excalibur

Our kids can't change a tire.

These days objectivity is politically left. The right has fallen off a cliff and pulled the Overton window down with it.

https://archive.ph/Z3eaj

Still have one, still works. Would happily use it if it were still practical. I think you can still load OpenWRT on them, but there's no software route around the hardware being outdated and slow.

Missed opportunity to put a red ring on the announcement. ⭕

Those of us who were cool used things like MSN Messenger, AIM, etc. to chat quickly without having to use an email.

Rubbish, MSN Messenger was never cool

I would assume that the list of Trump appointees would be a good place to start.

So, if you like my ANES and you want to get a better look at it, check the description for a link to my OnlyFans.

BEEP!

...for a link to my GitHub.

The timing of Hoffman’s remarks is pointed. SpaceX went public on June 12th, with AI central to its IPO narrative. Within days, the company announced it was acquiring Cursor, the AI coding tool. Hoffman’s read: that’s not proof of AI capability, but evidence of its absence. “You could almost think of it as the IAC of AI,” he said, invoking the serial acquisitions roll-up strategy of Barry Diller’s internet-era conglomerate. “Use the market cap to buy AI companies and try to buy your way into relevance.”

Sounds like securities fraud to me.

You guys, I think maybe THIS is the Bad Place.

The solar-powered system uses specially engineered black metal to absorb sunlight.

Brutal. 𖤐 \m/ 𖤐

When you put "modern" or "new" into the name of a thing, you're basically announcing to the world that it was designed for the short term, and when it is no longer new it will no longer be relevant.

That's not how Superman did it.

$2000 apiece for cardboard?!

When we want violet, we know just what to do. Just mix our good friends purple and blue.

I still refuse to believe that purple and violet are different colors.

Even if they're not serious

And it would be cool if it stated as much.

For some players who like to hit the ball closer in, the torpedo bat might be a better option for them, though, he added. And because the barrel is wider in a place where those batters do hit, they will be more likely to hit the ball more often — giving players a higher batting average.

If the only constraints are material and weight, it should be possible to create a design that performs even better for this purpose. But at some point it stops looking like a baseball bat.

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft Flight Simulator

Mafia Don shaking everyone down for their lunch money as usual. We used to be better than this.

Sure, it might cure cancer, but… that’s just uncertain. Sure, we’ll go to space, but… we sure have many problems at home.

We're not going to space. We're filling our own orbit with ever-increasing quantities of space junk and speeding toward a tipping point where space launch will no longer be possible due to near-certainty of collision. Mister "Let's all go to Mars" Elon Musk is the single greatest contributor to this problem.

Well done, but kind of annoying that winning and losing the game both lead to the same clip.

You must be fun at parties.

When you're walking around with your finger over your face all day, you should extend your thumb as well, so everyone can tell you're a Legend.

Let's send them thousands of tiny violins.

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.

Hey, I find that type of lingo nauseating, and I still struggle with practical decision-making.

The robots featured in the embedded promotional video appear to be mostly useless. This is the opposite of impressive.

Poorly reasoned. Offers assertions with nothing to back them up, because "that's not what we designed it to do". Yudkowsky & Soares tore all of these arguments to shreds last year.

If you haven't heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover, it's something else. He flat out admitted that he had never heard the song before recording it. Which... Number one, how? And number two, who let him do that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6S84qF_TU

I think the smart money is still on nuclear war, but the competition is getting fierce these days.