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New comment by aqme28 in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

aqme28 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:38:44 +0000

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security.”

- Milton Mayer - They Thought They Were Free. The Germans, 1933-45

New comment by aqme28 in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

aqme28 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:58:05 +0000

And I can never remember whether Pro is better than Max or vice-versa. It’s an apples/oranges naming scheme.

New comment by aqme28 in "The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines"

aqme28 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:17:56 +0000

I run sometimes in a “party” crowd and see the same thing from the other side. People take drugs on the weekend, and a benzo to come down from it, and soon find themselves hooked just on the benzo.

New comment by aqme28 in "How abliterated models can get you pwned"

aqme28 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:24:15 +0000

Just spitballing-- you'd see other firms generate their own versions with slightly modified training sets. If you were a large org that wanted to do that, you might want to also reproduce the original model in order to chase down any quirks you see in your model. Then you'd see the weights don't match up.

Or adversarially-- if e.g. "Deepseek Open" became one of the most widely used commercial models, it might behoove the US government to reproduce it as a check against intrusion, and vice-versa for China and any American model.

New comment by aqme28 in "Campus deplatformings hit record high"

aqme28 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:16:42 +0000

It's barely a trend, and is vastly overshadowed by the corresponding trend of students getting sent to actual jail.

New comment by aqme28 in "Campus deplatformings hit record high"

aqme28 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:33:50 +0000

I cannot be bothered to care about this kind of thing. A student group submitted a proposal that an event be canceled but the proposal didn't succeed? That sounds like something that happens a normal democratic society. How is that newsworthy in a world where we have actual students being expelled for partaking in protests or e.g. arrested for an op-ed in the student paper.

New comment by aqme28 in "New 'super ice' 10 times stronger, bringing it close to the strength of concrete"

aqme28 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:42:43 +0000

Well no, because these aren't just ice-- it's an ice composite.

New comment by aqme28 in "An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads"

aqme28 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:52:21 +0000

Regarding the Netherlands, it doesn't hurt that TSMC happened to be cofounded by the same Dutch company that spun out ASML

New comment by aqme28 in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

aqme28 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:42:34 +0000

I don't know if "read a book" is a "social activity," meanwhile "play video games" often is a social activity. Not to mention there are gains in attending concerts, exercise classes, airtravel, and using the internet-- all of which are social activities. It's kind of an outdated survey if the goal is to track social activity. Each individual question is interesting on its own though.

New comment by aqme28 in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

aqme28 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:35:34 +0000

People will still refer to redheads as "ginger" but only some of the time

New comment by aqme28 in "It may soon be possible to create "mirror life""

aqme28 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:32:24 +0000

Yes, but there are more sugars than just glucose

New comment by aqme28 in "It may soon be possible to create "mirror life""

aqme28 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:58:12 +0000

"people will do ANYTHING to cure a disease"

Or to make a couple of bucks. Reading that mirror-image sugars could work as calorie-free sweeteners feels like foreshadowing for the end of the world.

New comment by aqme28 in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

aqme28 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:51:56 +0000

I'm not the first one to have this one for sure. I would have started working on this if not for the small problem of finding it unethical to build :(

New comment by aqme28 in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

aqme28 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:27:46 +0000

How long until someone makes a tiktok-style game platform?

Play a little game, then when you're done it generates a new one based on what you've enjoyed. Repeat ad infinitum.

New comment by aqme28 in "Mistral Large 4"

aqme28 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:32:20 +0000

Isn't that just the recent highly controversial Chat Control push? Generally speaking, the EU has some quite strong privacy protections relative to the US.

New comment by aqme28 in "German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism"

aqme28 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:27:47 +0000

Are you trying to say that "remigrating all migrants from certain countries" is not actually extreme?

New comment by aqme28 in "US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia"

aqme28 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:50:53 +0000

Similar to the cruise-ship Hantavirus situation earlier this year. People see a disease they've never encountered and assume it's a novel pandemic. Really, it's just one of the rare cases where a westerner contracts a disease that's endemic to the global poor.

New comment by aqme28 in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

aqme28 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:59:35 +0000

I think with iOS you can do this pretty straightforwardly

New comment by aqme28 in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

aqme28 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:57:41 +0000

He didn't say to vote for dems.

New comment by aqme28 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

aqme28 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:32:29 +0000

As we’ve seen from the leaked Anthropic prospectus, revenue from actual users is a pittance. What really matters is what you can get from investors, and that you have a model smart enough for self-improvement.