https://hubski.com/A thoughtful web.https://hubski.com/images/discussion.pnghttps://hubski.com/https://hubski.com/pub/471013https://hubski.com/pub/471013because LLMs liehttps://hubski.com/pub/471007https://hubski.com/pub/471007https://turingtest.live/about/Run by a postdoc from UC San Diego, this is a real time experiment running The Turing Test in real time, comparing human volunteer responses and analysis against a few different LLM chatbots. I played a few times, its interesting what helps sort human responses from AI and vice versa.https://hubski.com/pub/471006https://hubski.com/pub/471006https://hubski.com/pub/471002https://hubski.com/pub/471002https://hubski.com/pub/471001https://hubski.com/pub/471001https://hubski.com/pub/470993https://hubski.com/pub/470993https://hubski.com/pub/470991https://hubski.com/pub/470991My order of The Fourth Turning just came in… which also reminds me I have an order of “Winner-Take-All Politics” by Jacob Hacker that needs picking up.Still wildly stuck on Jon Grinspan’s “The Age of Acrimony”. Mostly because everytime I pick it up, I spend more time believing time itself is closer to a flat circle than I previously thought. May be time to swap to audiobook format and go on long walks. Speaking of audiobooks, my recommendations have made features on hubski book threads in the past: Ray Nayler’s “The Mountain in the Sea” and Scott Lynch’s “The Lies of Locke Lamora”. The former is, unfortunately, a one-off it seems. Great “First Encounter” genre book. The latter is as easy a book to pick up as it is to put down. You’ll have fun with it as company regardless. Lots of quippy dialogue that’s reminiscent of FX’s Justified based on Elmore Leonard’s writings.https://hubski.com/pub/470988https://hubski.com/pub/470988https://hubski.com/pub/470980https://hubski.com/pub/470980Every day, the world’s population consumes about two billion cups of coffee. It’s more popular in some places than in others. The average American drinks as many as three cups a day. People drink even more in some European countries, such as Finland and Luxembourg. Ethiopia has a coffee culture, but in other African coffee-growing nations, relatively few drink it. Brazilians drink twice as much per capita as Colombians, but most of Latin America barely touches the stuff, opting instead for less expensive bottled soft drinks. In Asia and Australia, people tend to prefer tea. Coffee is beloved as an energy booster and a mood enhancer. It’s also a social and cultural ritual, and, above all, a habit. Many coffee drinkers are quite particular about what’s in their cup, whether it’s a flat white or a venti iced caramel macchiato.https://hubski.com/pub/470973https://hubski.com/pub/470973https://hubski.com/pub/470968https://hubski.com/pub/470968Started on this today. Will add more lyrics/instrumentation/ background vox. lil steve hockey. Words thus far. Some recorded, some not:Weightless my hands are stingingSo cold my breath is freezingMy mask there to keep me from getting What your grey cloud of breath is brining My way, my ways, all conceivable days,all the friends that I’ve made all the love that I gave all the letters I saved tell my kids I was brave I’m failing a test that I didnt know I was taking They told us we can’t be seeingOur loved ones for fear we’re bringingThe Black Death can’t get you if yourCleaning the food at the front doorMy way, my ways, all conceivable days, I’m failing the test that I don’t know I’m taking Take my hand we’re going To a place that can’t be mappedYou’ve got to learn to love hereThere’s no excuse for missing class Take my hand we’re goingTo a land not found in booksThey only hint at the edges To speak of this would get you looks Upon looks, upon looks, a pawnFinished song here: https://hubski.com/pub/470967https://hubski.com/pub/470967Hi! You might remember me from rehab girlfriend I'm over a year sober. It just got too bad. I was going to die but I had a friend in AA. Simple as. I guess I can help someone with substance abuse issues or at least try to at this point. got people. And I stopped coming here because I personally dislike mk. Or did. I'll forgive him when I'm ready in a 9th step amends.https://hubski.com/pub/470964https://hubski.com/pub/470964Is it a strict dollar value thing? Or just enough private military contractors to oppose whatever sherriffs department or other police unit that would be tasked with enforcing the judges rulings?https://hubski.com/pub/470954https://hubski.com/pub/470954First, some context. I teach at a regional public university in the US. Our students are average on just about any dimension you care to name—aspirations, intellect, socio-economic status, physical fitness. They wear hoodies and yoga pants and like Buffalo wings. They listen to Zach Bryan and Taylor Swift. That’s in no way a put-down: I firmly believe that the average citizen deserves a shot at a good education and even more importantly a shot at a good life. All I mean is that our students are representative; they’re neither the bottom of the academic barrel nor the cream off the top.https://hubski.com/pub/470950https://hubski.com/pub/470950https://hubski.com/pub/470949https://hubski.com/pub/470949because of course pump.funhttps://hubski.com/pub/470948https://hubski.com/pub/470948So for those catching up, the drone war in Ukraine went from Ukraine absolutely decimating Russia to Russia jamming the shit out of Ukraine to Ukraine jamming the shit out of Russia to Russia switching to wire-guided to Ukraine going"fukkit, we'll pop the cork on autonomous warfare."Seriously. This be some Tales from the Loop shit right here. And while the ZigZag is ostensibly a piloted drone interceptor, it's also one nVidia Jetson away from being launched, given a grid and being weapons-hot on anything it detects.https://hubski.com/pub/470947https://hubski.com/pub/470947Let's scroll the timeline shall we?Zipline pioneered blood deliveries in Rwanda using fixed-wing aircraft in effectively unregulated airspace. They tried to contract with Ghana for $17 per delivery and Ghana balked; I'm not willing to believe that $17 number was unsubsidized. They're now delivering in Ghana but I can't find any information about contracts.So here we are: your practical drone delivery platform is a 55kg tilt-rotor with triple redundancy that never drops below 300ft. It requires intensive logistical support, substantial regulatory carve-out and massive subsidy. Yet McKinsey thinks this can be done for $1.80 per delivery.. DroneUp is hyping "less than $3." They crypto sites are hyping "less than 25 cents" because of course they are but if a fixed-wing in Africa launched by a bunjee cord is $17, Uber Eats ain't touchin' that shit for less than $20 and we all know it.https://hubski.com/pub/470937https://hubski.com/pub/470937lil steveBaby was born with a couple pieces missingHard to see the trees or the forest from your kitchen. Rock and rolls not dead you’re just not lookingPharma said I’d be better, better, better lookingDon’t believe what they are feeding youIt’s just as true at one hundred and two Youre not seeingYou’re not seeingThe light through the clouds Coming down, coming down for you Blind as a bat in a Wuhan marketCelebrate your right into forced compliancePunks not dead you’re just not trying To turn your back on what the whole worlds buying Don’t believe what they are feeding youIt’s just as true at one hundred and two Youre not seeingYou’re not seeingThe light through the clouds Coming down, he’s coming down for you https://hubski.com/pub/470932https://hubski.com/pub/470932love stuff like this18 months ago, I wasn’t planning on spending more time hanging out with my neighbors than with friends I’d known for decades. It started with a simple goal: my husband Tyler and I wanted that sense of community that feels like it’s only possible in the suburbs, but we believed we could achieve this while living in San Francisco. We brainstormed: should we make cookies and knock on doors? Should we invite neighbors over for dinner? Ultimately, we landed on sipping coffee on our “stoop”.https://hubski.com/pub/470927https://hubski.com/pub/470927https://hubski.com/pub/470922https://hubski.com/pub/470922the big 600https://hubski.com/pub/470921https://hubski.com/pub/470921If you live in the continental United States, you’ve almost certainly seen a Hobby Lobby before. There are over 1000 locations, and more often than not, they’re hulking establishments. Their size is part of their business model. Just as the progeny of Irisagrig built impressive city-states atop the derelict structures neighboring forefathers left empty, Hobby Lobby locations tend to pop up in the abandoned storefronts of businesses past. Land once occupied by a dying, hulking giant like Circuit City or KMart or Bed Bath & Beyond is often available for rent at a steep discount from owners eager to collect on space that would otherwise collect dust and attract vandals.https://hubski.com/pub/470917https://hubski.com/pub/470917Probably will write more on this later.But UBL got what he wanted right? The goal was the decline of the American Empire, and he managed it?I have ordered The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden by Bergen, looking at a few others to better understand the guy, and al-Qaeda in general, to whatever degree that's possible.But its hard to make the case that he didn't get exactly what he wanted.We can discuss this in terms of geopolitical power and influence. I was principally thinking about the damage done to American Institutions, and how the wasted resources of Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror writ large were just us playing into a setup we should have anticipated.I'm sure once Trump cuts my social security disability pay that I won't have time for this kind of thing, trying to squeeze it in now before the homelessness.