Seymour Cray, “the Father of Supercomputing”, claimed that Elves often helped him overcome computer design problems.
Let That Sink In
Glenn Harlan Reynolds- Elon Unbound
There are lots of consequences to this week’s election, ranging from economics, to diplomacy, to outright freedom. But I want to focus on one in particular, what it means for Elon Musk.
Let That Sink In
Google Is Evil
Hah. Elon Musk gets results. It’s been “corrected”.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
A 1948 Cornett High School Film “How To Judge Facts”
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Garbage in, garbage out.
We are building AI on the random sewage of the Internet crawl. AI builders can’t conceive of base models built on Reddit wars, Facebook comments and old Twitter Drive-by hot-takes as being problematic. I had the talks, “Brian you are crazy, data is data”.
Calories are calories, there are calories in sewage, most choose not to consume them (willingly 🤓).
But all corporate AI models are built on Internet Sewage (of course there are facts and history too, but low percentage). The ingredients label would show 99% sewage.
And just like the Y2K problem the technicians could not convince that this data, and how it reflected upon the essence of humanity would form a faulty foundation ultimately built on sand.
Social Disease
A senior engineer at Meta admitted in a secret recording that posts critical of Vice President Kamala Harris are “automatically demoted.”
“Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn’t have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted,” the Meta employee told an undercover journalist working for O’Keefe Media Group. The software engineer went on to explain that the person would be unaware this happened but may notice a decline in engagement with their post, and if they had this happen on several occasions, they would then be “redlisted.”
In a post sharing the undercover footage, O’Keefe said the software engineer explained “that Meta’s ‘Integrity Team’ is responsible for controlling content through ‘civic classifiers,’ a system that ‘shadowbans’ posts without notifying users.”
“Gyawali also revealed a specialized Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team that was created at Meta, stating, ‘There is a SWAT team that’s already set up since April… just to think about all the scenarios of how the platform could be abused,'” O’Keefe’s post continued.
Asked whether Meta has the ability to influence the 2024 election, he said “yes” and claimed that Mark Zuckerberg will help Democrats this cycle.
Absolutely Amazing!
This is what real “progress” looks like:
The tower has caught the rocket!!
pic.twitter.com/CPXsHJBdUh— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024
Juan Valdez Will Be Looking For Work
This will go great with a bowl full of bugs first thing in the morning.
Psy.org- Scientists release the recipe for lab-grown coffee to accelerate creation of new coffee ecosystem
Safe and Effective®
Sun- Jeep urges 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUV owners to stop charging and park outdoors due to fire risk
Jeep is recalling more than 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs worldwide because they can catch fire with the ignition turned off. In addition, Jeep is urging owners not to charge the SUVs and to park them outdoors and away from structures until they are repaired.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
According to a Tier 2 technician at Verizon, there has been a deliberate and unauthorized shutdown of the U.S. electrical grid that specifically targeted cell towers, starting locally and expanding nationwide.
Verizon has experienced the most significant impact, with other… pic.twitter.com/88FwWEtxKf
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) September 30, 2024
The World Is In The Very Best Of Hands
Oh, shit.
US Capitol Hit by Massive Dark Web Cyber Attack: Reports.
The personal information of more than 3,000 congressional staffers has been leaked across the dark web in a wide-ranging cyberattack on the Capitol.
"Many of these leaks likely occurred because staffers used…
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) September 24, 2024
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
It’s a Luxury Item
Quiet You
Let That Sink In
BREAKING: X/Twitter’s San Francisco office has officially closed its doors today, the company will be relocating to its new headquarters in Austin, Texas
Should we keep the sign? (parody)
Dust In The Wind
Public- Wind Industry Is Killing Sea Life On East Coast, Fishermen Say
Over the last three years, we have been documenting the ecological catastrophe quietly unfolding on the East Coast. With the support of the US government, the wind industry is killing whales and other sea life. If nothing changes, the wind industry will make the North Atlantic right whale go extinct.
Article is paywalled but there’s enough here to get the point
Commercial fishermen all around Block Island are telling similar stories. Ever since the wind farms came to the ocean, lobsters are hard to find. Formerly productive scallop beds are dead. Cod have disappeared.
Google Commemorative Logos You’ll Never See
Google “growth strategist” Dakota Leazer got confronted by James O’Keefe after telling an undercover reporter that his company had been “definitely coordinating” with the Kamala Harris campaign. He had told the woman, who had set up Leazer on a date, that his platform and other Big Tech companies were promoting Harris in an attempt to “get her to win.” […]
Be sure to watch the whole video, which dropped on Wednesday, the day after the debate. Reasonable people may think Leazer looks a bit too low-level to reach a definitive conclusion about Google’s intentions, and maybe he just was trying to impress his date. Perhaps, but … Google’s actions at higher levels raise exactly the same suspicion.
For instance, did you know that Google’s attorney in their DoJ anti-trust case helped Kamala Harris prep for the debate that took place the night before O’Keefe released this video?
An Amazon Sabotage Goes Horribly Wrong
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Time snubbed tech titan and artificial intelligence backer Elon Musk from its annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in AI” – but slapped actress Scarlett Johansson on this year’s cover.
The magazine created a composite image for its 2024 cover showing the photos of 18 AI leaders, topped by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang that also prominently featured the “Black Widow” star.