Things in space and time

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"Just one more thing, sir, if I may…" Are you sick of this AI shit yet? I no longer like or repost anything. If I don't like/repost your post it means I hate it and I hate you. So there.

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Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· 16d

Early pre-war prototype of the Grumman Skyrocket. Never built until reworked and reworked into the Tigercat, would have been the most bonkers point-defense interceptor of the war.

Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· Jun 18

“Some of these airplanes are literally twice the age of the pilots who fly them,” Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines pilot and CEO of Aero Consulting Experts, told the Los Angeles Times.

“If you take care of an airplane, you can fly them forever, basically,” Aimer added.

Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· May 9

This is some 80s Mona Charen-level cocksucker nonsense, Ross Do-that. What is this disingenuous stupid shit. That third option? It called "bullshit", "grift", "scam", "distraction". But do go on.

excerpt from Ross Douthat's latest column in the NYT, detailing three options for how the future of LLMs is going to pan out.

In "timeline one", LLMs prove atheism and all the joy is taken out of the world.

In "another potential future", human defiance of LLMs proves religion.

"But between those two" (jesus fucking crist the brain geniuses this guy is trying to fool) LLMs just make people more baffled. Because that's what grifts are for, Ross, you dumb fuck.

Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· May 5

Never meet your zeroes.

Screenshot of a news article headline with a photo of a bureaucrat of official culture (in this case, culture minister for Ukraine).

Headline reads "Ukraine's culture minister on why culture 'needs KPIs' to succeed".

KPIs are some bullshit.

Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· May 2

Oh for fucks fucking fuck. What is your life, Ross?

A screenshot of an article link from the NYT which lists the writer, Ross Douthat, the headline "Slouching Toward Kamala Harris", and the handy note that it's a 4 minute read.

Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· Apr 29

I too see open primaries as bait, but I'm not seeing any specifics for what you're affirmatively proposing. Whups, here we go… and this is exactly what the parliamentary system was created to do and does at the cost of allowing people who are never represented to continue to never be repped. Nah.

Excerpt from The Unpopulist: Proportional representation addresses these flaws at the root. Instead of slicing states into single-member districts, proportional representation uses larger, multi-member districts where seats are distributed according to vote share. If Democrats win 45% of the vote in Texas, they earn about 45% of Texas’s seats. If Republicans win a third of the vote in California, they secure about a third of California’s delegation.

Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· Apr 24

Relevant:

Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· Apr 23

The last thing on this list is the first thing they should have tried:

A screenshot of the wikipedia article on citrus greening. In the list of responses to the blight, soil health is hidden away in the last entry of strategies, a two-sentence blurb titled "cover crops".

Things in space and time@thingsinspacetime· Feb 18