On the subject of Ted Kaczynski and people in the Epstein files, I get an opportunity to revive this old limerick:

Lewinsky and Clinton have shown,
what Kaczynski must surely have known:
That an intern is better
than a bomb in a letter
of the possible ways to be blown.

Presumably a reference to David Gelernter for anyone else wondering.

Reform’s poll numbers would suggest otherwise I’m afraid…

She has neither the warmth nor the depth

He would pronounce it “yif” to piss off both sides

How big is your bathtub?

Was that staffer one Jonald T. Drump by any chance?

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It’s named after the greek sky god though, while all the other planets are named after Roman gods. It should be Caelus.

I dunno, the bit about dedicating more data center capacity to customers rather than in-house use seems to suggest that Microsoft are acknowledging that AI is a bubble that doesn’t provide any real value but they think the bubble still has some life left yet and they can make a buck selling compute to other suckers visionary investors.

I used to find slashdot delightful,
but my feelings of late are more spiteful;
my comments sarcastic
the iconoclastic
keep modding to plus five (Insightful).

Why this big gap?

Dog storage, obviously.

I wouldn’t trust him not to miss tbh

Trump did but a bunch of his cronies from his first term didn’t (see Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort)

Since I’m in Canada and safe from the five eyes bullshit now…

Hate to tell you this, buddy, but Canada is one of the five eyes countries…

Don’t be so pessimistic, it’s quite possible it’ll be them and us if they take the world economy down with them.

Pretty much, yes. But don’t worry, it’s not like Trump passed massive tax cuts in his last term that have left the US over leveraged with >100% of GDP in debt and a $1.6T deficit or anything that leaves the US particularly vulnerable to bond sell offs.

What’s that? Oh. Well at least there isn’t some sort of financial bubble waiting to burst and take the economy with it at the same time.

Sorry, hang on a second, just getting some news through… Oh. Oh dear. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Well, it was sort of OK for bits of it anyway.

If by “cut” you mean increased by 50%, sure.

In a significant shift to its security priorities, the US Department of Defense now considers security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere - not China - as its primary concern

Does this mean the “Pacific Pivot” cope will finally stop and yanks will admit that Trump just wants to burn down all their alliances?