Otherwise we’re right back to “virtual representation” and other 18th-century Tory nonsense.

If you /know/ it’s an AI image, you can pick out the uncanny valley aspects (for me, it’s often that the lens “feels” impossible, probably having to do with image vanishing points), but (a) that’s infeasible for every image; and (b) the false positive rate might also be high, which is just as bad.

The day these guys ever manage to roll off one of those from a North American production line is the day China owns the US car market.

Related, looks like we’re going to fund Zipline by making African states and US taxpayers foot the bill:

Imagine how I feel seeing Dallas on that list.

Mad that a government with the popularity of microwaved fish can unilaterally decide to end a system of justice that dates back to Henry II and the Assize of Clarendon.

40 feet between NCAA hashes, 6 yards for NFL, so, man, I just have no idea. Tells you the level of literary quality expected from editors on the NYT op-ed page, though.

Somewhere there’s a guy who’s genuinely morally opposed to vegetarianism because of Hitler.

One of the great things about Unix history, up until the dot-com era, is how many sysadmins and systems programmers were former department secretaries, because, hey, both the typewriter and this thing have keyboards, read this manual and figure it out.

You’d trust the average CISO with anything technical the same way you’d trust Elon Musk to swap out the carburetor in your ‘67 Stingray.

Also, “rally ‘round the flag” effects are historically minor and short-lived. 9/11 was an outlier in that regard, and even so GWB still almost lost ‘04 and was a party pariah by the time we got to ‘08.

That’s, uh, leaving out quite a bit of his résumé there.

My man is about to lay down the densest Wall of Sound production you ever heard on Donna Summer’s 1973 recording session.