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    A Capitalism Thought Experiment

    In the computer security world, the vulnerability of open above-ground transformer parks is a well-known problem. It’s been a hypothetical on many a threat model for decades.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 17, 2023
    • Burn it to the ground, Capitalism is a disease, Technology, Terrorism
    • 18 Comments

    Here’s an Easy Buck

    Anyone who wants this is welcome to it.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 14, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 9 Comments

    Yes, “Too Old To Be President” is a Thing

    Biden just demonstrated it. Basically, he just said “I don’t give a shit because none of this will affect me” and signed off on the Willow project – the largest oil extraction plan for Alaska, ever.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 13, 2023
    • Nationalism is Bullshit, Politics, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 11 Comments

    The Uptown Shiv

    I got a request for a “ghetto shiv” and, naturally, it had to happen.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 12, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 10 Comments

    The bot

    As you possibly recall, I suck at writing fiction. So I enlisted the help of ChatGPT.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • March 1, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 33 Comments

    A Really Good Paper

    I paid a brief visit to my old friend Gary McGraw, who used to work in computer security with me, but has switched to focusing on AI applications in that field. He’s my “go to guy” when I have questions about AI, and I was surprised that his view of ChatGPT3, etc., is that they are toys.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 22, 2023
    • AI, Reviews of Things, Science, Things That Delight Me
    • 13 Comments

    John Ringo In The Crosshairs

    This is an entire posting elaborating on a comment I made over at pharyngula, regarding whether AI “creativity” poses a problem for great artists.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 15, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 32 Comments

    A Stolen Meme

    I am stealing a meme from pharyngula [phar] high tech industrial spy IX-103 responded to a question with:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 12, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 18 Comments

    More From The Marilyn Files

    When I started noodling with midjourney, I used Ronald Reagan and Marilyn Monroe as prompts, because I figured there were lots of pictures of them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 10, 2023
    • AI, Art
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    How to Nihilism

    None if this is news or should be any surprise to any of you, but I’m offering my “take” anyway.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 9, 2023
    • Politics, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
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