Notices by Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to), page 6

like clockwork

Typewriter art by James Cook

@santiago I think the chances of an intentional exchange are low, but as tensions keep escalating the opportunity for a world ending mistake grows significantly.

There were plenty of cases during the cold war when decisions made by a single individual averted a nuclear holocaust. We might not be that lucky going forward.

Strategists admit West is goading China into war
https://www.fridayeveryday.com/strategists-admit-west-is-goading-china-into-war/

South Korean leadership begs their American masters for permission to sell chips in China. Totally a thing that sovereign nation does.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3211903/tech-war-south-korea-ask-us-let-chip-makers-keep-investment-china

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3naz/openai-is-now-everything-it-promised-not-to-be-corporate-closed-source-and-for-profit

Capitalism breeds innovation, the innovation: a patent was recently approved for Ford that might allow your car drive itself back to the dealer if you don’t make a payment.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/future-fords-could-repossess-themselves-and-drive-away-if-you-miss-payments

Lenticular Invisibility: this thin acrylic sheet is comprised of tiny cylindrical lenses which can allow images to be “out of focus” along one dimension which blurs thin images and hides them

I notice a bit of a difference in presentation here, I wonder why 🤔

Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/sci-fi-becomes-real-as-renowned-magazine-closes-submissions-due-to-ai-writers/

Lighter at 7600 frames per second

Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall
https://safing.io/

Benito Mussolini memorial traffic light 😆

a nice physics demonstration :)

"Fathered" is certainly an interesting choice of words for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/world/americas/haiti-un-peacekeepers.html

The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/FFA13.pdf

What the fuck did I just read? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/08/forcing-maths-population-straight-chinas-playbook/

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx.

GDP took off after socialism was established and then collapsed with the reintroduction of capitalism:

#OTD in 1922, The Soviet Union was Created! It remains one of mankind's greatest achievements.

Here is a 🧵 with some of the highlights.