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Huh: Dan Moynihan had a gift link to the NYT article on Jensen Huang having an "intimate relationship" with Alice Huang, who'd been recruited by China's Ministry of State Security:

"Nvidia officials have said that Mr. Huang’s interactions with Ms. Huang were “not unusual or unexpected” and consistent with the kinds of meetings he has with any of Nvidia’s many customers."

So how many customer reps *has* he been fucking?

https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3mztiqfcq522n

The Register: Bank of England pours cold water on AI productivity boom.

In its latest Monetary Policy Report, the central bank found that AI has increased UK productivity by an estimated 0.5 percent over the past three years. That works out to just 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points of additional annual productivity growth since early 2024, hardly the economic revolution Silicon Valley has been promising.

And then there's the caveat that spending on AI is up, and businesses are hiring fewer workers, which also make the numbers look artificially inflated.

Carina C. Zona @cczona@hachyderm.ioM notes:

Sunk Cost Fallacy in action: we've spent a fortune on accomplishing absolutely nothing, so obviously we need to spend bigger on the failed strategy. Go into debt! That's gotta work.

Fascinating: The Port That Does Not Exist

Port 0 is the port you are not supposed to use, so nobody looks there. So we put an IRC network on it. Then I got curious whether anyone else had, and scanned all of IPv4 for port 0. Turns out we weren't alone, and some of our neighbours really shouldn't be there.

SF Standard: The Great Highway’s neighbors flipped and saved the park they once hated.

As Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social noted:

I hope political leaders in #Berkeley and everywhere else read and take the lesson from this story, which is repeated *all* *the* *time* for changes that remove car infrastructure: people hate those changes in theory and love them in practice!