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    Yoram Bauman translates the basic principles of economics.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 17, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
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    IANAL, But

    I’ve been following the tribulations (and am looking forward to the trials) of Donald Trump. It’s fascinating, to me, the level of stupidity and bad lawyering that the republican fascist party has managed to scrape together.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 14, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me, Totalitarianism, TrumpUS
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    Simply Delightful

    I’m listening to the audiobook version of Ian Toll’s Pacific Crucible, which is about the naval war in the Pacific, WW2. [wc]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 7, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
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    On the Affirmative Defense

    Obviously I’m not a lawyer. I’m just a guy who reads a lot of stuff. So, I’d like to clarify a few small points as I understand them.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 6, 2023
    • Philosophy, Politics, Propaganda, Things That Delight Me
    • 26 Comments

    Get Your Indictment Here

    I feel that listening to a semi-dramatic reading of a Trump indictment gives me a mental distance that allows me to appreciate the language and the argument as I hear it.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 3, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 5 Comments

    More AI Remixing

    [Content warning: pixels representing paint representing breasts]

    My favorite thing about AI art is that the results are throw-aways. You are not asking a real artist to pour weeks of work and years of skill into something that is, basically, a joke.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 21, 2023
    • AI, Art, Things That Delight Me
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    Unrelated

    Let me introduce you to Roberto Ferri.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 20, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
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    Another AI Prediction Coming True

    I remember many times when opinions have flown about AI being incapable of adequately simulating a human. The famous Turing Test is one example, but I remember a decade ago having a discussion with a fellow film buff about the eventuality that game engines would allow machinima to replace human actors.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 2, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
    • 16 Comments

    Aaaaahaaahaaahaaaa!!

    Do you see what I see?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 12, 2023
    • Technology, Things That Delight Me, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 24 Comments

    Lock Him Up

    DOJ just indicted trump on charges related to his theft and retention of classified documents.

    This is the season finale of Trump US, Season 2. Let’s hope the show gets a hard cancel.

    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 8, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me
    • 11 Comments
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