Jason Mashak

This is so wonderfully human that, as far as I’m concerned, AI has passed the Turing Test…

Wild experiment sees AI agents falling in love, burning down town, and deleting themselves

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/ai-agents-experiment-emergence-world/

The last human on Earth’s moon, in 1972, was Czech-Slovak-American astronaut Eugene Cernan.

I'm the kind of guy who may answer an email 15 years later.

If you’ve ever pointed to someone and said, “That guy is an idiot,” then you have experience as an intelligence analyst.

The control plane tax is gone. Next: your hypervisor tax.

Introducing kMetal 1.0 by CLASTIX!

Real #Kubernetes tenant isolation on shared #BareMetal: a separate kernel + network per tenant. No dedicated hardware, no separate #hypervisor layer to license or run.

→ https://clastix.io/post/introducing-k-metal-1-0-for-helping-enterprises-control-and-scale-kubernetes-more-efficiently

As a fan of mashups (my kids and I used to love finding the craziest musical ones on YouTube), I decided tonight that I was tired of seeing the same cliched memes, so I asked ChatGPT to combine them. The result was interesting, perhaps even amusing, and of course a bit disappointing.

WW3 has been in progress for several years.

Just as WW1 was largely trenches, automatic weapons, barbed wire, and poison gas… and WW2 was vastly different with tanks and aircraft-enabling bombs… WW3 has been fought so far with cyberattacks, drones, and proxy wars.

If you look at Slavic languages by their spelling and alphabet (orthographic) differences, each seems like a unique language.

However, if you would transcribe all of them into the international phonetic alphabet (IPA), they would seem much more like dialects.

Every year of my life, I have heard people say, “This year the weather is the craziest I’ve ever seen it.”

I would enjoy reading any research on this ‘phenomenon’, as I am inclined to chalk it up to some sort of cultural loss of weather-related memories older than a few seasons.

I’m open to fully autonomous vehicles, but why do they need to be electric? Why can’t I have a self-driving car with a diesel or gas engine?

“I’m sleepless, // brooding on war, and powerless to right / those ancient ways of Heaven and Earth.”

–Tu Fu

“If you had relied on thought, you would have been so many pieces of meat by now.”

–Erich Maria Remarque, from All Quiet on the Western Front

Rare photo of Willie Nelson and Keith Richards building the pyramids.