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"I think you just need to accept the results of the competition. The winning submissions clearly provide value and had a lot of effort invested in them. I'm not really worried about a few inconsistencies or mistakes if the value is still there. Did you think another submission deserved to win over these?"

That comment is gold. Yeah, I'm not worried about hallucinated slop, just accept it was the winner folks.

That was a really, really bad book. By that time it feels like he was a shadow of his former page-turning self.

You seem to be projecting onto me far more than my words literally state. I neither stated nor insinuated anything of the sort.

I wasn't aware I had weaponised their personal faults, or indeed claimed that what they said was indicative of being a personal fault. I read his post, and then read some more of his writing, and simply felt it would be worth posting what I read in this thread. For me at least, it was a useful experience that changed some of what I was reading into the commentary surrounding the data. YMMV.

The author of that Climate Casino post has some... strong views. So you might want to bear this in mind when reading his analysis:

"The human cancer is destructive to every living thing, as humans continue to eat the planet into oblivion. As someone who values “everything else,” I would be one of the first to rally behind the NTHE philosophy if it had any scientific basis at all. I want the human cancer gone from this planet."

https://climatecasino.substack.com/p/unfortunately-the-end-o...

Derail Valley is about as serious at it gets!

Borderline delusional.

"Antares is a nuclear fission energy company developing compact microreactors for defense and space applications"

Why stop there? Maybe it's sabotage all the way down, like turtles?

I'm sure that even if the official report totally excludes the possibility of sabotage, for some people that in itself will be the clearest possible sign that there was, in fact, sabotage at play.

No, sabotage doesn't hold up. The thing that rules it out is the braking, or rather lack of it. Passengers reported no screeching and no sudden deceleration before impact, which means the driver thought the line ahead was clear. Tampered track or an obstruction or some kind of remote hack (getting into the realms of fantasy there) would normally give him something to react to. This entirely fits a missed signal or a signalling/protection failure.

It also feels like "a train hitting a stationary one shouldn't happen", but that's the textbook rear-end-after-a-SPAD scenario - e.g. Ladbroke Grove. No official has hinted at foul play either. Everything so far points to an accident in the signalling chain or faulty TPWS. But the interim report is due in two days so we'll see more then.

"Ms. Harrington and Ms. Emanuel are labor economists and authors of the forthcoming book “In Person: How Working Together Fuels Creativity, Productivity, and Growth.""

Surprised pikachu face.

This is starting to feel like a Peter Watts short story.

Large format artwork, limited edition/numbered pressings for collectability, limited edition/numbered pressings to try and sell on for a personal profit, supporting the band by purchasing a physical piece of merchandise perhaps directly from them, being part of a trend they've seen on TikTok/Instagram, etc.

Many reasons. A lot of the same reasons people buy, say, Pokemon cards and don't play the card game.

Fraser calls it “staycation”, which is a more accurate term and hasn’t been heard before.

Hasn't been heard before? Major newspapers use the phrase "staycation" nearly every year when talking about travel habits. It's in about as much regular use as "vacation" is.

All of Bullough's books are worth your time and variously go deeper into this very subject.

I've never paid for it, and never will. You don't HAVE to subscribe to "WhatsApp Plus" you know.

He's embedded in a social and professional world that has every incentive to believe the current state of AI progress is real and important and should be hyped to the stars. I am unsurprised to read such frothing soothsaying as a result.

AI psychosis.

A challenging writing style on a really difficult to read page with a sloppy AI header image means that this article was a not a great experience.

Yes, search impressions have cratered. And it'll only continue as such.

They're surprisingly good value for money too, if you go in with your eyes open. For the price they play pretty well.

For anyone interested in such a filter, this one is great in my experience: https://github.com/Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist

Well, yes. I mean of course they are. They're an ad company.

Cringe? Some of those background faces are utterly horrifying. Or maybe he's trying to tell us something by populating a future world with skull-faced mutants.

Nadine Dorries is one of the least credible, least trustworthy political gadflies you could possibly imagine, only ever truly content when being fed the oxygen of publicity.

The chaos and stupidity narrative only mask and sustain the far grimmer reality of this operation.

Can you elucidate?

"Non-technical teams are now shipping production code"

I triggered a containment breach, no need to thank me, Roko's Basilisk!

Huge performance issues for me trying to use it on Chrome. But I like the idea.

I implore everyone not to waste the two minutes reading this blog post that I did.