A friend in tech, when asked why tech firms are firing engineers in favor of AI, suffering calamities when AI does something crazy that's not caught by engineers, then rehiring the engineers:
"Managements reason in much the same way AI's do. They don't think, just complete thoughts plausibly."
4 days since this was posted. We are still at 10% of pre-war transits. Iran fired on tankers this weekend, the US seized one. Little common ground for peace talks, may not be happening. Blockade in place. Last pre-war tankers have arrived. 2 weeks of jet fuel left.
Markets pretty calm
I have wondered if as time goes on, the Marvel movies will be one of the most "2010s" coded things ever, the equivalent of like 70s variety shows or 50s cars as a decade signifier
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
«To say that the verbiage and phrasing of this ad functions as a dog whistle for White supremacy and White nationalism would be an insult to dog whistles ... it is a bullhorn—and a sign that Palantir isn’t just willing to openly signal allegiance to fascism, they aim to leverage and recruit on it.»
Pope: [moral critique of illegal war]
President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay
Media: they are feuding😳
From latest ‘Private Eye’ shared from Prof Humphries #skystorians #history #classics
One thing I will always remember is when John McCain died that they said the same stuff about honor and bravery and character that they always say when an old soldier-turned-politician dies, but it was taken as an insult to Trump to list those things as virtues.
Meme com os dizeres - Any doctor here? - I'm a doctor, what's going on? - a heart attack! - I'm a doctor in Indo-European linguistics - He is going to die - *ḱléwos *n̥dhgwhitóm
Tive que fazer isso.
Exactly one year ago today:
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.
there's this American Business Brain logic that says "if you can't calculate the value of something, it must be assumed to be 0. All ongoing costs must be justified to the line item by KPIs that are objective."
Applied maximally, it will kill any and every golden goose to avoid paying for food
Pope Leo on an airplane, standing in the aisle, holding a baseball bat.
Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.
JD Vance touch of death confirmed.
Hungary has chosen Europe.
Europe has always chosen Hungary.
A country reclaims its European path.
The Union grows stronger.
Important point. Tusk is still struggling after many years.
But still, it is a huge victory for Magyar, Hungary and for Europe.
They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno
In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president
"Croesus then asked if he should make war on the Persians and if he should take to himself any allied force. The oracles to whom he sent this question included those at Delphi and Thebes. Both oracles gave the same response, that if Croesus made war on the Persians he would destroy a mighty empire."
SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord
Einfache Forderung, ganz einfach, ganz klar geregelt, völlig berechtigt und einfach richtig:
Kein politisches Amt ab dem 70. Geburtstag. Weltweit. Ich bin sicher, die Welt wäre besser.
Und ja: Ende jedes Mandats am 70. Geburtstag.
Ich habe fertig. Und ich habe die Nase gestrichen voll.
Tagesschau: Blockade der Straße von Hormus Trump gibt Iran Zeit bis Dienstag Stand: 05.04.2026 • 21:45 Uhr US-Präsident Trump will die Öffnung der Straße von Hormus. Zweimal hatte er ein Ultimatum dafür verschoben. Jetzt lässt er Iran offenbar noch mal etwas mehr Zeit. Um
Donald J. Trump * O Donald J. Trump × • @realDonaldTrump • 20m Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Das ist vieles, aber kein Journalismus.
So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:
International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.
Treating Trump as compos mentis is a choice being made by his Congressional party and administration, and therefore more reluctantly by other Nato governments too. But this appears to be clear a declaration of intent/ threat to commit war crimes by the leader of the United States of America.
"But we've blown up so much stuff, how can you say we're losing?"
Victory and defeat in war are judged by strategic outcomes, not by how much stuff exploded. The Iran now controls the strait; we haven't collapsed the regime, removed their HEU or stopped drone/missile strikes.
It turns out that breaching the wall between church and state means that some branches of Christianity are officially elevated over others. Who could have known? When in the last 500 years could such a lesson possibly have been learned?
‘LLMs are inherently probabilistic, not deterministic. They try to guess the answer that sounds best, not the objectively correct one.
And that’s not a problem to be fixed. It’s fundamental to how these models work.’
it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."
The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
