This is rich coming from XKCD, the whole reason 4 is insecure in the first place!

Fine, “delegitimize” the prosecutors and “clear” Nixon (he was never actually prosecuted due to Ford’s pardon). We’ll expand the supreme court, who will rule that because he was “cleared”, the pardon is null and void. Further, they’ll rule that because he was never prosecuted, double jeopardy doesn’t apply.

Then we can appoint a special prosecutor and convene a new grand jury to go after him and all the co-conspirators new and old for real this time. Dig up that rotten corpse and we’ll make the trial of Richard Nixon part of Reconstruction 2.0.

Can we please burst this stupid AI bubble already? I am sick to death of living in Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai’s magical fantasyland where politics, economics, and now physics are expected to bend to their will. It’s exhausting.

That’s the beauty of it: these weapons are being given to Israel. US taxpayers are the ones paying.

It's not like we all have one live server that ingests source changes and the customers will see it immediately. There is a massively delay, release schedules, etc

Good! Sounds like there’s plenty of time built in to the system for impact analysis, change management, QA, and the like, to avoid pushing unnecessary updates that end up pissing everyone off.

The Google Maps change does only seems to be visible for people with US IPs. But I assume that Apple Maps, Mapquest, Mapbox, Bing (TIL Bing has a map feature), etc all use GNIS to label features too, right? None of them have changed the name yet. Seems unlikely that all of them would still be out-of-sync with upstream, and let Google drink their milkshake like this.

According to this Wired article:

In fact, the map for the federal government’s Geographic Names Information System database, which informs these changes, still showed Lake Ontario as of Sunday morning, with a note that the maps are “in the process of being updated to reflect this name change.”

Sure looks to me like Google made the change before the basemaps were updated. It’s now 23:40 EDT Sunday, and GNIS still says Lake Ontario…so yeah, I think this is on them. Dear Leader told them to jump, and they rushed to show him how high they could get.

Watching these corporate collaborators fall all over themselves to enact the profoundly stupid and short-sighted whims of a sodden, rotting corpse when they could just…not do that…has been one of the most surreal experiences of my life.

The sad thing is, thanks to their capture of both parties, I have no conceit they’ll actually experience any consequences for it. We have handed power to some of the least-deserving ghouls the Wharton School of Business ever squeezed out.

Funny how it’s always one fewer republican than is necessary to kill the bill or confirmation, wouldn’t you say?

I am not even sure all of the continental US will be under his operational control by the time he leaves office.

Lordy, I hope there are tapes.

Sounds like malicious prosecution to me, let’s get them some (or all) of that $1.776b fund. They can put it to good use in the community instead of giving it to duly-convicted insurrectionists.

Well, jobs with AI exposure at its current price point are starting to disappear. But what if:

• energy prices were to rise, perhaps because someone started a war
• there were a shortage of components to build additional capacity
• the AI providers were to switch to a different price model
• the VC cash subsidizing the actual cost were to suddenly dry up

Surely none of those could ever happen, and even if they did they probably wouldn’t have any impact.