Watched the Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey on an international flight recently, and can confirm this movie is still the best way to fall asleep on a plane.
Except the part where (SPOILER ALERT!) Hal (AI) goes rogue and starts killing the crew. I'm not proud of this, but I have frequent fantasies of being Dave, where I'm floating around inside AI's mind, disconnecting critical circuits while the machine gurgles "Daisy."
The media: Nvidia being profitable is proof there's not an AI bubble.
How Nvidia are profitable:
To my mind, the biggest story of the year that hasn't been gotten yet is WTF happened with all this data? The assumption is that Musk and X have it, which may be true. But who else?
One aspect of this I can't stop thinking about is the example and precedent set by this administration when Musk took over and started joining all these federal databases that had previously been kept separate for about 100+ reasons over time.
Kind of secondary to those alarming developments was the fact that all of the safeguards we put in place to ensure Security 101 things like "need to know access" and auditability were just tossed out the window, and really haven't been observed by this administration since. It's as if the entirety of what they teach you in Security 101, 201, 301, etc, is just a suggestion.
Also, where THE FUCK did this data go? Who has it? How can anyone be sure who does? Is it still being used? How will it be used going forward?
While talking about datacenters and power with my youngest son, who’s an economist at a construction services company, I had the most brilliant trillion dollar idea: natural gas powered fuel cells in place of server power supplies. Instead of those super problematic power cords and PDUs and whatnot, there’s just a gas line running over the cabinets with some flexible gas line running to the back of each server. This is going to be great!
I have quite a few projects I'm super excited to publish in the coming weeks. But honestly, the main thing that's consuming my brain cycles story-wise is a year-end piece about just how badly this administration has fscked our cybers in so many ways.
This won't be a polemical soliloquy. I intend to document all of the specific actions this administration has taken that appear to weaken, redirect, or fully castrate our cyber capabilities. Your assistance would be appreciated (and possibly noted).
well now - PSA to Mastodon admins, suspend pubeurope.com and channels.im.
They're great big link farm spam engines, from looking at it.
PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
"Daisy Bell" was the first known song sung by a computer. Arthur C. Clarke saw a demo, and referenced it in his book.
This is the face of a nazi. His name is Kevin Lunday. He is the fascist boot licker forcibly tasked to take over the U.S. Coast Guard after Donald fired Admiral Linda Fagan on his first day in office.
He has just removed classification of the swastika as a hate symbol. Yeah. It’s now classified as “potentially divisive.”
DIVISIVE! 🤬
If it acts like a nazi, it’s a nazi.
#Nazi #Fascism #Swastika #HateSpeech #HateSymbol #KevinLunday #USCoastGuard #AntiSemitism
