Yes, all computer parts should be made by one company on an internationally disputed island. What could go wrong?

At a party once, I had to practically fight off a drunk girl. She was belligerent and obnoxious and aggressively trying to have sex with me. It took me and her sister to put her to bed and of course as soon as she lay still for 30 seconds, she was unconscious.

Some men have told me I was crazy to pass up the “opportunity”. And some women have told me that I was a “gentleman” for doing so. Which also implies that indulging in a helpless girl would have been acceptable, but I went above and beyond somehow. What I did wasn’t noble or heroic. It was basic decency; the least I could do. It’s literally a legal requirement.

I don’t know why men are so awful sometimes. But I think a big part of the problem is that taking advantage of women is normal and accepted. High profile cases like Brand, Weinstein, Stawell, Tate, and Masterson are good because it pushes sexual ethics into mainstream pop culture. And we need that because too many are ignorant.

Sam Jackson’s character in the move ‘Long Kiss Goodnight’:

The last time I got a blowjob, candy bars cost a nickle.

Ivy league frat house.

I think the fact that Zodiac wanted to communicate with authorities and the media tells you much more about the kind of person he was than the ciphers could.

A big problem with ciphers is that the more complex they are, the more likely the message will get scrambled in the encoding. An incompetent cipher is more secure than the best encryption methods; nobody can read it.

Carney told Trump and America to fuck off and then did a world victory tour. A weakened Trump, his agenda and popularity at the nadir of either term is having a good conversation.

Art of the deal.

Ublock’s easylist blocks that whole site. Anybody got a reputable source for this?

The first Federal laws against hacking and computer crimes was a direct reaction to the movie War Games (1983).

From Wikipedia:

President Ronald Reagan, a family friend of Lasker’s, watched the film and discussed the plot with members of Congress, his advisers, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Reagan ordered a full national security review. Within a week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff returned an answer: “Yes, the premise was technically possible”. Reagan’s interest in the film is credited with leading to the enactment 18 months later of NSDD-145, the first Presidential directive on computer security.

Why hasn’t the US been doing this already? Any country that’s not developing these skills are fools. Even if you don’t use them aggressively, the knowledge will come in handy when Russia or China trys to do it to you.

Somehow, the boomers and Xers survived TV. Somehow, Millennials survived the internet, social media, and cellphones. GenZ will overcome chatbots; the kids are alright.

Be careful about using AI to summarize a TOS. Some companies have been caught adding hidden prompts to steer your AI from telling you about parts of their TOS that they don’t want you to know about. Regulatory information that they’re required to disclose for example.

I’m astonished that anyone would trust their bank login to a chatbot. But if you read the article, the banks aren’t worried about depositors loosing money, they’re worried about AI getting a better deal for their customers.

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Nothing humans have ever done is unprecedented or even the worst example in nature. Chaining the atmosphere and causing climate change and mass extinction? Cyanobacteria laugh at humans.

Think plastic is bad? Early trees evolved millions of years before any bacteria or fungi could digest them. Early trees didn’t rot, and they covered the land; clogged the rivers and oceans; and led to continent-wide wildfires. (they also sequestered so much carbon it caused an ice age).

Even what we do to each other isn’t close to the worst examples in nature. Male bedbugs have a reproductive strategy called “traumatic insemination” wherein their stinger-like penis can just stab the female any where on her body. The females have a 25% higher mortality due to being stab-raped.

It’s just capitalism and econ101 duct-taped and stapled to utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham is crying.

It’s for psychopath tech bros who’ve got spiders in their brainz.

For example, imagine a myopic billionaire who imagines himself “saving” humanity. If his contributions happen to cause suffering to people alive today, so what? He’s saving “trillions” of people, just in the future. Obviously this means that of all people alive, this billionaire is the only one who really matters. Certainly not Ukrainians who die because he turned off their battlefield communication… hypothetically.

Big hunter guys need to bait bears into their camp site because walking around in the woods is scary and hard. They probably hire someone to collect and process the carcass for them; I’ll bet they’re in and out of bear habitat in a couple of hours. They probably don’t even have to carry the rifle themselves.

All to make gun-brained dentists and chiropractors feel like they hunted a bear.

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire…

If we trust “sensitive case data” to the pigs, what’s wrong with giving it to AI? I hate AI as much as the next Lemming, but I’m not sure it’s dumber or less competent than the pigs.

Why is everyone so obsessed with the 5090? It was always a luxury item. The real tragedy are the cards that used to be between $150-$350, you know, the ones people actually buy to play games with. That was the GPU market. For the first time I can remember “build a PC to save money” is bad advice. And it’s sad for the hobby.