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Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday.
“And so these disruptions are gonna disru…

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Years ago, I was working for a non-profit on a contract basis (illegally on their part, since I should've been classified as an employee under state law; that's what we call a red flag, folks). I'd never met the executive directory (ED), but he was in the office one day.
I was showing my boss the kernel driver I'd just gotten working, and demoing it working on the prototype hardware. My boss calls in the ED to show him as well. The ED is impressed. (1/2)

Schauspieler sollen Künstlicher Intelligenz Emotionen antrainieren
Die KI-Plattform Handshake AI sucht nach Menschen mit Schauspielerfahrung. Sie sollen KI-Modellen helfen, authentisch wirkende Emotionen darzustellen.

Oil Industry Warns Trump Administration That Fuel Crunch Will Likely Worsen (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-industry-warns-trump-administration-energy-crisis-will-likely-worsen-0a5c8b1a?st=5vfkfo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p65#a260315p65

Spent most of the afternoon on my back doing velcro cable management under our desks. However, this is probably the best photo I've taken while down there: Gandalf looking down on me from his cat bed that is hidden away between/behind our monitors:
#Caturday #Gandalf

Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe fordert per Vollstreckungsantrag die Umsetzung des Nitrat Urteils zum Schutz des #Grundwasser.
Trotz klarer Vorgaben des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts liegt kein wirksames Aktionsprogramm vor. Stattdessen schlägt das

Bundesregierung verschleppt Nitrat-Urteil: DUH beantragt Zwangsgeld
• DUH beantragt Zwangsgeld in Höhe von 10.000 Euro wegen Nichtumsetzung des wegweisenden Nitrat-Urteils • Von der DUH erstrittenes Urteil verpflichtet Bundesregierung zu wirksamem Aktionsprogramm gegen zu viel Nitrat aus der Landwirtschaft • Landwirtschaftsministerium legt statt Zeitplan einen verschlechternden Vorschlag für das Düngegesetz vor

{lubridate} makes working with dates in R just that little bit easier: #rstats #dates

Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier
Functions to work with date-times and time-spans: fast and user friendly parsing of date-time data, extraction and updating of components of a date-time (years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds), algebraic manipulation on date-time and time-span objects. The lubridate package has a consistent and memorable syntax that makes working with dates easy and fun.

Thanks to AI working on realising a long time wish to have a proper high quality map app for my waypoints and travel logs that I kept for like decades.
Nice little SaaS tool - multi user, public profiles, private maps, custom made public maps etc
I dont know anything at all about web development so this is a case of no other option and really loving this.
Have a working iOS app also to do tagging on the go etc, very happy with this.

The first vaccine was a lucky accident.
Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/

The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.

Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.