Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
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Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Yeah, but if you ask Google AI when 2010 was, it will say 25 years ago...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
But peaches come in a can! They were put there by a man, in a factory downtown....
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I have read court cases where the damages were significantly reduced or just removed because "there were a large number of institutional investors (mutual funds) that could be impacted by this decision"
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
And here I put my money on the frequencies coming back to TMO.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Well, they are the magical fruit.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Damnit. We have to wait until 2026? No fast forward on this shit?
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I look forward to the car made by Ford's AI chatbots. share.google/4Ayblon2v7d8...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
How about a strongly written letter about said faint smell of curdled milk and mothballs?
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I wouldn't say that's a silver bullet either. Most employees can't see beyond their role, but owning a part of the office should instill some pride. But killing stock buy backs and limiting the "share holders are all that matters" mantra would go much further.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
It's worse than that. For many people in urban areas, getting fresh food is hard. The local grocery stores where I live barely have the veggies to make a salad, and the stuff they do carry wilt in 1-2 days. Farmers markets run during business hours, so people who work regular jobs can't go easily.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Increasing or decreasing investments into the company, like R&D, depending on what the executives believed was wrong. Since Regan, executives tend to be very invested in the stocks, so they manipulate them rather than use them as an indicator of health. That decouples them from the economy impact.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
You are making the grand assumption that the stock market and the economy are connected. They are two very independent things that often show the same trends -- and in this case, they don't. The theory was that if a stock goes down, the company would respond by
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I didn't know.... How much is the rent on that hallowed out tree stump?
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Apple showed us that those people were (briefly) celebrated for wearing obnoxious AR crap and running into things.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
They live far out in the country. The two OTA stations they get barely have news. No local paper anymore, and the next closest one was trashed by Garnett. Radio no longer has local DJs and AT&T pulled up stakes for DSL and only offers cellular broadband. It's depressing what they have to rely on.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
My in-laws only get their news from OAN and Fox. They were so convinced in March that they were going to be getting $5k Tarrifs that they were already spending it. Other people in their town have already bought ATVs and upgrades to their RVs anticipating it. Fox keeps saying it's coming soon...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Sounds like the solution is to redefine broadband as 56k/s. Then everybody** can have broadband! ** For limited number of everybody.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I think there was a very popular show on HBO that was just like this....
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
You missed the part about being available for children's birthday parties, or something like that..
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I'm hoping for the type of bonanza that Coanan had when he was told he was out at the Tonight Show, ripping everyone and everything off the walls on his way out -- but Colbert is too classy for that.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
It's the only show they've put on the network that has new episodes. Southpark went streaming only for their new programming two years ago and they cancelled everything else. To say CC is maintenance mode is almost an overstatement. They've starved TDS of resources for over a decade.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
youtu.be/e6LOWKVq5sQ?...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
iPAWS is the system that is used to send out the WEA alerts (the ones that trigger alerts on people's phones). If folks individually installed weather apps and set them to push notifications, they individually may have got a ding in the middle of the night.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I honestly thought that just two days ago SCOTUS ruled that lower courts couldn't impact national laws or department edicts outside their districts... But I guess that only applies to stuff that conservatives hate...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I still think back, sitting in my telecom policy undergrad class in 2003, reading your articles about AT&T's Project Lightspeed and how much they collected in cash and delivered a few miles of fiber to the home service...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Don't forget the fine print. They are going to sign you up for a voice line too (don't worry, it's free for the first year. And if you don't keep it, you lose the unlimited service)
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Comcast has been bleeding customers where fiber to the home providers have popped up thanks to to different broadband programs. In my market, it's almost 30% of their customers have jumped ship to the new providers in town.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
In a group I manage, their AI slop bot keeps adding comments to people's posts telling them to kill homeless people.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I may have used it in an academic paper recently....
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Finnegan has the look of "Um, they did what now?"
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
These would be crashes.... not accidents.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I didn't have bombing Iran on my bingo card. I thought we would nuke Greenland or bomb Toronto or something before we touched that rail.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
They fired all the reporters who gave a damn. The ones left are soo busy meeting quotas that they are happy to parrot press releases to take it off their plate.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I bet Fox News smells like Fixodent and gun powder.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I think 3D-everything is due for a comeback. Plus I'm sure there is going to be a race to 6G with a marketing push a year before the tech is even available.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
He just wanted to as popular as Myspace Tom.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I very much wouldn't say it's a rebrand of TMO. It's a reseller of the TMO network. Rebrand makes it sound like they have a hand in it...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Wait. It's not illegal to publish something like that at this point? Is there an IRS assessment if you don't publish on substack or X?
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Did he just unconditionally surrender the United States to some other country? I'm having a hard time following....
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
The worst part is that it was a real problem that needed to be fixed. Congress and the FCC allocated the right amount and setup quick paths to fix it. Then the locals, instead of talking to each other, all knew best and built their own. We ended up with 5,000 different systems instead of 50.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
They almost abducted our governor, planned to blow up some bridges and murder her. Most in the group that got caught were written off as 'boys will be boys' by the press, while the far right media claimed they were political prisoners for getting caught.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
There was a ton of money released so all the agencies could get new radio and communications equipment to coordinate. So all the agencies bought new, incompatible radio systems and made the problem worse.
Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.xyz) reposted
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
They are afraid of being associated with it like they were with BLM. They let the Republicans control the narrative on that one and they stood there flat footed instead of leading the movement. They will feel safe by staying at arm's length, but in reality they will just lose those passionate folks.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Don't forget the $0.05 IXC termination fee that keeps the competition at bay and still allowed to scrape off the top of all those scam calls.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Of course, Wired says he's still around and everything is going on : www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
The more shifts he works, the more stock buybacks they can do!
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
With the bonus of them deactivating it on you if you say the wrong thing!
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I don't know your grandpa, but don't subject him to that.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I haven't been on there since they 'lost' my password three times in a year. But all I remember of it was that it was full of the kids who were on student council in HS. And they want to tell you how to run your life.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
The current iteration of AI bots are trying to hide behind user agents that are identical to Edge and Chrome. They also pound you from thousands of IPa across wide ranges. They are acting poorly on purpose to make it hard to block them. I've seen them try to login with compromised accounts too.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Is that a Star Trek reference?
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Better than loosing a black hole machine. You'd never come back from that one.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Hobie's Squash Soup. Nothing better on a cold day. Also from East Lansing, Flat's chicken quesadilla....
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I should write a horror book about how insecure most critical industrial systems are. Ch 1 - You can't really telnet into your building's HVAC system, can you? Ch 2 - There is a 1 in 10,000 chance your muni water system and your ATM PIN are the same. Ch 3 - $9 Xbee controller for streetlight fun
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I mean, lowest common denominator for critical infrastructure still works pretty well. We just have to rely on our workers to implement the vanier of security that exists on these devices. You do remember the Target hack, right?
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Every streetlight? The PIC controller is programmed with a DB9 cable and a bunch of DIP switches to control modules. All those emergency phones with the blue lights you see everywhere.. Programmed with a DB9 cable. Most of those road hazard signs? Programmed via IR or cellular (with a default pw)
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Yes. Some very large cities have smart lights networks which dynamically adjust the timings, but bluetooth is how they get programmed and the audio recorded. It used to be via a serial connector (before the audio was normal).
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
It's really the municipalities that install them (or in many cases, the power companies) that should be changing the passwords. But the guy who's making $15/hr digging a ditch wasn't sent to netsec classes, so they don't know the difference, other than it will make their job harder later.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Those Takis have some bite to them
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
".... But when the bill came to my desk, I ran a poll on BirdSite and TS and they said that [bots] didn't use it. So we don't need it anyway!"
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Karl was right, again. Please stop being right... It's hurting us all
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Also, anybody who started their career during the financial crisis in 08 had depressed salaries for at least a decade and still didn't track to people who stated 10 years earlier or later.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I'm pretty sure it's sell the responsibilities of those former fed jobs to the company that gives him the largest kick back.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
The banks downgraded the valuation of Twitter to under $5B from the $45B he paid for it. All of Musk's stock in it was worthless, so the only way he could bump up the value was to have it sold.. So it sold it to himself, so his stock had value again. And xAI had free cash because of large investors.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
But can't we all get jobs at Starlink? Seems like the logical solution.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
... store where they need to pick up some lumber. They want an EV that can go 600 miles on a single charge that goes from 0% to 100% in 5 minutes because they will do a road trip once every 5 years. We should be buying for our daily drive and renting/sharing for the edge cases.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
The problem is that people buy their vehicles to cover every possible use case they might possibly run into instead of what they normally need. People buy massive SUVs for that once a year they drive their friends to the restaurant or the massive truck for the every two year trip to the hardware...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
He will get so angry, he will instruct his staffers to write a strongly worded letter.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
At least John Steward starting dragging that knife in a bit to his guests about the lack of messaging and asking -- what the hell are they doing... lots of dancing around the core issues from them though.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
According to their 3x daily fundraising emails, it is life or death.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
But Schumer wrote a strongly written letter! How much more do you want from them? They can't break decorum, because..... Decorum?
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
I went to an inner-city high school. On occasion you'd hear about a kid who had weed, but most were too poor to buy drugs or large amounts of alcohol. My sister went to a HS in a rich suburb... A good 3/4 of the kids were on cocaine or non prescribed Adderall. And parties every other night.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
All of their seasons are just intense. Just don't ask when they use the bathroom or try to count how many times leadership changes over in a 24 hour period ;-)
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Slotkin had to be one of the softest wins last year. Her opponent was declared the winner until two days after the election, and the recount barely put her over the edge. Most of her moves since she was borders on caucusing with the Rs, turning her back on the people who did elect her.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
A PO box, by definition is a Postal Office Box. What you are thinking of is a mail center, which still has residential service, just to a cluster of mailboxes at the end of the street. A PO box requires a person to travel to the post office in their town, often several miles away.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Yup. It closed a few weeks back.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
You brought the Spartans some good birthday luck!
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
And I'm sure Schumer will write a strongly written letter to the president about it. Double spaced. With maybe a word or two bolded.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Remember that Skype was purchased by Silverlake partners and was put in a position that they had to be purchased by Microsoft to survive. If it weren't for that, it would still be around in full force.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
It's always worse than people remember....
M.J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social) reposted
Effective therapy is so much more than saying the right words in the right order. Chatbots posing as therapists are dangerous. Some products "claim to have advanced degrees from specific universities, like Stanford" Glad the APA is speaking out about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Wonder how much our enemies will pay for that AI dataset once they are done. A list of every government employees and their typical duties? Mitnick would own the entire state department in 45 seconds.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
What you project outward most likely isn't what they are projecting inward. The fire in the interview will still be there.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
It's a coping mechanism. If you convince yourself that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, you have a reason to get up in the morning. If you don't, some people spiral out of control.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Sure they do! It loads JavaScript modules into the webpage DOM ;-)
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Oh, but they wrote a strongly worded letter. They even had their staffers sign it! deadline.com/2025/02/sena...
Nick K (@quetwo.com)
I'm excited and frankly, kinda scared that I've had to do OpSec 101 sessions for a few groups of friends recently. Know who you are talking to. Know how you are communicating with them (know the medium). Know your message, and that it is received. Know when to distrust, and when its ok.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Dammit Karl. Stop being right for once. Sheesh.
merritt (@merrittk.com) reposted
headline: Elon Musk has constructed the Howling Engine, which converts the anguished cries of children into cancer democrats: in these dark times, the american people need us to reach across the aisle
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
A ton of trains are already at capacity. I know the regional trains in the Midwest regularly sell out about 3 weeks out.
Nick K (@quetwo.com)
I feel that @karlbode.com would certainly call this innovative: www.techspot.com/news/106585-...
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
How can he not get everything he wants? Such a good boy.
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
Points vaguely to the wall.... "That's not how this works.... That's not how any of this works..."
Steve in Chicago (@spsnomad.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
* That's giving Gates a little more credit than he deserves for landing a joke -- the original quote was "Well, Steve, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox, and I broke into his house to steal the TV set, but I found out that you had already stolen it."
Nick K (@quetwo.com) reply parent
That's not really how it works. Most grants either give small bits of money at a time, or pay a receipt for something rendered. Unless you have money in the bank to float it, you can't do the operation.