What have ya got?
I'll start: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/14/google-internet-spiral-of-decline-deepmind-mustafa-suleyman/ Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (2023/10/14) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887562
>>XABZVY5U I read the article and It wasn't really about google sending the internet into a spiral of decline. The vast majority of the article was spent discussing "AI" chatbots, an "AI" threat panel, and the founder of deep mind leaving google. Only the first 4 paragraphs had anything to do with the spiral of decline, the rest of it was other random shit about the danger or "AI". Funny that a news article about everything being filled with clickbait is clickbait.
>>66DIUT63 Suleyman's a co-founder of an AI company Google acquired, so the article veering off in that direction shouldn't be surprising. He argues Google's hunger for ad revenue has had a detrimental impact on its search technology and results people may receive from it. AI as a possible replacement or supplement for search could be tainted in a similar fashion. He goes on to argue AI technology should be closely monitored with an eye toward regulation. Regulation of AI could also lead to problems down the road of course. Whether Suleyman recognizes that is an open question. Personally I'm watching open source AI efforts.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-climate-driven-extreme-earth-hot-humans.html Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans (2023/10/09) https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-debt-worries-mount-is-another-crisis-brewing-2023-10-16/ As global debt worries mount, is another crisis brewing?
>>SZVIKGYI The world is gonna be really shitty in the future if we don't do anything about global warming. I can imagine the USA collapsing due to famines, refugee crises, wars with other countries over resources, cities being flooded, and extreme weather events destroying infrastructure. I wonder if you could dig a hole underground to avoid the heat, the ground is usually at a more constant temperature when you get below a certain distance, if you can do that then I would guess people would build basements that go deep into the ground for their homes. Another thing I thought of was that you could get a weather balloon and fly really high up to avoid the heat.
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-plastic-pervasive-food.html Plastic pervasive in food supply, says new study (2023/05/19) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/un-report-ipbes-wild-species-extinction_n_62c992fae4b0359fa47c13ce Earth Is On Track To Lose More Than 1,000 Wild Mammal Species, UN Report Says (2022/07/09) >>5EQIYP8C > The world is gonna be really shitty in the future if we don't do anything about global warming. Yes, but climate change is only one problem among many more. There's a bunch of reasons we're headed for bad times. > I wonder if you could dig a hole underground to avoid the heat Probably. That idea makes me think of Arx Fatalis.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-gaza-palestinians-holocaust Israel must stop weaponising the Holocaust
https://nullchinchilla.me/2023/05/two-kinds-of-censorship-resistance/ https://nullchinchilla.me/2023/06/earendil-uncensorable-decentralized-network/ Interesting blog and project.
>>PB85GK8P It's annoying when people cry racism over things that aren't bad at all. Like Jews saying criticising Israel is "anti-Semitic". And I say this as a half-Jew.
>>8YZBEQI1 > shutting down the whole Internet, for instance, is a foolproof strategy for a Type-II censor of any Internet protocol, and we need to carefully model our attacker's incentives and capabilities to rule out these high-collateral-damage strategies North Korea does this. They cut off all access to the outside worlds internet aside from a couple of computers. > Decentralized collateral freedom: can we build a decentralized network that has collateral freedom? If we achieve mass adoption of some Type-I censorship-resistant decentralized technology — say, a cryptocurrency — censoring all usage of that technology would be as hard as censoring centralized services used for current collateral-freedom systems. The challenge here, besides actually achieving mass adoption, seems to be that censors can simply mandate usage of a surveilled gateway to such a subversive network, and ban properly using the network. This achieves all their censorship goals without much collateral damage. In the case of cryptocurrency, for instance, nothing seems to prevent a regime like China from banning self-custody wallets, Type-II censoring all blockchain network traffic, and still participate in the cryptocurrency economy through "compliant" custodial wallets. It seems hard to design a system where such a gateway-based censorship machine will actually cause collateral damage. If I was a tyrannical government who wanted to control cryptocurrency, I would target the miners. If you could get 51% of the miners (computing power wise) to accept a change in the bitcoin software that lets a "trusted" third party make transactions with other people's wallets. The governments knows where the large bitcoin mining operations are and they could force them to adopt the different version. I would also ban the version of bitcoin that doesn't have that feature. What would end up happening is there would probably be a fork in the tree where some people (outside the country) rejected the change and others accepted it (like bitcoin cash, which was another time the miners got together and made a choice that benefited them against the public good, Bitcoin cash would have made it easier for users to make bitcoin transactions but it would have meant the miners would make less money on transactions). China might be able to do this because they have a shitload of bitcoin miners (not sure if they have over 50% of computing power though). The custodial wallets idea mentioned in the blog also works. According to cnbc "China was once the world's biggest crypto mining hub, accounting for between 65% to 75% of the total "hash rate" — or processing power — of the bitcoin network." (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/china-is-second-biggest-bitcoin-mining-hub-as-miners-go-underground.html). They cracked down on crypto mining so not anymore. The author could have also talked about allowing the devices to connect through an alternative physical layer (like gnunet has talked about). Most privacy tools don't ever talk about alternate physical layers but they can be used if you are being blocked in one layer. You can connect to gnunet through bluetooth or wifi (wireless LAN) as long as there are enough people around you running gnunet through bluetooth and somebody eventually has wifi or bluetooth connected to the internet. You could also create a darknet using just wifi routers or bluetooth if you wanted to. Also using Censorship when it comes to paying people doesn't seem right to me. Censorship is blocking of speech and I don't consider payment to be the same as speech. The morality issues around speech and the moral issues around payment are different issues.
>>4PNMKA6J >The author could have also talked about allowing the devices to connect through an alternative physical layer (like gnunet has talked about) Have you heard of https://reticulum.network/ ? It can run over different transports, such as LoRa (the main one), TCP/IP, and others.
>>4PNMKA6J >Also using Censorship when it comes to paying people doesn't seem right to me. Censorship is blocking of speech and I don't consider payment to be the same as speech. The morality issues around speech and the moral issues around payment are different issues. I agree with you. But blocking one is a similar enough process to blocking the other that it makes sense to talk about them together. Or so the author seems to have thought anyway.
>>4PNMKA6J >If you could get 51% of the miners (computing power wise) to accept a change in the bitcoin software that lets a "trusted" third party make transactions with other people's wallets. From what I've read, you'd have to get the whole network to agree on a change to the software, not just miners. However, with 51% of miner hashrate you can control the blockchain (by directly adding/removing/modifying transactions, not by controlling the software). Which is what I think you meant?
https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/ Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (2023/11/20) https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/11/21/013246/secretive-white-house-surveillance-program-gives-cops-access-to-trillions-of-us https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353525
Nikki Haley Says Anonymous Social Media Posts Are a ‘National Security Threat,’ Demands All Users Verify Identity https://www.mediaite.com/tv/nikki-haley-says-anonymous-social-media-posts-are-a-national-security-threat-demands-all-users-verify-identity/
This is kinda funny lol: Anish Kapoor banned from using world's pinkest pink in retaliation for hoarding the blackest black https://boingboing.net/2016/11/14/anish-kapoor-banned-from-using.html
Redirecting one’s own taxes as an effective altruism method https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AskPyNg6hHP6SrmEy/redirecting-one-s-own-taxes-as-an-effective-altruism-method
tangara: open hardware portable music player https://sr.ht/~jacqueline/tangara/
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67448897 The quest to find healthy and cheap sweeteners (2023/12/15)
Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defense-for-onion-services/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/25/the_war_of_the_workstations/ War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38763933
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/dijkstra-and-logic/
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/
>>ZM2Q5JKP "A Bridge too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic" This is a description of dijkstras career and the scandal he caused after he tried to create a logic system. >>BYUZP357 This is an essay of how recursion was introduced into algol 60. The blog was written by an influential logic programmer.
>>7UR5V9HZ > It is a [sort of law of nature]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollo%27s_law_of_irreversibility) that when you try to replace features that you eliminated, the result is never as good as if you designed it in at the beginning. The link to dollo's law in this sentence is incorrect. Firstly because it's about evolution which has no designer, and secondly because it doesn't say anything about the quality of the features.
This looks like a pretty cool charity: https://www.wearepact.org/ >At PACT, we protect every child’s right to grow up free from sexual exploitation and trafficking through: education, partnership, legal advocacy. Just gave £100
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/28/new-romanticism-technology-backlash
>>ISJ83QDS The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms
https://web.archive.org/web/20060611185528/https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Criticizes Wikipedia. > Reading a Wikipedia entry is like reading the bible closely. There are faint traces of the voices of various anonymous authors and editors, though it is impossible to be sure. > When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia. The question isn't just one of authentication and accountability, though those are important, but something more subtle. A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning. Personal Web pages do that, as do journals and books. Even Britannica has an editorial voice, which some people have criticized as being vaguely too "Dead White Men." Wikis are so shit. wiki.c2.com is slightly better because the disembodied voices argue with each other, and you can express your opinions. People are also allowed to sign their names with their opinions, but any seminal idea will inevitably be refactored into an anonymous summary of the previous conversation "4. If comments seem to be converging then prepare for PatternMode by suggesting single paragraph patterns that CAPTURE the ideas present in the discussion. These are better anonymous or collectively signed so that all contributors know they are welcome to fine tune them" [https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreadMode].
https://caffeinesymposium.blogspot.com/2015/08/trigun-and-japanese-narrative-structure.html Trigun and Japanese Narrative Structure: A Response to ThatAnimeSnob
>>8UIIIZKL One of wikipedia's own founders shits all over it: larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased That article is mostly showing how it is biased against the right in the united states, but here is a commie complaining about it too https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=wiki
>>ISJ83QDS the article it references about 'luddite teens' is really dumb though https://archive.is/ZcazG
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the-plastic-chemicals-hiding-in-your-food-a7358224781/ The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food (2024/01/04) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38878683 https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/01/06/011259/consumer-reports-finds-widespread-presence-of-plastics-in-food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8XBEJTXAwQ pretty cool.
>>Z1TWE001 CapROS also has data persistence across reboots.
>>V5OOLSUL "Classist" Lmao I like the idea of flip phones though. But I'd never get one unless it supported end-to-end encryption.
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html Coreutils Gotchas
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259073 Bras Make Breasts Sag, 15-Year Study Concludes
Cool short sci-fi stories: https://vgel.me/fiction/
https://www.nongnu.org/genshiken/ This web page was fact checked as true by GNUmerican patriots.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/21/hostile-architecture-is-making-our-cities-even-less-welcoming Cities are made to crush your soul.
https://www.techspot.com/news/101774-report-reveals-decline-quality-usb-sticks-microsd-cards.html Report reveals decline in quality of USB sticks and microSD Cards (2024/02/06) https://phys.org/news/2024-02-mimas-tiny-moon-young-ocean.html Mimas' surprise: Tiny moon holds young ocean beneath icy shell (2024/02/07) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68233330 Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer (2024/02/08) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68110310 World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit (2024/02/08)
The world's first open source search engine to my knowledge https://stract.com/ https://archive.is/byCc3
First Nuclear Plasma Control with Digital Twin https://tube.raccoon.quest/watch?v=4VD_DLPQJBU
>>VF6IA30E The oldest free software web search engine I know about is YaCy (2003). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
https://www.theonion.com/god-kicking-self-for-not-coming-up-with-hentai-1849854260 God Kicking Self For Not Coming Up With Hentai (satire)
>>55GI4SJ8 How could I forget about YaCy lol
https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070a22b604 A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39420385
>>55GI4SJ8 And the only free as in freedom, I know of.
https://www.asomo.co/p/the-luddites-guide-to-defending-physical-cash
https://dw.com/en/fossil-fuel-majors-miss-the-mark-on-climate-targets/a-68617638 Fossil fuel majors miss the mark on climate targets (2024/03/20)
https://open.substack.com/pub/theseedsofscience/p/lets-build-a-fleet-and-change-the
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/26/cocoa-prices-are-soaring-to-record-levels-what-it-means-for-consumers.html Cocoa prices are soaring to record levels. What it means for consumers and why 'the worst is still yet to come' Is a world bereft of chocolate one worth living in?
My Schizoid Dilemma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xXAHyQadwA
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
>Is a world bereft of chocolate one worth living in? Yes, chocolate is nice to have, but it's not so important that life would be worthless without it. There are many things (like sex or masturbation) that are far more pleasurable than chocolate.
>>UTGILJMN All of them are temporary, as they only please the material part of our body. If you desire to be fulfilled on a long term scale, you must invest in the soul.
>>XO4EOQRC Crazy to see Ryan pop up here.
>>3CBB1NOL Based
>>3CBB1NOL I was comparing chocolate to sex because both of them are fleeting pleasures. It doesn't make sense to compare chocolate to any long term pleasure because they are completely different.
https://www.theblaze.com/return/what-dune-teaches-us-about-human-achievement-and-the-dangers-of-ai What 'Dune' teaches us about human achievement and the dangers of AI (2024/03/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/29/song-lyrics-getting-simpler-more-repetitive-angry-and-self-obsessed-study Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study
https://www.theblaze.com/news/harvard-researchers-create-intelligent-liquid-that-has-ushered-in-a-new-class-of-fluid-study Harvard researchers create 'intelligent liquid' that has ushered in a 'new class of fluid': Study (2024/04/06)
Another independent FOSS search engine: https://clew.se/
https://clew.se/search?q=brandon+robert+kelley bunny its broken
>>FXQTZH5U >first result on ddg is a board called /cow/ There's your problem. Don't be a degenerate kiwifarmer and things will go well for you.
>>GPDIC1CQ It seems interesting because they focus on blog content.
>>GPDIC1CQ so (((ddg))) is broken too >>803BFDAX if it cant resolve brandons everloved blog archive its broken
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-door-millions-qubits-chip.html Experiment opens door for millions of qubits on one chip (2024/05/06)
>>F7EM36YO Ugh, I don't like quantum computers because they can fuck up our current public key cryptograpy schemes. These can be replaced but Agencies are probably harvesting tons of encrypted and are planning to decrypt it if quantum computers come out. Also I'm not sure if we'll ever get consumer grade quantum computers, but if we do, I would be happy about that because I want a good way to factorize numbers, which shoors algorithm provides. It might also be fun to program them. They can also efficiently simulate quantum systems, which could be a good way to learn about quantumn physics. I've also read that quantum computers don't show supremacy over regular computers when it comes to most useful tasks. This could change since it only requires certain algorithms to be developed, but it doesn't seem very exciting right now. I wonder if quantumn computers can solve problems faster than classical computers. It seems like they can, but we don't know for sure.
>>2RZPN7NU I was thinking about the asymmetric cryptography angle myself. There is work underway on post-quantum crypto, but it's early days right now. That quantum computers capable of breaking crypto widely used today might arrive sooner than expected is a concerning thought, especially coupled with massive data collection.
>>3L6I5ROG > There is work underway on post-quantum crypto, but it's early days right now. Some cryptography schemes don't have to change (symmetric and hash based), it's only public key cryptography that has to change. There's something called lattice based cryptography that could be used to implement quantum safe public key cryptography. There are also some newer schemes that aren't lattice based. The main problem with these approaches is that they have larger keys than the ones we use in our current cryptography algorithms. Some of these systems have been around for decades. In addition, We haven't proven that one way functions exist, so there's no way to know for sure if any cryptography scheme is safe. Every cryptography system could be crackable, and we just don't know it.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/09/techdirt-podcast-episode-386-democratic-design-for-online-spaces/ I think this is a great idea. There should be more variety in forms of online governance that aren't just "the admin can do whatever they want". For one thing, a system that doesn't allow shadowbanning and editing posts would be great.
https://conlangery.com/2023/12/cursed-conlanging-with-agma-schwa/ https://www.nguh.org/languages/gumsmaq This guy is some kind of sadistic linguistic shitposter or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith_and_auxiliary_language There's a religion that preaches creating an international auxiliary language.
>>2RZPN7NU >>3L6I5ROG >>1KDG343Y SimpleX Chat supports PQC (post-quantum crypto) now. It doesn't use ML-KEM (Crystals-Kyber) like everything else because Evgeny is suspicious of it. It uses NTRU instead. https://simplex.chat/blog/20240314-simplex-chat-v5-6-quantum-resistance-signal-double-ratchet-algorithm.html >We hoped to adopt the algorithm that will be standardized by NIST, but the standardization process turned out to be hugely disappointing, and the ML-KEM (Kyber) algorithm that was accepted as a standard was modified to remove an important hashing step (see the lines 304-314 in the published spec)), that mitigates the attacks via a compromised random numbers generator, ignoring strong criticism from many expert cryptographers, including DJB (see this discussion and the comments NIST received). To make it even worse, the calculation of security levels of Kyber appears to have been done incorrectly, and overall, the chosen Kyber seems worse than rejected NTRU according to the analysis by DJB.
>>PT1WPAKA Cool.
Pals fooled after following ‘Northern Lights’ - only to discover glow was a Premier Inn sign - Mirror Online https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pals-fooled-after-following-northern-32803868 Lol
>>KTXSJ2DK it seems like the sign is doing its job.
“Pro-Pedophile” Activist Group Celebrates As Germany Decriminalizes Child Porn Possession https://reduxx.info/pro-pedophile-activist-group-celebrates-as-germany-decriminalizes-child-porn-possession/ This does not bode well for Germany
https://youtu.be/LbLgcdYta_s >in this video, I'll be cooking up a legal analog of caffeine that is reported to be ten times stronger and potentially less stressful on the heart Looks promising.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/donald-trump-big-oil-executives-houston-lunch-campaign-contributions-deal/ Trump Doubles Down, Seeking Fossil Fuel Cash at Private Houston Lunch (2024/05/24) https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/24/trump-republican-convention-splits-with-corporate-sponsors-.html Texas Republicans confab hints at how GOP breakup with corporate America could play out
Humanity has lost the plot. Would the last human being to leave the planet please turn off the lights? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taiwans-president-joins-drag-queens-celebrating-rupaul-win-rcna152312 Taiwan's president joins drag queens celebrating RuPaul win (2024/05/15) https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/style/drag-queen-nymphia-wind-taiwan-president-intl-hnk/index.html Drag queen Nymphia Wind performs at Taiwan’s presidential office
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-k-12-education-in-a-post-literate-age/2014/03 K-12 Education in a Post-Literate Age (2014/03/31)
>>K5IBS1PU The teacher just needs to tell them about shadow library websites (like library genesis and scihub), or legal book repository websites like archive.org/guntenberg.org. Those allow anyone with an internet gratis access to millions of good books on any topic.
>>FYUSEART The problem isn't one of access. The article's author argues that American school students' lack of interest in books, fueled in part by educators de-emphasizing books, is a barrier to higher literacy and greater understanding. Universal access to the internet and search engines have overwhelmed them with easily-accessible yet superficial information, diminishing their desire to pursue in-depth understanding of any particular subject.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicalucas2/erotic-hypnosis-bambi-sleep > After These People Tried Erotic Hypnosis, They Couldn’t Recognize Themselves lmao
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/05/lattice-based-cryptosystems-and-quantum-cryptanalysis.html Lattice-Based Cryptosystems and Quantum Cryptanalysis (2024/05/28)
Glenn Loury - John McWhorter, Charles Murray, Amy Wax, Jordan Peterson & Lex Fridman – The Race and Intelligence Debate https://glennloury.substack.com/p/john-mcwhorter-charles-murray-amy
How To Be Assertive Without Being An Ass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tglG9HnhTw This sounds good, but what if your goals and the other person's goals are fundamentally opposed, such that a win-win situation is impossible?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vanna-white-goodbye-pat-sajak-wheel-of-fortune-host/ Vanna White bids emotional goodbye to "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak ahead of final episode (2024/06/06)
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong > Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong Lmao, anyone with programming competence could tell that chatGPT cranked out shit answers.
>>NOWZQ9TE I want to read/listen to a proper debate on that topic. I wish https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com/ would do an episode on it but they're cowards so it'll be put behind a paywall if they do it at all.
>>QVQ4Q0U6 From what I've read, it's a fact that black people have lower IQs than white people. There are basically 4 arguments, that can be grouped into 2 sets. The first two arguments are related to the accuracy of the tests. The first argument is someone could say that IQ tests are not an accurate measure of intelligence (I'm pretty sure this is what the "Mismeasure of man" book does). An opponent would probably counter this by saying that a person's IQ can predict many things about a person's performance, or question what the person means by intelligence. The second argument is that IQ does measure intelligence, but it is biased against black people. An opponent would probably counter this by saying that people have created unbiased IQ tests, and blacks still score lower. For the second two arguments, the debaters agree that black people are less intelligent, but they disagree on the causes. One person could argue that it is due to the environment, such as lead poisoning or systemic racism. The other person could argue that it's genetic. From what I've read, we can't really tell whether its due to genetics, environment, or a mix of both. And we need more research before we can make a conclusion. You could also say that it's genetics and environment, for example: if experiencing racism causes a person to have a lower IQ, then dark skin genes would on average, give you a lower IQ. But we could change the environment to avoid this (by becoming less racist). People usually mention phenylketonuria in these cases, since it is a disease that can cause mental retardation, but it does not as long as the parent feeds their infant a special baby formula.
Ick. https://9to5google.com/2024/06/12/youtube-ad-injection/ YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers (2024/06/12)
>>ZECX7JON (OP) The Abolition of Work - Bob Black https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
Remarks on “Chat Control” - Matthew Green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2023/03/23/remarks-on-chat-control/
This New Idea Could Explain Complexity - Sabine Hossenfelder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw9sr05Vtso >The universe creates complexity out of simplicity, but despite many attempts at understanding how, scientists still have not figured it out. We do know that complexity relies on the emergence of new features and laws, but then again we don't understand emergence either. The first step must be to clearly define what we are talking about and to measure it. A group of scientists now put forward a way to do exactly this. Let’s have a look. >Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09090
>>NW2K2LVL I am somewhat worried by the idea that we might one day understand complex systems. Humans are complex systems. And understanding something is the first step towards controlling it. I don't want the technocrats to be able to control us even more than they currently do.
The Shakers Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O26d7tXqN5A This "routinisation of charisma" theory is interesting.
The Forgotten Fruit Behind the Fight Against Leprosy - CHAULMOOGRA FRUIT (History Unpeeled) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSwosKTbgs
Why People Prefer More Pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4r71kEdYME The conclusion to this feels manipulative and somewhat dystopian. I also don't get the first experiment. The water was warmer in the longer, supposedly worse case; how can you compare the two scenarios?
>>TF0JVE6G > I also don't get the first experiment. The water was warmer in the longer, supposedly worse case; how can you compare the two scenarios? In the second one, they warmed up the water only after waiting a certain amount of time. As an example (I forgot what the temps and times were so I'll make them up.) First scenario: - 15C water for 1 minute Second Scenario - 15C water for 1 minute + 17C water for 30 seconds afterwards.
https://www.notrace.how/ OPSEX guide
Why Tor Hidden Services Are Peak Web Design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjI3bXb0aII
This Common Tree Contains Testosterone https://youtu.be/hkEeeF0a_5I Not sure how accurate this video is but I thought I'd post it anyway.
https://numenvoice.org/ >Numen is voice control letting you have full control of a Linux machine without needing to type. It empowers people who otherwise couldn't use their computers, and helps more avoid hand strain. Numen is free (libre) software and runs locally. https://git.sr.ht/~geb/numen
I've been using something called nerd diction, which is kind of similar, but numen seems like it gives you more granular control. https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
>>TI9DCWHZ >>F8CT087G
https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-customer-service-complaint-ea-nasir first customer complaint in history.
This is kind of old news but dogs poop facing north. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/dogs-poop-in-alignment-with-earths-magnetic-field-study-finds I wonder if humans also do this (in the wild, with no bathroom), and if they do, if it would be a good idea to make our toilets always face north.
>>RW4IGMBM Thankfully I've never needed to poop in the wild with no bathroom. I have pissed outside many times though. I even do it at home when someone else is on the toilet or I want to help the compost along. Very apt CAPTCHA lol
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/06/the-u-s-is-nowhere-near-ready-for-climate-change/ The U.S. is nowhere near ready for climate change (2024/06/25)
https://astro.theoj.org/article/121868-what-no-one-has-seen-before-gravitational-waveforms-from-warp-drive-collapse What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse (2024/07/25) https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/08/01/0037236/new-study-simulates-gravitational-waves-from-failing-warp-drive
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/24/climate-crisis-world-shatters-heat-record-for-second-consecutive-day.html World shatters heat record for the second time in just two days
https://otherwords.org/a-false-accusation-put-me-in-prison-a-safety-net-could-have-kept-me-out/
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BPsSKKL8N0s The surprising science of alpha males | Frans de Waal
https://www.space.com/nasa-solar-sail-deployment NASA's solar sail successfully spreads its wings in space (2024/08/31)
>>ZECX7JON (OP) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5Q9r-AEzRMA https://dynamicland.org/ This is actually goated.
>>SP1LLXKY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangible_user_interface This is related.
https://www.space.com/sun-gigantic-telescope-with-gravitational-lensing Could we turn the sun into a gigantic telescope? (2024/09/15) https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/09/21/0634254/could-we-turn-the-sun-into-an-extremely-powerful-telescope
>>ZECX7JON (OP) https://www.stallman.org/archives/2024-jul-oct.html#1_October_2024_(newsom_children_social_media_bill) https://web.archive.org/web/20240921233516/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/us/newsom-children-social-media-bill.html
I was going to post this link a while ago but forgot: https://fourthievesvinegar.org/ >Right to Repair for Your Body. >The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to enabling access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have them.
>>ZECX7JON (OP) https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/comstock-act-democrats Hopefully the democrats set their eyes to more anti-obscenity acts and try to repeal all of them. They probably won't because they want to repeal it for the anti-abortion rather than anti-obscenity stuff.
>>WRZL1M9E I agree that people should be able to do DIY pharmaceuticals but it's generally not a good idea to do it. It's a pretty cool website otherwise.
>>7E7FIAM5 I didn't realize that this article was 3 months old lol.
>>6GO0UP5J https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/montana-man-pleads-guilty-federal-wildlife-trafficking-charges-part-yearslong-effort-create Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges as Part of Yearslong Effort to Create Giant Hybrid Sheep for Captive Hunting
gemini://gemini-textboard.fgaz.me/ Text board on Gemini. Very dead.
>>C1P1RRAH gemini://cybersavior.dev I just found this website a couple minutes ago and it seems like a wiki and it's kind of interesting.
>>2RVBOLGZ I started reading the wiki and I realized it sucks.
>>2RVBOLGZ TLS error in lagrange
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/ The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books (2024/10/01) https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/10/22/013248
>>E8TV2K2C To be fair, Reading and Writing is one of the worst practices in our current society and should be replaced with better methods as soon as possible. It is probably already possible to remove all text from 90% of a person's day to day tasks. I spend almost all my free time reading but It's only because there are so many people who know how to write, and very few people know how to communicate without text. Text has become a culturally dominant form of communication even though it sucks ass, so anyone who wants a real education has to read. If you are going to read, then you should definitely read the classics as part of your material, and you should read them all the way through. Most books don't need to be read all the way through, and you should only look for chapters that you think are interesting and read those, rather than reading the whole book. > It is true that in this immense collection of books there are about a hundred and ninety-nine thousand which will never be read, from cover to cover at least; but one may need to consult some of them once in a lifetime. It is a great advantage for whoever wishes to learn to find at his hand in the king's palace the volume and page he seeks, without being kept waiting a moment. It is one of the most noble institutions. No expense is more magnificent and more useful. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18569/18569-h/18569-h.htm#Library > To understand the human condition, and to appreciate humankind’s greatest achievements, you still need to read The Iliad—all of it. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/ The Iliad was pure kino, and I recommend everyone reads it cover to cover.
>>5RU3D0ZJ > Reading and Writing is one of the worst practices in our current society and should be replaced with better methods as soon as possible. Would you care to provide details as to what you believe are better methods? > Most books don't need to be read all the way through, and you should only look for chapters that you think are interesting and read those, rather than reading the whole book. If you're speaking of non-fiction, I agree. For fiction, however, I quite enjoy reading the entirety of books that pique my interest. > The Iliad was pure kino, and I recommend everyone reads it cover to cover. I confess I have not read the so-called classics thoroughly. I did try during a course on mythology many years ago and found them to be dreadfully boring and long-winded in general. I did, however, quite like Dan Simmons' works and "Ilium" and "Olympos," which presumably were written partly in homage to Homer.
>>I1TGOS03 > Would you care to provide details as to what you believe are better methods? I might do it later. > If you're speaking of non-fiction, I agree. For fiction, however, I quite enjoy reading the entirety of books that pique my interest. I was speaking of non fiction. With fiction, you need to start at the beginning. I don't read very much fiction unless it's a greek > I confess I have not read the so-called classics thoroughly. I did try during a course on mythology many years ago and found them to be dreadfully boring and long-winded in general. I did, however, quite like Dan Simmons' works and "Ilium" and "Olympos," which presumably were written partly in homage to Homer. If you are talking about the Iliad, then I think the translation matters. I read this version of the Iliad: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16452/16452-h/16452-h.htm and It was really good. I read another translation of the Iliad rendered in prose and it was boring. Ultimately it would be best to read the poem in ancient Greek, but I didn't feel like learning ancient Greek. Later on I read a review of Cowper's translation and the person had some criticisms of it, Specifically he said that the translation I read (the one I am linking to) didn't properly render Homers rapidity in his speech, It is generally brooding like Milton's paradise lost, rather than quick like the original version of the Iliad. The full review is here, It is fairly interesting https://web.archive.org/web/20151208135658/http://www.victorianprose.org/texts/Arnold/Works/on_translating_homer.pdf . He ultimately concludes that there hasn't been a proper translation of Homer, but it probably could be done. IDK if there's a better translation than Cowper's since that lecture is around 200 years old, and I feel like someone probably took it to heart. I also had some trouble finding good translations of Aristophanes because a lot of the translators would censor his jokes in one way or another.
>>84QQOTST > I don't read very much fiction unless it's a greek IDK why I said greek. I mean to say I don't read much fiction unless it's a classic work. I also read erotic fiction as masturbation material, but over all, I don't read very much fiction.
>>N7IEQ68P What do you mean by a "classic" work?
>>PULNYQI3 A work that ended up influencing authors over and over again for years after being written. Things like Paradise Lost, the Farie Queen, the works of Homer, the works of Shakespeare, Works of the 3 greek tragedians, The plays by Arisophanes, Moby Dick, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, etcetera. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_book
>>E8TV2K2C I wonder how much of this is due to the average college student's iqs going down (I.E more dumb to average people going to college). https://bigthink.com/thinking/iq-score-average-college-students/
>>N5ZIQRCE * I wonder how much of this is due to the average college student's iqs going down as apposed to changes in education.
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