Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

House Judiciary Cmte erupts into a nearly hourlong fiery debate after Rep. David Cicilline proposed an amendment to committee rules that would ban anyone who had "supported an insurrection" from leading the Pledge of Allegiance.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/fireworks-house-democrat-says-insurrectionists-banned-leading-pledge-a-rcna68585

Wendi C. Thomas is a black journalist who has covered police in Memphis. One officer admitted to spying on her. She’s on a long list of prominent black journalists and activists who have been subjected to police surveillance over decades.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-police-have-been-spying-on-black-reporters-and-activists-for-years-i-know-because-im-one-of-them/amp @ProPublica

Kinda hoping that Netflix's new "we'll ban you if you watch the Netflix account you paid for outside of your home too much" story turns into a "New Coke"-style business school case study in how to do something totally stupid that pisses off your most loyal customers, and leads Netflix to reverse course quickly.

It’s frankly embarrassing for a company to be so hard-up for subscribers that it requires people to give notice and supplicate themselves for the right to watch a movie at a friend’s house.

It’s fascinating remembering that pre-streaming Netflix caught on because it was the *good, simple* disc rental service that wouldn’t nickel-and-dime you over complicated technicalities, compared to the dominant Blockbuster model https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/1/23581421/netflix-password-sharing-home-setting-block-devices

A new third-party add-in for #Microsoft #Word, called #Ghostwriter, allows users to query #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT in a Word sidebar and watch content generated by the natural #language #chatbot unfurl directly in the document they’re drafting. https://tchlp.com/3kUNBAt

ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base in history, report says

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1914265

#largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #ChatGPTPlus #ChatGPT #Biz&IT #openai #GPT-3 #AI

78% of people in GOP Rep. George Santos’ district say he should resign, new poll finds.

Santos dismissed the poll, saying he’s “not talking about a poll” that he “didn’t order.”

The FBI is investigating Rep. George Santos' role in alleged GoFundMe scheme for a veteran's dying dog. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-investigating-santos-role-gofundme-scheme-veterans-dying-dog-rcna68704

Netflix says password sharing rules for the US are not set yet and removes from its US help page rules saying users must connect to primary Wi-Fi every 31 days (Emma Roth/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/1/23581421/netflix-password-sharing-home-setting-block-devices
http://www.techmeme.com/230201/p43#a230201p43

The Supreme Court can’t stop reminding us that it doesn’t have an ethics code. This time, attention is on Chief Justice John Roberts.

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/roberts-supreme-court-ethics-code-rcna68591

Tesla admits it was asked to hand over Autopilot, Full Self-Driving docs to investigators https://reg.cx/47fX

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Original tweet : https://https://nitter.eu/TheRegister/status/1620835955446878212

All technology is an absurd game where you jump from one slowly sinking platform to another as hardware changes, operating systems update, underlying libraries evolve, protocols upgrade, and features get added. It's honestly amazing anything ever works.

#MacOS—useful list of tips: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/10-macos-tips-boost-productivity/

Oooh. Just learned about this Mastodon Threaded Reply Viewer (made by @b0rk and discovered it thanks to a mention from @filippo). Not sure how practical it is currently for me, but again, I'm impressed at all the cool development going on these days.

https://mastodon-thread-view.jvns.ca/

Kari Lake REFERRED for CRIMINAL PROSECUTION in Arizona https://youtu.be/SmFsst3DxP8

@TonyStark People don’t realize that the holocaust didn’t happen overnight. Erasing a people, their culture and their identity is a crime. It’s called #EthnicCleansing. This is precisely what ALEC and their ilk are trying to do to United States history. This is not okay, this is the road down to #authoritarianism and a racist society. This makes my stomach churn.

A battery filled with algae is somehow managing to power this computer for months: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/

No-one's quite sure what's going on. Possibly the algae is serving as the medium catalyzing the interaction between the anode and cathode in the battery.

Except research shows the anode isn't degrading, which suggests ...

... the *algae* is producing the electrons.

Some thoughts on this in my blog post here, item 6: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lavaforming-ai-writes-heavy-metal-and-drones-that-deliver-hamburger-helper-59b9bcfda9a8