Good morning Neverland

Welcome to Tuesday. Here is another shot from yesterday.

#Sunrise #Photography #NotMonday

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Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html

I thought the section in this screenshot was an especially good point.

This morning's dog walk sunrise.

@nigel

Totally. I remember when I'd look at people really funny if they weren't using Google search.

Now it's the reverse. XD

@rl_dane yes, same.

Sigh. Times, they change.

@rl_dane well said!

Also, courteous mention that DDG has https://noai.duckduckgo.com - No AI, no customisations required. Increase traffic to this URL and let them know we don't want AI!

@kaia Wow. That is… sad.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Lex Fridman’s interview with Elon Musk and the Neuralink team clocks in at 8.5 hours.

That’s almost double the spoken length of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

Is the resultant content anywhere near comparable?

https://www.theindex.media/p/will-no-one-rid-me-of-these-3-hour-podcasts

@Daojoan the poor editors!

It reminds me of photographers that are unable to cull their collected images down to a digestable volume for the public to consume. I curate the images I take down to the not-terrible at minimum, and the best of the best.. at best - depending on audience and criteria. But usually yields maybe 10% of the images eventually going on my website. I shot a motorsport event and had maybe 200 images I deemed good enough to put up, then saw someone dump their entire sd card of 2000 images on facebook. Most were shit, and clearly they spent no time curating and culling down, and they were absolutely painful to click through.

I suspect, in the case of Musk though, that he probably deems everything he says to be of tremndous value as you say, and any editor would be terrifiedof his wrath at cutting out 5 hours of him speaking. I say he probably needs to be more concise, and Lex needs to be a better host and guide the conversation better (he’s a terrible conversationalist - I dislike unnnecessary small talk as much as the next person, but I feel completely adequate after watching him), and it seems a lot of things are clarified in a circle for the sake of seeming intelligent yet accessible to the wanna-be intellectuals following them.

@rl_dane Probably all written by people who weren’t alive before google search came along so do not realise there used to be others - and there can be again.

Dear literally everyone writing, "This is what's wrong with Google Search" articles:

Your articles literally read like, "This is what's wrong with repeatedly slamming my member in a car door."

Just stop, already. You do not have to use google search. For anything. Ever.

It's been nerfed to the point that DDG is 99% as good, which you can even use with JS turned off, and customize it to do things like remove their AI search suggestions and stuff like that.

<voice actor="William Shatner" mode="maximum scenery chewing">
So... just... stop... using... Google search. It's... that easy. See?
</voice>

Thank you.

@rl_dane A friend had a really evocative photo of her toyota van, so i turned it into a 70s novel!

@ewen @albertcardona Coming at this topic from another angle, the sense of, or lack of, social responsibility:
Morris, A. 2025. What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us. 'Rolling Stone' (available on-line: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/, accessed 6 July 2025).
Studying car driver behaviour the conclusion is "Wealth tends to make people act like assholes, and the more wealth they have, the more of a jerk they tend to be."

@lain I bet.

CHAT ARE YOU READY TO LOCK THE FUCK IN

@confusedMiddleAgedDad yes also this tbf.

@Daojoan