Alan Mattli

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

As a result of Orwell's novel, the year 1984 became a legend long before it arrived. However, that was not the year Orwell initially intended. He first set his story in 1980, but, as the time taken to write the book dragged on (partly because of his illness), that was changed to 1982 and, later, to 1984.

Interesting side note on the popular factoid that NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR's title was a deliberate play on 1948.

There is simply no good reason to trust these opaque organisations that represent mainstream science. Have you considered trusting a relentlessly unpleasant and disingenuous guy with a substack instead?

Won't speak for The Left, but my "taking AI seriously" take is that it is misallocated investment, a financial bubble, and a privacy and security nightmare which will only get worse. Seems a bit more serious than "AI will be god soon and all fun and friendship will be replaced with AI tamagotchis"

Gaza death toll in early part of war far higher than reported, says Lancet study Research suggests more than 75,000 killed in the first 16 months of conflict, 25,000 more than announced at the time

Gaza death toll in early part of war far higher than reported, says Lancet study.

There are no excuses.

It was obvious at the time that Israel was engaged in the mass slaughter of civilians.

The guilty men and women will pay the price.

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

Open source, decentralized software, Web 1.0, Wikipedia, Archive.org / the wayback machine,adblockers, VPNs

The future of AI productivity To be sure, this productivity pattern could reverse. The IT boom of the 1970s and ’80s eventually gave way to a surge of productivity in the 1990s and early 2000s, including a 1.5% increase in productivity growth from 1995 to 2005 following decades of slump. Economist and Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab director Erik Brynjolfsson noted in a Financial Times op-ed the trend may already be reversing. He observed that fourth-quarter GDP was tracking up 3.7%, despite last week’s jobs report revising down job gains to just 181,000, suggesting a productivity surge. His own analysis indicated a U.S. productivity jump of 2.7% last year, which he attributed to a transition from AI investment to reaping the benefits of the technology. Former Pimco CEO and economist Mohamed El-Erian also noted job growth and GDP growth continuing to decouple as a result in part of continued AI adoption, a similar phenomenon that occurred in the 1990s with office automation.

I want to point out that even in the face of this Fortune is doing "AI's only a little airborne it's still good it's still good."

They're beginning from a fallacy, that all technology is equally valuable and will prove its worth over time.

I'm sure this will be heartening news for the NFT market.

the nominee for Federal Wallet Inspector told U.S. Senators that he would not steal the wallets that were given to him, and that he would simply inspect them and then return them to their rightful owners. He did not.

Screenshot from the Telegram saying: Are cross-sex drugs driving trans shooters to kill? News that the Canada school attacker was transitioning has raised concerns about the role of medication in other recent killings

Oh please do fuck off.

Tell you what, now ask if pathetic far right incel ideology is doing the same, because let's be honest they are far more likely.

Don't actually know how complete-complete these are (also, they end with IN JACKSON HEIGHTS), but I do love that Wiseman's French connection made these possible.

Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.

Imagine credulously publishing a headline like this despite Musk’s nonstop failure to achieve his previously stated goals.

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Elon Musk when he realizes putting people on the moon is difficult: Within 10 years we will put humans in Delaware

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Libertarians are so idiotic that they lined up behind an obvious fascist just because he gave them permission to say slurs again.

cmon man

Musk setzt auf Mond statt Mars Elon Musk richtet den Fokus seiner Raumfahrtfirma SpaceX neu aus. Die geplante erste unbesetzte Marsmission wird verschoben. Priorität habe nun der Aufbau einer Mondbasis, schrieb Musk auf X. Diese koenne in weniger als zehn Jahren realisiert werden. Laut dem "Wall Street Journal" informierte SpaceX Investoren über die neue Strategie. Eine unbemannte Mondlandung werde für März 2027 angestrebt. Ziel einer Marsstadt bleibe bestehen, solle aber erst später verfolgt werden. SpaceX ist ein zentraler Partner im Ar-temis-Programm der Nasa. Den Grossteil des Umsatzes erzielt das Unternehmen mit dem Starlink-System.

Musks Mars-Plan, der schon immer Bullshit war, wird jetzt mehr oder weniger stillschweigend begraben. Wird man angesichts dieser Tatsache nun etwas weniger leichtgläubig über den neuen "Mondbasis"-Plan berichten? Nein?

Favourite first-time watches in January:

Midnight (39)
Ten Skies (04)
Pickpocket (59)
To Each His Own (46)
3 Bad Men (26)
The Circle (00)
Marty Supreme (25)
The White Balloon (95)
The Man from London (07)
The Fugitive (47)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (62)
Eephus (24)

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

Egal, ob du an der Supermarktkasse, im Internet oder auf dem Wochenmarkt bezahlst: Mit TWINT ist das Bezahlen (und das Senden oder Empfangen von Geld) sicher. Deine Daten werden in der Schweiz gespeichert und verschlüsselt übertragen. Da haben selbst die Panzerknacker keine Chance.

Do you know *anything* about the Panzerknacker?!

So fucking infuriating watching Bezos and his cronies kill the Post. Taking away sports, books, and international reporting so you can write opinions praising Trump is so damn bleak.

It did use to be called "swill milk."

Also nice to see Kim Bodnia.

F1 is pretty bad, but I'm enjoying some of the casting. Martin Savage as a snooty American racing inspector? Inspired!

Remember in the olden days when initiatives were tested through small pilot schemes to see if they actually worked before being rolled out to vulnerable citizens…?

Then again, getting to put Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore in your movies is basically a cheat code.

Re: MIDNIGHT: a lot of things have gotten better since 1939, but studio comedies are not among them.