Otohiko
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Otohiko
@otohiko.bsky.social
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Transportation analyst, disabilities advocate, linguist, medical communication researcher, military historian, video editor, amateur photographer and astronomer
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Strange seeing the same people who denounce Wikipedia believe generative-AI that's half plagiarized from that encyclopedia and half from dubious sources. Almost like complaints about Wikipedia were ultimately about how reality didn't conform to their ignorance
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Shou Tucker has endorsed Andrew Cuomo, and his little dog, too.
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We are being ruled by absolute losers
(And no, it doesn't "go both ways" - the moment someone has forefeited their human rights, they are fair game and taking them out is not "sinking to their level" at all. Fascism is not, in fact, a two-way street.)
I've always framed it in purely humanitarian terms: as soon as someone denies the human rights of others, they forefeit their own. With all prospective consequences.
The only acceptable "billionaire bracket" should be a type of device used for executions.

For everyone else, I fully support the notion of maximum income. You go above that, 100% tax. Anyone making a million a year shouldn't be, and billionaires can be shot on sight.
Tired of the hand-wringing. Capital punishment is an absolutely valid way to deal with Nazis. No need to treat them with kid gloves - those who deny the human rights of others must immediately forefeit their own.
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Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Prosecuting the Powerful
Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.
foreignpolicy.com
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Chotiner: So you decided you were going to make a joke post—

Me: —in the form of a Chotiner interview. That’s correct.

Chotiner: And you thought it was funny?

Me: I mean, I didn’t think it wasn’t funny.

Chotiner: Sure.
I think we all should aspire to a head of state with basic pathfinding and collision avoidance, at minimum.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
Between that and the "routine" MRI...
To be fair, they were designed for completely different roles, so I don't think a direct comparison between the way their weapons perform actually says much.

(PS - all that said, I do think the Terminator as a whole is stupid, wasteful, and has limited utility outside of a very specific niche)
...that make them seemingly immune to a lot of psychological effects of combat. Most of everyone else just breaks down. Inconvenienly, this doesn't seem to correlate to a lot of other factors.

I'm actually less afraid of people who break down from AI psychoses than I am of those who DON'T.
I don't think it's a cause, but it could be an activating agent for (traits of) personality disorders.
Closer to my own areas of expertise, there's a constant thread in personal narrative histories of war that a certain (small) % of people in combat situations turn out to have psychopathic traits...
Wow, I saw some of the names on that list and almost vomited.

On the bright side, all of this explains A LOT (possibly everything) about that abomination of a "platform".
It's not Napoleon (it's 7 Years War), but the demo was VERY good.

I only happened to bump into it on Steam NextFest the week before and thought I'd just give it a short look - ended up sinking about 10 hours into it. I have a feeling it might get repetitive after a bit, but it's a satisfying loop.
Yeah, I had it last year and it definitely ranks as one of the more awful experiences I had - and I had the fairly uncomplicated form of it. In more extreme cases, it can affect the eyes and just the thought of that (based on how much it hurt) absolutely horrifies me.
Captain Beefheart to Huxley:
I did sell Aldous Huxley a vacuum cleaner in the desert, in Lano. An Electrolux. I have a hard time selling anything. He could hardly see, you know, he was very tall, and he looked down like this and said, “I want that” I said, “Well I assure you sir, this thing sucks.”
Music to my ears.
Ukrainian drones now hitting Moscow.

#explodey