cypherpunks

It’s because it’s got Roman in the name, isn’t it?

also Calibri is a humanist sans-serif font

1

Phew! I am extremely relieved to find out those videos are fake.

It's pretty fucked up of TikTok to have tricked us like that, but I'm sure under Larry Ellison's new leadership they'll sort things out.

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

some corrections

it was one tour with blackwater, after four tours with the military, and i don't think there were sexual assault allegations against him (were there? he did post reddit comments blaming women in the military for their assaults...).

2

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

Reddit somehow released his username and tied it to him?

CNN didn't say where they got his username, but he acknowledged the posts were his

From the article that reported the posts:

Most of the posts were made five years ago under Platner’s then-Reddit handle P-Hustle.

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Platner disavowed his posts, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online. He said his criticisms of rural White Americans and the police, and his political comments, do not reflect who he is and what he stands for today.

Now he has a nazi tattoo that he didn’t know was a nazi tattoo. That may be true?

It is mildly plausible that he could have gotten the tattoo without realizing what it was. It is highly implausible that (as he claimed on a podcast yesterday) nobody ever told him what it was during any of the many times he says he's had his shirt off over the last 18 years.

He’s going up against Susan Collins.

Not yet he isn't. The primary isn't until next June.

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 11mo ago

yep

7

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Its easy if you have nothing to fear because you are already convicted

He wasn't though, except in the court of public opinion. He's been acquitted or found not liable in all of the cases which have gone to trial.

3

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 1y ago

1

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 1y ago

in this interview the guy behind the event (Mark Fitzpatrick) says this:

he's also a flat earther:

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Do tech journalists at the New York Times have any idea what they're talking about? (spoiler)

'We’re going to talk about these stories.'

The author of this latest advertorial, Kevin Roose, has a podcast called "Hard Fork".

Here he and his co-host attempt to answer the question "What’s a Hard Fork?":

kevin roose: Casey, we should probably explain why our podcast is called “Hard Fork.”
casey newton: Oh, yeah. So our other names didn’t get approved by “The New York Times” lawyers.
kevin roose: True.
casey newton: And B, it’s actually a good name for what we’re going to be talking about. A “hard fork” is a programming term for when you’re building something, but it gets really screwed up. So you take the entire thing, break it, and start over.
kevin roose: Right.
casey newton: And that’s a little bit what it feels like right now in the tech industry. These companies that you and I have been writing about for the past decade, like Facebook, and Google, and Amazon, they’re all kind of struggling to stay relevant.
kevin roose: Yeah. We’ve noticed a lot of the energy and money in Silicon Valley is shifting to totally new ideas — crypto, the metaverse, AI. It feels like a real turning point when the old things are going away and interesting new ones are coming in to replace them.
casey newton: And all this is happening so fast, and some of it’s so strange. I just feel like I’m texting you constantly, “What is happening? What is this story? Explain this to me. Talk with me about this, because I feel like I’m going insane.”
kevin roose: And so we’re going to try to help each other feel a little bit less insane. We’re going to talk about these stories. We’re going to bring in other journalists, newsmakers, whoever else is involved in building this future, to explain to us what’s changing and why it all matters.
casey newton: So listen to Hard Fork. It comes out every Friday starting October 7.
kevin roose: Wherever you get your podcasts.

This is simply not accurate.

Today the term "hard fork" is probably most often used to refer to blockchain forks, which I assume is where these guys (almost) learned it, but the blockchain people borrowed the term from forks in software development.

In both cases it means to diverge in such a way that re-converging is not expected. In neither case does it mean anything is screwed up, nor does it mean anything about starting over.

These people who's job it is to cover technology at one of the most respected newspapers in the United States are actually so clueless that they have an entirely wrong definition for the phrase which they chose to be the title of their podcast.

"Talk with me about this, because I feel like I’m going insane."

But, who cares, right? "Hard fork" sounds cool and the times is ON IT.

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 1y ago

what surprises me more is that Netanyahu seems to be fine with it?

fyi: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2015-10-21/ty-article/netanyahu-absolves-hitler-of-guilt/0000017f-dc2e-db22-a17f-fcbf7c1e0000

Arthur Besse

@ cypherpunks @lemmy.ml

Posts

40
Comments

15
Joined

5 yr. ago

cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

Moderating

Linux lemmy.ml

Arthur Besse

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

Clean Room as a Service: Finally, liberation from open source license obligations

Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting in a first for a first lady

Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting in a first for a first lady

Palantir CEO Says AI Will Somehow Be So Great That People Will Stop Immigrating

Trump Isn't the First to Be Gifted a Nobel Prize He Didn't Win—Joseph Goebbels Got One Too

U.S. Kidnaps Maduro, Trump Says “We Are Going to Run” Country (Democracy Now Special Report)

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life

AI-authored code needs more attention, contains worse bugs

Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

"AI" gets an innocent man arrested; even after validating his Real ID card, cop discounts possibility of facial recognition false positive: "their software is pretty cool" and "our hands are tied"

Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law

Calibri font becomes the latest DEI target as Rubio orders return to Times New Roman

Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

Trump-backed crypto company promotes 'Shit Piss Skin Can' memecoin of its co-founder's rant "You can literally sell shit in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin [...] people will buy it"

Trump and Mamdani Highlight “Productive Meeting” After Tense Election Campaign

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden

You can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header

Tim Bray on Grokipedia

On Bullshit and Generative AI

LLMs Will Always Hallucinate

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debut

Only one news outlet has signed on to Hegseth’s media loyalty oath — even Newsmax and Fox News are boycotting it

JR Hokkaido train driver in trouble for reading book about trains on stopped train

Federal Judge Blocks Trump from Deploying National Guard Troops to Oregon

Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

Kevin Spacey calls for the release of the 'Epstein files'

Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature

Dozens attend 'Hetero Awesome Fest' in Idaho

“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”

Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”