@realcaseyrollins because Google was right in 2008. https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html ht @dangillmor

@realcaseyrollins because Google was right in 2008. https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html ht @dangillmor
@realcaseyrollins uh, a cat death-wish? curiosity is just… curious.
(i think the renaming is dumb, and hope Apple resists it better than Google has. maybe someday “Gulf of America” will be in common usage, but we’re far from there.)
[tech notebook] Adolescent DeepSeek on a Mac laptop https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/01/28/adolescent-deepseek-on-a-mac-laptop/index.html
(i’m morbidly curious how Apple will handle the Gulf of Mexico thing.)
@geerlingguy Something like 20-ish, sharing all the costs.
Norms only exist when there is a community of agents to enforce them. When there are only two agents, there’s no such thing as a norm, only cooperation or conflict. 1/
There can be Nash equilibria supporting cooperation with only two players, sure. But they’re fragile in practice. If defection yields a strong negative payout to the sole other player, its capacity to punish ex post and so deter ex ante will be weak. 2/
Norms can be thought of as Nash equilibria in very multiplayer games. They are strong if (and only if) defection can’t kneecap the whole community’s capability to punish. In practice that’s often the case. 3/
When there are broad communities, norms really can support cooperation! But much less so when the game collapses effectively to only two players. /fin
proclaim policy so extreme and destructive it’d be the dog catching the car if actually implemented. then walk it back declaring some misunderstanding or bullshit victory. 1/
you never have to face or be held accountable for the consequences of your proposals. you thrill your partisans. you leave your opponents bewildered and preoccupied. they come off as overwrought, nervous nellies. /fin
from @jbouie https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/opinion/democrats-trump-opposition.html
democrats are always trying to be “generic democrat”. no one is mad at generic democrat, no donor is alienated. generic democrat polls pretty well!
but generic democrat is an empty suit. we need people to lead, or, right now, to brawl.
[tech notebook] Baby DeepSeek on a Mac laptop https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/01/28/baby-deepseek-on-on-mac-laptop/index.html
i wonder if banks will discount frozen grants.
some people prefer the negative income tax and others prefer the universal basic income, so they compromised on the negative basic income.
i feel like my kid's fifth grade teacher really dodged a bullet. they covered the geography of the US southeast, including the Gulf of Mexico, like a month ago. it'd be a no-win situation if she had to teach it now.
If Trump passed an executive order claiming "yuge" the official spelling of TWFKAH (the word formerly known as "huge"), would @merriamwebster just comply, maybe listing the h-version as an alternate or archaic spelling?
But Google, Google, isdoubleplusgoodd. https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/113903238775301885
yes, of course the shit they do is outrageous. but they love to be raged at. they thirst for our anger.
the shit they do is also stupid, pathetic, and hilarious.
they don't love to be laughed at. we love to laugh.
win-win!
You just earned 18 points.
i think we should commit to $2T Made-In-America AI capex, just to prove to China we can't be bowed.
Galaxygate, mofos.
@jonshell the occult applications of generative AI are badly underexplored.
May I speak to the person in charge of your cleaning services?
@jonshell i can see that!
maybe i’m still not sold on the lambo minivan though.