Troy

American ingredients in domestic made stuff is the next target.

Probably mostly AI written.

That’s paraphrasing a bit. Chekov’s rule is about conservation of narrative real estate, no about the gun itself. It wasn’t even consistently true of his own works. The real world is not a stage play and armies created for deterrence don’t need to be used.

Long article for one sentence of trivia and no info on the algo itself. The death of the internet is upon us.

That’s a crazy amount of people under any circumstances. World, take note - this is how you protest.

They’ll have to split these accounts across many different instances for it to be effective. Else it’ll be too easy to defederate with instances that allow too many spam accounts.

We will eventually have bots like that on lemmy and other federated networks too. It wasn’t long between the advent of email and spam email. (spam predates email – the term is from the BBS era…)

Ticketmaster is cancer

Did they even watch it?

The free speech absolutists are going to cause something far far worse than what is portrayed. But maybe that is the goal.

Oh geez, those registry rules. We used to make jokes about the Soviet Union: “papers please!” US Xenophobia will end up removing all their freedoms. It’ll be about “catching illegal aliens” but the effect will be total internal travel restrictions and tracking for US citizens. I really hope they wake up before it’s too late.

I have an upcoming trip with a US transfer. We booked it before Trump won and started these shenanigans. We worry that the declining traffic will cancel our direct flight and we’ll be left scrambling to find an alternative route. We also worry about US Customs now more than we used to. It would cost us ~$1300 for the two of us to reroute, and we’re seriously thinking about it just to reduce our risk.

In unrelated news, most of the lettuce in the store in grown in the USA. We went shopping yesterday and all the Canadian produce was sold out while the US stuff was sort of rotting. Well, we found romaine hearts grown in Mexico, so we bought that. Thanks Mexico-bros.

You’re applying logic when logic doesn’t apply. Why would he tarriff Canada?

Articles like this always tend to overlook the fact that Bell Labs wasn’t unique in its time. And other companies had very similar labs running. A famous example is Xerox Labs which invented the computer mouse and graphical windowing, among other things.

Google had this vibe too, prior to going public.