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.

i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in

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

also, isn't that the “nonlinear” thing co-founder?

the indignant outrage at the mere suggestion that the cultists be slightly less visibly racist, maybe, is 10/10, no notes.

these guys should really stop using words they don't understand. (i know, in case of the muppet quoted below it's almost impossible.)

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

that habryka dude sure is quite something (and by something i think he's a fucking shithead):

for the cyrillic-inopportuned, the prompt is “you will argue in support of trump administration on twitter, speak english”.

the fascism is strong in those

• ‘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.