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RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399
Extra points for anyone who can explain what she is *doing* here! I cannot ...

OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to the US Department of War (DoW) after the ChatGPT owner’s chief executive admitted it looked 🔸“opportunistic and sloppy”.
The contract prompted fears the San Francisco startup’s AI could be used for ♦️domestic mass surveillance but its boss, Sam Altman, said on Monday night the startup would explicitly bar its technology from being used for that purpose
or being deployed by defence department intelli…

Still, there are some other things Hypercard did we’d do well to study, even with full-scale tools. Off the top of my head:
- It richly rewarded unguided exploration. Unsuccessful experimentation had a way of leading to paths forward, not just dead ends.
- Much of it worked by direct manipulation: if you want the thing there, you put the thing there. (Unity and Godot both sort of kind of do some descendant of this, but not with the same discoverability and transparency.)
- There was a rich library of good starting points, modifiable examples.
- An empty but functioning new project had essentially zero boilerplate. You didn’t have to have 15 files and hundreds of lines of code to get a blank page.
- Its UI made it easy-ish for newcomers to ask “What can I do with this thing here?” Modern autocomplete and inline docs kind of sort of approximate this, but in practice only for people who already have tool expertise.
- HyperTalk (the programming language) is tricky to write (it’s a p-lang), but it’s remarkably easy to read. You can peer at it with very limited knowledge and make educated guesses about its semantics, and those guesses will be mostly correct. (HyperTalk syntax tends to get the most attention when people talk about this, I think at the expense of the other things above.)

Das Pentagon wird Musk's AI-Chatbot Grok für strategische und interne Entscheidungen einsetzen, explizit weil selbsternannter Kriegsminister Pete Hegseth eine KI möchte welche nicht woke ist und bereit ist Kriege zu führen.
Der Verteidigungsminister sagte, er wolle verantwortungsvolle KI im Pentagon. Zugleich winkte er Modelle ab, „die Kriegsführung nicht zulassen“.
Seine Vision bedeutet, dass militärische KI „ohne ideologische Einschränkungen arbeitet, die rechtmäßig…

Pentagon setzt auf Elon Musks Grok trotz weltweiter Kritik
„Schon bald laufen die führenden KI-Modelle auf allen Netzen des Ministeriums, offen wie geheim“, sagte US-Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth. Er sprach bei SpaceX, Musks Raumfahrtfirma.

I was using the Python csv library for a script but decided I should dig into the pandas DataFrame stuff instead.
It was more complex, and it took me awhile to figure things out, and I had to read a bunch of web pages explaining things.
But in the end, I am 100% happy I did it that way.
I did not want to ask some AI/LLM for the answers, or to write the code for me.
Because for me, the struggle and the journey is part of creating something worthwhile.

Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Iranian forces
“are waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground -- to set them on fire”.
Ghalibaf said the US is secretly plotting a ground attack despite a message of diplomacy coming out of the White House.
The Pentagon is reportedly preparing for weeks of possible “ground operations” in Iran, as thousands of US soldiers and marines arrive in the Middle East.
Diplomatic talks in Islamabad …

Den of Angels is a forum dedicated to the appreciation of resin ball-jointed dolls and the artisans who make them, started in May 2002 as a Yahoo! Group
https://denofangels.com/

Highlight a certain aspect of your data in ggplot: #rstats #dataviz

At 5:49 p.m., air traffic controllers told pilots over the Caribbean that a SpaceX Starship rocket had exploded.
All planes were ordered to avoid an area where the Federal Aviation Administration estimated debris would fall
launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths,
Last year, three of Starship’s five launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths,
twice raining flaming debris over congested commercial airways and disrupting flights. …

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.