I finished my masters at CMU in 2001. My research project was on micropayments for computing agents to use to pay for research. It was arguably in the realm of science fiction. Today I saw a post of someone using x402 to pay for a single API call with a stablecoin. The infrastructure is here, the next stage is delegated authorization. Hint: this next one is very hard.
Unable to defeat the warlord on the battlefield, they captured his son, turned him into a ladyboy, and paraded him in a female minstrel show.
This was a humiliation ritual practiced by a degenerate tribe that viewed dishonor and degradation as substitutes for honor in battle.
When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth…
Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5.
“Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.” https://t.co/hS5SCyG8W6
@rohanpaul_ai After 35 years of writing code by hand the new AI enhanced coding is sort of like this for me. I always resisted getting my own code to 100% code coverage and written documentation and with AI it's so important to have both that it's made me insist on it.
@MerrittBaer I don't think this works for a dinner party, dive bar yes for sure but dinner party with potentially controversial topics might be a disaster 😂
Those of us most productive with AI today grew up with floppy disks and have really lived the entire stack of computing development. This allows us to guide the AI at what it's best at: creating tools to solve problems.
I had a great chat with a friend of mine, a middle-aged gay man who left Seattle after the 2020 riots made the city he called home for thirty years “unlivable.”
He’s traditionally voted Democrat but asks me for my opinions sometimes. We were talking about taxes and he shared “I wish they’d tax the rich and spend it on social programs instead of war.”
I asked him “what percentage of federal income tax comes from the top 1%?”
“I don’t know. Maybe 10%,” he said.
I told him it was 40%, and that the 1% paid more than the bottom 90% of taxpayers combined. He was shocked. And we both agreed the tax code should be simple and transparent.
And then I asked him what portion of the federal budget is spent on war versus social programs and welfare.
“50% for the Pentagon and 10% for welfare programs.”
I told him it was basically reversed and that social entitlements and welfare spending was actually more than 60%.
Again, he was shocked.
The resentment and envy machine that drives the political left’s slogans thrives on people simply not knowing.