most americans dont vote

chronically, year after year, decade after decade

He stopped a rail worker strike for safer working conditions, then six moths latter there was a massive derailment and an environmental catastrophe in Ohio. You would call that left?

Chasing “balance” is how we got here in the first place.

funny thing is, it wasn’t even all that subsidized

some grants and a tax break, the next administration eliminated that practically overnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nH6ya5g2-s

It’s a matter of learned behavior, not genetics.

Why should our machines for doing sums also just happen be capable of reproducing the same phenomenon of consciousness that brains do? Doesn’t that seem awful convenient? Especially considering that we have a very thorough understanding of computers, but we really don’t understand consciousness.

I don’t think any these companies would stomach a cut in sales. They’d definitely try and fight any change in the courts.

If anything, I expect the EU to try and keep anti-circumvention laws to benefit its own tech industry.

The neat thing about Doctorow’s proposal, though, is that at this point anyone could do it. Canada, India, Brazil… with tariffs already in play, there’s not really much to lose.

The logistics of the Holocaust was enabled by IBM tabulation machines; this comparison isn’t that much of a stretch.

I… guess if you have one half that’s 2025-2075 and another half that’s comprised of the two non-contiguous quarters on either side?

I mean, it also looks like Peter Mandelson’s “best buddy” status with Epstein is gonna drag down the Starmer government… but more because at this point almost anything would drag that government down, not out of any principled attempt to address the pedophile cabal.

Known pedophiles facing legal consequences is a very recent development in British politics.

Arguably, it’s not even that, since the arrest is over him talking about confidential government stuff with Epstein, not for any of the abuse.

I mean, silver lining, the dollar was never gonna remain the reserve currency forever. Now that is just gonna happen before the middle of the 21st century, rather than sometime after it.

That’s true, and my bad for implying otherwise.

But I also think much more critically, they’re back to denying coverage exactly the way they were before Thompson died.

The efficacy lasted for all of a month before returning to where it had been before.

OK, and my point is that people are using the term “AI” so loosely as to be indistinguishable from “algorithm”.

We’ll still have the statistical protein folding models after this bubble eventually pops, we’re just not gonna call it “AI”. It’s a trendy marketing department word, and its usefulness as a description in Computer Science is rapidly diminishing.

whaaaat surely BYU, the school that claimed to have done cold fusion, is an upstanding pillar of academic research

Could you define that category? Or give us an example of a programme that fits under it and one that doesn’t?

Yeah, I’m somewhat paralyzed by it myself. It feels mean to spell it out like this, but fuck… I just cannot just let this rattle around in my head for any longer.

There is some cold comfort to know others see this too, that I’m not just driving myself crazy.