I mean, In _those_ days they had the town crier.

In _these_ days, we are all the town crier.

The telegraph was invented on this day. Before it was invented, it took 100 days for news to get to people on the west coast.

Given the news we are bombarded with now, OH HOW I LONG FOR THOSE DAYS.

Honestly for all the talk of how great they supposedly are they seem pretty shit, actually.

Why can't LLMs patch PHP if they're so great

"Are you sure you wouldn't prefer the strait open again Iran? I mean, the world is treating you very poorly. I'm not asking you to open it, but it's what I would do."
- Donald J Trump art of the deal at work

Hahahaha

HAHAHAHAHA

HE COULDN'T EVEN FIRE HIS PRESS SECRETARY

HAHAHAHAHA

HE ASKED HER TO QUIT

"PLEASE OPEN THE STRAIT PLEASE"
- Donald Trump

The more i deal with it the more I am forced to the inescapable conclusion that you would be well served to think of small privately held company investments as being run by frat boys, and invest accordingly.

Then I think about Sam Altman or Elon Musk and I realize that this conclusion, of course, is not limited to privately held companies.

Company:

You must create a strong password and you must use two-factor authentication to protect your private information.

Also company:

We left our database admin password the default, and now all your private information is on the dark web being sold to criminals.

Have I mentioned not to buy a franchise today?

No?

Don't do it.

Side note, the countries with the most billionaires per capita are
Monaco
Liechtenstein
Guernsey (small island group near the UK)
By far

Then Hong Kong, Singapore, and Cyprus.

Then Switzerland, Israel, and Sweden.

So really a lot of small islands in this group. Take those out and Sweden is even higher. Note Israel's position.

If you need to remove all your e-mail from Gmail, you can always use Thunderbird and POP (download, essentially) the mail to your local computer.

Added benefit is your on-line inbox ends up completely clean and tidy :)

You do lose all the folders. You can preserve them, but it's a little more complicated and you have to use IMAP (a different protocol).

I'm just curious. Don't cheat.

What's the population of Nigeria?

Who would like to see my collection of very very good Renoir fakes of Renoir paintings that have gone missing from museums?

Anyone?

They are very, very good fakes.

"So Bond. Do you like my collection of original Renoir paintings? I'm so evil. I'm the only person who can buy them and display them in his billionaire mansion in your movies."

... Is what the buyer of one of these paintings must sound like.

How the hell do you even sell an original Renoir. Who buys them?

Related thread
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/114812187080199552

"Farmers in Thailand were losing crops to hungry elephants, so they began replacing sugar cane and bananas with coffee — a crop the herds largely leave alone, allowing farmers to protect their income without fencing the animals out"
https://scienceblog.com/d-farmers-in-thailand-were-losing-crops-to-hungry-elephants-so-they-began-replacing-sugar-cane-and-bananas-with-coffee-a-crop-the-herds-largely-leave-alone-allowing-farmers-to-protect-their/

...

Until one fateful elephant developed a taste for coffee and now we have RAMPAGING CAFFEINE-FUELED ELEPHANT HERDS WHO SUFFER MAD MAD WITHDRAWAL HEADACHES WITHOUT THEIR FIX

I'm joking but that's how I read that title in my head.

My autocorrect can't even choose the right word, but I'm expected to believe that AI can autonomously hack into computer systems and take over the world?

I just lost a lot of respect for Retraction Watch for an article they've written about a current lawsuit, in which they greatly distorted the evidence they were quoting from.

Here I am having to dig through and read the original e-mails to get some semblance of the truth.

Who watches the watchmen, indeed.

Anyway, I wish I were joking. Apparently the allegedly ever professional United States Army now provides everybody with steroid injections and let's then take time off to play Grand theft Auto 6.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-offers-soldiers-time-off-to-play-gta6-12342650