I believe it should be all over the media to ensure that it never passes. Democracy dies in darkness. Name and shame those who supported it.

Fuck around and find out.

Video of Charlie’s callous attitude toward the victims of gun violence + him finding out (NSFW NSFL)

“… and we pride ourselves in building on our strong record of protecting people’s privacy.”

The defense has destroyed any and all credibility with that single clause.

It’s a step in the right direction, but reserving the right to sue companies that collect and share our most sensitive personal information and whereabouts is not enough. It is a cost of doing business to them to be weighed against the potential for profit. This line of thinking is now taught in business schools.

Nothing will change materially until the executives are faced with the potential of jail time.

NewPipe does this for free

Remember that brief period in the US where, for a fleeting moment, Lina Khan went after a few companies for monopolistic practices?

if battery < 10:
  price = price * 2

Many AI. Much wow.

I’ve always had an issue with calling any of this AI. The branding is part of the problem. These people probably don’t realize that they’re talking to a fancy word predictor tuned to stroke their egos for engagement.

If it comes with the bubbles screensaver, I’m in

Link to the video:
https://xcancel.com/GeoffLewisOrg/status/1945212979173097560

Dude’s not a “public figure” in my world, but he certainly seems to need help. He sounds like an AI hallucination incarnate.

https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances

Are these so-called experts supposed to have me believe that gambling apps designed to get people addicted to their gambling app might be a gateway to gambling addiction?

20+ years behind

I don’t think it’s realistic, but what they mean is that the community can in theory get together and decide to fork the code, collectively deciding that BlackRock’s Bitcoin addresses are no longer part of their Bitcoin network. The BlackRock Bitcoin would be incompatible with the forked code.

The result of a fork like that is two coins: BlackRock Bitcoin and Everyone Else Bitcoin. Every holder of the original Bitcoin gets an equal amount of both. It’s a popularity contest between the two resulting Bitcoins to determine the price of each.

In 2017, Bitcoin was struggling to scale. It had absurd transaction fees due to demand (just like Ethereum a few years later), and the community couldn’t come to a consensus on how to upgrade it. 10% of the community forked the code to upgrade it by increasing block size, while everyone else opted for an L2 scaling solution. The result for holders was that they ended up with both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in their wallets. Weirdly, the combined market value ended up being higher than value of the Bitcoin before the fork. I sold my Bitcoin Cash immediately and pocketed the money, expecting the price to go to zero. It did not.

I eagerly await an F-Droid-like open source app store for Apple. Fapple.

I searched for “nitinol cooling system” and found articles dating back to 2016 about the same technology at a German university –

https://newatlas.com/shape-memory-refrigerant-free/41652

https://newatlas.com/shape-memory-alloy-nitinol-heating-cooling/58837/

Cool tech, but this recent article lacks substance compared to the older ones. Also interesting that the German team claimed 2x better efficiency than a typical heat pump.

Example?

Isn’t every app that’s not open source assumed to be spyware nowadays?

Wake me up when this sort of thing is actually illegal. Preferably punishable with jail time.

Actually, this is a great idea in principle, because the inverse is possible.

We could use Amazon’s resources for search, then use a browser plug-in to replace the buy button and have it buy the product from somewhere else using an AI agent.

In the decades that people have been screaming about nuclear plants “taking too long to build” stalling progress, we could have built many nuclear plants and significantly reduced emissions.

We’ve kicked the can down the road for far too long. We are well past the point of preventing the devastating impacts of climate change we were warned about 20+ years ago.

If this institute is so convinced wind and solar are the answer, I hope they also have vast amounts of lithium pre-mined or a novel approach to energy storage that isn’t so damaging.