The National Guard never stopped patrolling the streets of Washington DC. The DC police has been placed under federal control. The president himself has called Washington DC “perhaps the safest” city in the United States.
If there’s a “moment of national danger” happening under those circumstances, maybe it’s not resources that are the problem. Maybe leadership is the problem.
“You news people are monsters! For thinking I might talk about the news, here on the news talk show.”
There should be a headline like “Journalists Endangered by Presidential Visit”
LLMs are going to evolve into a position where being wrong sometimes and hallucinating sometimes won’t matter, because organizations are already built to deal with it: managers.
Pretty wild to make that streamliner body and then stick the driver out in the breeze like an afterthought.
Are you aware of the “Multiple Clipboard” feature? Which is a deceptively simple productivity boost, a game-changer, a hidden gem in a sea of dark Windows patterns?
I imagine that “lawmakers” are going to find themselves more scrutinized, more surveilled than anyone else, because extorting them for information, favors, bribes and so forth will be much, much more lucrative than trying the same thing with nobodies like you and me.
This is an informal way of transferring state power from the people to “the cops,” in the broadest sense of that term. It’s the logic of the Mafia: If you have something on everyone, you have more opportunities to act through unwilling intermediaries.
Half-Life and Half-Life 2 together created an almost embarrassing number of indelible moments.
I’ve just finished playing one of the newer Wolfenstein games, and while it was enjoyable enough in the moment and very capably-done, it had occurred to me that none of it was memorable the way so much of Half-Life was memorable.
Half-Life 2 somehow cranked that “memorability quotient” up to 11. "Do NOT go through Rav— "
Work on the bunker part got the green light, though.
On Thursday, the judge ruled that the Administration has to stop all aboveground work on the construction project until it receives Congressional approval. But his order permits the White House to continue construction underground, including on the military complex.
The shooting tonight at the Washington Hilton demonstrates the need to have a White House ballroom, President Trump tells reporters in the press briefing room.
So he’s taking this opportunity to whine about his ballroom. As one does. Perfectly normal. “An awful lot of Americans seem to want me dead, that’s why I need a party fortress!”
The WHCD is a private event, no affiliation with the government. It presumably would never happen at a White House ballroom.
Pre-recorded reel-to-reel tapes (and 8mm movies) were packaged in thin cardboard boxes like those. My grandfather had a few.
Maybe you were joking. Sorry.
Edit: In fact if you search Ebay for “reel to reel album” there are tons of listings with pictures.
They didn’t include this in the release notes? What in the world is going on?
OK that’s true, as far as it goes
The entire administration is exclusively “transactional relationships that pose a security risk,” but she’s a woman, so
MAGA angels are just hookers with magic powers
It depends which AI you ask, no? Ask AI made in a mostly white country, you’re going to get pictures of mostly white people. Ask AI made in a mostly Asian country, it’ll be mostly Asian people.
…it’s just what’s more common.
I think you’re misunderstanding the author’s objection here. The problem is exactly that the genAI will reflect “just what’s more common,” and that in doing so, it over-represents that which was already over-represented. It glosses over variety and difference, it reduces the past to a cartoon. It’s the next bit that’s important:
That makes “AI” perfect for creating the form of idealized, fictional “past” that fascists love to allude to (“make America great again“), a past that never existed but that needs to be saved or restored…
This is how the original 20th century Fascists did things, too. It’s not a hypothetically Fascist appeal, it’s a historically Fascist appeal.
I note that this appears to be targeted based on skin color.
Sadly this is pretty plausible, but I don’t see any such assertion, not even a hint, in the NYT story. Have you got additional information?
Isn’t it telling on our whole culture that a white girl’s boobs are one of the things genAI seems to draw really, really well?
The Supreme Court: “Ah, but what would ‘equal protection’ mean, to a 16th century Englishman?”
Speculation:
One way of doing astro time-lapses with digital cameras is to combine many short-ish exposures in post. Fast-moving objects (when I tried this, ships and planes) can show up as segmented trails, because they move significantly during the brief interval between exposures.