Michael Busch
Planetary astronomer, studying piles of rock in space. Reader of books. Drinker of tea. He/him. This is a personal account. To bigotry no sanction.
- Occurred to me the defense-tech bros naming their companies after Lord of the Rings weapons and such are the sort who think Tolkien should have had Boromir succeed in taking the Ring and then go kick ass in Mordor. (i.e., missed the whole point)
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View full threadI can't tell if you are fucking with me or not...
- Reported last year as having gotten near $20 million in venture capital money: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- I have just read an "AI" text generator transcript that was unable to distinguish between the speaker saying the words "curve" and "cube". In case anyone was still thinking that the text generators could ever displace standard speech-to-text software.
- not even good guy weapons, bad guy weapons. "I am want to introduce my new security company: Nazgul"
- There is already a "home security" company that the owners decided to name Sauron.
- For the comics fans: I learn that the Arecibo Observatory was featured in a comic by William Gonzalez Sierra, called "Data Dreams", starting in 2019 - sciences.ucf.edu/news/arecibo... I unaccountably missed this at the time. Does anyone know where to find copies?
- I did not agree to have my work stolen by the automated plagiarism machine.
- Truly cartoonish levels of bribery. And also a flying security risk; for those who profess to care about that. Require that Congress block this and #ImpeachTrump, USA. Now.
