Yep, I just saw the news. His party got a majority in the Parliament. Fuck. Anyway, what I said stands; people voted for him pretty much for the same reason people in the USA voted for Trump - because they got fed up with the previous morons and naively believe that the new moron will be any better.
Disclaimer: I didn't vote because none of the parties deserved my vote. While I happen to agree with some (not all!) of Radev's politics (like non-interference in foreign wars), I intensely dislike him, since he's a former military and a former socialist.
Also, the reason why people voted for Radev's new party is not "Russian propaganda" but because they're fed up with GERB's corruption or DB's incompetence and naively believe that the "new guy on the block" will make any real difference. He won't, of course.
However, none of the next two winners (GERB and DB) are likely to agree to enter a coalition with him, which leaves only DPS (the party of the Turkish minority) as a choice, with their 6-7% of the vote.
Radev is no Orban. While he's opposed to any kind of Bulgaria's involvement in the Russia/Ukraine war, he's nowhere near Orban in opposing the EU at every step.
His party won less than 50% of the vote, which means that it cannot govern alone, it will have to form a coalition.
"People will believe what they want to believe" -- Julius Caesar
1. Kids motivated to get around the age verification requirement can *easily* do so
2. Age verification means *every* social media user must give ID to tech companies
3. Kids in need of social/identity support unavailable IRL would suffer
4. The real solution is to regulate tech companies not kids
My mother, who's been using computers since they were mainframes, is still using a laptop today at the age of 92, and who has taught me my first programming language (FORTRAN) a lifetime ago, often says "Computers are the greatest evil humanity has ever invented".
You never met Peter Szor at conferences?
It’s pretty jarring to read articles about the war in Iran that mention the energy crisis and the strait of Hormuz as its consequence, but don’t mention civilian casualties at all.
I feel like every article that discusses the war should include the worst consequences of it — even just two lines.
I have a long-running Claude session just for talking about Iran war news/economic shocks from the blockade. I shared the latest Trump tweet and it told me that it can no longer keep role-playing this fictional scenario because it's becoming concerning and detached from reality.
Love this timeline.
a split image, showing the Earth and the words "Apollo 11" and "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind - Neil Armstrong" under that an image of a crescent earth partly set behind the limb of the moon, and the words "Artemis II" and "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working - Reid Wiseman"
(via @atomjack.com)
New, by me at TechCrunch: The developer of the widely popular Wireguard VPN says he is also unable to ship software updates to Windows users after Microsoft locked his account, marking the second high-profile app developer (VeraCrypt) in the past few weeks to face this issue.
New, by me: Mounir Idrassi, the developer of the popular file encryption software Veracrypt, says Microsoft has locked his account used for sending software updates, and warned that Windows users who encrypt their PCs with his software may soon find it "impossible to boot," Idrassi tells me.
We should be able to slow down AI takeover by a few years just by telling the model to find every bug in ffmpeg.
A safer bet is betting against us hearing about it.
Drop burgers, not bombs!
Never read the comments.
Trump is a moron and damn the torpedos.
I would never call a pizza "bad" but all your top ones are Italian-style (thin) pizzas. I prefer the US-style (Chicago-style?) thick pizzas. Also, I've tried pizza in Rome and was definitely not impressed; I've had much better ones in California and Iceland.
Microsoft Outlook - failing not only on this planet but also outside it.
Even if it is, what use is it without the weights database?
Despite losing the US and EU market, Kaspersky reported a record revenue of $836 million last year
www.kaspersky.ru/about/press-...
The number seems overblown to me, unless he's including people from the spy agencies whose numbers are unknown to me.
47% of all statistics were hallucinated by claude
This week on the newsletter: "How not to mandate device-based age assurance"
educatedguesswork.org/posts/device...
In this post, we examine a number of enacted or proposed requirements for device-based age assurance and some of the ways they can go wrong.
Well, it's honest. And really, a human could make the same mistake if relying on memory.
Last time I looked, the largest number quantum computing was able to factor was 21. They took a shot at 35 but failed miserably. I'd say, we're safe for a few more years...