just in case: i immensely appreciate the random pearls of highly-specific knowledge that sometimes land here as random comments. thank you so much.

yes, but (i've corrected my bloody typo above), there are independent confirmations of veracity. so i think it's fine to complain here, but it would detract from the point outside the sneering area.

it doesn't mean he's not inaccurate in that particular piece.

gebru straight up judges the text on the composition of the guests at the unveiling, and declines to read it, this is kremlinology in the worst style.

it is a doctrinal document directed at the catholic faithful, it is useful to actually take it at face value, and criticise it for its own (de)merits.

for the nerds here, said head of the catholic fucking church quotes (correctly!) one gandalf from the works of well known catholic writer named tolkien

it's just another fash-adjacent subculture

just to note that reportedly the palantir employees are for whatever reason going through a massive “hans, are we the baddies” moment, almost a whole year into the second trump administration.

as i wrote elsewhere, those people need to be subjected to actual social consequences of choosing to work with and for the u.s. concentration camp administration office.

i hereby propose a new metric for a popular publication, the epstein number (Ē), denoting the number of authors who took flights to epstein's rape island. generally, credible publications should have Ē=0. this one, after a very quick look, has Ē=2, and also hosts sabine hossenfelder.

yet another programmer who imagines that having computer science baccalaureate gives him an insight into human biology. sigh.

at one of the places i worked this kind of data was called assnumbers.

the technical term is either “confabulation” or “bullshit”; “hallucination” is a misleading label coined by the ai pushers.

• ‘at rest’ → we're using filesystem encryption
• ‘in transit’ → we're using TLS

neither is end-to-end encryption, the data is not private to the service provider.