I can recall a time when people deliberately poisoned search results (anyone else remember nigritude ultramarine?). And then there were browser extensions to make background requests to pollute one’s own internet history in the interest of making surveillance more difficult. I wonder whether the AI backlash will progress to people trying to deliberately get falsehoods and nonsense into AI training data. Or perhaps it’s already happening?
I did not sign up for a world where I have to do a hard reset on my kitchen faucet.
Trump is going to hold a rally in Mississippi next week.
The last time Mississippi elected a Democratic senator was in 1982.
Scared much?
Shooting towards the sun with a manual focus f/0.95 lens. I didn't nail the focus on the spider but I did get a completely unexpected rainbow.
Fall color
#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon
Today I am happy I use Micro.blog for hosting instead of Wordpress. Well, really that’s every day. But today especially.
From NYT:
“You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian,” Mr. Witkoff told Mr. Putin. “You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that.”
Really, what can you say about this? Evil fawns on evil.
If the doofuses issued a certificate with a private key of 4, my first inclination is to assume that there are others with private keys of 0, 1, 2, and 3 out there waiting to be found. (If you don’t know what I’m on about, don’t worry about it, the internet security wonks are on the case.)