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Watch Murderbot - Apple TV+ In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot (Alexander Skarsgård) secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission prote…

The Murderbot Diaries is coming to Apple TV+ in May!!!

Survey Finds Wide Support for Raising Taxes to Stabilize Social Security Reduction in benefits projected by 2035 unless action is taken to shore up vital program

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I don't care which party you represent. If you are in Congress engaged in insider trading, you should lose your seat. Pelosi, MTG, all of them!

Make lobbyist money and insider trading illegal!

All while China has been actively conducting cyberattacks on U.S. federal agency systems.

Let’s go!

I still follow two of the former independent journalists who had to flee Russia after the “purge.”

Worst in Show 2025: The Worst in Show winners prove that just because you can add tech doesn’t mean you should.

We always hear about the best of CES; how about the worst at CES?

I don’t even know anymore. This entire conversation is “crazy talk” yet here we are.

I’m focusing on building a better world beside the oligarchy so we can all just walk away. We need Trump to not “negotiation tactic” us into WW3 first.

If the Nvidia CEO Keynote speech scared you, consider reading Walkaway by Cory Doctorow.

If makers and geeks can build our own automation through cooperative communities that aren't seeking profit, we can increase our living standards by simply walking away from their system.

I'm still processing the Nvidia CEO Keynote Speech from CES last night. I just saw an actionable near-term roadmap to the replacement of the majority of humans in the workforce. Seeing where we are as a society, our leadership, and recent comments made ... it's difficult not to be afraid.

YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University Hopkins Bloomberg Center Discovery Series - Kara Swisher Talks Future of AI with Panel

Johns Hopkins University and Vox Media teamed up to present On with Kara Swisher at the Johns Hopkins University - Regulating AI.

I had an interesting talk with the kids. Based on my denials, they all said they would never convict him if they were on his jury.

Go baby go!

parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu

Damn that looks awesome!

Talk about First World Problems!

We are renting an older home until spring and its gotten cold. I am currently heating my bedroom by mining cryptocurrency using a gaming PC and its RTX 4080 card. The roughly 320 watts heats the room while offsetting the cost. Definite cyberpunk dystopia territory.

Note that this is NOT AGI. This is something like superhuman artificial local intelligence. But the underlying message seems to be that there is no wall in brute forcing intelligence. The more hardware you throw at it, the smarter it gets without limit. That's a lot of datacenters coming.

YouTube video by Wes Roth AGI ACHIEVED | OpenAI Drops the BOMBSHELL that ARC AGI is beat by the o3 model

OpenAI has made a breakthrough! We are now significantly closer to general artificial intelligence. If the AI model is given maximum resources, it will be smarter than humans with PhDs. This is why new data centers will be built and use a significant portion of our electricity generated.

True

If only labor would organize again … because when no one will apply for job openings …

There was no threat to the powers that be. The rich received bailouts and safety nets while the rest suffered and were oppressed. But now the cork is out. One CEO is dead and security details can’t stop mobs.

History says to cut profits and increase pay for prosperity and peace, but they won’t.

Right there with you.

But I also spent years in a world where 3.5% is the magic tipping point. If 11.6 million out of 333 million Americans take to the streets, there will be change. There are still over 100 metro areas that are blue. That’s only 100,000 people each. The math gets scary quickly.

Agreed. For now, the cake and circuses are working, but remember Occupy Wall Street? BLM riots?

One more financial shove to the paycheck-to-paycheck folks and I think this time it will include targeted violence. I hope I am wrong, but history tells how the current path plays out.

Too many people are on financial and emotional edge with nothing to lose. One more push and the avalanche begins.

They think they control the system, but when more than a 0.1% are pushed to action, historically the system gets replaced and the pitchforks come out.

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If wishing people a happy holidays feels worn out, you can use, "Have a Wonderful Wintertide!"

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There is a version of PasteBin running on the AT Protocol too.

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My Test of WhiteWind for Bluesky | HF Warner This is a test. I have been looking into the AT Protocol used by Bluesky and what it would take to self-host the PDS (Personal Data Server) used by Bluesky and the AT Protocol. I had previously toyed...

I've started playing with other applications that use the AT Protocol with Bluesky. Here is a test blog post I made on WhiteWind!

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