Vint Cerf receives 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor
Vint Cerf is an awesome individual: For the past five decades, Cerf, now 79, has been perfecting, extending, and evangelizing the Internet. It is for this—his contributions in cocreating the…
Business: Disney lays off entire virtual reality “metaverse” team
Disney has cut its metaverse division as part of the layoffs that will begin this week. Source: Disney cuts metaverse division under Iger’s restructuring It kinda, sorta looks like FB’s…
Sounds just like inept Covid messaging: “Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class”
No kidding: Increasingly, even climate scientists are noting that the constant, and often poorly supported doomsaying threaten the credibility of the movement itself. And there have been quiet reversals; the…
Next up: A push to ban air travel
Air travelers create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that mostly harm other, less well-to-do people. Source: Opinion: Big Tech flies too much. It’s time for these companies to practice…
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says – IEEE Spectrum
This is true – with a reminder that even as a brain injured idiot, I am a retired computer engineer and computer scientist: Artificial-intelligence systems are nowhere near advanced enough…
Insurrection is more common than we realize, and how to stop this madness
Insurrection noun an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/insurrection?s=t We’ve had 3 insurrections in the past 12 months.…