wikipedia picture of austin allegro steering wheel. It is square with deeply rounded corners.

absolutely delightful

ofc it comes with a square wheel.

what if C&4, but in the metaverse?

This is awful for sure, but thankfully low impact. Turns out that this Terminator Enjoyer is an unemployed idea guy. Maybe he’s wrangling for an IDF contract?

From jobbie site:

“An accomplished manager, with expertise in developing innovative concepts and ideas into client services operations and streamlining delivery of products/services within Defence / Cyber Security and Information Technology industry.”

and

Technology and Innovation executive , Currently on short sabbatical May 2024 - Present 7 months

Also, the image is perfect. I especially like the Joe Kucan-looking general embedded in the star trek tactical station. The Technology of Peace ain’t what it used to be, is it?

Another proposal for naming our militia: The Cassandra Division

Our Motto: “Sic diximus vobis”

begins invisible accordion

Then Curtis Marvin, very smart guy, went to MIT like my famous uncle, he said, “but sir, a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors”

Many such cases, I said.

LLM Use cases:

1. Crime
2. Laziness
3. Congratulating Donald Trump for anything ever

that adds a whole nother layer of lol

For a palette cleanser, you might appreciate that If Books Could Kill just released a solid dunk on Sam Harris

I’m 100% down for a “Let them fight” moment

Here in TN, we had a monster grassroots door knocking/letter writing movent. We did manage to get a couple of rad women into the general assembly–with several heart-breakingly-close misses–but not nearly as many as we’d hoped, and the vile supermajority is still in place. Anecdotally, we are seeing the actual useful activists here getting radicalized rather than demotivated, which will be important re: surviving the present kakiclysm

Also, I’d just like to say I appreciate ya.

1. Just wanted to say thanks again to the admins and community for maintaining this oasis of sanity.

2. How do you all suppose the Great Bullshit Implosion is going to interact with our incoming US government? When it becomes clear that the money is running out, will OpenAI be able to talk the Trump government into bailing them out, or will the fash kick them when they’re down, since tech will be a nice fat scapegoat for the economy hitting the shitter?

At least their shirts will accessorize nicely

I feel like we could solve a lot of the left’s problems in the US by building a time machine and giving 13 year old Aaron Sorkin about 10 lbs of 2024 weed.

Tired: Rust Evangelism Strike Force

Wired: Kagi Jihadi

If you liked Wordpress Matt wearing a hat, then you’ll love Kagi Guy in your replies.

hackernews having a normal one (EDIT: Then things got worse)

HN Title: The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800

In the top comments:

dash2 55 minutes ago | next [–]

Here’s an interesting extract:

We find evidence of nepotism for 5–6.6% of scholars’ sons in Protestant and for 29.4% in Catholic universities and academies. Catholic institutions relied more heavily on intra-family human capital transfers. We show that these differences partly explain the divergent path of Catholic and Protestant universities after the Reformation.

This relates to an important paper providing evidence that indeed Protestantism was associated with scientific progress: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4389708

red016 3 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

i’d be more interested in jewish numbers than protestant or catholic

1. Buy a defense ai system with a cool GUI but that absolutely doesn’t fucking work

2. PRESS RELEASES

3. Leave the source code+model weights somewhere that your enemies will find it, preferably next to a big data pipe

4. Watch them copy it and try to use it on the battlefield

5. lol

Just have to avoid naming it something that would give the game away like WIM-PLOW or whatever

Ten years ago, I naively thought that people might grow a sort of mental callus against online bullshit. Big L for me! Turns out that there’s no such thing as magical self-assembling media literacy.

What did sideburns ever to do that guy?