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Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage(sfgate.com)
139 points by pera 4mo ago|32 comments
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by pera 4mo ago
Kissing the ring also helps - I won't be surprised if Anthropic's next model goes full MAGA
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by pera 4mo ago
Here in Scotland it seems the desinfo campaign targeted mostly the SNP and Swinney. I guess it's hard to know how effective it was but his party lost 6 seats in last month's elections. https://www.heraldscotland.com&#x2
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Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes(reuters.com)
792 points by pera 4mo ago|534 comments
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by pera 4mo ago
As a person from the developing world I feel obligated to say that I find your assurance quite unconvincing: the negative effects of smartphone at this point in time is invariant globally, and whether they are a net positive or negative is
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by pera 4mo ago
I remember reading in the news that Pokémon Go was quite popular in Palestine. If GP has access to this dataset it would be interesting to know how sparse is the data in that area.
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Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked £50M Met police contract(theguardian.com)
4 points by pera 4mo ago|0 comments
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Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract(ft.com)
10 points by pera 4mo ago|0 comments
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by pera 4mo ago
> they are dangerous for progress of humanity A tiny bit hyperbolic for someone who's not a fan maybe? :)
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by pera 4mo ago
I don't believe the comments I replied to were specific to Uber.
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by pera 4mo ago
They get paid for saying whatever VCs want to hear and now that thing is "we have now become an AI-native company". The thing I'm still trying to understand is who is scamming whom
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by pera 5mo ago
It's a real shame there are no many people like Woz in the bay area
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Police sue Trump as Jan. 6 rioters gloat over 'weaponization' fund(text.npr.org)
24 points by pera 5mo ago|1 comments
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by pera 5mo ago
Yeah and back then it wasn't used as a sort of UUID to track every single thing you do in your life... Different times
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by pera 5mo ago
> You are never going to get the exact book word-for-word using LLMs You could say the same about MP3 encoders but I don't think that would convince any judge
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by pera 5mo ago
Sharing ideas with people is nice, the actual problem is your ideas in this case are just a vehicle for generative AI companies to monopolize access to information and control our own cognitive processes, which is not entirely something new
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by pera 5mo ago
This is absurd, why is Google so desperate to kill the best thing they once had? I would love to know what happens inside a corporation to destroy itself in such way. I also don't remember ever seeing anything being force-fed as much a
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More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity(theguardian.com)
4 points by pera 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pera 5mo ago
I feel 2023 is when we entered the decrepit stage, but ~2015 is when it began: Theranos, Musk's charlatanry and cult, "unicorns", Cambridge Analytica, the raise of social media addiction, etc. Not that things were amazing bef
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by pera 5mo ago
I remember back in 2018 during peak crypto bubble the same class nick named Malta as the "Blockchain Island"
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JP Morgan to scrap £3B London HQ if Starmer is replaced by PM 'hostile to banks'(theguardian.com)
3 points by pera 5mo ago|2 comments
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Incident with Actions – Resolved(githubstatus.com)
147 points by pera 5mo ago|85 comments
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US to Withdraw Troops from Germany(dw.com)
25 points by pera 5mo ago|3 comments
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Utah Planning Commission delays decision on Kevin O'Leary-backed data center(datacenterdynamics.com)
7 points by pera 5mo ago|0 comments
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National Science Board members told by Trump administration they were terminated(thehill.com)
7 points by pera 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pera 6mo ago
For cars the classic example of inherently bad tech are touchscreen controls instead of physical knobs. If you want more examples look into IoT products like smart toothbrushes, many of them now are "AI enabled".
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by pera 6mo ago
I don't know anything about tractors but our modern world is full of useless and inherently bad "tech" that only exists for the flashy factor. People are just tired of being mislead and abused by corporations, which is why th
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by pera 6mo ago
> Who is building it and who is principally using it? I was actually just looking into that: Beale Infrastructure, owned by Blue Owl. we saw a gap: some of the largest global hyperscalers—companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google—needed
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Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon(theguardian.com)
168 points by pera 6mo ago|36 comments
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GitHub Incident with Pull Requests: High Percentage of 500s(githubstatus.com)
9 points by pera 6mo ago|0 comments

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