Alternatively, make the picture more and more blurry and have people try to recreate the text.

Weird that Myspace is still “owned” by someone when it’s spent so long not being a thing that exists.

For most of us, thinking random thoughts about it while in the shower is probably not the most effective way to gain an understanding of the mathematical details of quantum mechanics.

See also: Why businesses lie about AI

a situation in which everyone – “boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants” – has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies.

The link is presumably meant to be to this: https://blundervalley.ca/blog/what-flipped-hamiltons-vote/

[some random tech bro] suggested that based on its size, the data centre proposal before the city was unlikely to be an AI data centre, claiming it wouldn’t be economically viable. A quick search of Ontario’s corporate registries determined the owner of the land also runs an AI software company.

AI software companies are not going to hesitate to do a thing just because it’s not economically viable.

Normally I get around it by using Tor browser which works 95% of the time since it’s a totally normal-looking web browser — but here they’ve got the settings turned up so high that not even that works. It’s unusual enough that it probably wasn’t an accident, so telling them about it probably won’t help.

Scroll down that page a bit and you’ll see the message at the bottom stating it’s Cloudflare.

Site owners can configure cloudflare to block half the world if they want to, as they appear to have done here.

we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation

You think those are my worst fears, Guardian headline writer? You underestimate my creative pessimism.

If we’re calling these “pervert glasses” does that mean we need to also start calling all the surveillance cameras that routinely record video of people without their consent or awareness “pervert cameras”? Because I’d be okay with that.

It would be an excusable mistake even if it weren’t inadvertent which it easily might have been. Unless he makes a habit of it I don’t see why anyone should care at all, let alone repeatedly demand that he apologise and try to make a national news story out of it.

So it took them twelve years from the time they introduced systematic website blocking — in a futile effort to protect copyright — to start blocking forbidden knowledge about women’s reproductive health. I wonder if that is faster or slower than average when it comes to making such progress.

Just common sense innit? You’ve got more money, you get more votes. It’s practically a law of nature. Trying to enforce some other system would be going against the natural order of things. It’s the best way to maximise shareholder value.

Sex and drugs are fine but don’t neglect your rock and roll.

A goose that lays eggs composed of heavy metals has serious health problems, yet we value it.

Why? What does “discussions about hurting people” actually mean? Even starship captains engage in such discussions at times.

• Youtube shorts
• Youtube comments
• Inane point-form fights about complex political issues
• Entities exercising so little brainpower that they appear to be bots
• Alberta separatism

What an exquisite combination of the wonders of the social media world.

Patrick Boyle had a pretty good youtube video about this “mercantalist-on-mercantalist violence.”

My impression is that Germany, like so many other places, is going to need to come up with a substantially new and different way to manage its economic system. Manufacturing cars is no longer the path to greatness that everyone 50 years ago thought it was forever going to be.

The memory clock might be measured differently — base clock speed vs “effective” memory clock. Anyway my 6600 running Furmark also says 875 and does about 92 fps without trying to optimize anything.

First it was the end of Moore’s law, and now the delicate balance that existed for so long between computers getting more memory and software getting more bloated has been wrecked by software more wasteful than anyone could’ve imagined. So much for the so-called Information Age. I guess it’s Disinformation Age time.

If you’re willing to ask even this ridiculous question here in public, I’m not sure why you’d need to go anywhere else.