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The Network School is particularly aimed at "dark talent" cohorts—individuals with exceptional skills or perspectives that often fall outside traditional educational and professional molds. These include creative individuals, physical fitness enthusiasts, tech innovators, and media mavericks who bring a diverse array of skills to the educational environment.

so... they're already "tech innovators" and "media mavericks" but they need to go to school?

How many bitcoin are we wagering it'll be 90 days of drug taking and buying the services of sex workers?

We old school BTC haters won’t even get out of bed for anything less than double-digit dips

Defector: Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars

As I'm sure you'll be informed by David, a lot of "tech" press pieces are thinly rewritten PR puff pieces.

Well put. Another example I like to play in my head (never debated a goldbug for real in my life, not starting now) is that if the gold standard is so great, how come a small-ish country like Switzerland or Singapore hasn't started using it and outcompeting everyone?

There's only 2 answers to that:

1. the gold standard doesn't work in the modern economy, the one that has lifted millions out of poverty and created untold wealth (to great environmental damage, sure)
2. the gold standard is being kept from them by (((they)))

Answer 2 is obvious if you're a fascist.

It's the same symptoms among the pundits that convinced them that Ron DeSantis had a chance against Trump.

Yeah, having the source to a site (even if it includes stuff like day to day ops, backups etc) isn't worth much if you don't have a community. It's a bit like "open source" LLMs, sure you can run a mudball of python on your computer but the real worth is in ingesting and classifying.

Turns out purging your ranks of wokes and furries is more fun than, you know, actually developing a working Linux distro: Nix 2.24+ is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation.

(linking to the lobste.rs discussion because I feel it does a decent job curating related links around disclosure timelines etc.)

The links between hard money/goldbugs and (US) hard right goes back a long way, at least to the 30s I believe.

Interestingly, an almost pathological fear of inflation is also part of the foundational myth of the BRD, but if you look at the actual history, Weimar-era hyperinflation wasn't really the root cause of Nazism, the Depression arguably was a bigger contributing factor.

You have to let it predict things that will happen before 2019, duh.

OK Venturebeat have hastily beaten a venture-retreat and are decrying fraud complete with an AI generated header image that really screams "promptfondler caught red-handed fondling".

Contains such choice quotes are “fraud in the AI research community”, which are very reminiscent of Capt. Renault's reaction in the casino in Casablanca.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-open-source-ai-leader-reflection-70bs-performance-questioned-accused-of-fraud/

Point taken. I still think the Luna series is great!