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Friday, February 16th, 2024
| Time |
Event |
| 8:52a |
Google’s and Microsoft’s chatbots are making up Super Bowl stats
Before the Super Bowl had been played, Google and Microsoft bullshit generators
fabricated statistics for the game.
Why do people insist on calling them "artificial intelligence"?
"Artificial stupidity" would fit these bullshit generators better.
| | 8:52a |
Reconstructed hemisphere
*In the 19th century, civil wars tore apart the US, Mexico and Argentina. Then came democracy's fight against reaction.*
That is called "reconstruction."
In several countries, liberal governments got tired of putting down
right-wing rebellions, and ultimately gave amnesties to the reels; those did not settle down, but continued to rebel and sometimes eventually won. This suggests that the US needs to crush the trumpery movement to ensure it cannot keep rebelling. No amnesty.
| | 8:52a |
National self-interest studying global cooperation, report finds
*National self-interest stymieing global cooperation,
a [poll of
powerful people] finds.*
* The world has entered a new era marked by zero-sum thinking in which
countries seek relative advantage through protectionism, self-interest
and rejection of mutually beneficial cooperation…*
Zero-sum thinking is more foolish now than ever, as we are all
threatened together by global heating disaster, and avoiding it
requires efforts by all. But there will always be countries that
are threatened more in the short term and others threatened less.
If that becomes an excuse to refuse to pull together, the shortsighted
foolish will doom themselves as well as their "rivals".
| | 8:52a |
Israeli settlements and Biden
If Biden is serious about recognizing an independent Palestine alongside
Israel, he could make Israel accept that by means of additional
sanctions on people and
businesses like the ones he has already made.
Those sanctions could be viewed as a warning shot at Netanyahu.
This would, in my view, be using sanctions for a worthy goal.
However, it also shows the extent of arbitrary power
that the US exercises in this way.
| | 8:52a |
Canada vows to ban flipper zero devices
Old radio-controlled car locks are insecure, so Canada plans to ban
digital radio analyzers
On those few occasions when I have driven cars with wireless locks, I
have felt extremely uncomfortable with them — but not because of theft. It is because of pitfalls, such as the ease of walking off with the key while leaving the engine running for a friend to borrow the car. I'd feel safer with a key that must be in the lock for the car to run.
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