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    EVENTS

    A Brief Lull

    Well, a lull on the blog, anyhow. But, I’m back now.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 17, 2023
    • Administrivia
    • 9 Comments

    Damn Right!

    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 9, 2023
    • Art, memes
    • 14 Comments

    Alloys

    Imagine my surprise when I learned that “bronze” does not refer only to the classic tin/copper alloy. Generally, it does, but when you’re talking about other alloys, they are also often called “bronzes” of various sorts.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 9, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 24 Comments

    Want To Scare Some Republican Donors?

    Just start talking about how the IRS needs to look into using AI to review every single tax return, fairly, evenly, dispassionately, against an expert system that encodes current tax law and a knowledge of popular techniques for tax fraud, and that the AI will flag and rank questionable returns, which will be reviewed in rank order. [See also: Mano Singham]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 5, 2023
    • AI, Spies Spying on Things, Things That Delight Me
    • 9 Comments

    The Longest-Operating British Crime Family

    Frankie Boyle gets some good digs in.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 4, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 6 Comments

    Hope – 2

    I love when seedlings are at that point where you can still see how the seed was constructed. Monocot or dicot, and all that.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 3, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 8 Comments

    The Perils of Literal AI

    I went to Hong Kong twice in the early 00s, and the second time I decided to have one of Hong Kong’s legendary tailors clone me a copy of my dad’s vintage 1940s Hart Schaffner and Marx tuxedo. (spoiler: it came out great)

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 1, 2023
    • AI, Art
    • 29 Comments

    An Open Letter to The New Media

    Congratulations, my friends, you slew the ogre!

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 29, 2023
    • Capitalism is a disease, Propaganda, rant, Wealth
    • 18 Comments

    A Surprise Guest

    … It’s The Grim Reaper!!! (fight ensues)

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 27, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me
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    A Parable for flex

    On my recent posting about adhesives, deep state covert operative flex commented, kindly. [stderr] And it reminded me of an actual thing that happened.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 27, 2023
    • Capitalism is a disease, Cyberwar, Things That Delight Me
    • 9 Comments
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