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I was happier when I had no idea who Patrick Soon-Shiong was, but Patrick Soon-Shiong was much happier still

LOTR fans stay losing

Strong suspicion that the "interim co-CEOs" bit is leading to an attempted sell-off/spin-off of the chip fabs (which are the part of the company getting the nice juicy government subsidies)

The eventual war crimes trials will very likely reveal that "AI targeting" has already been used as an accountability sink for a premeditated ethnic cleansing policy in Gaza.

If you asked people what they wanted, they would say a car that drives itself

Two posts in two weeks about professors using ChatGPT has me questioning my desire to go back to school

all your barsk are belong to us

I got a really nice omnibus edition of Blindsight/Echopraxia that was printed in the UK, but ultimately, the necessarily(?) cardboard nature of the vampire character in Echopraxia was what left me cold. The first chapter or two are some of the most densely-packed creative sci-fi ideas I've ever read, but I came to the book looking for more elaboration on the vampires, and didn't really get that. Valerie remains an inscrutable other. The most memorable interaction she has is when she's breaking her arm and making the POV character guy reset it, seemed like she was hitting on him?

6G nanometer-wave, gently caressing your mitochondria thanks to the power of antiferromagnets and BORIS:

Wait for AI and Crypto 2.0 to burn out, we'll get there

Has this person turned up shilling their book on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory yet? If not, I think it's a lock for 2025

If you gotta conclude with, "tee hee! simulation theory!" you're not just cooked... you're seared and roasted