Eric

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.

In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:

I'd be careful with this anthropomorphizing language. GPT doesn't have beliefs. It's interesting that the training data contains enough of this kind of writing to steer/plagiarize its way into a course correction. But if you scold it, it will go back to "proving" something false. Would a human?

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

The 1912 article gets rolled out a lot but it’s my solemn duty as a historian to remind folks it’s *worse* than that

Eunice Foote published greenhouse gas studies in EIGHTEEN-FUCKING-FIFTY-SIX (of course, as a woman she couldn’t read her OWN paper at scientific conferences - god FORBID 🙄)

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But (x y)^n ≠ Σx^i y^(n-i).

I actually reread Huck Finn *after* James, and I can recommend that. It made some moments especially chilling, but also I think it enhanced my appreciation of Twain's humor and humanity.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

(Similar argument for an all-yellow column.)

Good point. A 7x3 contains either an all-white column or all-yellow column, or else a matching pair of the remaining 6 patterns.

If there's an all-white column, either one other column has two whites and we're done, or the other four possibilities for the other 6 columns must have a matching pair.

If it was a 3xn grid, each column could be colored one if 2^3=8 ways. If n=9, by the pigeonhole principle two columns must be identical, and by the PHP again, must have a repeated color. That repeated color in two columns gives our rectangle.

So n≤8 is a bound in the 3xn and hence the 4xn case...

A lower-tech solution: once you're looking at the cropped/obscured picture you want to post, take a screenshot of that, and post the screenshot.

(Or cropped screenshot, acknowledging that things like your battery percentage could potentially be extracted by someone who cared.)

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

I'm not an astronomer; is this "in depth analysis," or is meta just paraphrasing and rounding values?

Wait... how do we know it's dead?

Burn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion) Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

“Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills. Not only are we allowed to say no, we ought to think deeply about the why of that no.”

I wonder if this number has other interesting properties...

(continued fraction {2,3,5,7,11,13, 17, 19, 23, 29})^-1 - Wolfram|Alpha Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.

Cool! So if I want more accuracy I can just enter more primes to www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28...

Is the starting number defined as the one *such that* this happens? Like if I run this process and eventually get a composite, is it because I needed to start with more of the digits of 0.432...?

Okay but hear me out, then Kamala drops out making Walz the candidate, then Vance drops and his VP is the new candidate, and then Walz...

Ping!

I won't be able to make it to this but I'm quite interested! Do you know if a recording will be made available afterwards?

Is that raw hamburger?

I think about this too. I'd be interested to read your piece!

If you still use Twitter, at least use it in a way that filters ads/trackers so you're not funding Elon

This video is available without any ads or sponsors on Nebula. Get free access by signing up for CuriosityStream: https://curiositystream.com/likestoriesofol... Who We Really Are... When Everything Goes Wrong

And here is a video essay loosely based on the book that I think about more than anything I've ever seen on youtube
youtu.be/vT_sKGbP1yY?...