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Insanity is trying the same thing over again expecting a different result
Insanity is trying the same thing over again expecting a different result
Megan Brenan writing for Gallup: Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dipped to 37%, the lowest of this term and just slightly higher than his all-time worst rating of 34% at the end of
·birchtree.me·
Insanity is trying the same thing over again expecting a different result
Recommitting to our why, what, and how - The Official Microsoft Blog
Recommitting to our why, what, and how - The Official Microsoft Blog
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. As we begin a new fiscal year, I’ve been reflecting on the road we’ve traveled together and the path ahead. Before anything else, I want to speak to what’s been weighing heavily on me, and what I know many of you...
·blogs.microsoft.com·
Recommitting to our why, what, and how - The Official Microsoft Blog
An AI wrote this
An AI wrote this
Or did it?
·beneaththepavement.substack.com·
An AI wrote this
A forgotten Belgian genius dreamed up the internet over 100 years ago
A forgotten Belgian genius dreamed up the internet over 100 years ago
Though we're pretty sure that time travelers don't exist, people were working on hypertext -- used by web browsers to retrieve connected information -- long before computers. It even predates the ideas of a certain Vannevar Bush, the man generally acknowledged as having laid the groundwork for hypertext by microfiche in a seminal 1945 article. Nope, according to the Atlantic, some people were pondering ways of storing and retrieving information prior even to the 20th century. A Belgian genius called Paul Otlet posited an idea in 1895 about "universal libraries" to give anyone access to a vast number of books. By 1934 he had refined it to "electronic telescopes" that would connect people instantly to books, films, audio recordings and photos.
·engadget.com·
A forgotten Belgian genius dreamed up the internet over 100 years ago
Losing Money is the Point
Losing Money is the Point
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
·zachholman.com·
Losing Money is the Point
"Encryption Backdoors and the Fourth Amendment" - Schneier on Security
"Encryption Backdoors and the Fourth Amendment" - Schneier on Security
Law journal article that looks at the Dual_EC_PRNG backdoor from a US constitutional perspective: Abstract: The National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly paid and pressured technology companies to trick their customers into using vulnerable encryption products. This Article examines whether any of three theories removed the Fourth Amendment’s requirement that this be reasonable. The first is that a challenge to the encryption backdoor might fail for want of a search or seizure. The Article rejects this both because the Amendment reaches some vulnerabilities apart from the searches and seizures they enable and because the creation of this vulnerability was itself a search or seizure. The second is that the role of the technology companies might have brought this backdoor within the private-search doctrine. The Article criticizes the doctrine­ particularly its origins in Burdeau v. McDowell­and argues that if it ever should apply, it should not here. The last is that the customers might have waived their Fourth Amendment rights under the third-party doctrine. The Article rejects this both because the customers were not on notice of the backdoor and because historical understandings of the Amendment would not have tolerated it. The Article concludes that none of these theories removed the Amendment’s reasonableness requirement...
·schneier.com·
"Encryption Backdoors and the Fourth Amendment" - Schneier on Security
Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks
Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks
The skies overhead are already teeming with satellites. But their orbiting numbers will skyrocket in the near future as the commercial and international space race takes off. Three projects alone — SpaceX’s Starlink, China’s Guowang megaconstellation, and Donald Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense system — will launch tens of thousands of new satellites. Today’s […]
·news.mongabay.com·
Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks
The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech
The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech
Hello premium subscribers! Today I have the first guest post I've ever commissioned (read: paid) on Where's Your Ed At - Nik Suresh, one of the greatest living business and tech writers, best-known for his piece I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again, probably my favourite piece
·wheresyoured.at·
The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech
Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
Leaders from both major political parties have been working to bring back manufacturing. But American manufacturers say they are struggling to fill the manufacturing jobs we already have.
·npr.org·
Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
Fascism For First Time Founders
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…
·techdirt.com·
Fascism For First Time Founders
The Underlying Tension Behind Stephen Colbert’s Exit
The Underlying Tension Behind Stephen Colbert’s Exit
The decision to shut down Stephen Colbert’s long-running late-night show suggests it might be time to work around the studios for our comedic commentary.
·tedium.co·
The Underlying Tension Behind Stephen Colbert’s Exit
Space Nazis: socially and economically disadvantaged.
Space Nazis: socially and economically disadvantaged.
Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion: Elon Musk's health tech company Neuralink labeled itself a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration, shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion. [..] Neuralink's filing, dated April 24, would have reached the SBA at a time when
·jwz.org·
Space Nazis: socially and economically disadvantaged.
Silent Partners - Lombardi-style Network Visualizer
Silent Partners - Lombardi-style Network Visualizer
Create network visualizations in the tradition of Mark Lombardi. A tool for exploring the covert relationships between individuals and corporations.
·silentpartners.app·
Silent Partners - Lombardi-style Network Visualizer
The Enshittification of American Power
The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
·wired.com·
The Enshittification of American Power