Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington Sue Trump To End Under 19 Trans Care Ban
The lawsuit is one of several moving against Trump's executive orders targeting transgender people in the military, healthcare, and international travel rights.
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The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
This is not fine
Displaced Los Angeles-area residents face spiking rents as authorities warn of price gouging
The ongoing wildfires have set off a stampede to find housing, leading some homeowners and property managers to raise rents higher than the 10% allowed during emergencies.
In some cases, prospective short-term renters in Los Angeles County are finding themselves on waiting lists, in bidding wars or being asked to provide a year’s worth of rent up front.
Of course it’s a coup
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Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse
Yay?
How an IT worker from Saskatchewan made the best game of the year - The Logic
Balatro is up for every video game award going. Its developer, an anonymous former IT worker from Saskatchewan, explains where the idea came from.
And in Saskatchewan, in December, it’s pretty cold and there’s not much to do.
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Cool cool cool
When Screens were Secondary: Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti - Core77
Here in 2023 we carry small screens in our pocket--and have gigantic ones on our workstations, in our living rooms and even in our cars. So it might be difficult to imagine a time when screens were not as important, and even a desk-sized unit could have a tiny screen.
Every 'Star Trek' Movie, Ranked
I don't agree with a lot of their list.
Accident Investigations
Very familiar to COE process at work.
The ‘Exciting Business Opportunity’ That Ruined Our Lives
Sad
When We Invited You To Join Our Trivia Team, It Was With The Understanding That You Knew ‘Star Trek’
I feel very called out.
Deep Impact
Sure seems like these garbage generators are more and more commoditized...
DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost
DeepSeek-R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This story focuses on exactly how DeepSeek managed this feat, and what it means for the vast number of users of AI models. For enterprises developing AI-driven solutions, DeepSeek’s breakthrough challenges assumptions of OpenAI's dominance -- and offers a blueprint for cost-efficient innovation.
DeepSeek FAQ
I don't buy that any of this is a path to AGI but it's certainly disruptive.
OpenAI’s gambit for control — enforced by the U.S. government — has utterly failed.
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
Hoist on their own petard
What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like
Well that's inspiring.
Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Coming. Here’s What We Can Do.
They are going to hurt so many people because they can
The Most Mario Colors
Funny little stats gathering
A Moment of Intense Optimism, Shattered
Billionaire class solidarity first
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
Maybe selling things online was the real mistake.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – The White House
This is unusually vile even for them.
Withered Technology
Classic case of latest not always being greatest.
Opinion | Conversations and insights about the moment.
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I don't appreciate the last line conflating these guys with nerds! But I guess that's another thing they've taken.
I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be.
while you may be able to buy power, it’s impossible to buy a good personality
This combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror, one that science fiction has failed to prepare us for.
It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.
The Slop Society
I barely use the bad platforms but his final points about everything getting worse because the ad revenue gets prioritized for growth
It's a comfortable lie to say that Meta has "suddenly" done something, because it gives the media (and society at large) air cover for ignoring a gaping wound in the internet.
It's almost ridiculous to call us "users" of Facebook at this point. We are the used, the punished, the terrorized, the tricked, the scammed, and the abused, constantly forced to navigate through layers of abstraction between the thing we are allegedly using and the features we'd like to use.
so many products on the App Store have expensive and exploitative microtransactions, because Apple makes 30% off of all App Store revenue, even if the app sucks.
Trump is perhaps the most transactional human being ever to grace the earth.
I fear that the subtle little problems you see every day will both multiply and expand, and that the core services we use will break down, because I believe the most powerful in big tech never really gave a shit and no longer believe they have to pretend otherwise.
The tech oligarchy has been here for years
They're all masks off now.
Microsoft AI Red Team says security work will never be done
Of course not, you have untrusted inputs and analyzing them practically requires another model that also makes mistakes.
Due to fundamental limitations of language models, one must assume that if an LLM is supplied with untrusted input, it will produce arbitrary output. When that input includes private information, one must also assume that the model will output private information.
Another day of stochastic harassment for old time’s sake – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
An internet of ideas
Some points on what Mullenweg is up to