Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.
"the case is notable because Fox Corporation—the parent company of Fox News— is directly paying the family of a Supreme Court justice, which neither Barrett nor her husband are required to disclose."
The rot in the court is a feature of the Federalist Society, not a bug. As long as there is a pipeline for FedSoc to put right wing activists into the court, you'll have this corruption.
“SNAPPED” The Biden-Harris ad that Robert De Niro made, and which is WHY he was in NYC at the Trump trial in the first place. YouTube, Google and most searches have buried it.
Ordered back to office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
In months following #returntooffice mandates, an increased number of senior employees departed Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, often to work for competitors.
"Our findings suggest that #RTO mandates cost the company more than previously thought," said David Van Dijcke, Univ of Michigan researcher on the study. "These attrition rates aren't just something that can be managed away." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/ https://archive.ph/RGar1
Here’s the thing: AI wasn’t created by artists or writers or actors or any other creative types. It was created by those who wish they were the creative types, and want to avoid doing the thing they perceive as “work”. https://tech.lgbt/@jnadeau/112528218028765178
Reminder that "pronatalism" is a "rationalist" response to white supremacist fears about a conspiracy to "replace" them, and if this is surfacing in silicon valley now then it's been bubbling under for a decade or two (those large families take time to make, especially if interracial adoption and fertility treatments are a no-no for the neo-nazis). https://awful.systems/comment/3464560
I've had the pleasure of not just having this app to test and play with during its TestFlight phase but also follow its development.
There's another post where @thaddeus sums up this app so well: No signup. No login. No tracking. No algorithm. Just music.
Open the app & you're instantly in control. NO suggestions that are just bad & inaccurate. I absolutely love it. Plus, I know the level of care and attention Thaddeus gave this app first hand.
As I'm sure you already know (and are probably in full swing celebrations at this point), today is 'End of the Middle Ages Day'. Celebrating the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, an event many see as the close of the Middle Ages. But more importantly, 'End of the Middle Ages Day' underlines the transition from the Dark Ages (characterised by feudalism, religious persecution, and plague) to a period of rebirth in arts, science, and philosophy known as the Renaissance.
Of course we now find ourselves 571 years later, still fighting feudalist politics, religious persecution, and plague - whilst our arts, science, and philosophy is under attack. So wouldn't it be absolutely marvellous if we see another Renaissance in 2024 and an end to Dark Age of the last 10 or 15 years.
Just for fun. I added together all of the images I took of Comet Pons Brooks a few weeks ago. The session was just after astronomical twilight and every single frame I took (68) had at least one satellite trail. To really piss me off, a whole train of freshly launched Starlink satellites joined the "party". This, friends, is the price we pay for "progress". #notostarlink#savethesky
I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/
"AI companies are worried that they're going to run out of data to train their LLMs and energy to power their data centers. This is a strange way to discuss a fundamental design flaw. It's not some quirk or fluke that a product is constrained by reality, but the core of all engineering and science, though this is considered so self-evident that it normally remains unsaid."
Smelting #Steel Without Fossil Fuels: #Solar Power Shatters the 1,000°C Barrier for Industrial Heating
"Swiss researchers have developed a solar energy method using synthetic quartz to achieve temperatures above 1,000°C for industrial processes, potentially replacing fossil fuels in the production of materials like steel and cement."
So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.
"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."
Something about this plan to move Hubble, didn't make sense. If the space telescope still has 10 years of useful life, why this risky SpaceX mission to boost it's orbit now?
Well it turns out the main thing threatening the utility of Hubble is... wait for it... SpaceX Starlink satellites, which orbit just above Hubble constantly "photo-bombing" the images. Within a few years there will be so many Starlinks that Hubble will be useless.
