Yeah. Currently the center-right government here in Sweden are pushing nuclear, because the one thing they hate more than brown people is green people. But the industry actually tasked with building and running the plants have extracted both credit guarantees (== taxpayer money) and a legally mandated minimum price on electricity - remember, the entire populist narrative of nuclear is that it will bring cheap power! Plus they’re unlikely to start building unless there’s a stable parliamentary majority to cement the deal.

OK, so far, so good (nuclear policy in Sweden is colored by the fractious debate on ending nuclear power in the late 70s, but the principals of that debate (boomers) are finally dying off). But when the shovel hits the ground, you need a site to build it on. And the neighbors of said site are generally of the opinion that a fucking power pylon is an infringement on their god-given right to property resale price increase. Imagine a concrete box of eldrich power blocking the skyline, and imagine a population of people who know how to pull the levers of obstruction and have had decades of practice doing it. Fun times ahead.

Ad targeting, spam campaigns, dark propaganda.

invoice factoring

Is that somewhat new in the US? I recall seeing ads for it here in Sweden for 15 years or more.

It’s so weird to see Klarna on that list, because I keep forgetting Klarna is now a huge juggernaut, not the little service that every etailer here in Sweden uses for checkout services

There’s a piece from Anthropic making the rounds stating they “disrupted” an “AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign”. Any meat on those bones or is it just the usual critihype?

https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

[…] Curio’s Grok, an anthropomorphic rocket with a removable speaker, is also somewhat opaque about its underlying tech, though its privacy policy mentions sending data to OpenAI and Perplexity. (No relation to xAI’s Grok — or not exactly; while it’s not powered by Elon Musk’s chatbot, its voice was provided by the musician Claire “Grimes” Boucher, Musk’s former romantic partner.)

<applies brain bleach liberally>

whatcha think? Is an upcoming gonzo horror/action flick really about Rationalists, or are the creators blissfully unaware those people even exist?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QpFzsrB7MLT7PaMGi/makoyass-s-shortform?commentId=YGzgyPowJPkHDyRqp

There was a ton of panic here in Sweden too. Specifically I heard of entities like councils and public boards like unemployment who were braced for a ton of data deletion requests that had to be fixed within 24 hours or something like otherwise huge legal fees. AFAIK nothing like that happened.

To be clear, I can’t edit Wikipedia to save my life. Editor in this case was Elestrophe.

I want to keep bots from scraping my content because I don’t want to feed the slop machine.

You want to keep bots from scraping your content because you’re afraid it’s gonna learn how to take over the world.

We are not the same.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YuKktzP9yGbdrd7ry/gradientdissenter-s-shortform?commentId=KatyQAoEZG6eWyNBv

Fix0red

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science&diff=next&oldid=1320261740

None of those are well defined “problems”. An entire applied research field is not a “problem” akin to other items on this list lik P vs NP.

The cookie popups are basically malicious compliance.

But many yanks (even geeks) have an instinctive dislike of anything that smacks of government regulation. They’re conditioned to see corporations as good, or rather, that competition between corporations will always lead to good outcomes, and that anything that disrupts that competition as bad.

just had some onboarding training about the GDPR and I really don’t get US “privacy activists” disdainful view of it. It puts the individual before corporations. Sad if it’s atttempted to be gutted

Guys, the reason we don’t see working AI out in the world is because all the “frontier AI labs” are keeping the good stuff for themselves!! It’s totally not that this shit doesn’t work

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5Zq9FKfYzcxcwCoRJ/ai-hasn-t-seen-widespread-adoption-because-the-labs-are

How old is this utterance (the source link doesn’t work for me). From context it looks like just after Charlie Kirk got freeze peached.

I regret to inform you that the creator is a coiner

https://cloudhead.io/whoami/

also all-in on AI

https://bsky.app/profile/cloudhead.io/post/3m4w2bqtajs2f

This looks like a rebranding of Urbit: Radiant Computer

Has AI in its guts but not something they mention on the front page. Slop images throughout tho

https://radiant.computer/system/os/ - “It’s an AI-native operating system. Artificial neural networks are built in and run locally. The OS understands what applications can do, what they expose, and how they fit together. It can integrate features automatically, without extra code. AI is used to extend your ability, help you understand the system and be your creative aid.”

https://radiant.computer/system/network/ - “Radiant rejects the Web as a general purpose software platform, while embracing the Internet protocols as the powerful substrate on which sovereign technologies like Tor, BitTorrent, Gemini and Bitcoin are built.”

I have an analog radio-controlled solar powered watch from both Casio and Citizen. The Casio has stepper motors for the hands, which is so cool when you see the minute hand advance 1/6 tick each 20 seconds. When the second hand is used as an indicator, the minute hand doesn’t move. It does on the Citizen.

That said, I’m keeping an eye out for a used or good deal on a GPS watch from Citizen. I appreciate the styling more.

Edit I used to be a watch nerd and I still follow the news for entertainment, but for personal use a solar powered, externally synced quartz watch is ideal.

drivers have mixed some trucker speed into their cokes

Google is space data-center curious, too:

https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/