My sense growing up in Huntsville was that the airport ads for defense contractors were kind of like, e.g., Exxon sponsoring a pavilion at EPCOT. The intent wasn’t to push any specific consumer towards buying any specific product, but to pump out a positive image for the company generally.

And a lot of those contractors’ people fly through Huntsville on business. (For those not in the know: The airport is just down the highway from Redstone Arsenal, which is where we brought all them Nazis we recruited to help us beat the Commies to the Moon. The only reason Huntsville exists as more than a sleepy/dying cotton mill town is the space program and missile warfare.) There may well be deals along the lines of “advertise here and your people get the cushy lounge”.

“I have been unfailingly polite, and [your lemmy instance has] been nothing but rude.”

eigenrobot:

almost every smart person I talk to in tech is in favor of mandatory eugenic polygynous marriages in order to deal with the fertility crisis. people are absolutely fed up with the lefty approach of using generational insolvency as a pretextual cudgel to install socialism.

Ah, Huntsville. Where the downtown convention hall is the Werner von Braun Center.

🎶 the man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience 🎶

Gauss–Jordan elimination, maybe?

“Your mother was volatile with poor control last night, Trebek!”

Musk lookin’ like he just sipped from the wrong Grail in that photo

“When I have a disagreement with a girl, I hit my balls with a hammer. There is absolutely nothing she can do; it’s a brutal mog.”

Fortune magazine reports:

In separate investigations completed by the blockchain firms Chaos Labs and Inca Digital and shared exclusively with Fortune, analysts found that Polymarket activity exhibited signs of wash trading, a form of market manipulation where shares are bought and sold, often simultaneously and repeatedly, to create a false impression of volume and activity. Chaos Labs found that wash trading constituted around one-third of trading volume on Polymarket’s presidential market, while Inca Digital found that a “significant portion of the volume” on the market could be attributed to potential wash trading, according to its report.

A reminder that we have a music recommendation thread for recommendations of sounds that are better than slop.

Altman’s line is what you write when you have nothing novel to say about physics but really, really want to say disparaging things about gay people.

dys.en.tery

Consider also Sam Altman, who once argued that “we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics”

Good grief, I had forgotten about that.

As a queer physicist, what can I say but “suck a bag of dicks, dipshit”?

[ChatGPT interrupts a Scrabble game, spills the tiles onto the table, and rearranges THEY ARE SO GREAT into TOO MANY SECRETS]

I put way too much effort into evaluating TW’s rant.

Nit: “New Atheism” was the decade after that. Gary Wolf coined the term in a Wired story from 2006.

If your Wikipedia page contains as many random arXiv preprints for references as the “prompt engineering” article, consult your physician.

Pretty good sneer there:

BREAKING: Tim Pool announces he will be stepping back from full time content production to look after his family. He states he’s tired of being made fun of for not having a wife and kids so he will also be using the extra time to pursue acquiring that family

Step 1: Buy new computers for the office.

Step 2: Futz around and transcribe a few audio files.

Step 3: Oops, we have used up the allocated budget but the deliverables remain just over the horizon.

I think it was SpaceX, not Tesla, but yeah… boring AF warehouse.