terrific

So Palantir sells a data management tool and deployment support. That shouldn’t really surprise anyone who knows the first thing about data science.

The interesting thing about Palantir isn’t what they sell but how they sell it and who buys it. They clearly market their unremarkable software as an autocrat’s wet dream.

And police and military departments across Europe and the US buy their shit, which says more about those police and military departments than about the software.

Anti-communism is a fancy name for fascism.

The request created a backlash online with many disagreeing with the practice.

Let me guess, Americans?

As someone who was forced to start using Windows again after ten years after ten years of exclusively running Linux: Why is it like this? Everything is so crappy and slow!

This is a very good point since tritium is a very limited resource.

The hope is that it will be generated by the fusion reactor itself using tritium breeder blankets https://www.iter.org/machine/supporting-systems/tritium-breeding

Whether that will work remains to be seen.

We’re not even remotely close. The promise of AGI is part of the AI hype machine and taking it seriously is playing into their hands.

Irrelevant at best, harmful at worst 🤷

Terrific!

Wow. It sounds like something out of PKD’s VALIS. Which of my memory serves me right is thought to have been an outlet for the author’s paranoid delusions.

ChatGPT is probably one of the most dangerous catalysts to psychosis, and almost completely unchecked at this point.