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briankrebs, to random

One of my all-time favorite background tracks for uninterrupted thinking/notthinking time: Thursday Afternoon, by Brian Eno. I imagine that if the bokeh effect in photography had a soundtrack, it would be this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ6V8pH4HPY

klausfiend,
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@briankrebs I know what I'm listening to today

briankrebs, to random

It's like a delicious, slow-moving train wreck....

A federal magistrate judge on Long Island on Tuesday ruled against Representative George Santos’s request to keep private the identities of people who guaranteed his $500,000 bail bond last month, but delayed their release to allow the New York congressman time to appeal.

The decision by the judge, Anne Y. Shields, came after media organizations, including The New York Times, requested their release. The groups had argued that the identities of the three individuals who initially stepped in to help Mr. Santos after his indictment were a matter of intense public interest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/nyregion/george-santos-bail.html

klausfiend,
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@briankrebs what's the over/under on one of these donors being Wen Guo or Robert Mercer

mekkaokereke, to random
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As I said with Meta/Oculus/Holo: I will stan any VR product that can be used by the majority of women for 2 hrs without causing nausea.

So far, most VR/AR headsets can't do that. It's expensive research to get that solved. And it doesn't make sense for a company to bet the farm if they can't do it.

klausfiend,
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@grumpygamer @mekkaokereke fun fact I learned working on 3D TV back in the day: the ability to perceive 3D is a continuum; some people have great 3D vision, some don't, and the neurology of 2D and 3D vision are completely different (disagreement between these is what causes the nausea) ... so solving this might be harder than expected.

jwz, to random
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Butt Stuff.

I had a colonoscopy! So that's the closest thing I've had to a date since before COVID. Goatse? I barely know ye! And if you've ever used Netscape Navigator, it's probably time for you to schedule one, too. It's definitely time if you know...
https://jwz.org/b/ykAO

klausfiend,
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@jwz this is why Masto has the CW button

ct_bergstrom, to random
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Remember those German academics who developed a fraud detector that actually did nothing but look at whether the authors used institutional email addresses, had international collaborators, and were affiliated with a hospital?

And then they concluded, based on this "detector", that a high fraction of the papers out of Asia and the Global South are fraudulent?

And then they got a glowing writeup in Science?

(If you missed it: https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110357259338364341)

Turns out there's data on all this.

klausfiend,
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@ct_bergstrom To me, this is painfully reminiscent of this famous exercise in bad science:

https://www.callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_criminal_machine_learning.html

Turns out their algorithm was just picking up on fashion cues.

JamesGleick, to random
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Here you have two far-right candidates with similar authoritarian instincts and talking points and no actual “policies.” Yet you’re asked to write an article about their “policy differences.” (Remember, they have no policy differences because they have no policies.)

Can you fool readers into thinking that anything here is an actual policy position? Tell me, for example: What is DeSantis’s “policy” on “big business”?

The NY Times gives it a go:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/politics/trump-desantis-policy-clash.html?unlocked_article_code=Ka2k4RkLIqRZBp8A0gv0UT43CS96fHkoitGPc9U6R3liTj9Lgukj1l8rP0ViFjS3ywK6Jei2TpgS3NmZ7NIYjjOhSGQU0LT6RB4_mF6MgWCxssxw2s9XX8ALkrBwkTmt9UobEQVS6KnCVHMI285o_RL_Cfa1qBvmgFFUUqQdjaG_MtqQgeBib7nDRGcC3KPKQhExogJguP7EwLCYbWAE0rWTdC6zIhR3XFtvceP9GDbqReka36bBiMNevVg9EaKi0llz27fGGhUgqrE5j5ffgCpRU8VtyGPlAHG6Jq_JMMZ98WlapoUe7L7Xr-cWuN2JxO7wsK290eXhvbsgkPnf6gPWXUc2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

klausfiend,
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@JamesGleick s/gives it a go/once again labels "fascism" as "politics as usual", to the detriment of everyone/

GossiTheDog, to random
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    klausfiend,
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    @GossiTheDog honestly, that's a diabolical bit of genius, if he'd paid off the original ransom, I bet he'd have gotten away with the arbitrage.

    AriCohn, to random

    1/ In a deeply silly turn of events, MT Gov. Greg Gianforte issued an amendatory veto of the TikTok ban bill that passed last week.

    And not in a good way.

    Aside from missing the entire First Amendment point, his proposed changes seem to actually ban all social media from the state.

    I explain: https://aricohn.substack.com/p/montana-governor-somehow-accidentally

    klausfiend,
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    @AriCohn besides being a stupid idea, how on earth does he propose to make that enforceable?

    Like, is he just unaware of how the internet, y'know ... works?

    debcha, to random
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    TIL: lace cards

    It’s a computer punch card with every possible spot punched out, so what remains is a flimsy filamentous net of paper that instantly tears and jams up the card reader.

    Old-school denial of service attack.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card

    klausfiend,
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    @debcha my dad had an NC (pre-CNC) machine at his shop that used punched paper tape for instructions.

    Same problem: to nullify a mistake in a punched row, you'd have to punch each hole across the row effectively creating a perforation at the mistake, with obvious consequences. The detail about it that I find more fascinating is that it also didn't use ASCII or even EBCDIC for encoding.

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    As ever, Elon leaves a mess behind him.
    SpaceX’s Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/spacex-rocket-dust-texas.html?smid=tw-share

    klausfiend,
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    @jeffjarvis in all seriousness I am enjoying the Phony Stark schadenfreude that followed yesterday's explosion, but isn't this a risk for rocket launches anywhere? It's been a while since there was a launch failure at Canaveral, did this kind of thing happen with those as well (eg Vanguard?) Or is there something unique to Boca Chica that makes it susceptible to this kind of pollution? Or is the takeaway here that NASA is still better at rockets than the private sector?

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