Exactly what photographers will want: people not seeing most of their photos.

The New Yorker put a spotlight on Sam Altman’s compulsive lying. It’s not a great look for tech media that echoed his statements.

@karlbode.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss “CEO says a thing” reporting and the need to hold tech CEOs accountable.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/325_...

Best cat enrichment activity of the day: accidentally letting a bug in the house. I am not sure if we'll be falling asleep tonight though.

Also, might I ask you to do your part to defeat Trump-friendly incumbent Greg Landsman in the Ohio Democratic primary two weeks from now?

didn't you put your phone in the pool because it was too hot or something?

(the discouragement of vaccines, obviously, ugh! And then there's mRNA trials and... I would like The Horrors to stop)

Stills seems moderate. Re-education camps, Nuremberg style-trials, etc. should be on the table. Honestly kind of hard-line on mandatory Nuremberg Trials re: vaccine deaths, ICE, and cancelling USAID...

"What if we simply did nothing?" is not a very good plan and basically what's been done at this site and many others.

This stuff lasts longer than the glass it's encased in (again low level stuff), so you have to have a human process to continually store/remediate. It's why nuclear power and weapons suuuuuuuuck.

Finding a way to glassify (mostly mid-to-low level nuclear waste) is easy. Storing it, and the more dangerous material is harder, but requires a political will, not some new technique.

The crazy thing is the only thing you need to "optimize" is how to glassify all the material. You can do that with a *very* basic neural network. I wrote the linear algebra-based optimizations that other folks used as a baseline for other models. *It's not that hard*.

The DoD really does love to ignore every single Superfund site they are responsible for creating.

The Hanford clean-up should have been done back *in the mid-1990s* when I was a co-op working on stuff like this (for Fernald). Crazy that this is still a problem. Guess we're just going to irradiate the Pacific and see what happens, huh?

So back in the 70s the line was the Soviet politburo was too old and out of touch to govern and Dem party leadership is now all 20+ years older then they were at the time

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

AT THE HEART OF MODERN CULTURE, A NIGHTMARISH VOID

Me, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Being on an AI haters blocklist on a social media site as a still-occasional AI researcher is funny. Like, ok, good luck with that, or whatever.

This weekend, whilst rummaging at a flea market, we found this book of designs for Modernist homes - published in Sao Paulo in 1956.

Here we have scanned 15 of our favourites www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s...

we all know I have no life, so:

Watching the Chelsea game and it seems like Rosenior is going to get fired. Tactically bad, the players are playing as individuals, not as a team, etc. BlueCo has made a mess of the team, mostly through terrible managerial decisions.

A perfect hotdog.

Very specifically: the hotdogs passed down the aisle to my dad and I during the Reds opening day game that he called me in as sick to the school when I was in second grade.

Searching for "duck placki" and Google translates placki to pancake and gives me recipes for Chinese duck and scallion pancakes. Search for "kaczka placki" and Google gives me an AI overview in Polish and results in Polish. Really can't win.

Also I feel strongly that NEITHER preparing children for exams NOR preparing children for the workplace are / should be the main purpose of education actually!

this gives me a good idea: i'll try to keep a running thread of things that are union-busting that you might not know are union-busting.

ERGs are one to start.

another one: employee satisfaction surveys! corporations use them to see where agitation is that could potentially lead to a union

People love to say “it’s Gen X and the lead poisoning that’s the problem”. Oh really, so Black, Hispanic and Asian voters managed to avoid the lead that turned white people into raging Republicans?

It’s the racism. It’s always been the racism. Stop making excuses for awful white people.

One of the other reasons for the rise of monthly installment loans is that banks (who inevitably back all of them) are allowed to charge *much* higher interest rates than on a credit card.

Putting a bag of silica gel in the panko box just to "keep everyone on their toes".

Me, sowing: I will get the strongest double sided tape to hold these sacrificial fences in place because I am sick of them falling out of this jig.

Me, reaping: I have spent the last half hour cleaning adhesive off an exceedingly sharp router bit.

[These fences aren't going anywhere, though]

The iconic Eames House, built in 1949, was miraculously spared from Los Angeles fires last year. I've always dreamt of visiting it (having been brought up as a child in the 1960s in a house inspired by it). I've enjoyed this film about it: youtube.com/watch?v=Y3rE...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.