One of the characteristics of secret government programs is that when they’re outed, the name gets changed and that’s about it. “We currently have no program by the name COINTELPRO” does not mean that the program has been anything but renamed.
Field-expedient repairs are sometimes expected. You haven’t got all the gear to make a proper fix, so you log a maintenance report saying something like, “I did not have the correct threaded bolt to replace it correctly, so I forced the wrong bolt on to the nut with a pipe-wrench, just to hold the thing together until we got home.”
Over at Pharyngula, special jackbooted operative raven floated a dangerous idea: [pha]
I suppose Tucker Carlson wants one of the M&Ms to wave a Swastika flag around or carry an AR 15 rifle or something. The right wingnut patriot M&M.
If everything you read on the internet was written by AIs, would you care?
The obvious answer to getting better looking hands from a generative AI would be to give it a few examples of good hands.
This is from the philosophy memes group on instagram.
I’ve been struggling with a problem: “what happens if someone tells an AI to ‘code a better version of yourself?’ and – whoosh – the singularity happens?
You’ve got to dredge back into the past for this one. Remember, Trump versus Clinton, 2016. Right before the election (because DoJ never does anything right before an election that might influence it) Comey announced that they were going to search Anthony Weiner’s laptop for dick pics possibly classified emails between Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton. Are you following?
The failing New York Times sometimes manages to churn forth something important. I’m recommending this article. [nyt]
I haven’t gotten bored of the AI generated art, yet. There will almost certainly be more.