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I told you - she's one of dem Good Billionaires!
#AllBillionairesAreEvil

Taylor Swift Breaks Political Silence To Throw Support Behind Restoring Shōgun To Throne Of Japan
NEW YORK—In a heartfelt social media statement to her fans, singer–songwriter Taylor Swift broke her long-standing political silence Monday to support restoring an all-powerful shōgun to its rightful place on the throne of Japan. “Hey guys, Taylor here—I’m writing this post because I’ve been inspired by recent events to speak up about why we need to install an all-powerful military dictatorship in Japan’s imperial palace,” said the famously apolitical pop star, admitting that i…

"As explained in chapter 11 of Meyer’s book, assertions are meant to check the correctness of a piece of software; that is, its ability to perform the tasks defined in their specification.
Because, you do have a specification, right? Right?"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/asser…

Assertions
Colin Powell passed away during the preparation of this article. In one of the most memorable and abhorrent chapters of his career he gave a speech in the United Nations trying to justify the unjustifiable.

Wishing C had the ability to do compile-time polymorphism.
Like, I have base class Foo with Bar/Baz derived from it.
I want to be able to put a method DoSomething() in Foo and call it on a Bar or Baz object in a template, without putting a vtable in Foo or incurring the overhead of a virtual method call.
You can sort of get this effect by having Bar/Baz be separate classes with no common base and make the template just call T.Foo() for parameter T, but this eliminates som…

As member of the @…, I applaud the ACM for making all ACM publications in the ACM Digital Library freely accessible.
However, I’m puzzled by the simultaneous introduction of a “Premium Edition,” which provides AI “summaries” nobody’s asked for, and puts metadata behind a paywall. This is NOT how you make “computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusa…

As member of the @…, I applaud the ACM for making all ACM publications in the ACM Digital Library freely accessible.
However, I’m puzzled by the simultaneous introduction of a “Premium Edition,” which provides AI “summaries” nobody’s asked for, and puts metadata behind a paywall. This is NOT how you make “computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusa…

As member of the @…, I applaud the ACM for making all ACM publications in the ACM Digital Library freely accessible.
However, I’m puzzled by the simultaneous introduction of a “Premium Edition,” which provides AI “summaries” nobody’s asked for, and puts metadata behind a paywall. This is NOT how you make “computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusa…

I've finally seen the match. A good win, but my god, West Ham is terrible. I have no idea why Nuno took that job.
As much as it hurts, I applaud Slot's courage to sit Salah. I hope he has more to give, but this was perhaps overdue. That this didn't happen a game or two earlier is because Salah has earned the right to battle inconsistency.
Wirtz was spectacular. Should have scored and absolutely should have had another assist. The midfield passing in tight spaces was g…

I was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.

Arbeit muss in allen Lebenssituationen möglich sein und die Realität und Diversität von Menschen abbilden. Diese Debatte rundum „Teilzeit-Lifestyle“ ist ein weiterer kläglicher Versuch den sozialen Kahlschlag und die Verarmung der Gesellschaft zu rechtfertigen. Anstelle Optionen zu bieten wie Armut beendet werden kann, werden diejenigen die offenbar „nicht genug“ Arbeiten dämonisiert, um ihre prekäre Situation zu rechtfertigen. Friedrich Merz kennt keine Lösungen sondern nur Hetze!

🛏️ Social standing and isolation shape sleep quality in mice, study finds
#sleep

Social standing and isolation shape sleep quality in mice, study finds
While some factors that improve or reduce the quality of sleep are relatively well understood, many are not. Given the impact that sleep is known to have on matters such as stress, concentration and cognitive abilities, it is an important topic of study.