oh the A part is ok

In the future, historians will marvel at how a U.S. political party documented their project to destroy America (aka Project 2025), won the elections and set about to dismantle everything that made America great without any mainstream discourse or accountability.

Fuck the Heritage Foundation.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

@woozle @sus

I’m also training for cold water swimming. That’s the only reason I eat so much ice cream.

The Journal is going to kill people with this puffery. (See our interview on this week's Intelligent Machines podcast for more.
Full Self-Driving Is the Best Thing About the New Tesla Model Y
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/tesla-model-y-review-13d303c1?st=QjTLU2

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ninlyricbot/117146722947203300

Cuticle maintenance 💅

@TheConversationUS Some heroes are still fighting the good fight.

Good news: “Oxford University closed the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), a research organization led by philosopher Nick Bostrom, who is backed by Elon Musk”

https://londondaily.com/oxford-shuts-down-elon-musk-funded-institute-led-by-controversial-philosopher-nick-bostrom-death-by-bureaucracy

Now we apply our probabilistic algorithm A, whose existence was assumed,

ridiculous paper

Heard this fantastic quote today: “Mentorship is about making equals (or betters), not followers. If your mentee wants to be a follower it will never work. If your mentor just wants followers it will never work. Find someone that wants to be or to build an equal”

unpopular opinion

There's a way for me to notice "hey, a lot of stuff just got uploaded to the Archive, in a place that doesn't usually see a lot of stuff uploaded". Sometimes it's spammers, sometimes it's other things.

This time, it turns out someone has been mirroring the entire open academic output of the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI). They're at nearly 10,000 papers and counting!

https://archive.org/details/tari-archive

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/117146045089521164

If #MarkCarney knew the US was negotiating in bad faith, he certainly didn't show it by understanding the necessity of urgently developing Canadian #digitalSovereignty. Someone please sit him down in front of a @pluralistic talk (as Doctorow's a Canadian source, and Carney appears to trust journalists well enough to appoint them Ministers: though urgently read also the books by the experts cited below), and persuade our PM that our #sovereignty and #nationalSecurity depend on freeing #Canada from all Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon (AWS) dependence, with wartime urgency.

Hon. @Paulatics, @KristopherWells, @SenKarenAb, or @colindeacon: Can any of you talk some sense into our Honourable bank executive about this? I'd be happy to volunteer to explain anything in Cory's presentations or books that you or Mark doesn't understand. (I have over 20 years' paid experience explaining tech stuff to non-tech people, if that'd be useful.) I'm sure plenty other Canadians such as those in the @linuxassociation and the Canadian #selfHosting community could help explain this too.

Perhaps this needs to be more diplomatically phrased, but if we need funds to accelerate Canadian digital sovereignty, I suggest taking them from Evan Solomon's tax-abyss Ministry of Slop. Evan's an uncritical career tech hype-man with less qualification to run a technology ministry than the historically and catastrophically incompetent #PeteHegseth has to run the US DoD. Solomon's education is in English literature and religious studies, not anything even remotely related to computing, and it shows. His religious fanaticism for, as Drs. @emilymbender and @alex aptly put it, The AI Con, ought to disqualify him from leading a tech ministry.

Meanwhile, the very existence of such an office as "Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation" shows that our illustrious economist mistakenly believes that, in the Empire of AI (per Karen Hao), Canada can become a colonizer, not return to its prior status as a colony: exactly as Trump and the coterie of technofeudal "AI" CEOs backing him are seeking to coerce us into becoming. The promises of "economic efficiency" (i.e., mass layoffs, wage deflation, and metastatic rent extraction) promised by the #TESCREAL (@timnitGebru) dogma of the AI cult system may resound with confirmation bias in the heart of the true believer in the religion of neoclassical economics (may the Earth become infinite and Homo economicus cease requiring infinite compute power), but alas, our first priority in tech policy should not be proliferation of climate- and community-destroying hyperscale #datacentres for the Slop God, but instead, in removing Trump's ability to do to all #Canadian government and business what Donald did the the #ICC with a few sanctions.

#cdnpoli

@lowqualityfacts I know, right? And they'd kill you as cheerfully as look at you.

White Nationalist Jake Lang came to Minneapolis and got fucking smacked the fuck up by a dude dressed like Spiderman.

#USPolitics #GOP #AltRight #Photography #Politics #Spiderman

@harris you can get a commercial-grade treadmill for (slightly) less than that, though if you’re in Sommerville you might not have the space. There’s a decent climbing gym in the area too, depending exactly where you are.

Full disclosure - I answered the where are you from poll "Mathematics" even though in Detroit it's definitely just "Math" because you fuckers needa enunciate more.

holy fucking shit dude. you can't search for that paper online cause it has the same name as this paper. the provided link doesn't work and it now redirects to israel not germany

Circalendar 😍

"Circalendar ist eine Karte und ein Kalender mit Festivals und Veranstaltungen des zeitgenössischen Zirkus – entwickelt, um es Zuschauern, Künstlern und Fachleuten zu erleichtern, sich einen Überblick darüber zu verschaffen, was wann und wo stattfindet.

Ganz gleich, ob ihr eure nächste Festivalreise plant, eine Tourroute ausarbeitet oder einfach nur neugierig seid, was in der Zirkuswelt gerade los ist – wir hoffen, dass dies eure erste Anlaufstelle wird."

https://circalendar.com/