@carnage4life Stay tuned for the next Children's Bureau chief: Mislaine Ghaxwell.

First it was the supersonic growth in Tesla’s stock price over the past week and now big brands planning to return to X.It’s kind of nuts that everyone is openly betting on corruption now that Elon helped Trump get elected.https://www.ft.com/content/34b6fc20-23f7-4e08-9ac4-ef05d5d66c13

There have been multiple reports that OpenAI’s next flagship model codenamed Orion will not perform significantly better than GPT-4.The issue seems to be that the approach of scaling up AI models by feeding them more data and compute is plateauing especially since they’ve gobbled up almost all the easily accessible data on the planet.AI researchers will need to find new techniques for the next jump in AI capabilities.https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-rivals-seek-new-path-smarter-ai-current-methods-hit-limitations-2024-11-11/

@carnage4life 9 million less people voted for Harris than Biden. People tuned out the Democrats, meanwhile, Trump didn’t gain, or more importantly lose, any votes at all. It proves again that the electorate as a whole doesn’t care about the candidate. They care about how they personally are doing and if they think the candidate or party will help them.

@carnage4life Maybe the silicon valley bubble surrounding crypto is about to burst if he is scaling back. Or he is focusing the crypto ambitions on Nostr instead.

A new study of 83,000 adults found that standing for more than 2 hours a day not only doesn’t protect against cardiovascular risks, but it heightens an individual’s risk of circulatory problems.The rise of standing desks is a result of what I like to csll “wet streets cause rain” style analysis. Because people who sit around a lot are usually unfit, people decided the fix was standing around a lot instead of physical activity.https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/standing-desks-dont-do-squat-per-new-study/

• Introspection or self reflection where you regularly examine your actions and motivations to improve self awareness and personsl growth. • Focusing on things you can control instead of worrying about things you can’t. All of the above skills help you to better at navigating the world and interacting with others in your personal and professional life. While they may seem like common sense, they are far from commonly practiced by most people.

Chegg, an online service that provides homework assistance to students, has been completely disrupted by ChatGPT which students can use for free instead of paying $19.95/month for pre-written answers to textbok questions and online tutoring.Many businesses are being disrupted by the rise of LLMs and AI chatbots but none as completely as Chegg has been.

Verizon and AT&T were fined $46.9M and 57.3M respectively by the FCC in 2020 for selling customer location data to data brokers.Both companies argue that recent Supreme Court rulings prevent the FCC from unilaterally imposing fines and instead a jury trial is required.Also the FCC’s two current Republican oppose fines as they disagree that the FCC has jurisdiction over privacy violations.It’s getting increasingly harder for govt agencies to penalize misbehavior.https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/verizon-att-tell-courts-fcc-cant-punish-us-for-selling-user-location-data/

@dl2jml @carnage4life a key plot point in Ronald Dahl's Matilda was that the nightmare headmistress got away with everything because the things she did were so outrageous that nobody would believe any child who described them

@carnage4life The original Internet immigrant generation. AOL captured people who adopted Internet soon after its public availability. The original Internet generation joined before AOL's popularity.And, well, there were other significant networks before the (D)ARPANet's public availability that eventually became parts of Internet, so people who dabbled in FidoNet, and possibly even things such as Télétel or CompuServe, have a claim to belonging to the Original Internet, the internetworks from before Internet was cool enough to join them.

@Zendadaist @carnage4lifeI think this nails it. That and the media's inability to do anything but twirl in response to spin from Trump and his campaign. (Look how the fake outrage over "garbage" got thinkpieces about how Biden's latest gaffe hurt the campaign, letting the _actual Nazi rhetoric_ become yesterday's news.)

@carnage4life Not to condone violence, but if I would see a would-be victim of Fick Nuentes deciding to not be a victim and beat him up in self-defence in a dark alleyway, I wouldn't have seen anything.

The big winners in tech will be Elon Musk who basically turned X into a MAGA version of Twitter and the crypto industry. It’s also quite likely that threats of AI regulation will disappear.The TikTok ban seens more questionable now and content moderation across social media will loosen given the president’s daily rhetoric will infect everyone’s speech and behavior.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/technology/trump-musk-ai-crypto.html

@carnage4life that just sounds like lost tax revenue & having no one who's accountable?

Trump has pledged to fire Gary Gensler, the head of the SEC, on his first day in office. Andreessen Horowitz and other crypto industry players are about to see their investment in the Trump campaign pay off big time. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/sec-crypto-enforcement-slated-for-major-rollback-under-trump?embedded-checkout=true

@lauren @carnage4life Yup.

I can’t believe I have to go into work like it’s a regular day in the morning.

I guess this is why Jeff Bezos is a billionaire and we’re not. Hard to fault that Washington Post call as a business decision.

It isn’t an illegal lottery because it’s rigged is quite the defense. —“The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,” Gober said Monday. “We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.”https://apnews.com/article/musk-million-sweepstakes-lottery-pennsylvania-krasner-4f683c48eb7dcc57f183e54ef16e7320