Bruce Schneier: “Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent.” https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/ring-gives-videos-to-police-without-a-warrant-or-user-consent.html I find the workings of the Premier League to be intriguing, here’s the story behind Brentford’s rise and rise. Brentford FC beat Swansea this past Saturday in the “World’s Richest Game” — the Championship Play-Off […]
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What an awesome gig, pure brilliance. Went with my partner in crime, who makes everything more awesome. Played a few from Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic which I loved. (Image: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZ7rh6P13w/) The IT has a review: Their laid-back attitude came across as a sense of fun and excitement in them. Whether it was Smith’s fills, Flea’s […]
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2022/07/19/janan-ganesh-western-democracy-has-a-personnel-problem/ As Janesh argues in the IT: The crisis of democracy is the crisis of the restaurant trade and of Heathrow airport. You just can’t get the staff. Worth reading in full
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/noam-chomsky-and-gpt-3 One good way to move beyond merely filling in the blanks might be to ask whether the models could reliably distinguish truth from fiction. In point of fact, they can’t. Rather, systems like GPT are truth-challenged, known to routinely lose coherence over long passages of text and known to fabricate endlessly. One such variant […]
BBC has a description of how the new space telescope sees so far back in time, plus a comparison with Hubble. Remarkable increase in sharpness. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62122859
Skirt the shoals of bankruptcy with the crimson permanent assurance! https://vimeo.com/111458975
https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-navy-decommission-eithne-orla-ciara-5805258-Jul2022/ Now, that’d be a nice bit of history. We don’t have much naval history on show for an island nation. The Eithne was the last naval ship built in Ireland, so it’s a piece of history in itself.
Many have known it is a real thing for a long time, yet, apparently, nobody every did any actual studies into it, so it was unproven. But now it is, thanks to one curious and hangry scientist: Until now, feeling ‘hangry’ – angry because you’re hungry – has been described in a general, colloquial sense, […]
The hunt for a potential ‘Planet 9’ by Shannon Stirone over on Longreads is a fascinating story of dogged, patient detective work. Learning from each failure and persisting is the theme of this story set in the other worldly landscape on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The Onizuka Center for International Astronomy, located at Hale […]