Michaels, 79, told Vanity Fair in an interview published Wednesday that he was initially “very skeptical” of the proposal from NBCUniversal executives — until he heard the AI-generated version of his speaking voice, which is capable of greeting viewers by name.

Was this a phone interview, by any chance?

I propose detecting atmospheric anomalies induced by their infinite improbability drives.

Plus... this isn’t a remote area—you can walk across the whole range from Santa Cruz to Los Gatos in less than a day. Even if you were too panicked to think of an obvious strategy like “follow a stream” or “always walk downhill” and were essentially stumbling around blind, it seems like you’d be bound to run into a hiking trail or other landmark by chance alone within a day or two.

The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.

Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.

The thought of a nuclear reactor running on Windows is terrifying.

Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”

St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”

Plot twist: the ad is the real Tom Hanks, and the version calling it fake is an AI created by a rival dental plan.

Are they sure that’s the direction of causation? Because eating undercooked bear is the sort of behavior I’d expect from people who were already infected with brain worms.

Google will no longer allow public access to its caches. I doubt they’ve stopped keeping caches for their own use.

In an interview with the Journal, Neuralink's first patient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, opened up about the roller-coaster experience. "I was on such a high and then to be brought down that low. It was very, very hard," Arbaugh said. "I cried." He initially asked if Neuralink would perform another surgery to fix or replace the implant, but the company declined, telling him it wanted to wait for more information.

Neuralink isn’t just treating humans like guinea pigs, they’re treating them like disposable guinea pigs.

Interpreting “a previously-unrecognized weakness in X was just found” as “X just got weaker” is dangerously bad tech writing.

100% of the top 10 meat and dairy companies.

That should be in the title—otherwise it implies that every family dairy in the country has its own team of lobbyists.

Can I also strengthen my coffee by adding a little concrete mix?

He should try declaring the vote illegitimate and inciting a mob to take over the House—that’s a good trick!

It’s less a reflection on the tech, and more a reflection on the culture that generated the content that trained the tech.

Wang told The Globe that she was worried about the consequences in a more serious situation, like if a company used AI to select the most "professional" candidate for the job and it picked white-looking people.

This is a real potential issue, not just “clickbait”.

Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert who voted for Trump twice, did just that

It’s heartwarming to see that there are still some Trump voters willing to set partisanship aside for the sake of personal greed.

And why goblins have to do their accounting for them.

They should ask him what he thinks he’s on trial for—he might confess to something that hasn’t even been uncovered yet.

Sotomayor should have asked about assassinating “corrupt” Supreme Court justices, in case some of her colleagues need help connecting the dots.

Oh yeah, their terms go on...
Long after their cognitive functions are gone.

So the league decided to preemptively retaliate on behalf of the hypothetical violent boys?

None of that concerns Neuralink’s treatment of him—just his process of learning to live with it.

How long before EMI sues them for copyright infringement?

They should just call AIs “confirmation bias amplifiers”.

“I don’t have time for alcoholism—I’m too busy shooting heroin.”

As a left-handed kid in school, cursive was a bit of a nightmare.

As a student of history who has seen countless beautiful examples of medieval calligraphy, chancery scripts, and renaissance typography, modern school cursive is a fucking abomination. It was developed neither for speed nor beauty nor legibility, but to reduce the amount of ink dripping from cheap dip pens when they were lifted from the page between strokes.

The danger in making a virtue of necessity is that some people will continue to fetishize it long after the necessity has passed.

I wonder if the first days of SMTP were like this—people sending emails to each other in amazement that messages could reach people on other servers.

I had a Catholic coworker who said some of her Catholic relatives were becoming “Christians”, which turned out to mean Evangelicals.

And Bush saw a huge surge of support after 9/11, even though he was widely unpopular leading up to it and nothing about it objectively reflected well on him. It’s a knee-jerk reaction to being attacked by an outside force.

You say “Photoshop” as a generic term for “image editor”, even when there’s no reason to think it was that editor in particular.

Maybe “AI” is just replacing “Photoshop” as a generic term for any digital image manipulation.

The right way to do it would be to outcross Golden Rice with local strains to transfer the beta carotene gene while preserving other traits that are already adapted to the local ecosystem, thereby maintaining biodiversity and allowing the rice to continue to coevolve with other local organisms. But that would threaten Monsanto’s patents.

The article mentions 61 unnamed victims and one named one (Kristy Althaus).

Sounds like an article a toothbrush-botnet-hosted AI would generate.

Others have pointed out that microfiber would already be considered microplastic, but maybe you’re aware of that and are thinking that microplastics are plastics that are manufactured to be microscopic (like fiberglass is manufactured as microscopic glass).

But all (petroleum-based) plastics break down into microplastics, whatever scale they’re originally manufactured at. Microfiber is no different from other synthetic cloth in that respect—while it should be avoided like other synthetics, there’s no reason to single it out.

Yeah, that’s the expected result for any party that isn’t a cult.

If 62% wanted to replace him with the same alternative candidate, that would be significant.

it’s a zero-sum game and most Americans are losing so rich fucks can have their “good economy”.

That does seem to be what his rhetoric is pointing at:

“But for all we’ve done to bring prices down, there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off. Price gouging, junk feeds, greedflation, shrinkflation,” Biden added.

No explanation of how it works, but I’m guessing it slides an RFID chip in or out of a Faraday cage.

Eh—everyone already knows where Biden stands on abortion. Avoiding the issue suggests that he’s embarrassed or ashamed of his position—it concedes the moral high ground to the Republicans.

Lots of voters prefer a confident candidate to one who agrees with them on everything.

Is there a word for a form of government that rules entirely by throwing people out of windows?

Maybe “defenestrarchy”?

For anyone confused by “Nextcloud” in the title, it’s just the blog attribution—Nextcloud isn’t involved in the acquisition.