Not only did The Washington Post mess this up in their tweet (left) about how George Floyd died, they did the same thing on their own website (right) pic.twitter.com/nWhNEAvFke
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 24, 2022
So much has changed in those two years. Two years ago, he died because he had taken a fatal dose of fentanyl, and now he’s been shot. But even more has changed:
Sigh.
If Disney really wanted to “subvert expectations” with their Star Wars movies, they coulda done something like this:
Ya may have noticed a dropoff in aerospace postings, and a reduction in yammering in general. This is largely due to being swamped… Book three is due soon, and I’m up to my eyeballs. I have barely enough time to write the book, take note of the world going straight to hell, and occasionally bitch about it. Health concerns, a major time-suck a few months ago, have largely (though not completely) evaporated; financial issues remain. Feel free to buy stuff, subscribe to stuff, hit that tip jar.
And once I’m done with Book three… Book four looms.
This is a damned odd thing: across London (and apparently much of the rest of Britain), an inexplicably vast number of shops have opened up that purport to sell American candy and treats and junk food. I say “purport” because the prices are apparently insanely high, and they seem to always be empty. This is not the sort of thing that can be supported by any reading of free market capitalism; it’s really only explained by either criminal activity or socialism (but then, I repeat myself). A lot of locals believe them to be some sort of money laundering operation, but it’s vague on how that works. Perhaps someone comes in now and again and buys an armload of Oreos for the street price of, say, a trunkload of Afghani opium. If so, fine. But why are all these stores almost the exact same thing, that close to each other? And if they are a front for a criminal enterprise, why aren’t the British cops doing anything about them? Oh, wait… these are the same police who were scared of the grooming gangs and let them murder and traumatize vast numbers of British children rather than risk being called names…
This five minute fan film, entirely CG, is more entertaining than the entire sequel trilogy:
This could prove entertaining as all get-out:
Because 3D printing is infallible.
Oh Noes! AI are going to…
1) Take Yur Jerb
2) Overthrow humanity
3) Make truly effective Marilyn Monrobots, leading to the slow extinction of Man
And now…
If machines can reliably tell White folks from Black at a 90% success rate based purely on just X-ray images, that would tend to indicate that “race is just a social construct” is as inaccurate a statement as reasonable people have known it is. The curious thing is, the researchers don’t know *how* the AI is able to figure this out. There is some difference that the machine sees that human experts can’t.
The “concern” here isn’t that “uh oh, this machine is smarter in some ways than we are,” but “uh oh, this machine might make distinctions that we’re are officially not supposed to notice unless the situation calls for it.”
The report seems to indicate that only White and Black races were included in the study. A whole lot more work would be needed, I imagine, before the AI can distinguish White from Black from Mayan from Pakistani from Japanese from Inuit from Berber.
Here we go again:
Rather amazingly, they’ve already released the ID of the shooter: 18 year old Salvador Romas. I suspect that might be an attempt to get ahead of the inevitable political narrative that pops up about this sort of thing. A narrative that’s usually wrong, but serves a purpose.
If you were thinking about buying an AR-15 and/or mags and/or ammo… it’s *really* time to get on that. The politighouls will be all over this; there’s nothing professional gun grabbers love more than dead children. It’s unclear what weapons were used… a handgun almost certainly and *perhaps* a rifle. He seemed to have at least two AR-15’s, based on the social media posts he made.
Salvador Ramos: Suspect in Uvalde Elementary School Shooting
Well how about this:
… a Global 7500 test vehicle broke the sound barrier during a demonstration flight last May, achieving speeds of more than Mach 1.015.
Huh. I would *assume* that a power-dive might have been involved, but it’s still impressive. The Bombardier Global 8000 is planned to enter service in 2025, have a range of 8,000 nautical miles, carry 19 passengers and fly at Mach 0.94 (top speed).