A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape.

They'd be morons to run Vance in 2028

Only if the US still has legitimate elections. Guess we'll see during the midterms.

It's really difficult to cool things in space, and it's really difficult to power stationary things in space. It's also really expensive to put things in space so size/weight is a problem.

So if it's not cheaper/better for cooling, and it's not cheaper/better for power, and it's not cheaper/better for rack space.. why is there a focus on shipping compute to space?

The point I keep coming back to is that it's really hard for the public to protest/damage/destroy data centres in space.

Context is important.

“I want to thank my fellow Utahns. You know, this bad stuff happens. And for 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn’t be one of us — that somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country. Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for — just because I thought it would make it easier on us, if we could just say, ‘Hey, we don’t do that here,’ and indeed, Utah is a special place. We lead the nation in charitable giving. We lead the nation in service every year. But it did happen here, and it was one of us.

One of us = a Utah resident.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09/12/read-watch-what-gov-spencer-cox/

I'm surprised how many people didn't realise this. I used to play Ingress, which was also from Niantic and similar to Pokémon Go but involved agents and hacking POIs rather than Pokémon trainers and Poké Stops.

Niantic discussed at the time that this was to support their work on the N+1 navigation problem, although I can't for the life of me find a quoatable reference for this. I played Ingress knowing that my location data was being harvested thinking it was to solve a problem.

I also wonder how many people realise Niantic Labs was started as a Google internal startup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic%2C_Inc.

The peak temperature broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C.

The previous record wasn't 2C; it was 13.4C and that was beaten by 2C.

“It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly,” he added.

Researchers stationed on King George Island, 160km from Esperanza, reported large areas of the landscape where bare ground was visible after the mercury rose to 4.6C on 6 June.

Even at the top of the 500-metre summit of the nearby Collins glacier, Muñoz witnesses rain melting the ice.

“There was a direct impact on the glacier, which should be receiving snow now. It should not be suffering ablation at this time of the year. This is obviously not good for the glacier,” he said.

March to October is winter in Antarctica.. "this time of year" is the middle of winter. We're cooked.

Try this while on a VPN and in incognito mode: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

I bet you'll be surprised at the methods companies use to fingerprint you - browser agent, Do Not Track enabled/disabled, timezone, screen size.. not accepting cookies is also a data point to filter you by.

Or she was one of 500,000+ tech workers that lost their job between 2022-2024.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2024/08/19/the-great-tech-reset-unpacking-the-layoff-surge-of-2024/

Phew. I'm about to read the article but I was worried this was something other than Copy Fail and Dirty Frag.

My home lab has never seen such an aggressive update schedule lol

I watched the press conference (admittedly at about 1am) and I don't remember hearing him say this. I'll watch it again today.

The majority of his talk was around walking back violence and not responding to hate with hate. The only thing I really faulted him on was claiming that there was only one person responsible: the shooter. This completely absolves Kirk (and his ilk) of the divisiveness the fuckwit(s) caused, and the path to fascism that they've helped build.

Some of the things he claimed Kirk said to him are odd for a guy that believes empathy is made up, but who knows how much of this was an act for Kirk vs actual beliefs. In reality, it doesn't matter - the resulting radicalised youth and increased divisiveness is the same either way.

Edit: Think I found it. Context is important.

“I want to thank my fellow Utahns. You know, this bad stuff happens. And for 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn’t be one of us — that somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country. Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for — just because I thought it would make it easier on us, if we could just say, ‘Hey, we don’t do that here,’ and indeed, Utah is a special place. We lead the nation in charitable giving. We lead the nation in service every year. But it did happen here, and it was one of us.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09/12/read-watch-what-gov-spencer-cox/

I'm running into the ID verification problem too! I uninstalled the app and when I reinstalled, I couldn't find my 2FA code in Microsoft Authenticator. Now I need to submit my government ID and do the face scan stuff.

I'm very much against all the ID verification stuff as of late, for the same reason you state.. I asked a friend to give me a PDF export of my profile and I'll maybe come back when the ID verification requirement changes.

OpenAI absolutely did something. This wasn't a member of the public using ChatGPT, this was OpenAI employees training an OpenAI model(s).

If you or I did this without permission in the name of research (with or without using an LLM), we'd be facing jail time.

OpenAI accessed non-public aggregate health statistics and internal files from an old Australian government website that carried Medicare statistics.

The prime minister said OpenAI was conducting research into public medical spending when it found a way to break through privacy protections.

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

Totally agree. We're watching from Australia to see if you guys are still a democracy or not. Signs aren't looking good..

• Australia allows dual citizenship
• Republic of Korea requires you to relinquish your Korean citizenship if you become a citizen of another country
• Girl with 'no options' chooses to keep her Republic of Korea citizenship
• Australia imposes visa fees that apply to non-citizens of Australia
• You suggest Australian's that are born here, or choose to become citizens here, pay more to make it fair

Walk me through this logic? Why should people that choose to join (or are born in) Australian citizenry pay more to make it fair for a limitation of RoK citizenship?

Let's discuss whether the visa fee is too high, for sure. But suggesting a penalty for Australian citizens to "not discriminate" against someone that has chosen not to become a citizen is absolutely ludicrous to me.

Absolutely. As more manufacturers leave the consumer market for the lucrative DC market, cloud gaming will become the norm as most of us won't be able to afford hardware at home.. and that makes me really sad. We'll start to see the end of homelabs and self-hosted software, as well as our gaming rigs. Nvidia and Microsoft both offer cloud gaming platforms and are both neck-deep in AI & AI hardware.

We may also see DIY chips and new innovation to bypass the hardware availability problem, but as we become more reliant on AI/LLMs I worry that we'll lose that innovation. The bubble pop cannot come soon enough.

Hey, just in case you haven't heard this before - maybe book an ADD/ADHD test if some of the indicators resonate with you.

I have a diagnosed friend who also said the same thing about stimulants not having the expected effect. It's apparently common for drugs like cocaine and MDMA in people with ADHD.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cocaine-and-adhd

https://theforgerecovery.com/mdma-and-adhd-understanding-the-effects-on-neurodivergent-individuals/

We can go dark if we want to, we can leave the light behind,

If your friends want light, and if they use light, well they're no friends of mine,

Say.. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Getting them out of government would be a good start.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-09/coles-just-hired-us-defence-contractor-palantir/103443504

If the petition goes somewhere, it would be great to see a general ban on them operating in Australia. Of course, this is a far shot dream with a bunch of ramifications.. but one can dream.

https://downloadmoreram.com/