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017 - Leftover Pay Phones

Every so often, I come across an old pay phone. They’re usually as raggedy as an old alley cat, broken, and left in the strangest places: parking lots, alley ways, an occasional main street. From Forbes: This was a business that routinely operated in the tens of millions of

017 - At Ikea

Spotted at an Ikea in Denver, Colorado. Coincidentally, there seems to be only one IKEA in Colorado. Whenever a number of different screens come together, there will be some inevitable drift towards being out-of-sync at some point. This drift can be caused by internal components (a screen burning in or

016 - Old Televisions

Spotted in Boulder, Colorado. An old TV sits around in a restaurant, playing static. Glitch aesthetic.

On SolarWinds and FireEye Getting Hacked

Why the US government hack is literally keeping security experts awake at night (CNN) Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to breach (GeekWire) U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye discloses breach, theft of internal hacking tools (Reuters) Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails -

On Firing Timnit Gebru, Google’s AI Ethics Chief

“On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” lays out the risks of large language models—AIs trained on staggering amounts of text data. These have grown increasingly popular—and increasingly large—in the last three years. They are now extraordinarily good, under the right conditions,

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