Daily Tech News 12 September 2024

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But wait, it gets worse: We spent $20 to attempt RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi. (Watchtowr)

A story of how one thing led to another and now we seem to have conquered Southeast Asia.

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This bubble has holes in it. (The Register)

AI in general is not all nonsense. But generative AI, which has sucked all the oxygen out of the AI room, is actually useful for very few of the purposes to which it is being put.
Mistral has released Pixtral 12B, it's first multimodal generative AI model. (Tech Crunch)

Multimodal generative models work by having a collection of smaller models each trained for a certain task, rather than trying to pack them all into one unwieldy mess.

It's still not useful for much but on the upside, it's free.
Human drivers keep running into Waymo autonomous vehicles. (Ars Technica)

This list includes two cases of criminals who ran into a Waymo vehicle while fleeing the police, and another of where the human-controlled vehicle hit the Waymo car, backed away, and then hit it again before fleeing the scene.
And while generative AI may be largely worthless, it is at least taking jobs away from journalists. (Wired) (archive site)

Be thankful for small mercies.

Disclaimer: There's a thing in the thing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:27 AM

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1 Nooded. Mornin' Pixy & Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 12, 2024 04:28 AM (O7YUW)

2 Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Posted by: Thing-a-ling at September 12, 2024 04:32 AM (dg+HA)

3 Thank you, Pixy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:32 AM (a1415)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2024 04:33 AM (fwDg9)

5 Looks like the Springfield story is gaining legs.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:36 AM (a1415)

6 *drumsticks

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 12, 2024 04:37 AM (BLOW1)

7 Something, something, swimming in Turtle Creek, something

Posted by: TeeJ at September 12, 2024 04:38 AM (oKIzl)

8 Good morning, good people. May all your effort this day be of great benefit to you. And may the leftwits suffer great anguish on all days.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 12, 2024 04:38 AM (hKoQL)

9 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 12, 2024 04:40 AM (dg+HA)

10 Any word on Wolfus and the hurricane?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:41 AM (a1415)

11 I've noticed our local weekly paper is starting to express leftist stories now. It used to be just local stories, now its more and more the glories of Kamala becoming President. I can see their subscriptions dropping in this red area.

Posted by: Colin at September 12, 2024 04:44 AM (e8qy3)

12 Any word on Wolfus and the hurricane?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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Saw him post earlier... didn't seem too concerned about hurricane, but had a (minor, recurrent) ceiling leak.

Hope he's still in good shape.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2024 04:44 AM (njWTi)

13 Thanks, Pixy. Hope all is well. Speaking of AI, I just spent a little time cruising the interwebs to see what was up in the sportsball world. The articles for the most part are somewhat alarming. To me, many of them are obviously AI generated, or at least AI assisted. Poor grammar, inconsistency and repetitive in content. I have been observing this more frequently. Kind of surreal.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 12, 2024 04:45 AM (mH6SG)

14 Posted by: Colin at September 12, 2024 04:44 AM

Our local rag is total leftard trash & has been for many years. Don't know how it stays in business.

During the o'bummer years, they had some old guy hawking that rag at the entrances to various retail stores-- handing out free papers & trying to get subscribers. LOL. Most of those stores are closed now, thanks to the policies embraced by said paper.

But still they publish. :shrug:

Would've thought they'd go under, long before now.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2024 04:49 AM (njWTi)

15 "To me, many of them are obviously AI generated, or at least AI assisted. Poor grammar, inconsistency and repetitive in content. "

I always simply chalked that up to lower education standards.

Specially in the Baltimore area reporting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:50 AM (a1415)

16 Our local rag is total leftard trash & has been for many years. Don't know how it stays in business.

Many of them are now owned by Gannett. You know...the multi-colored birdcage liner that is USA Today. Pretty much explains the garbage they spout.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 12, 2024 04:55 AM (mH6SG)

17 I always simply chalked that up to lower education standards.

That was my initial thought, as well. But many of these articles have an other-worldly flavor to them. As I mentioned, no continuity or flow. It's weird.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 12, 2024 04:59 AM (mH6SG)

18 Local rag is not a Gannett property, but is owned by a long-established libtard family.

Meh. Hope they go broke.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2024 05:00 AM (njWTi)

19 Meh. Hope they go broke.

So do I. Unfortunately, their funding seems to be unlimited.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 12, 2024 05:02 AM (mH6SG)

20 You never expect the Wombat Inquisition!!!

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 12, 2024 05:04 AM (TGPs7)

21 "You never expect the Wombat Inquisition!!!"

I always expected it to be led by Drop-Bears.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 05:09 AM (a1415)

22 Mornin'

Now to read how we conquered SE Asia.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 12, 2024 05:11 AM (sAmhv)

23 Side bar story reminded me...

Remember when the big story of the day was the false narrative that Border Patrol was chasing down and whipping Haitians at our undefended southern border?

Did the media ever correct that in the public's realm of awareness?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 05:12 AM (a1415)

24 Evening and morning to all the far-flung outposts of the AoSHQ Empire! 'Tis Thursday, and I am here to tell the tale of Hurricane Francine.

Short version: kind of a bust, for me.

Long version: I'm extremely glad not to have lost power, and to have two days off from work. A drip from my living room ceiling into a bucket on the dinette table, and a small leak that appeared on my kitchen floor last evening and which I've mopped up and dammed with a towel, are about the only issues. Nothing new -- this has happened many times over the years I've been incarcerated here.

If any of you were, or are, in it, how did you do?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 05:13 AM (omVj0)

25 Hello, JQ! Yes, doing fine here. Has the heat abated where you are?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 05:14 AM (omVj0)

26 And while generative AI may be largely worthless, it is at least taking jobs away from journalists. (Wired) (archive site)

Be thankful for small mercies.

I bet Max Headroom is available online somewhere. That 80s era show was in the 'way ahead of its time' category.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 12, 2024 05:15 AM (sAmhv)

27 VIA, thanks for asking! I hope your morning walk goes well. I'm not sure I can go out safely; the streets and roads may be littered with debris. Better I wait until first light, and I can see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 05:15 AM (omVj0)

28 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2024 05:15 AM (hoCmQ)

29 16 Our local rag is total leftard trash & has been for many years. Don't know how it stays in business.

Many of them are now owned by Gannett. You know...the multi-colored birdcage liner that is USA Today. Pretty much explains the garbage they spout.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

My former hometown, New Castle PA, is now a VERY Red area. Went for Trump both elections, bigly. Not sure who owns New Castle News. Local stories, sports, and obituaries are all it is good for. All national and world stories are from AP. So, useful for some things, garbage for others. Not sure how it stays afloat either.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 12, 2024 05:20 AM (sAmhv)

30 w00t

Posted by: m at September 12, 2024 05:21 AM (64Zez)

31 Has the heat abated where you are?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Yes! Finally!

Cool and raining lightly tonight. Yassssssssss

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2024 05:22 AM (njWTi)

32 5 Looks like the Springfield story is gaining legs.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:36 AM (a1415)

6 *drumsticks
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 12, 2024 04:37 AM (BLOW1)

That's not gonna fly.

Posted by: m at September 12, 2024 05:22 AM (64Zez)

33 Night, all.

Glad you're okay, Wolfus!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2024 05:24 AM (njWTi)

34 Night, all.

Glad you're okay, Wolfus!
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2024

***
And the same to you! Javems and Piper said last evening they were being affected by the storm too; I hope they are all right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 05:26 AM (omVj0)

35
A lot of people from Springfield Ohio taking to Tic Tok and Twitter/X with their own stories. Yup, they have a real problem.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 12, 2024 05:28 AM (RKVpM)

36 Rain is in forecast for later today and tomorrow. Guess it's the tail-end-of-the-backlash of the hurricane.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2024 05:30 AM (hoCmQ)

37 Not moving too fast today. But at least first day not going to Delaware in the last two weeks, probably back tomorrow and some days in the future.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2024 05:30 AM (fwDg9)

38 Time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 05:32 AM (a1415)

39 And continuing a string of nice days
Forward Dog 9 out.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2024 05:35 AM (fwDg9)

40 I have on my sweatpants and exercise shoes.

A good start.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2024 05:36 AM (+aswS)

41 After an exhausting schedule yesterday, where Biden left the White House at 9 am and returned at 6 pm, after visiting all three 9/11 crash sites, he teturns to doing absolutely nothing today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2024 05:39 AM (wIU2Y)

42 Okay, this quote from the bubble link is pretty funny:

"Elliot recommended not using it to tackle tasks other than content generation, knowledge discovery, and powering conversational user interfaces."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024 05:42 AM (NHRtg)

43 And while generative AI may be largely worthless, it is at least taking jobs away from journalists.

———-

So I guess that tells you all you need to know about the complexity of the “work” of journalists. LOL.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 12, 2024 05:44 AM (aIU4O)

44 My wife, a college counselor for high school kids, started off disdainful of using AI for writing purposes, but now enthuses over it. She sees two ways it helps her clients: for kids who have trouble writing a first draft college essay, it helps in organizing notes and ideas into paragraphs the kid can use as a starting point, and for kids who can write but need editing help, it can help in reducing word count.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2024 05:44 AM (B9KRl)

45 I'm heading to my old hometown at the end of the month. I may swing by the 9/11 site on the way. It's right off Rt 30 so not hard to get to. Now trying to bypass Pittsburgh to get to New Castle from Shanksville will take a bit of navigating. The roads there are affected by the Appalachians in a big way. I can read a map, so I'll be fine!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 12, 2024 05:45 AM (sAmhv)

46 5 Looks like the Springfield story is gaining legs.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:36 AM (a1415)

———

Somebody suggested that the animals are being used for voodoo rituals instead of food.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 12, 2024 05:47 AM (aIU4O)

47 46 5 Looks like the Springfield story is gaining legs.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:36 AM (a1415)

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Somebody suggested that the animals are being used for voodoo rituals instead of food.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 12, 2024 05:47 AM (aIU4O)

Of course somebody did!

Posted by: m at September 12, 2024 05:49 AM (64Zez)

48 "Elliot recommended not using it to tackle tasks other than content generation, knowledge discovery, and powering conversational user interfaces."
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024 05:42 AM (NHRtg)

———-

All this tells me that human consciousness, inspiration, and thought have a deeper foundation than the mere words and language.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 12, 2024 05:52 AM (aIU4O)

49 The ridiculous David Muir hiding of Haitian goose killing is debunked again, this time by police radio calls discovered by the Federalist

https://shorturl.at/dRd7D

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2024 05:54 AM (TMqcd)

50 47 46 5 Looks like the Springfield story is gaining legs.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:36 AM (a1415)

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Somebody suggested that the animals are being used for voodoo rituals instead of food.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 12, 2024 05:47 AM (aIU4O)

Of course somebody did!
Posted by: m

You all need to use 'un-named sources say'.

I mean, our amazingly, brilliant, totally fair, JoURnAliZ5tS do!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 12, 2024 05:54 AM (sAmhv)

51 looks like the suburbs of town have flooded pretty badly. The parish to the west is asking residents to restrict water use, because their sewer system is having troubles.

Tell me again why people live here -- I forget.

(The usual answer: "Da food and da music!" Panda feathers. Food can be prepared at home; music can be had on CD. Neither is a reason to put up with this sort of problem.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

52 Looks like the Springfield story is gaining legs.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 12, 2024 04:36 AM (a1415)
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I heard it was taking wing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 12, 2024 05:55 AM (782Qe)

53 Co-worker assured me that there are no news organizations confirming the cat eating problem in Haiti. I feel better.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 12, 2024 05:56 AM (99eI0)

54 My wife, a college counselor for high school kids, started off disdainful of using AI for writing purposes, but now enthuses over it. She sees two ways it helps her clients: for kids who have trouble writing a first draft college essay, it helps in organizing notes and ideas into paragraphs the kid can use as a starting point, and for kids who can write but need editing help, it can help in reducing word count.

Wouldn't it be nice if they were taught to do that on their own? Wishful thinking, I suppose.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 12, 2024 05:56 AM (mH6SG)

55 for kids who have trouble writing a first draft college essay, it helps in organizing notes and ideas into paragraphs the kid can use as a starting point

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The problem is "organizing notes and ideas" can very easily be "please write a five page book report in the style of an American 11th grader on the importance of trade routes in the American revolution. Please include multiple paragraphs discussing England, France, Spain, and Portugal separately."

I just made that up for this example. I can't link the ChatGPT output, but here's part of the conclusion:

"Trade routes were of paramount importance during the American Revolution. The British attempts to control and disrupt colonial trade highlighted the critical role of maritime routes in the conflict. France’s support through its trade routes and naval power significantly impacted the outcome of the war, while Spain’s contributions through its own routes helped sustain the American effort...."

I think the only solution will be something solid and unforgiving, like if you're found to be using ChatGPT in that setting you're expelled from school and cannot re-apply to it or any other for five years.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024 05:58 AM (NHRtg)

56 Michigan is using money from the Small Business Administration to register voters, according to a Congressional report.

Democrats using federal tax dollars instead of their own money. Pretty scummy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2024 05:59 AM (wIU2Y)

57 I suspect AI is going to make American kids stupid in ways cell phones could only dream of.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024 06:00 AM (NHRtg)

58 Tell me again why people live here -- I forget.

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Said jokingly: The architecture

Said not jokingly: It's one of the few places in America that still feels like it has some sort of character, even after a lot of it was mostly stripped post-Katrina.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024 06:02 AM (NHRtg)

59 Second cup of coffee downed; time to look into having breakfast. No rush this morning. I can't go outside to look around for flooding or debris until first light, and that's about ninety minutes off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:02 AM (omVj0)

60 The usual answer: "Da food and da music!" Panda feathers. Food can be prepared at home; music can be had on CD. Neither is a reason to put up with this sort of problem.

"But it's the vibe, man. You can't find this anywhere else."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 12, 2024 06:03 AM (99eI0)

61 The Federal Government is the trash compactor in the Death Star and we are Luke, Han and Leia trapped in it and all we can do is tell C3PO (Trump) to shut it all down.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 12, 2024 06:05 AM (aIU4O)

62 Tell me again why people live here -- I forget.

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Said jokingly: The architecture

Said not jokingly: It's one of the few places in America that still feels like it has some sort of character, even after a lot of it was mostly stripped post-Katrina.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024

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True. I grew up in the French Quarter before it became a giant T-shirt shop, and the French/Spanish style is distinctive. I'm sick to death of shotgun houses, though.

Santa Fe, NM, also has a distinctive style -- similar in some ways -- and yet residents don't have to worry about floods and hurricanes. (Lack of water, maybe, but not hurricanes.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:05 AM (omVj0)

63 "But it's the vibe, man. You can't find this anywhere else."
Posted by: NR Pax at September 12, 2024

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No "vibe" is worth this kind of disastrous interruption, let alone high crime, low employment, nasty vicious streets, and heat that would stun a Cape buffalo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:06 AM (omVj0)

64 "Elliot recommended not using it to tackle tasks other than content generation, knowledge discovery, and powering conversational user interfaces."

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All this tells me that human consciousness, inspiration, and thought have a deeper foundation than the mere words and language.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Absolutely. But the funny part of the quote is understanding what all is encompassed by content creation (art, music, etc), knowledge discovery (that one is enormous), and "powering conversational user interfaces" (all customer service type jobs are obsolete)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024 06:08 AM (NHRtg)

65
I think the only solution will be something solid and unforgiving, like if you're found to be using ChatGPT in that setting you're expelled from school and cannot re-apply to it or any other for five years.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024 05:58 AM (NHRtg)
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Of course, lazy kids will always exist. But as a general statement this technology can often help.

Are tech-based tools all bad to use, or do you make exceptions to your blanket condemnation? Should kids not use graphing calculators? Are word processors evil? Of course not. The issue with ChatGPT, just to use the example you cited, is that relying solely on the first draft output creates lifeless writing with often inaccurate statements. But it helps kids get started. It is a tool, like a calculator or Excel or Word. Will lazy kids turn in essay output and not work at writing? Of course, but idiots have always been a problem.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2024 06:08 AM (X/sOO)

66 63 No "vibe" is worth this kind of disastrous interruption, let alone high crime, low employment, nasty vicious streets, and heat that would stun a Cape buffalo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:06 AM (omVj0)

Agreed. That's why I live where I do. Although we do get our unpleasant heat from time to time.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 12, 2024 06:11 AM (99eI0)

67 Mark Steyn says Dick Cheney endorsing Que Mala is very helpful. To GOP voters who have resisted the idea of a uniparty, especially one with a defense-industrial priority, Steyn says now it is so obvious it cannot be ignored. In other words, Cheney is helping Trump make his case:

So Trump has performed a great service in driving the likes of Cheney to vote Kamala. The feeble charade of TweedleDem vs TweedleRep is designed to obscure the central fact of end-stage western “democracy” – that, on anything that really matters, nothing can be permitted to change. Thus, having Dick Cheney and Ilhan Omar formally on the same team is very helpful.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2024 06:16 AM (CyvLy)

68 Agreed. That's why I live where I do. Although we do get our unpleasant heat from time to time.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 12, 2024

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"From time to time" sounds pleasant. I deal with the soggy nastiness from March until November if I'm fortunate, until December if I'm not. With luck this will be my LAST summer in this pesthole.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:18 AM (omVj0)

69 Black on white is harder than red on black. ChatGPT helps with the first part.

Posted by: I've written enough to know that at September 12, 2024 06:18 AM (DobEs)

70 Good morning morons

Waymo gives me violent fantasies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2024 06:19 AM (RIvkX)

71 Sticking my nose outside, I feel the air is (relatively) cool and it's still a little breezy. No rain at the moment.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:20 AM (omVj0)

72 Ask your parole officer if Waymo is right for you.

Posted by: The Legal Department at September 12, 2024 06:21 AM (DobEs)

73 A lot of people from Springfield Ohio taking to Tic Tok and Twitter/X with their own stories. Yup, they have a real problem.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 12, 2024 05:28 AM (RKVpM)
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DEBUNKED! Everyone in Springfield is an evil white racist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2024 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

74 Of course, lazy kids will always exist. But as a general statement this technology can often help.

Are tech-based tools all bad to use, or do you make exceptions to your blanket condemnation? Should kids not use graphing calculators? Are word processors evil? Of course not.

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Where a student learns how to use a calculator word processor to enter their information in ordered, structured ways in order to complete assignments? We're beyond that in a lot of ways. Go to quickmath.com and enter any of these calculus graphing practice problems from this page.

https://tinyurl.com/2b63ps92

Tell it to solve.

We have math and writing so that students no longer need to put any real effort into anything if they don't have a moral basis or long-term vision (from their parents) for how it will harm them. We're dumping an entire generation of kids into an experiment with no idea of how it will turn out for them (spoiler alert: badly), same as handing them all cell phones.

I think we're seeing the beginning of our Great Filter.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 12, 2024 06:22 AM (NHRtg)

75 Autonomous driving is like Forrest Gump at the wheel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2024 06:22 AM (RIvkX)

76 So, some folks bought up a bunch of housing in Springfield just before the Fed dropped the Haitian population bomb. Then make make big money renting to the Haitians.

How to destroy your country for fun and profit.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 12, 2024 06:24 AM (+H2BX)

77 Ohio is never in the news for anything nice, is it? Hey, your college is a war zone. Hey, we're gonna have to light your little chemical spill on fire, stop arguing, we're experts. Stop calling this IRS branch office, they're just doing their jobs. Here's a bunch of Haitians to murder you and despoil the countryside, don't worry about it, racist. Your baseball team needs a new name. Oh by the way, your river's on fire.

Poor Ohio.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2024 06:24 AM (nPLkK)

78

Morning Report is up. Linkapalooza for you!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 12, 2024 06:26 AM (x0n13)

79 77 Ohio is never in the news for anything nice, is it? Hey, your college is a war zone. Hey, we're gonna have to light your little chemical spill on fire, stop arguing, we're experts. Stop calling this IRS branch office, they're just doing their jobs. Here's a bunch of Haitians to murder you and despoil the countryside, don't worry about it, racist. Your baseball team needs a new name. Oh by the way, your river's on fire.

Poor Ohio.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Now do the Cleveland Browns.

Posted by: The Factory of Sadness at September 12, 2024 06:26 AM (DobEs)

80 Lazy kids cheating is the inevitable outcome of universal mandatory "education".

Don't want them cheating? Don't force them to be there. Let the little bastards get a job instead. They'll probably grow up to be better people and better citizens.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2024 06:28 AM (nPLkK)

81 We're dumping an entire generation of kids into an experiment with no idea of how it will turn out for them (spoiler alert: badly), same as handing them all cell phones.

Agreed and I am far from a Luddite, having been in the tech industry for most of my working life.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 12, 2024 06:28 AM (mH6SG)

82 J.J.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 12, 2024 06:28 AM (JRP2U)

83 77: well, the river on fire thing happened in the 60s. There isn't any industry left to cause that now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 12, 2024 06:29 AM (sAmhv)

84 Grit TV has started running the old Zorro TV series with Guy Williams at 11:00 my time. I may settle down and watch to see if it's half as good as I thought when I was nine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:29 AM (omVj0)

85 Re: Zorro, Wiki says, "For most of its run, Zorro's episodes were part of continuing story arcs, each about thirteen episodes long. It had a structure similar to a serial." Now that sounds intriguing and very modern.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:32 AM (omVj0)

86 Noodus JJ

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2024 06:39 AM (omVj0)

87 Puddleglum, I travel that way a lot. Just go a little further west, and take 219 just past Blairsville. It will bring you to 422 west. Probably the most direct without going into Greensburg.

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at September 12, 2024 06:45 AM (OpLc2)

88 I still argue that chained AI models are how we're going to get to small team movie making.

Basically use generative AI to cook up base character models, use another to rig it, use another to animate the rigged model, and another to voice the lines, and so on to build a tool chain that can replace most of the actors and repetitive animation steps involved, to the point that a small group can put together what used to take all of Pixar to build.

Posted by: Voyager at September 12, 2024 11:25 AM (ZCVKX)

89 To the last article, current "AI" is actually very good at doing the same thing current "journalists" do: rearranging and regurgitating existing content with the vague appearance of knowing what you're talking about (but no need to actually know). Between them and no-talent "artists", it's ironic that the people most likely to be put out of work by AI are the ones most likely to be gleeful at the erroneous idea of it taking over blue-collar jobs.

Posted by: Cortillaen at September 12, 2024 07:42 PM (6kADi)

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