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all billionares are temporarily embarrased autocrats

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

In the movie "The Apprentice", Hermann Bollmann's Picture Map of New York is immediately recognizable over Ed Koch's shoulder. Second to Turgot's Plan de Paris, this is maybe the best axonometric map ever produced? Check it out here: www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

submitted 21 days ago • 127 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

gdp absolutely skyrocketing as a pair of 5090s begins to buy and sell themselves to each other on ebay every 50ms at quickly escalating prices

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

submitted 28 days ago • 40 comments

If only we a had a 900 page document in our hands a year ago that said they were going to do this!

submitted 30 days ago • 102 comments

It's sobering to realize that sci-fi movies always do interstellar travel via some kind of magic (warp drives or wormholes or suspended animation that somehow prevents human bodies from aging for decades) because interstellar travel is probably impossible and likely always will be.

submitted 30 days ago • 37 comments

Every time

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments