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  1. But the agency issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory. There is no new intelligence behind the agency’s shift, officials said. Rather it is based on the same evidence it has been chewing over for months.
  2. Or more probably, you won't be able insure a flammable house
  3. It's something they don't believe in until it's politically expedient to, then magically it'll be the Democrats fault that were in this mess
  4. I mean the guy was literally an internet drug dealer - if he wasn't white he wouldn't be getting the love that he is enjoying. The pardon in and of itself is overtly political Not sure how you separate the two in this story. Get used to it, this sort of newsworthy norm breaking is gonna only intensify and make you more tired and frustrated. It's how the soviets and russians maintain power, at least. Now that we've got our oligarchs class calcified it's time for the next step
  5. Man, that was the prevailing theme from CES this year and it sucked. Ed Zitron actually reported live from the floor for 5 days this year and discussed that and many other topics It's crazy how many products and services are claiming to be "AI" simply because they put it behind a chatbot powered by an LLM. But someone has gotta squeeze those snake for their oil, dagnabbit! It's frustrating because it muddies the water and sucks the oxygen and trust away from ACTUAL use cases for the technology. Transformer architectures are pretty neat, and yet still offer loads of innovations in fusing together disparate data sources to synthesize a more rich understanding. We're still in the metaphorical vacuum tube era of that computer science. Things tend to accelerate fast, but the bottlenecks they're increasingly running up against are power and water. Gonna get reeeeeeaaaaaalllllll interesting.
  6. Even better, sewage and sludge is absolutely slam jam packed with forever chemicals! Yeah sure fuggit whatever just send it down the river. Fuck having clean water
  7. I'd bet my bottom dollar those quite expensive systems are just up-charging an off the shelf system or reference architecture. Hell my desktop PC with a 3080 can index 100,000 pages of documents in but tens of minutes, and what I've helped my customers implement is on the order of a few cents of one-time compute costs per ingested document. But they're also building it themselves (with some help 😉) instead of buying professional services from Oliver Weiman or Deloitte, which is saving them a fat bundle I mean, we're already running with chatGPT-authored executive orders. May as well smoke em if ya got em at this point
  8. Just had to circle back to comment on this - what kind of slapdick business is bringing suppliers it doesn't trust?Oh yeah sure Bob, don't worry that you sent the wrong grade pipe to my plant - I'm sure the high pressure caustic fluid it carries will be gentle with it. What you're describing is a solution desperate for a problem to solve and justify it's massive capitalization
  9. Ed Z has been a tech writer for more than a decade and actually has a pretty good handle on this stuff insofar as a writer would. But more to the point: openAI is hemmoraging money like crazy and loses more money the more that people use their ChatGPT subscriptions. Its a tremendous amount of energy and compute capacity to train these models, and the multi-modal agentic design only amplifies the number of token used to respond to a query. As a technical specialist in this field, I can tell you that their offering is more like a prototype than an enterprise-ready solution. That's not to say all of this tech is bullshit, but holy hell there's a lot of snake oil being bought and sold
  10. aren't the locks already somewhat on a running down clock? The lakes they use to operate the locks are at historic lows with major impacts to traffic flows I do wonder if trump's thinking is to seize the canal to preserve whatever's left of the throughput capacity for #amerikafirst
  11. FYI that link 404's and the link that works is https://www.texasonefund.org/copy-of-donate-now weird
  12. My bad, I'm remembering other contemporaneous copycats that used TSR's model for their schemes. I'll fix my post, thanks for catching that
  13. And four terms is right out
  14. Welcome to the joys of snap restructuring led by an empty suit with an MBA!
  15. My bad, Bitcoin is also excellent for operating a criminal enterprise at scale. One step further, I really doubt that TSR's operating model would be palatable for any real business considering how much overhead and time they spend on just maintaining crypto infra, rather than traditional payment means. Also, you're an order of magnetude off on scale, TSR only sold $183M in revenue off illegal drugs and human trafficking and contract killers Most of Ulbricht's profits came from the money laundering services of the tumblers he operated, and it came out to around $13M in profits for him at the time.
  16. Hah credit to YouTube for bringing this back across my feed
  17. That certainly tracks with the science at least https://www.psypost.org/adolescents-with-authoritarian-leanings-exhibit-weaker-cognitive-ability-and-emotional-intelligence/ The results showed significant relationships between both cognitive and emotional abilities and ideological attitudes, though the strength and nature of these relationships varied. In line with prior studies in adult populations, adolescents with lower cognitive abilities were more likely to endorse authoritarian attitudes, both on the right and left of the political spectrum. Interestingly, the relationship between cognitive abilities and social dominance orientation was weaker than for right-wing authoritarianism, suggesting that hierarchical preferences might be less cognitively driven. Emotional abilities, however, emerged as even stronger predictors of ideological attitudes than cognitive abilities. Adolescents with lower emotional abilities were more likely to hold authoritarian beliefs across all three dimensions: right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and left-wing authoritarianism. Furthermore, when emotional abilities were included in the models, the influence of cognitive abilities on ideological attitudes became nonsignificant, suggesting that emotional abilities may play a mediating role.
  18. Bitcoin isn't useful for anything except hoping it goes up in value to sell to a greater fool. If you want to spend it, it's a huge hassle and all but requires you to use a 3rd party for trust in the transaction. And at that point, you're just using a slower and shittier and more expensive debit card
  19. Fucking wild, the Antioch High shooter was a no-shit black white supremacist https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/purported-writings-from-antioch-high-school-shooter-show-his-plans-thoughts-before-death In one of his first sentences, Henderson wrote he "was ashamed to be Black." He was anti-Semitic in his writings and posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacy group that visited Nashville this summer. Henderson said he was inspired by Candance Owens, a conservative Black pundit who previously called Nashville home. "Candance Owens influenced me above all each time she spoke," Henderson wrote. His writings showed that he had been thinking about violence for a few months. He wrote his final remarks on Nov. 18. "I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a living breathing disgrace. All my (in real life) friends outgrew me act like they didn't f—ing know me. Being me was so f—ing humiliating. That's why I spend all day dissociating."
  20. It's just wild to me that people are defending him. He knows how to show love without seig heil-ing
  21. Ars with more reporting, written by Eric Berger of SpaceCityWeather fame: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/nasa-moves-swiftly-to-end-dei-programs-ask-employees-to-report-violations/
  22. I'm not looking to be convinced, but I am genuinely curious of why you believe that crypto will solve the problems you mention in a way that's better/cheaper/more secure/more durable than existing means. If you require a trusted 3rd party to effectively use bitcoin, then the entire premise for the "trustless" crypto currency is shot. I understand the technology and the utility, and it's not a matter of "belief" - it's a matter of efficacy and cost.
  23. Captainant

    3D Printing

    Really cool new tech in slicers - "bricklayers"!
  24. Let me tell you, no services or business workflows use em. Because at a fundamental level, they are simply more complex and expensive than a traditional data store. Plus, what's the point of running a trust less architecture if you're inside the network boundary and already have the benefits of trust? You can even realize idempotency without blockchains, there's not a favorable comparison if you already trust all the nodes you're connecting to. Then please, show me a real world example of a real crypto transaction with Bitcoin that isn't so laborious. Or are you saying that you need a trusted 3rd party to handle the complexities?
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