Notices by jimray (jimray@mastodon.social)

@sjvn it’s actually a prequel. Why do you think they unleashed the snakes!

My thoughts on Dick Cheney voting for Kamala Harris are that Dick Cheney should be rotting in a cell at The Hague.

@evan Nationalized in the sense that what-we-call-AI corporations are taken over by the state or nationalized in the sense that there is a public benefit to governments building open source LLMs?

Red state governors: it’s illegal to say the word abortion, expectant parents are required to buy their newborn children an AR-15, and it’s legal to kill bikers and pedestrians as long as your full sized truck is American made.

Blue state governors: this tiny incremental environmental improvement that has taken 25 years to become law is too much of a burden on cars ability to further ruin citities and will be postponed indefinitely.

NASA successfully debugged a 46-year-old computer that has a latency of nearly two full days. That is truly awesome.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

@ianbetteridge @tfb @loke Sharp post and in the comments you get at something that has genuinely made me sad: the correlation between the reactionary shift and the upstart of Dithering. I like John and Ben personally, their rightward drift over the past four years though just bums me out.

@tantramar @ianbetteridge @tfb @loke I’m not a regular Talk Show listener but did listen to an episode with @anildash a while back and I could see glimmers of the old Daring Fireball.

Marc Andreessen: “And another thing! We would’ve solved climate change in the 70s if the pesky environmentalists hadn’t killed nuclear power!”

Also Marc Andreessen: “I’m proud to announce we’re working with one of the most brutal, repressive, corrupt regimes in history to help them launder their oil money on a computer that uses ⅛ of the global electric supply to generate ransom notes.”

I am in no way clever enough to make up that bit about petrostates funding AI, it’s an actual thing on this, the worst timeline

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/saudi-arabia-investment-artificial-intelligence.html

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

Lots of nodding along to this great piece by @anildash

One thing left unsaid is the value of the Apple podcast directory, which seems to power a ton of discoverability.

https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

One of the lessons of the past two decades of tech is open protocols can work as long as there is some element of infrastructure that isn’t dependent on market forces. Social media platforms ended up the way they did because they were hellbent on wringing out every possible cent of profitability.

The way @molly0xfff ethers Chris Dixon down to the subatomic level here is just so satisfying

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

While I wait for @evan ‘s book, what are some of the best resources for getting started with developing for Activity Pub?

OpenAI replacing the only two women on the board, and the only researchers actually interested in preventing skynet, with the guy who invented the like button and the king of neoliberalism is almost too on the nose.

@anildash that’s the good shit Anil

If Peter Thiel’s codename while he snitched for the FBI wasn’t John Galt, what the hell was even the point?

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10

@kissane it feels so weird to say I’ve been eagerly awaiting? anxiously anticipating? this given I know it’s a gut punch and has to have been so incredibly difficult to wade through all of this. Not to mention Obsidian…

All of which is to say: thank you.

The Times is right — e-bikes are a scourge and we must do everything we can to protect our fragile SUV-driving elites from these teen terrors. I propose we construct a nationwide network of separated e-bike enclosures to segregate these monsters from god-fearing motorists.

I’ve attached one such example from a European petrostate that has spent years valiantly protecting cars from the ravages of cycling. With work, we may be able to reduce the number of cyclist-on-motorist deaths to zero.

@jbouie
Every 4-ton truck driving reactionary who once saw a biker execute a legal Idaho stop six years ago: EVERY BIKER REFUSES TO OBEY THE LAWS

Same guy: it’s not only my right but my *duty* to cruise through this residential neighborhood at 52 mph