Beating up brown people Dan Lyke / comment 0
Service Employees International Union Local 503 said the woman, a union member, was driving to run errands when four agents stopped her on a Salem street. The agents identified themselves as federal law enforcement, according to the union’s statement.
Mood Dan Lyke / comment 0
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social
Chappell Roan’s dress is like my sanity:
Barely hanging on.
The Seinfeld Test for technology Dan Lyke / comment 0
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
OpenClaw still a bad idea Dan Lyke / comment 0
I was gonna tag this on the previous post about ClawdBot/MoltBot/OpenClaw, but, no, these exploits are new: Malicious MoltBot skills used to push password-stealing malware.
A report from community security portal OpenSourceMalware says that an ongoing large-scale campaign is using skills to spread info-stealing malware to OpenClaw users.
ICE thug busted by his body cam Dan Lyke / comment 0
Yay! It is possible to prosecute these assholes! New body camera footage shows aftermath of ICE officer allegedly attacking activist near Chicago.
“Yeah, I was trying to grab his phone from out of his hand,” Saracco tells Brookfield police when asked about the allegations.
“He get physical with you at all?” the Brookfield officer asks in response.
“I mean he was actively resisting,” Saracco said. “He wouldn’t let me take his phone out of his hands.”
The perp is only up on misdemeanor charges, but the fucking gall of these people, thinking they can steal phones and pawn them for cash with impunity.
Thinking about all of the developing Dan Lyke / comment 0
Thinking about all of the developing nation workers in sweatshops who could have been setting up regular expressions for common idioms and phrases to accomplish tasks, like "play this album" and "navigate to this space", who instead were training LLMs.
Vertical Dramas Dan Lyke / comment 0
Oh, this is fascinatingly exploitive: AV Club: Inside the hideous, exploitative, but still addictive world of vertical dramas. In China they're referred to as "duanju".
To feed that addiction, they’re going to pay through the nose. Vertical drama apps are built to obfuscate the sense</span> of how much you’re paying, with “coins” purchased in bulk, in amounts from hundreds to thousands. Individual episodes might cost upward of 60 coins per two-minute piece of footage—and given that each drama has 70 or more episodes, this means the viewer can easily spend $20 or $30 to watch 90 minutes of some of the cheapest slop imaginable. People are paying much more to watch Tricked Into Having My Ex-Husband’s Baby on their phones than it would cost to see Sinners< in IMAX.
100 on today's Timdle despite Dan Lyke / comment 0
100% on today's Timdle, despite guessing at HIMYM's initial pilot episode, and the relative ordering of 5 events in the last 3 decades.
Data Centers in Space Dan Lyke / comment 0
From back in December, but apropos because of Elon Musk's "data centers in spaaaace..." pump-n-dump: < href="https://www.physicsmatt.com/bl...the-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-this- week">Matthew R. Buckley, aka "Physics Matt": The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week:
To be blunt, the entire stupid idea is a giant middle finger to multiple fundamentals of physics, and the fact that it is apparently being taken seriously by our tech lords, mainstream journalism, and political leaders is a damning indictment of not just the ridiculous amount of money chasing bad ideas in the tech/LLM/hype sector that has eaten the American economy, political power centers, and people who really should know better, but yet another demonstration of how people who built their economic empire on a claim of STEM-based rigor and quantitative genius either can’t do basic physics or know that no one out there who matters is going to call them on it.
Although, frankly, dropping a bunch of GPUs into a decaying low earth orbit is a way to point out how rapidly these things depreciate.
Twitter or Pornhub Dan Lyke / comment 0
The Penguin of Evil @etchedpixels@mastodon.social
Whenever some politician or party apologist whines about having to stay on twitter because some of our potential voters are on twitter, remind them that probably even more of their potential voters are on pornhub but they are not active there.
Update your rolodexes Dan Lyke / comment 0
geekysteven @geekysteven@beige.party
Heist movies always have a moment before they introduce a new specialist where the main character is like "I know a guy" because the real treasure they were stealing was the power of networking. In my 12-week course, you'll learn--
Outsourcing Thinking Dan Lyke / comment 0
Erik Johannes Husom: Outsourcing thinking.
If language can indeed be a thought model, then pushing that facility over to machines has implications for the development of our own model.
Via Elf Sternberg who has a few more thoughts.
The Last Repair Shop Dan Lyke / comment 0
Saturday night, our Disney+ subscription had lapsed, and rather than resubscribe to anything we watched The Last Repair Shop, an hour long documentary on the people who run the Los Angeles school district instrument repair shop.
Went places I did not expect, gorgeously shot, uplifting. Recommended.
Any body have recommendations for a Dan Lyke / comment 0
Any body have recommendations for a smoke detector that actually lets you cook? This Firex ionization one in the main part of a house goes off if I try to use the air fryer or brown anything. Super annoying.