“Mechanical Uyghurs” — Tony Blinken, probably

I didn’t do anything; I’m just the messenger.

I didn’t know these batteries could absorb energy at this rate, and I wonder if this would ding their longevity. I’d assumed that you’d need supercapacitors to pull this off.

Some interesting languages have gotten serious traction since 2000. I wonder how RedoxOS is doing. It seems that contributions haven’t flagged.

Remember when everyone said TikTok was an evil seeseepee plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids?

How a careless, incompetent developer moved fast and broke things, specifically his company’s production database.

Because they’ve never heard these things any other way, so

Hmm, yeah the ethno-state that is china has never done anything wrong, especially not to its own citizens.

Ethnostate? I think you’re thinking of Israel. The idea of a “Han supremacist” state comes exclusively from Western propaganda, and the “Uyghur genocide” is a psyop[1][2][3].

Sure, but the people of china don’t have much say. If they voice a critical opinion they’re silenced, doesn’t seem like they’re allowed to choose.

More propaganda. By their own account, Chinese people feel they’re being heard by their government, much more so than Americans do. You can say whatever you like in the US because free speech here is like shouting at the wind.

You’d rather live under a dictatorship

Yet more propaganda. Meanwhile the US has never been democratic; it’s always been an oligarchy.

Propaganda can be overcome by developing real media literacy.

Even if China were doing that, what would they do with the information? Nothing, because they don’t give a shit about you, because you’re on the other side of the planet. They’re not doing that because they’re not cartoon villains wasting their time and effort on nefarious plots against Western randos.

Also, almost all of your current hardware came from China, so I guess you’re not actually that worried about it.

Tempest, especially if the museum lets us play it on a genuine arcade machine; and Shadow of the Colossus.

The same Germany that is denying the genocide it is currently supporting and is suppressing anti-Zionist voices?

Some people seem to think LLMs are oracles of truth, so if you wanted to rewrite history, this is how you might try to go about it.

I’m not sure that works, because AFAIK there currently are no such regulations, and this bill was preemptive of any future ones. In any case, what got blocked in the Senate was a ban of any future such regulations.

Oh good, it will be in the public domain.

OpenAI, which is also fighting a string of copyright lawsuits, donated $50 million this year to a group of research institutions including Oxford University’s 400-year-old Bodleian Library, which is digitizing rare texts and using AI to help transcribe them.

When the company first reached out to the Boston Public Library, one of the biggest in the U.S., the library made clear that any information it digitized would be for everyone, said Jessica Chapel, its chief of digital and online services.

“OpenAI had this interest in massive amounts of training data. We have an interest in massive amounts of digital objects. So this is kind of just a case that things are aligning,” Chapel said.

🧑‍🚀 Wait it’s all Cloudflare?

Screwdrivers can’t even hammer nails.

I believe that enby is the preferred nomenclature.

After the surgery, the patient was able to use his mind to control his arm and perform simple tasks such as picking up a cup and drinking from it.

The horror.

CBS must be tankie, too, then: There Was No “Tiananmen Square Massacre”.

Previously.

Thank you UK state media, very cool! 🙄 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMSrx5po6/

SAM. It’s not the machine. There’s a mismatch on the personnel code numbers. Tuttle should have had £31.06, debited against his account, not Buttle!
KURTZMAN. [horrified] Oh my God, a mistake!
SAM. Well at least it’s not ours.
KURTZMAN. [eagerly] Isn’t it? Whose is it?
SAM: Information Retrieval.
KURTZMAN. [smiling] Oh, good!

a 300 lb slurry of stack overflowers

yo dawg i heard u like drones…

A rental network would be very cool. One would come to you when called, and once you get to where you’re going, it would scoot off to another user, or take itself in for recharging, storage, or maintenance.

I wonder if they have gyroscopic stabilizers for full stops.

Robots of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your blockchains!

Paris is my seventh favorite Marx.

I’ll sell you a fair coin that’s nearly as accurate for half the price!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider

There isn’t a secret conspiracy to price people out of using computers for being a “democratizing force.” In fact, our computer & internet usage is monitored by the security state and by Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, etc. Or did we forget everything that Snowden revealed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

C’mon we all know what this is: Remote Uyghur organ harvesting. /s

I swear they’re just flexing now. Next thing you know it’ll be autonomous robotic surgery on the Moon.

I know it’s bad. My wife is a researcher at a non-profit that relies greatly on federal grants, which are getting killed left & right, and so her company is laying off left & right.

This was all Greek to me, and it took a while for me to figure out how to google WTF you’re talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_U.S._federal_deferred_resignation_program

That’s a lot of microwave

Michael Moritz is in the big club that we ain’t in, so I’m surprised his rag published this.

They rolled out 5G and all we got was this lousy Havana Syndrome.

But my favorite macrotransaction casual game is Buying Games Despite Your Backlog.