Profile avatar
jackvaughan.bsky.social
I used Twitter for technology and science research and comment. Glad to be here. Kind of goofing around for the time being.
272 posts 64 followers 701 following
Prolific Poster

We've all become unpaid workers since the Web took the job of the key-punch people. Under the guise of AI it will get worse. They dont really want customers. They want inconvenience. www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/h...

We witness take-down on EU bureaucrats JD Vance last month dressed down the Euros at Grand Palis AI Summit. This conjured memories of AI policy symposia of yore, and wonderment at surprising devolution. From Progressive Gauge Writer's Blog #TechPolicy #AI progressivegauge.com/2025/03/05/v...

The Trump administration disbanded two expert committees that advised the government on producing accurate economic statistics. #UnrealReality

Dow down 2% - big dip over tariffs. Lord Ludnik tries to undo it after hours.

My bud Jim's Soul Funk Listo

Could this be the straw that breaks the Trumpster's Back? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Who was out to stop Max Polyakov's Fireflys? open.substack.com/pub/ashleeva...

“Our total attitude towards art, was, like, get up and do something — quit sitting there whining,” Mr. Johansen told The Times in 2006. “That’s what we stood for, that do-something spirit.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/a...

Says it all.

Thought for the day. Trump is using Musk to take attention. And solve problem when he fires him. US fixated on Musk now. Smart people will continue to be critical. But a lot will say "See, he fired him. It's over."

Good news on Deere and DEI - also, good pic of tractor.

How can such a big honking chip win an Inference Battle likely to occur on the Internet's Edges? That's discussed in this article.

Jiří Kolář, Explosion (from the History Of Nothing cycle XVI) (1962)

Cool ... Clear ... Moon .... Water ...

AI and NoSQL data house DataStax to join IBM camp.

Macron bravely went where none would go. Risked "the cooties" - for you and me!

Trim the sails?

"In a New York Times interview this month, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen attempted to portray the tech industry as embracing Donald Trump." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/satya-nade... Nadella discussing Quantum...but also AI Agents, Inference and Hyperscale Compute #Azure

sanjmo.medium.com/the-era-of-p... AI has surpassed Analytics - in the MemeoSphere.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet... HOW I TO THAT AI STORY! MEET THE TEAM! #GenerativeAI

Beginning of Mid-Term Election Season will start soon. Time to turn Trump's Republican party yes-men completely out. And turn him out. Tho 2026 may not be soon enough for America.

Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.

Microsoft said that it had built only eight topological qubits, and that they were not yet able to perform calculations : Buried lead of the year. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

phys.org/news/2025-02... Give me ytrrium or give me suspended animation!

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER SHITPIE

Scholar said directive to drop Adams case reflective of hift in nature of U.S. conservatism over the past decade that has shown less regard for the Constitution.

I'd like to assign Vice President Whateverhisname is Vance to watch this film. Know your audience, young turk and Surveillance Capitalist Moe!

Linthicum looks at the stumbling cloud giants.

'Babbage': DeepSeek's secret sauce really isn't secret. In fact, Low-level languages have been in the news recently. Assembly language programmers: Your time is going to come.

Charles drew attention to CAPEX before anyone. He continues to rigorously analyze this mysterious augur.

The news is relentless. Ugly, American, especially bad for the rest of the world - except its good news for China and Russia (and maybe some chamber of commerce in Alabama).

A few degrees here and there - there but for fortune.

Pope Francis’s Stunning Rebuke of JD Vance Exposes MAGA’s Dark Soul newrepublic.com/article/1914... via @newrepublic.com

Anduril Takes Over $22 Billion Contract to Build Technomancers for U.S. Army www.corememory.com/p/anduril-ta...

moontravellerherald.blogspot.com Give me some F-E-E-D-B-A-C-K - what's that spell? #RootsOfAI

Scaling in branch thickness and the fractal aesthetic of trees academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... I talk to the trees, but they dont listen to me.

Too smart for his own britches: Foreign Aid cuts courtesy of leaders without memory.

why did investors "Shake Off New Tariff Threats" today???

The meme that capitalism unfettered [Libertarian] is the way to tech excellence and AI supreme is shown for what it is. Games people play. How much energy is wasted in the soap operas of Musk, Altman and company? Energy that could run a GPU! . www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

I was brought up by WWII people who were proud to save the world from fascism and not to practice imperialism but instead tried to show Good Will to underdeveloped nations.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1... The idea that Generative AI can do Predictive Analytics is half baked. But that is perfect amount of 'bake' for modern US cultural hodgepodge stew.