDG has no warrant canary.

If I were on the jury I'd nullify the charges.

It's nice to see my thread inspired people

@shuchancellor.bsky.social Thinking of you, buddy.

Vacation day #4

Racist boomer American voters reading this.

like, clothing is the one thing which has arguably been enshittified _by becoming an order of magnitude cheaper_, but computers, phones, planes, televisions, houses, food,... basically everything but web services has gone the other direction.

Did a dumb American exec misunderstand what Tank meant? Nope! Starbucks Korea is owned by a Korean billionaire who supports the old regime. Every new tumbler is 503 ml. Random size, eh? A right wing talking point is that "activists" are exaggerating and "only 503 people" were killed on 5/18.

Honestly I'm sorta shocked that folks aren't mixing SDR and AI stuff. I guess most folks just don't realize GnuRadio appears to be in distribution for the major models and even post-tariff an RTL-SDR starter kit is under $50 and plugs into any USB.

What this tells me is that Azure is just not able to scale inference capacity well at all, at least not while OpenAI could walk in with golden tickets.

I've been meaning to write this thread for awhile. I'm quite certain that some military brained blueskiers will make fun of it and I will continue to make fun radio stuff.

You know what's interesting? The hobbyist SDR market was impacted by the tariffs within less than a year of sub $50 SDR+GPS units making low power DSSS a trivial thing to build. Like, uh, comically cheap. Let me just explain to you what this can do.

Well I set out to prove this model was inadequate because it OBVIOUSLY fucking is, save for the free-tier-chatgpt-powered nazi dipshits who insist it proves creationism... and lo, the best error I can eke out is 95CI 1.85-3.45x.

The other night I took the Mensa Norway online IQ pre-quiz thing, and I was 2 beers in on an empty stomach. I scored fucking 10 points higher than I have previously.

If Trump had posted a video where his face was crudely, south-park style, put over a wrestling match where another crudely adapted Stephen Colbert was pile driven, would that be better or worse than the AI video?

Maybe it'd be best to take a bluesky break.

Divvying up the nation's most valuable public goods for the benefit of a few tech oligarchs. May as well be casting lots.

It's been a shitshow for a while now

One thing that frustrates me quite a bit about bluesky is the sense I need to bend over backwards to get interesting conversations here. It's genuinely hard, it only seems to happen with people I know well. Everything else is incredibly shallow stuff, or resharing someone else's linkblog.

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"no ai on arxiv! >:(" but then u look at the actual criteria and it's like. ur citations have to be real. u have to proofread enough to make sure u didn't accidentally paste in some "here's a table of plausible-looking data :)" commentary from the llm

Day 3 of vacation.

The thing that depresses me most about Trump as a phenomenon is that he's like this inscrutibly optimized organism for the specific media environment he exists inin. He's not a master communicator, he's sign of some kind of media weather.

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Lmao

I wish I could put a little preamble in front of folks about to reply to me with just some contextual advice like, "The user you are replying to will not appreciate it if you lecture them without expertise" or maybe "Don't mention the indie video game you like made by a pedocon."

Starminer drops soon and I'm really excited about it.

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“They started offshoring because of remote work.” I don’t know where you’ve been but companies have been offshoring the entire time I’ve been in the labor force.

I find it kinda funny when folks say, "Don't get negatively polarized" from someone who is so negatively polarized it's comical.

holy shit

Its honestly kind of insulting how the Elite Class treats agricultural work more so a spiritual thing to validate their gender instead of real work that must be done.

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The way to "beat AI" is not just to "organize labor." The way to "beat AI" is to reorganize production in America such that employment is not a requirement to humans thriving. Organizing labor might be a means to that end.

My only concern with a strong regulation pass on data centers is that it'll further cemen they top 3 operators as the only folks who can build new capacity.

dear god

Found on reddit, accurate

Even without the deep dive, this graph doesn't actually suggest "diversity of thought." What it suggests is that the survey being visualized has questions that can accurately assess democratic party affiliation, but cannot do so for Republicans.

So there is no true investigative journalism anymore. Just tech bros propaganda.

People love to defend EA by saying "wouldn't you WANT your altruism to be effective?!" And sure, I guess. But I object to the implicit premise that we should have wealth concentration such that this is so impactful at the individual level.

People talk about how American society has atomized, that's bad and how we should all find ways to put aside our differences and come together as a people. But I cannot imagine any way in which a person swatting a grandma desperately performing to save a relative is like me, culturally or mentally.