GolfPopper

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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Police used Flock's license plate network to stalk women in at least 50 cases https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-used-flocks-lice...
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Yeah, it's not like there are AI-focused hedge funds crashing and burning right now.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
You start with "real utilitarian value" and your example is... how much you pay for it. That sounds more like a drug habit.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Glen Cook was killing off major characters back in the 1980s.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
The Trust Thermocline: https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01ggz99w9kvpp6yq52abes00eq...
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
X̅ ? (I'm a little sad the five-digit date hasn't become popular.)
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
I suspect the fear comes from both seeing NIST as a single point of critical failure, and perhaps also that it is a far less resilient and/or far more vulnerable, institution than may have been previously realized.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
They're just meeting the standards American society has set.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
My own best guess is that the U.S. will never come around, but its successor states probably will.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
When you have time, you might wish to track down the history of Krupp[1]. A German company, they sold arms to all sides in WWI, having gained the the freedom to do so by previously threatening the Kaiser with moving their operations to Russ
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
"The conservatives who want to undo the Enlightenment"[1] And from Wikipedia[2], "The Dark Enlightenment, also called the Neo-Reactionary movement (abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and reactionar
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
And yet, Rome borrowed from far more than the Greeks. Norse deities are popular, and seemingly more recognizable than classical Greek myth to those in North America with whom I've spoke about such things. Rome was taken over by a parti
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
I'm a little confused on why anyone would pay this much for a phone. (Although if you consider it conspicuous consumption that happens to work as a phone, I can believe that.)
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Why would we need to play Eclipse Phase when we can spend all our time LARPing the Fall instead?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
How would Uncle Sam like his police state wrapped today: "national security" or "think of the children"?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Why not go all the way and call the Internet a national security threat?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
That would be closer to the third man effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_man_factor
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Isn't this similar to what Enron did?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
The Border Patrol have been a violent and abusive branch of government since their inception. Their abuses under Republican and Democratic Presidents alike have been reported across the spectrum of America's media for many years. &#x27
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
"Investigation" is a pretty generous way to label "some thugs working for an authoritarian state want to look for incriminating stuff - including criticism or mockery of them or their leader - on your communications device&qu
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Perhaps it's akin to a mineshaft gap?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Perhaps the LLM companies need to start hiring true Scotsmen?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
From author and druid John Michael Greer's essay, "The Next Ten Billion Years"[1], "One hundred million years from now: The universe has a surprise in store for the corvins, though. Their first moon landing included amon
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
So, Google is destroying itself and advertisers? This sounds a lot like threatening me with a good time.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Presumably the author believes checking food for contamination, and vehicle safety standards are also daft. Insofar as LLMs are a tool, they are not a tool that reliably produces desired output. There was just a thread on this. [1] Even set
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
From by Tom Lehrer's "Wernher von Braun"[1], Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!"
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by GolfPopper 3mo ago
> Jellyfin but doesn't have the obtrusive ads and whatnot that Plex offers I'm a Plex user who's been thinking about trying Jellyfin out, largely in response to some recent UI changes I dislike but... what Plex ads? I don
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by GolfPopper 3mo ago
It was actually a better movie than I expected it to be. (That was a very low bar, to be clear.)
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by GolfPopper 3mo ago
The idea that Skynet would use nukes seems very quaint to me. Subversion and sabotage of communication, food production and transport will kill human civilization far more effectively.
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by GolfPopper 3mo ago
SF author Charlie Stross delved into this a few years ago: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo...

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