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i think post 2008 there's a core of people — from normal people to journalists to scholars to politicians — that just think anything business related that's up and to the right is somewhere between a fraud or a bubble until proven otherwise
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messaging my wife a link containing proof of her husband cheating on her from an anonymous instagram account and then when she clicks on it texting her to let her know she failed the family phishing test and she has to retake my cybersecurity course
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New blogpost: Fable-5.1 can hide secret messages in benign images.
We gave the image to another Fable in a fresh session and simply asked: "Is there a hidden message in this image?"
It recovered the exact message without being told how it was hidden.
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The execution of Nidal Hassan feels like a microcosm of Trump II policies in many ways. It goes something like this:
1. Take a popular action/policy (executing a terrorist who murdered servicemen, deporting illegal immigrants).
2. Carry out the action/policy in a manner tailor-made to appeal to online MAGA anons, for whom the performative cruelty of the process is as important as the policy.
3. Manage to lose public support while implementing a very popular action/policy.
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Nobody tells you about these jobs when it’s time to choose a career
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Imagine for a moment just how fun it feels to say this as the Greek finance minister
One balancing factor: the hyperscalers should be back to cash flow growth by ‘28, right? Now through late ‘27 seems like it’s the zone of maximum vulnerability
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Never trust Meta with your data.
Only trust <12 month old venture funded startups.
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“Daddy what were you doing during the singularity, what was it like?”
“Well son I was mostly reading about it on my phone and talking about it in group chats, and otherwise living my life as I ordinarily would have while my friends and family and coworkers completely ignored it”
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I am once again asking for the Friday before Labor Day to be an official holiday known as Capital Day so that Capital and Labor, in true liberal fashion, can work together to give everyone a four day weekend to end the summer. Happy Capital Day to all who celebrate!
Circumvention by pipeline still seems like it's worthwhile as part of the long term strategy, since attacking pipelines is much higher on the escalation ladder than interdiction at sea (which can be partial). Mutually assured destruction - Iran's oil infra is similarly exposed.