Moderately Hinged

while Donald Trump extremely does not deserve to be on money, a $250 bill would be a win for cash transactions and thus for financial privacy.

This would make Donald Trump's face the symbol of unethical, clandestine financial transactions. A bundle of Trumps would replace Benjamins as the favored currency of bribes and criminal cartels, being 2.5x as space efficient.

By threepanelsoul

Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House account, the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force’s account, and Sephora’s account. The news shows the extreme risk associated with offloading support or critical functions to an AI chatbot. Users who have had their accounts stolen say that there is no way to escalate their problem to a human. In March, Meta announced that it was pushing AI support to all accounts across Facebook and Instagram, and that it would have the ability to reset passwords and perform other critical account maintenance functions: “Solutions, not just suggestions,” the feature’s product page says. “Account security and recovery.”

When I worked in security, I focused on the human elements because the machines mostly did what you told them but humans were vulnerable to social engineering attacks that could bypass the machines. This issue has now been resolved by making the machines vulnerable to social engineering attacks.

So many people who wanna argue with me about King Arthur clearly haven’t read the actual medieval texts. I know this because if they actually read the source material they’d know that when it comes to King Arthur, everything is made up and the points don’t matter.

It can be counted as arthurian legend now if you're not a coward.

Aside from residential zoning/real estate and farm subsidies my most distinctly libertarian instinct is probably pro sports teams. The industry makes how much? And they want how many million dollars from the city to build and upkeep their fancy stadiums? fuck off. Live by the market and die by the market.

Goodness, sincerity, justice, and maybe comfort, are so important--don't you agree?

Also truth

truly tragic how scott alexander was born with a rare defect of the soul, one that prevents him from enjoying bauhaus architecture, and now he feels compelled to write long repetitive screeds about how he's objectively correct and the rectangle-enjoying masses are wrong

i know there's some survey he cites claiming to show that the majority disprefers postwar modernism but i just don't think randos on the street can be trusted to self-report their own tastes. there's some sort of a pepsi effect going on surely. you say you like disneyland castles but if you were forced to live in one you'd kill yourself

Please note the amount of safety equipment that he is wearing. Also, I was so relieved when I noticed the speed was in kilometers per hour not miles per hour.

Your Kinsey Number measures the degrees of separation between genders you've had sex with and the sexologist Alfred Kinsey, for example if you've ever had sex with a woman that gives you a Kinsey Number of 1 because Alfred Kinsey had sex with women. If you've ever had sex with a man your Kinsey Number is zero because Kinsey was himself a man.

What is your number if you have had sex only with non-binary people? Does your number change retroactively if a former sex partner changes gender identification, or is it fixed at the time of the sex? If it is fixed at the time of sex, you could change your number while having sex with the same person over time (or change their number). If it is variable, your number could change erratically if you have a genderfluid partner.