André Spiegel

software engineer, writer, musician

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

With increasing distance, David Bowie is sounding more and more like Rainer Maria Rilke, and I mean that in the best possible way. https://t.co/fpgLsiUdD8

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

Let me be a little more precise here. I see several hundred people in this image, maybe up to a thousand. The population of Newburgh is 29,000. That's pretty close to the 3.5% limit which is considered the threshold where autocratic regimes can't keep themselves in power.

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

easily 1000 people who show up in Newburgh, NY. that is 5% of the population! #nokings

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[André Spiegel @drmirror]

When more than 3.5% of the population engage in political protest, autocratic regimes can typically not keep themselves in power. This rule was found by political scientist Erica Chenoweth. #NoKings

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

I honestly don’t know what I’m more afraid of: That he gets the Nobel Peace Prize, or that he doesn’t.

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

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[André Spiegel @drmirror]

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: “We don’t have the faintest idea what a generalized AI might want, except that it will want to expand in the most mindless, turbo-capitalist way.”

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

Nobody's work is stolen. Authors have a job to do. This is not it. https://t.co/z7oNsR2qBF

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[André Spiegel @drmirror]

That took me a while to write. Valley of Ages, an essay about a hike into the Grand Canyon and back up, father and son. Link in first comment.

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"Cybertruck Man"
"A cartoon in defiance of Musk"

Cartoon: Zez Vaz (Portugal)

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

Jetzt wächst zusammen, was zusammen gehört. @[email protected]

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

@sebastianbaumer Ja, kriegst du.

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

The problem must have existed for more than a month. I hope that KLM addresses it eventually. On-board Wifi should not be a nice-to-have.

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

On yesterday's flight @KLM 643 AMS-JFK, the on-board Wifi did not work. Turns out the system has a TLS certificate that expired on December 23. The crew told people to just press "trust this site" in their browser. This is not possible on Android devices.

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

My wife needs a wheelchair. Well, she's not actually my wife. – An essay about our experiences in airports. https://t.co/4Va2ewh3ZU

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

Another exception is the Tesla, which shows no warning, since the car cannot be operated without the screen. I will be curious to see how "the system" in German cars matures into "this screen" before it vanishes altogether.

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

Recently drove a brand-new Mercedes, and this gave me pause. Here's the Mercedes, and there's the System. A separate entity that can be identified, debated, accepted or rejected. You can start the system by pressing the big button, but if you don't press that, it starts anyway.

[André Spiegel @drmirror]

I asked around, and got confirmation: Other car makers call it "this screen" or "this device". The car and the computer cannot be separated. An exception is the Mini, owned by German BMW, which calls it "this system", at least with an integrating "this".