William Lane Craig Is WRONG About Dying and Rising Gods — The Scholarship He Hid YouTube video by MythVision Podcast

William Lane Craig Is WRONG About Dying and Rising Gods — The Scholarshi...

Today's piece of trivia that I didn't need to know: Turns out, beer bottles can survive a nuclear explosion with low levels of radioactive contamination. We know this because the US Government actually tested it. As the report noted, the beer even still tasted fine afterwards.

Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality YouTube video by TED

Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality

Beyond The Quantum with Antony Valentini YouTube video by Amazing Academics

Beyond The Quantum with Antony Valentini

Nikolai Federov: The Librarian who declared war on Death What if your maturity is just surrender with better posture?

Nikolai Federov: The Librarian who declared war on Death

Job displacement did happen as a result of automation in Marx's day and Marx did forsee job displacement (he wrote about it in the Grundrisse).

38C3 - Reticulum: Unstoppable Networks for The People YouTube video by media.ccc.de

38C3 - Reticulum: Unstoppable Networks for The People

Maybe it would be possible to produce the templates with e-beam lithography since you don't need to produce them as quickly? Not sure whether anyone has tried that.

Nanoimprint lithography seems to have some potential but most versions of it still require a mask.

To me, it's like saying that because green capitalism exists therefore solar power is inherently capitalist and must be repudiated by the left. I don't see how you would end up at anything besides primitivism here, which is certainly not socialism.

The thing that confuses me, though, is that if they're currently being used to intensify capitalism, wouldn't the more natural response be to eliminate capitalism instead of eliminating the technology? Isn't eliminating capitalism supposed to be what we wanted in the first place?

But I can't even have those conversations because everyone is coming up with the most braindead criticisms of LLMs imaginable.

The funny thing is, I don't think endlessly scaling LLMs is likely the end all of AI. I think there's a legitimate conversation about what other kinds of AI could be added to the mix and how silly it is for AI companies to slash basic research in favor of scaling.

*new computer technology*

*looks inside*

*it's a loom*

Though another interesting part of this story is that the design of the first punch card reader was inspired by the loom, so maybe Marx was poetically more right than he could possibly have imagined.

you can pry my fully automated luxury gay space communism from my cold dead fingers

It's interesting to note that when Marx argued that technology would automate labor and usher in an era of abundance, he was talking about the automatic loom. Modern computers would have completely blown his mind, let alone AI or robotics.

While folks are still going "I never thought it would go that far".

Just a heads up all the trans stuff is gonna be used to prevent cis women from experimenting with cross-sex behavior like working, owning property and voting

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

As long as I live I will never understand how the far left preached a tech-enabled post-scarcity society for so long, and then as soon as 3-D printers, AI, and robotics started to prove them right they immediately started proclaiming that the whole concept of tech or post-scarcity sucks, actually.

Two of the most fundamental ethical principles of transhumanism are morphological freedom (the freedom to modify one's body) and cognitive freedom (the freedom to control one's mental processes). If you think trans people shouldn't be able to transition, you're not a transhumanist.

Yes

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Reticulum Network: How it Works and Why it's SO GOOD YouTube video by Linux in a Bit

Reticulum Network: How it Works and Why it's SO GOOD

Yes. The Pegleg and Bodybytes implants are both powered through Qi which is the wireless charging standard.

SenseCAP Card Tracker T1000-E for Meshtastic The SenseCAP T1000-E is a compact Meshtastic device designed for off-grid communication and location sharing. About the size of a credit card, it can be easily carried or attached to gear for outdoor ...

This is probably rather large and power-hungry for an implant, but:

Disappointed face

SIM card designers: *give carriers a miniature computer they can run whatever code they want on*

Carriers: *just install the same app on it over and over again*

SIM card designers:

I recently learned for the first time that SIM cards are Java Cards and for some reason that fact blows my mind.

Maybe I should get a couple LoRa nodes and see how far they can talk to each other with one of them covered with a bag of salt water or something just to see what kind of attenuation we're working with.

Like you definitely wouldn't be able to get the 10km range LoRa usually gets you but it would probably be better than, say, a subdermal Wi-Fi router.