Bay Area philosopher and general weirdo. My hobby is creepily monitoring birds. I consider a trailside vulture carcass a "buddy." I have a blog https://dog-envier.bearblog.dev/blog/
Doctor Wind Turkey
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There's a pair of British twins who got attacked by a crocodile a while back and appear to have spent the next five years becoming friends with crocodiles. It's a thing, the BBC has like a whole vertical devoted to them. Very charming. They should replace the royals with them.
Oh no wait I misunderstood. They're befriending crocodiles now, but they haven't actually spent 5 years doing it (yet). I will be adopting a "wait and see" attitude.
NEWS: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists and handed special custodial measures despite never being charged with, or convicted of, a terrorism offence.
Samuel, Charlotte, Leona, & Fatema have all already been inside for almost 2 years.
More at defendourjuries.net/savinglives/
NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast.
WIRED's inside the morale collapse:
a series that asks the question: "what's nobler than a garbageman?" and answers with "a space garbageman".
My theory is that most of us want to turn that way so that our right hand is the hand we can use whilst turning to deal with things we're turning away from and the rest of us don't want to give away their left handedness because they'll be expelled from society
Friday night
The ambiturner is going the way of the perfectly rational agent.
i think i must be more sensitive to noise than other people because people who care about me will blithely do stuff that i (generalizing from my own sensitivities) would experience as extremely inconsiderate noise pollution.
Funniest inclusion on this list is "gun owners." Gun owners should have more power? What's the matter, the ultimate power over life and death isn't good enough for ya? It doesn't thrill ya anymore?
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta's chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
