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Sure it was pork, but pork BBQ from LBJ was legendary. It worked well enough to pass the Civil Rights Act and land us on the Moon. It took the right-wing white supremacy and anti-science party decades of unceasing effort and oceans of slush money to unravel that strategy. That doesn't mean it...

People who believe in misinformation are suckers. They think they are being strong, but they are just being manipulated.

Don't blame the juvenile pterosaurs for getting caught in a storm. It was the adult pterosaurs who cut the funding for atmospheric science.

I don't think anyone at the National Academies expects Trump and the Republicans to heed the report. The report is an act of defiance. It is something that rational people can rally around to oppose the Republicans' disastrous policies. There are no guarantees it will work. Maybe right-wing...

The bill will cause irreparable harm which nonetheless will have to be repaired.

As a developer who has shipped products for PDP-11s and Z80s and M68K Macs back in the day, I know where the "be careful what you include in your build" ethos comes from. When I write embedded software I'm totally there. I've also shipped products that use NodeJS. NPM is just different. Dev...

This reminds me of Thinking, Fast and Slow. Humans and other animals are very good at pattern recognition, which is System 1 thinking. LLMs are getting there. Mathematical proofs require System 2 thinking. Humans are not very good at it. It is amazing that we can do it at all. If researchers...

Mammoths of the Great Plains is one of my favorite stories ever. But it's science fiction. I have to agree with the author of this editorial. Mammoths are not going to save us from the climate change that we are causing. Maybe if we did all the things we need to do to fight climate change, we...

That's elite!

I remember the criticism of NASA leading up to the launch of Challenger. It was harsh. I also remember watching the launch on NASA TV and what happened. NASA had its problems and needed to do better, but a big part of it was social pressure on the agency. I really hope we don't have to go...

A lot of big businesses use NodeJS and ElectronJS. Maybe there could be funding to maintain Chromium under the umbrella of the OpenJS Foundation. I would not mind that.

Waiting for the Bolt upgrade was a drag. I parked on the street, and wondered if my car went up in flames if it would spread to other cars. But the battery upgrade was sweet. Better range than the original when it was new.

More articles from Sr. Carrillo would be welcome here.

If it really is possible to dramatically reduce training costs, that would be a good thing for the planet.

That is their job. That is what they are supposed to do. Advise the government.

CSAM is an extreme outlier. Generalities don't apply. Free speech is okay. Art is okay. Porn is okay. CSAM is not okay. Everything about it is horrifyingly abusive. As a society, we don't want to enable or feed the desire for that kind of abuse. Just stay away from that shit.

When facts are "too politically biased", maybe facts are not the problem.

Art Hoppe in the San Francisco Chronicle. Comic genius.

"Don't be Elsevier"

OpenAI's blog post does not say: How much of the PBC's stock will be held by the non-profit arm? Will the non-profit have seats on the PBC's board? How is the PBC going to balance stakeholder interests and public benefit interests against those of the new shareholders? How is the PBC going to...