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Daily News Stuff 15 April 2023
Zero Alarm Fire Edition
Zero Alarm Fire Edition
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- I did not get woken up at five in the morning by an emergency.
- SpaceX has been granted a five year license to launch Starship, the most important advance in rocketry since the days of Robert Goddard. (WCCFTech)
- Once. (WCCFTech)
Because this is the federal government we're talking about.
Tech News
- Elon Musk, who co-founded ChatGPT creator OpenAI but parted ways with the company in 2018 and more recently signed on to an open letter calling for a moratorium on AI research has just founded a new AI company. (The Verge)
It's called X.AI.
And the company that now owns Twitter is called X.
Which might be a hint as to where things are headed.
- Twitter competitor Parler meanwhile just got bought and shut down. (Tech Crunch)
Temporarily - probably - but the fact remains that the site is currently off line.
- If you don't stamp out all dissent you're probably a Nazi. (Tech Dirt)
Actually, scratch the "probably". Mike Masnick is insane.
Disclaimer: And not the entertaining kind.
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"X"
Oh! Great! Now he/him just need[s|eth] a moving picture company called X*, and maybe a wrock band called X. And a used-car dealership. And a line of mobile phone cozies.
Apologies, it's just like we're redoing all the really dumb stuff from th' 1990s. Anybody want to try to make Keanu Reeves into a mega-movie star? I mean Xeanu Xeeves. And Tom Xruise.
*they can create their own rating system, with every motion picture having a certain number of Xes, denoting how X they are.
Oh! Great! Now he/him just need[s|eth] a moving picture company called X*, and maybe a wrock band called X. And a used-car dealership. And a line of mobile phone cozies.
Apologies, it's just like we're redoing all the really dumb stuff from th' 1990s. Anybody want to try to make Keanu Reeves into a mega-movie star? I mean Xeanu Xeeves. And Tom Xruise.
*they can create their own rating system, with every motion picture having a certain number of Xes, denoting how X they are.
Posted by: normal at Sunday, April 16 2023 12:29 AM (LADmw)
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Masnick may just be rationally upset that his choice to become, effectively, a state affiliated social media version of The Attacker, is not alone sufficient to prop up his favored version of the Third Reich. "We could've totally had the Thousand Year Reich guys, why are you defecting, you Nazis."
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, April 16 2023 12:56 AM (r9O5h)
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