There are four lines of text in the headline: One word, two words, three words, one word. That's reflected perfectly accurately in the McConnell photo. You can even see the hypen-capital-C in "-Czech."
Digital cameras fib about their pixel counts, and they cannot, by nature, resolve anything accurately at the level of individual output pixels. The photo from the paper looks better because it's in color, and the output of digital imaging sensors gets up-scaled in color, under the assumption that the image they're resolving is in color.
We've entered an age where it's not remotely crazy to be skeptical about the provenance of images like this, I can't blame you for your suspicion. But I don't think it's fake.
Even The Gruniad characterizes this as "rebellion" and "revolt" when what's actually happening is people are talking.
This seems like a very totalitarian view of the world to me. Maybe it's appropriate, given the people we're discussing here.
If we were talking about (say) Elizabeth Warren being AWOL like this, would we expect to see questions from other Democrats characterized as "rebellion?" I don't think we would, but perhaps I'm wrong.
Your assertion baffles me. The CC client is sending information about its execution context back to Anthropic HQ in a sneaky, obfuscated way that most people wouldn't notice.
If that's not a hidden message, if that's not steganography, what is?
I think they'd tell you it was a hallucination, that the new version+1 model will have smarter answers, will tell us how to solve climate change for real this time. Probably by building solar powered concentration camps.
Because powerful actors are not about to start doing what an AI says. Rather, powerful actors will figure out ways to manipulate AI into supporting the things they already want to do. An accountability sink. Like a new sort of religion for people who claim to be "rational."
Contract prices for DRAM and NAND have risen steeply through 2026 as AI server demand outran supply, pushing memory makers toward 40% to 50% operating margins on NAND in the first half of the year.
Is Whitaker just pandering to the reliably-votes-R base? Is this, the world-famous Buc-ee’s and Chick-Fil-A freedom, really going to impress them as a sacred principle that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Bill of Rights? Maybe!
Or is Whitaker pandering to the king, signaling that he (Whitaker) has just as much contempt for the peasants as anyone? "Look at the amazing slop you've inspired, sir, look at the peasants gobbling it up, sir," he says, with a tear in his eye.
1080p stream in acceptable bitrate is around 1MB/s.
I think most of the privacy-violating and abuse-facilitating scenarios that we're all too plausibly imagining could be served by the transmission and storage of even a single photograph per drive.
Why would car manufacturers even consider doing that? What is the purpose?
All of the existing consumer-surveillance tech seems to be focused on 1) Finding ways to make your attention more valuable to advertisers and 2) Selling information on your movements and proclivities to interested governments.
Pictures from inside a car could fit right in with those priorities. They could tell car makers, advertisers, insurers, and governments a lot about who really drives the car the most, that person's demographics, taste in clothing, driving ability, distractability, fatigue levels, health issues, etc.
I should be clear: I'm absolutely speculating. But I don't know how anyone might look at the landscape that exists today, with surveillance in our phones, our televisions, our music players, and our cars, and think that such speculation is far-fetched or unrealistic.
Her kids died over a year ago. Police said "the incident is being handled as a homicide" at the time. The kids' autopsy was scheduled for over a year ago.
Dear Leader's first term saw a lot of new flagpoles installed in the suburbs. Spindly, short, ultra-cheap poles, placed way too close to the street or sidewalk. With flags so large that they nearly touch the ground. Flag in your face, flag as a confrontation, as a challenge. Those flags are red flags for sure.
Also a bad sign: households who feel that one flag is good, but a dozen miniature flags are better, and both is best of all.
Russia's war in Ukraine, which has dominated international perceptions of the country since 2022, does not appear to be a decisive factor for many of those making the move.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that those Westerners moving to Russia aren't terribly reflective, imaginative, or as plugged-in to world events as they might think they are.
An online ecosystem of relocation agencies and influencers promote Russia as a place where family values remain strong and everyday life feels safer ... Within weeks of arriving, Leo says they were defrauded of 5 million roubles – about £52,000 ($66,000) – by a contact they trusted, leaving them homeless.
I was explaining to a young person today that totalitarian societies have always portrayed themselves as safe, orderly, and free of crime, supposedly because of the iron grip their law enforcement has on the public. That has never been true, though. Totalitarian societies have always been full of corruption and grift, and have used the image of draconian, ruthless, theatrical, arbitrarily-arrived-at punishments as a cover story to distract the people from that reality.
Chernobyl painted a vivid picture of a time and place, but it was fictionalized, sensationalized, too. Pripyat didn't really exist under an oppressive green fog, and the Soviet Union of the day wasn't the Stalinesque nightmare the show suggests.
By all means, enjoy the show, it's awfully well-done. But I beg you to bear in mind that:
It's not a documentary, because
none of those based-on-a-true-story shows are documentaries.
These are some of the lamest insults I've ever heard. You can't even explain to someone how dumb they are, because you've already forgotten what they were.
I'm sympathetic, I think media that can be borrowed, lent, sold and otherwise transferred is better. But I've given up on video games being that way years ago. I don't have a "collection" of video games any more than I'd have a collection of used chewing gum.
The other side of that coin, though, is that I never pay more than $20 for a game. Almost everything I buy is even under $10. (I think the Orange Box was the last time I paid anything like a retail price for a game. And that was three games.) The games are ephemeral, they could stop working at any moment for any of a million different reasons, and I'd have no recourse. So I'm not going to pay crazy archival prices.
The Dead Milkmen wrote a song about it.