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Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
  • I remember reading an article a few years back about physics undergraduates who didnt know how to use a computers file system. They could learn, but these are smart likely at least fairly tech inclined kids and they didnt know how to navigate folders on a computer at 18.

  • Israeli jets kill two paramedics in Rafah after ‘deliberately’ bombing ambulance
  • The main difference is Ukraine can defend itself, Gazans cant. Given that Russian forces have been constantly attcking power and food infrastructure and have even breached dams I think its fair to say they would do what Israel does if they could.

  • Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit
  • The same reason people dont go around harassing nazis when they are talking about football, most people arent terminally online enough to recognise usernames and build up a profile of them in their head and just judge whats in front of them.

  • It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too
  • They're kinda right, but not in the way they think they are. It's not that the left has being advocating for minority rights that is the problem, it's that they have been focusing on that while dropping policies to support the working class that is the issue. The fact that getting more women and black people on to corporate boards has been more of a focus than affordable housing has been slowly driving alienation from mainstream left wing parties.

  • The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
  • it actually is an enlightening comparison when you dig into it. It's saying that the energy required to power one play of a song is 4e4*365/5e9 of the energy to heat a home for one day. That comes out to about 0.3%, i.e. if you watch a three minute youtube video three times and do absolutely nothing else that day but heat your house (dont use any other electricity, dont eat anything, dont travel anywhere) you increase your energy usage by a total of 1%

  • It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too
  • Cant speak for all Europe, but again in the UK it exists but is far less pronounced than in the US. A slight uptick rather than a boom. Dont forget that while the US economy was going gangbusters after the war as the only untouched industrial economy most of europe was either rebuilding from ruins or was close to bankrupt.

    w.r.t. voting intension, I slightly over egged it from memory, but it was about 75% left for under 30s and 70% right for over 70s at the last election. link

  • People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.
    www.technologyreview.com People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

    In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right.

    People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

    In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right.

    Compton drew a sharp distinction between the consequences of technological progress on “industry as a whole” and the effects, often painful, on individuals.

    For “industry as a whole,” he concluded, “technological unemployment is a myth.” That’s because, he argued, technology "has created so many new industries” and has expanded the market for many items by “lowering the cost of production to make a price within reach of large masses of purchasers.” In short, technological advances had created more jobs overall. The argument—and the question of whether it is still true—remains pertinent in the age of AI.

    Then Compton abruptly switched perspectives, acknowledging that for some workers and communities, “technological unemployment may be a very serious social problem, as in a town whose mill has had to shut down, or in a craft which has been superseded by a new art.”

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    Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff
    www.theguardian.com Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

    Delta Air Lines jet was due to depart Atlanta international airport and none of the crew or passengers were hurt

    Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

    Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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    The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst
    www.vanityfair.com The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst

    Silicon Valley’s court of public opinion found the ousted OpenAI chief innocent until proven innocent, exposing the cult of personality that surrounds the tech world’s star CEOs.

    The Sam Altman Soap Opera Reflects Silicon Valley at Its Worst
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    Everyone Is a Luddite Now
    www.wired.com Everyone Is a Luddite Now

    A new history of the Luddites, "Blood in the Machine," argues that 19th century fears about technology are still relevant today. It's the latest in a long line of attempts to reclaim the label.

    Everyone Is a Luddite Now
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    Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police
    www.theguardian.com Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police

    Fears that China’s crackdown on dissidents is expanding into cultural sphere after linguistic group closes over a fictional essay about erosion of liberties

    Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police
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