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This is amazing. For anyone who hasn't heard of number stations, this is the trove to delve into.
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Given what he's done to sitting congresspeople (plus other existing track record), seems fair to say he's not only crossed the Caligula threshold, he also told Nero to hold his bigmac while he went out to prove by contrast how Constantin moving his capital was actually a sound decision.
This is incredibly on point.
Spot oil prices grab the news, but it’s the impact we’re about to witness to petrochemical and derivative production that should really scare the shit out of folks.
It’s the sort of shock that could ripple through our global industrial economy for many months.
Very much like datacenters building their own energy infrastructure upstream of balancing authorities in the US.
Hey, remember how I said that my third friend in the oil industry didn’t respond? Yeah they got back to me.
It’s not looking good, team
Give up on misery
Turn your back on dissent
Leave their distrust behind
Wash your hands of regret
Lucifer has a point
I think that is actually the biggest problem with those systems.
It's not losing some random skill that we have made superflous, it's about taking skills that are the foundation for your agency in this world and your ability to understand it.
Wilhoit's law:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
The raise of AI coding tools isn't a surprise because they have the potential to eliminate one of the largest software development productivity killers: searching for usage examples.
As one should
Worth repeating: Claims of "AI" democratizing anything (coding, creative endeavors, etc) are always BS. The thing locking out people from doing that is not having the time/resources.
You want to democratize coding/art/creativity? Give people paid time off to do it and access to infrastructure. Easy
Not to mention, a human trained in N also does way more than just N.
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
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"Technologies are embedded not only in their deployment but also in their creation, conceptualization. They carry the understanding of the world that their makers believe in and reproduce those."
Tools're made to solve problems in the world of their makers. Hence recontextualizing them is difficult.
I am reading it. He will ignore and continue on as if nothing happened. Someone will file suit. That will take a while until its solved. He changes a comma in his approach and continues.
Same playbook used in multiple countries over between the 60s and now.
Who is going to stop him?
"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."
The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
Starting to hear buzz about Valerie Veatch's @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social and want to where you can see it? They've got a form on their website to bring Ghost in the Machine to your university, club, festival, institution, or any other place with a screen + humans, virtual or IRL.
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For reference, I running the extension on firefox 147.0.4 (aarch64) on a macbook pro 2025, and I'm signing in to a margin[.]cafe account.
The observed behavior happens both on private and public browser windows.
I only have safari available, the shortcuts option seems to work differently.
It's a weird experience being the parent of a 5yo in this day & age. They act like they're entitled to know every single movmt/thought parents make/have + what was meant BUT said parents have to respect his privacy & are not entitled to the same info.
Reminds me of some CEOs and power figures.
Interesting choice of words, to say the least.
Part of Russia’s frontline woes has been caused—giving credit where it’s due—by Elon Musk, who suddenly woke up to the fact that Russian troops had been widely using smuggled Starlink terminals. Take the good news we can get.
New from @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:
"firms report little impact of AI over the last 3 years, with over 80% of firms reporting no impact on either employment or productivity. Fourth, firms predict sizable impacts over the next 3 years, forecasting AI will boost productivity by 1.4%, increase output by 0.8% and cut employment by 0.7%."
