When I visited India, there were people who spoke English to me with such a strong accent that I didn’t even realize that they were speaking English. Bias against people speaking with an Indian accent is real, but so is the need to facilitate communication.

I’ve even heard that they’re not making the coffee just because they want to either.

I, on the other hand, am fascinated not just by guns but by weapons (and other military technology) from throughout history. Weapons, as products of human ingenuity, are unusual in the sense that they function in direct opposition to the ingenuity of other humans. It’s a very high-stakes competition.

I’m not advocating advocating violence, but I am advocating advocating advocating violence.

If there’s a conflict and I get to choose whether or not the side I’m on has killbots, I’ll definitely choose killbots. Especially if the enemy has them.

Sorry bro, but you’re too late. I already proved p ~= np in the same manner.

If you can prove a contradiction then you can prove anything, and here we have ¬ads = ads. BRB there’s some stuff I want to prove that I have.

I applied and they never responded. I failed the Turing test?

I sometimes buy games just because I watch videos of other people playing them, in order to support the developers.

_{Yes, that will be believable…}

It’s just hard to believe someone important intentionally did a Nazi salute (twice!) at Trump’s inauguration. I would really prefer to have it be stupidity rather than malice, but of course that’s not how the world works.

Edit: I looked up how Fox News is framing this story, and their focus is on the fact that “liberal media outlets” are accusing Musk of something outrageous, with the implication that he did nothing wrong. At least Fox does have good photographs of his salute for the people who learned something from Jeremiah 5:21.

TikTok also was and still is acting like the law is in force - the law does not require it to shut off. They aren’t taking any legal risk.

Note that the law does not prohibit TikTok from operating. It prohibits companies like Google and Apple from distributing it, and according to this article, they are in fact not distributing it.

Even as TikTok was flickering back on, it remained unavailable for download in Apple and Google’s app stores.

TikTok shut off voluntarily and that appears to have been an excellent PR move, but we won’t know for certain until Trump does or doesn’t do something about it in the next few days.

It’s an own-goal for Biden - an unpopular law that starts being enforced the day before Trump gets to stop enforcing it.

In the Bay Area, I saw stores with gates and turnstiles which are presumably intended to make running out of the store harder, especially for someone holding a lot of stuff. I wonder if they work any better.

One store I went to there even had a guy letting people in one by one after looking them over, like a bouncer.

This logic frustrates me:

these claims were unfounded, with a mere 23 shoplifting incidents occurring between 2018 and 2021, according to police records

That’s less than one shoplifter a month, which is obviously not an accurate count.

The police barely even respond to shootings. Are they going to do anything if you call them and report someone stealing a box of shaving supplies? Why bother even trying to report that?

Neo-Nazi madness

Wow, that is savage. Doubly so because it’s coming from a man who chooses his words carefully. Lemley is doing the exact opposite of the obsequious grovelling that Zuckerberg and others are performing for Trump.

I think that putting in the hours to be very good at PoE2 is more embarrassing than being an amateur who only played a little bit. I say that as someone who looks forward to playing a lot.

The story about selling to Musk is coming from Bloomberg. Meanwhile the “pure fiction” quote comes from TikTok’s reply to Variety’s request for comments. Variety is unlikely to have access to anyone at TikTok senior enough to know the truth and willing to talk about it.

The purchase of valuable assets by someone in the president’s inner circle after the government forces their owner to sell them is the sort of thing that usually involves Russian oligarchs. It would be a shameful act by the US government.

This is a true triumph of the human spirit.

I think this is just OpenAI marketing.

“Insane thing: We are currently losing money on OpenAI Pro subscriptions!” he wrote in a post.

The problem? Well according to @Sama, “people use it much more than we expected.”

Oh no, ChatGPT is too useful to customers! Altman isn’t going to be telling any real problems that OpenAI has to the whole world over Twitter.

I was worried that this would be like those cookies pop-ups, but the functionality is still present here in the land of the free…