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"We are knee-deep in the age of techno-optimistic hype cycles and AI doomerism - both fueled by the same underlying mechanism: strategic information asymmetry."
"I'm proposing a counterintuitive thesis: there exists a significant "honesty premium" in tech that remains largely unclaimed."

"We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help"
"Some AI reports are easier to spot than others. One accidentally pasted their prompt into the report, Stenberg said, "and he ended it with, 'and make it sound alarming.'""

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
This technique is as old as the hills; it was practiced in almost every Greek city, and the moderns have only enlarged its scale." --Bertrand Russell

"Rack-mountable, PoE-powered carrier board for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and compatible devices with all the necessary interfaces. 
With Compute Blade, you can create a high-density, low-power-consuming, plug-and-play blade server for home or data-center use."

Utah recently banned cities from flying unofficial flags like the various pride and Juneteenth flags. The city's new, official "celebration," "visibility" and "belonging" flags may look familiar.

"Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity."

"A quick refresher on a principle that everyone should fight to protect."
TL;DR: Due process is both how you decide what to do, and how you determine whether you've even got the right person in the first place. And authoritarians cheerfully broaden the definition of "terrorism" as an excuse to abuse people they don't like.

"The decision was opposed by justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor."

Lightning storm seen from above.

Sure, bureaucracy can sometimes be a nightmare, but *automated* bureaucracy is so much worse.
If you're going to automate something as serious as revoking someone's access to the tools they use to do their job, make sure someone can override it when there's a mistake.