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Re:Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:21PM (#50238685)
Nick Land's hyperstition.
Re:Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:12PM (#50238624)
Bottom 95%, I believe.
Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:12PM (#49903555)
Batteries only store power, not produce it. Headline reads as misleading.
“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

– IBM Training Manual, 1979

Re:Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:04PM (#49883593)
Noted!
Re:A/I shuts down – Stay human on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:31PM (#49592418)
Free Tibet.
Re:The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:10PM (#49492934)
AI slop.
Re:The Ordinary Miracle of Existing on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:32PM (#49356366)
Re:Seven books I keep close because I love them on Friday August 14, 2026 @03:12PM (#49303307)
Second Frege to Gödel. It is a great introduction to a study of the foundations of mathematics.
Re:The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:36PM (#49117224)
It doesn't have to be that way. It is a policy choice in some communities.
Re:The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:57PM (#49061839)
AI slop.
You can't steal intellectual property, only infringe on the copyright holder.
Re:Decoy Font on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:11PM (#48940946)
5.6 Sol Medium:

The obvious outlined text says “SORRY ROBOT,” but the hidden message is “HAPPY HUMAN.” It’s Mixfont’s Decoy Font: the outlined letters attract machine vision, while the softer tonal pattern becomes readable to humans when viewed from farther away or at a smaller size. It’s an optical trick, not encryption.

Re:Generative AI is an Engineering Disaster on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:32PM (#48929742)
"AI does not have to be built this way. Traditionally, the goal of AI was to solve problems in ways that simulated human mental processes. Researchers observed their own thinking and tried to implement their mental habits in code. This approach has mostly been abandoned, partly due to the difficulty of discerning and articulating the rules of human thought, but it did have the benefit of consuming far fewer resources and data."

And it didn't work.

Re:The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:06PM (#48915409)
"For instance, there is no exploration of outer space in Ballard’s fiction: there are no robots or supercomputers, and the scientist characters who continue to populate his novels are usually extremist cranks."

Ballard wrote at least four stories dealing with space and spaceflight. Most notable is his "Report on an Unidentified Space Station" which is quite haunting.

Re:The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:16PM (#48712287)
The U.S. needs the domestic automotive industry to remain viable as vehicle manufacturing is a dual-use technology.
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 on Friday June 26, 2026 @08:05PM (#48693626)
europe2031.ai

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