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We can go even shorter “Trump kills children to distract from raping them”.

Gee, it’s almost like power vacuums tend to be detrimental to the stability of a country.

Oh, I am not saying they’re not still opportunistic money-chasers. Hence the comment about there not being any good AI companies. To me though, their reluctance on some topics and honest admissions on the capabilities of their AI make it appear that they less happy to throw all principals overboard in the race to win the AI market than the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Musk.

Still. I will happily take a company with some moral fiber over one with none when it comes to this AI race to the bottom.

Not saying Anthropic are the good guys here (there are none IMHO) but they are clearly trying to be the “less bad guys”.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody who has paid even a modicum of attention to the ongoing escalating authoritarian power grab in the US.

I think that the nukes did certainly affect Hirohito’s willingness to accept a surrender, together with the Soviet attack on Manchuria. There is little evidence to suggest though that it was the population’s sudden lack of support for the war effort or an attempted revolution that forced Hirohito’s hand. As such I don’t think we can even consider the nuclear bombings to have had much effect on the population, which is generally the point of terror bombings - to break the population’s resolve and force them to depose of their leadership.

Terror bombings don’t work full stop. Even the nuking of Japan didn’t result in the populace giving up, and there’s ample evidence to suggest that it was at the very least the combined threat of the Russians shifting focus to the eastern theatre as well as the nukes that caused Japanese high command to conclude that their current losses would be infeasible to sustain. And even that wasn’t without internal controversy and disagreement.

I can see absolutely no way this could not go wrong.

As someone who was never fond of the concept of social media, and who never had a MySpace or Facebook account as a result when I was in my late teens/early twenties - this hits home for me.

I did it knowingly, but I sure missed out on a lot of stuff that I usually only found out months after.

For a while my friends nicknamed me “the untagable” 🤣, but I guess not having my entire dumb early adulthood saved for eternity is a win in the end.

Not just the US sadly, it appears the entire Western world is trying to desperately stop the EV transition by incentivizing ICE vehicles again. We have Stellantis building new small-engine diesels for the European market again for crying out loud!

That stands out to me as the big fuck up here too. But it also sounds like mental health services were clearly unable to provide the help needed to avoid this whole drama.

Yeah, you’re right. I was looking at the fin layout, but forgot to check the mounting system.

Your pixels to text capabilities are clearly superior to mine. I stand corrected.

I am 90% sure this is an Intel system judging by the cooler.

This is a great idea.

I’m using Thunderbird with IMAP to my own email server for my new email, but I can totally see something like that working to make the transition work. Thanks!

It does, but that still means Google has access to all my accounts related email until I move everything over. I suppose it’s a good backstop though, thanks for the tip :-)

This would be me if only there was some way to easily determine where I have used my @gmail address in the past 20 years. I have already set up another address that I own myself and have moved a bunch of stuff over, but I don’t want to lose access to the rest of my accounts tied to my Gmail address.

Although I suppose I could go through my Keepass and list all logins that use my gmail, then chip away at that…

Sounds like you’re the target demographic for the Slate truck. Seriously, it’s like you are the exact center of their product audience Venn diagram.

Fair. At least the stated mission of the Chinese isn’t to be evil for evil’s sake. Palantir just seems like an accelerationist’s tool and nothing more.

Fully agree. I just don’t trust China any much more than the US to respect privacy and consumer choice. Color me prejudiced if you want, but I’ve dealt with enough Chinese suppliers to have a decent idea of how they operate.