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A common meme is that a CPU is sand that can think, but something I hadn't considered until just now is that a camera sensor is sand that can see.
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Making integrated circuits: writing arcane glyphs on to a rock to imbue it with superhuman capabilities
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Well this is gonna be on repeat for the rest of the dayhttps://youtu.be/SJJI4TchE08
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Generative AI is dangerous in many ways, not least of which is that it has an insane environmental impact. The power issue *maybe* could be resolved if we moved exclusively to zero-carbon energy...
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Sometimes I think I might be cool to have a podcast, but then I remember I'm a shy, neurodivergent introvert with about as much interpersonal charisma as a block of wood
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Speaking of podcasts, does anyone have recommendations for podcasts about hacking? Preferably ones that focus on the attacker's side of things and technical deep dives. Like, I'm less interested in...
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Another way to say this is that I'm not interested in enterprise cybersecurity. There are plenty of podcasts related to that, but it's not the domain I exist in. The latest security research is what's...
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I just signed into my Xbox for the first time in like a year. Apparently there's a Call of Duty: Black Ops 6? Can someone tell Activision to just stop already
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Finally got off my ass and got around to doing something.That something? Watching Contact and finally finishing the #Lego NASA Artemis set I started like 9 fucking months ago and just stopped because ADHD
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This movie still gives me chills when they pick up the signal.I saw Contact in the theater when I was a kid. I convinced my grandma to take me and I don't think either of us knew what we were getting...
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A woman stands outside in the chill night air, her back to a massive telescope observatory."We really appreciate you calling in the report," the crab-like alien spoke in front of her in perfect...
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The novel/movie Contact, but the Message is a scheme by a rogue accelerationist cabal of aliens to use humans as pawns to break the stalemate in a million year galactic cold war.
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As much as I love the movie Contact, after watching it again this weekend I couldn't help but think about how naïve everyone in the story was about the whole situation. The last time I had seen it was...
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Like, yeah, if the likelihood of alien life is *just so*, then maybe the friendly alien scenario in Contact might make sense.But if intelligent life is anything close to commonplace, then we might be...
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That's where one of the little short stories I wrote yesterday came from. Maybe the most friendly message we can ever hope to receive is a warning. Anything more sophisticated is just as likely to be a...
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Or maybe once we understand how our own intelligence works, we discover that the odds of intelligent technological life is basically zero. Like, maybe the odds are so low that the closest civilization...
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