Microsoft AI blog

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/04/03/advancing-science-microsoft-and-quantinuum-demonstrate-the-most-reliable-logical-qubits-on-record-with-an-error-rate-800x-better-than-physical-qubits/

AGI PIECES

https://youtu.be/q05kiN7P-eY?si=PsLH4ru2eXO6IX3y



Journalist Style Guide

Write right.

Ten Mistakes

Ten common mistakes writers make.

RFID and other useful, interesting, and sometimes sinister things.

A five cent computer with a tiny radio in your shirt collar. The same one that prisoners wear around thier ankle, available at Walmart! Whether you like it or not.

And five other technologies that affect everyday life now and in the future.


http://www.iconic-turn.de/staticpages/index.php?page=StreamSterling

War is Not a Noble Enterprise

An interview with New York Times Correspondent Chris Hedges.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20725/

Posting photos

Getting up to speed on this whole web log thingy, here's an article from wired on flickr, where you can post photos. Then stick 'em in the blog

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65958,00.html

Do I laugh, or do I cry?

Break out the combs. Two in front, two in back, baby! (via memepool)

http://www.kerowack.com/media/DirtyBumf.mov

Cell phone blabbers

Here's a nice way to get those public yappers to shut the hell up:
(pdf, via metafilter)

http://www.draplindustries.com/archives/000594.html#000594

Some dont need to be happy.

Ah, the olde countrye. Where being a geek is just expected.

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101977937856

How not to make people happy

How not to make people happy
Originally uploaded by luckyrucksack.

(click on the image)

Reality Vs. . .

“Corporate integrity has been restored. . . .The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."

--John Ashcroft


"On the Right, bat-shit crazy is the new polyester."

--Roy Edroso (via Tom Tomorrow)

I Gotta Find a Job!

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Originally uploaded by luckyrucksack.

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."

Woodrow Wilson