Nobody Cares: PRS

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The comments (and his replies) ...

This makes me wonder why Trump is still not seeing it that way:

And who needs trees?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Capitalism, baby! Who needs fucking communist astronauts when you can be a commercial whore aka Youtuber?

 

[Free]

When I was 8, I wanted to be David Bowie when I grew up...

 

[Free]

The Media Fails Its Biggest Trump 2020 Test | Crooked Media

The Trump campaign confronts journalists with how to cover a candidate whose entire appeal to voters is fiction. They are failing so far.

crooked.com

As in 2016, there is one election, between two candidates, and it remains the responsibility of journalists to help voters understand the choice they will face; also as in 2016, journalists have begun to fixate on a storyline that they perceive as a liability for the Democratic nominee. But this time around, not only does that approach serve to mislead the public about the stakes of the election, there is also literally nothing real underlying it. The Trump re-election campaign confronts journalists with the question of how to cover a candidate whose entire appeal to voters is fiction—words and actions meant to deceive people about the state of the country and the nature of the election. Rather than address that challenge, though, they have chosen so far to simply treat these deceptions as if they’re offered in good faith, helping the campaign mislead voters with potentially disastrous results.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

When I was 8, I wanted to be David Bowie when I grew up...

Marine biologist.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Capitalism, baby! Who needs fucking communist astronauts when you can be a commercial whore aka Youtuber?

I remember while Yeltsin was President of the Russian Federation, a similar survey had the boys wanting to be Mafiya and the girls wanting to be dollar prostitutes.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

How a Plan to Save the Power System Disappeared

A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it.

www.theatlantic.com

The design that delivered the largest cost reduction linked up transmission lines to form a new transcontinental network: a “supergrid.” Seams simulated a 7,500-mile supergrid that would ship bulk power around the U.S.—a network reaching from Washington State to Florida. Even in the study’s less-ambitious scenario, the supergrid was saving consumers $3.6 billion a year by 2038.

But there was a problem: Improving the energy grid would reduce America’s reliance on coal. According to NREL’s simulations, coal-fired power plants would shut down en masse over the coming decades, and they would drop even faster with upgraded transmission. That proved to be a very inconvenient finding.

Indeed.

 

[Free]

*face palm*

These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat

Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it

www.theverge.com

At first, Simmons tried to console her son. “I was like well, you know, some teachers grade really harshly at the beginning,” said Simmons, who is a history professor herself. Then, Lazare clarified that he’d received his grade less than a second after submitting his answers. A teacher couldn’t have read his response in that time, Simmons knew — her son was being graded by an algorithm.

Simmons watched Lazare complete more assignments. She looked at the correct answers, which Edgenuity revealed at the end. She surmised that Edgenuity’s AI was scanning for specific keywords that it expected to see in students’ answers. And she decided to game it.

Dear tech writers,

An algorithm is not "AI."

Love and coding,
Free

P.S. Neither is a decision tree.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The Future is Now - Something Positive

somethingpositive.net

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump signs memo to defund 'lawless' cities but experts raise legality doubts

Legal scholars say Trump has little power to make good on the document in which he threatened to cut funding to Democratic-led cities

www.theguardian.com

The memorandum that the White House shared on Wednesday night, which specifically names Portland, New York City, Seattle and Washington DC as examples of jurisdictions might lose federal funding, is unlikely to result in any of those cities losing significant funding, according to legal experts. Congress determines how funding is distributed, and agencies cannot “willy nilly restrict funding”, said Sam Berger, a former senior policy advisor at the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama administration.

The five-page memorandum “reads like a campaign press release”, Berger told the Guardian. “The first two pages are a bizarre diatribe – that’s not what a government document looks like.”

Even if federal agencies are able to find justification to reduce funding to certain cities, perhaps via grants linked to law enforcement, any funding restrictions are unlikely to hold up to legal challenges, he added.

“The president obviously has no power to pick and choose which cities to cut off from congressionally appropriated funding,” said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard, and recently the co-author of To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment. Trump “has no defunding spigot. The power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the Executive. Donald Trump must have slept through high school civics,” Tribe said in an email.

 

[Free]

Trump signs memo to defund 'lawless' cities but experts raise legality doubts

Legal scholars say Trump has little power to make good on the document in which he threatened to cut funding to Democratic-led cities

www.theguardian.com

All hat and no cattle. Except for Devin Nunes' cow.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Trump signs memo to defund 'lawless' cities but experts raise legality doubts

Legal scholars say Trump has little power to make good on the document in which he threatened to cut funding to Democratic-led cities

www.theguardian.com

I saw an article about NYC in particular stating that they would lose $7 billion in federal money. Um, where is this lawlessness in NYC that he claims for a reason?

Bottom line is that he wishes to punish any city that doesn't vote for him. Great American there, eh; truly a man of the people. I say, alrighty then, these cities should refuse to send any money to Washington which gets leeched off to support southern states.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Dear tech writers,

An algorithm is not "AI."

Love and coding,
Free

P.S. Neither is a decision tree.

Nor a machine-learning based Dissociated Press like GPT-3.

 

[Soen Eber]

I just saw when logging in that Larry Niven will be appearing live at the SL Book Club meeting at Noon SLT today, at Bookclub Island (hosted by Draxtor).

ETA: Cris, can you move this where it's more appropriate? My bad.

ETA 2: I'm batting 0 for 3. The talk was yesterday. It's on YouTube now.

 

[Free]

I just saw when logging in that Larry Niven will be appearing live at the SL Book Club meeting at Noon SLT today, at Bookclub Island (hosted by Draxtor).

Thanks, but a weird place on the forums to post this news.

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Isabeau]

I just saw when logging in that Larry Niven will be appearing live at the SL Book Club meeting at Noon SLT today, at Bookclub Island (hosted by Draxtor).

ETA: Cris, can you move this where it's more appropriate? My bad.

Posted it here if that’s alright...

Nobody Cares - Second Life Is Weird AF

lol, Maitreya body has a delete on rez in it now.

www.virtualverse.one

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Today is yesterday.

http://www.draxtor.com/sl-book-club-coming-up/larryniven