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Just send him offworld and close the iris.

You forgot that Windows gives you a simple error code to pass onto the support desk when it crashes! Linux, on the other hand... well, you have to dig through so many log files - who has time to read all those?

Pretty sure they don't want any other skills. That would be a threat to them.

This is not surprising, but neither is it going to make any difference, unfortunately.

Definitely the latter.

Sounds dodgy to me.

One of the parcel delivery drivers in my area does that. Usually I can get whatever parcel is on the doorstep to shift enough (without damaging it) to squeeze out the front door, but I'm expecting at some point to have to go out the back door because the parcel blocking the front door will be too heavy!

I guess I'll be avoiding those models when I'm next in the market for a TV, or work out how to disable it/block it at my router if I am forced to connect the TV to the Internet for firmware updates, etc.

Fortunately my masculinity isn't threatened by the use of a battery-powered lawnmower.

Unfortunately the right seems to be much better at propaganda (on a number of levels) and I suspect people who are struggling with any of those problems - mental health, physical health, financial, etc. - are more vulnerable to it. Even worse is that it may be too painful for them to accept that they were wrong about something important (e.g. supporting Trump and co) and the internal conflict would likely worsen their mental health.

Poor bloke. This sounds like he was in a lot of pain. I feel for his family and friends.

In his writings, the driver of the Cybertruck said the incident was intended not as a “terrorist attack” but rather “a wake-up call,” according to police. He wrote in a letter recovered by investigators that “Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence” and “fireworks and explosives” were best to get his point across. Livelsberger wrote that he needed to “cleanse” his mind of the “brothers I’ve lost” and relieve himself of “the burden of the lives I took.” He said the US was “terminally ill and headed towards collapse.”

Interesting. I can imagine a scenario where the resolution of CCTV is low enough that a mask would impede recognition in that instance. It's definitely not something I would want to rely on, though.

Sorry, but facial recognition software has basically caught up. I would not rely on a mask to prevent me being recognised today:

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4511/can-covid-19-face-mask-protect-you-facial-recognition-technology-too https://www.ft.com/content/42415608-340c-4c0a-8c93-f22cdd4cc2d6 https://www.techtimes.com/articles/304431/20240508/new-software-shows-promise-facial-recognition-underneath-mask.htm

Most of this article is snippets from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/01/elon-musk-donald-trump

Sadly, these figures don't surprise me.

Trump has given the racists permission to attack anyone they don't like.

They're only just working this out now? Of course he's going to cut them.

Indeed not. So using language specific to binary systems - e.g. bits per second - is not appropriate in this context.

Some parts of the paper are available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0896627324008080?via=ihub

It doesn't look like these "bits" are binary, but "pieces of information" (which I find a bit misleading):

“Quick, think of a thing… Now I’ll guess that thing by asking you yes/no questions.” The game “Twenty Questions” has been popular for centuries as a thinking challenge. If the questions are properly designed, each will reveal 1 bit of information about the mystery thing. If the guesser wins routinely, this suggests that the thinker can access about million possible items in the few seconds allotted. Therefore, the speed of thinking—with no constraints imposed—corresponds to 20 bits of information over a few seconds: a rate of 10 bits/s or less.

The authors do draw a distinction between the sensory processing and cognition/decision-making, at least:

To reiterate: human behaviors, including motor function, perception, and cognition, operate at a speed limit of 10 bit/s. At the same time, single neurons can transmit information at that same rate or faster. Furthermore, some portions of our brain, such as the peripheral sensory regions, clearly process information dramatically faster.

Ugh. I hope they clearly flag AI content and allow users to filter it.