Sure—the sales slump is due to tariffs that hadn’t even taken effect yet, and not to their highly-publicized repudiation of diversity initiatives.

“Currently, there is no consensus on the face of the Democrat Party, as a majority of voters either give the title to AOC (26%) or simply say there is none (26%),” Co/efficient concluded.

Never heard of Co/efficient, but “Democrat Party” is a bit of a red flag. From mediabiasfactcheck:

FiveThirtyEight, an expert on measuring and rating pollster performance, has evaluated 20 polls by co/efficient, earning 0.7 stars for accuracy, indicating they are Mixed Factual by MBFC’s criteria. They also conclude that their polling moderately favors the Right with a score of -2.7, which equates to a Right-Center polling bias. In general, co/efficient is considered moderately accurate and demonstrates a right-leaning bias in polling.

The trajectories of celestial bodies are time-reversible (neglecting things like atmospheric drag and tidal forces). So any encounter would be physically valid if you ran it in reverse—which means anything approaching or leaving the earth would need to be moving at escape velocity (25,000 mph) or faster.

How about a reality show where immigrants compete against Trump cabinet members for their jobs?

Because advertisers want viewers to associate their products and brand with feelings of annoyance, aggravation, and frustration?

So the upshot’s that Grok bot’s a crackpot?

The basic idea behind the researchers’ data compression algorithm is that if an LLM knows what a user will be writing, it does not need to transmit any data, but can simply generate what the user wants them to transmit on the other end

Great… but if that’s the case, maybe the user should reconsider the usefulness of transmitting that data in the first place.

One of the requirements for administering any department is being able to tell when it’s doing its job, and for his position that means being able to tell good policies from bad ones.

“Who do they think I am, the Secretary of Health?”

I guess Kamala Harris’s former campaign advisors found new employment.

Here’s a list of WP’s templates for adding social media links to articles—looks like they have one for Mastodon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Social_media_external_link_templates

AlphaEvolve verifies, runs and scores the proposed programs using automated evaluation metrics. These metrics provide an objective, quantifiable assessment of each solution’s accuracy and quality.

Yeah, that’s the way genetic algorithms have worked for decades. Have they figured out a way to turn those evaluation metrics directly into code improvements, or do they just keep doing a bunch of rounds of trial and error?

It’s just the name of Google’s AI division.

So the shareholders are declaring that Thompson’s killing successfully disrupted the company’s “aggressive anti-consumer tactics”.

It’s almost like they’re trying to encourage more of the same.

From the text of the resolution:

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa rejects the decision of Obergefell v. Hodges ; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse the Obergefell decision, and restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman…

Does the Supreme Court even have the power to reverse a previous decision without a new case revisiting the issue?

And doesn’t it violate the separation of powers in multiple respects for a state legislature to tell the Supreme Court how to interpret the federal constitution?

100% tariff on indulgences.

In Italian or Latin, it would be “Papa Pizzaballa”.

You can create an AI avatar before your death that will haunt them on your behalf.

Reducing Google’s monopoly on search is at least a marginal improvement in its own right, even if Apple’s search ends up being equally shitty.

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind. How true that is.”
― Dan Quayle