Connections Puzzle #1105 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

First ever perfect connections 🙌 normally I find this very difficult.

Absolutely delightful article about how limited our digital color space is, the history, technology, and physics behind that, and vivid examples where to encounter those exiled colors in our physical environment. Very approachable language.

billionaire tax backed by California governor and presumptive Democratic presidential aspirant Gavin Newsom

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Newsom, the California Democratic Party, and […] - are publicly opposing the tax.

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Newsom said that the proposed tax “makes no sense” and would be “really damaging to the state.”

Huh? Wording?

Can you explain in a little more detail how enforcing online ID prevents WW3? Genuinely curious. The only thing I think of that national online ID might help with is counter intelligence, especially in defense against psyops. However, in the few cases that we do know about psyops toppling elections, e.g., Brexit, these were performed on behalf of or with the aid of party and government officials in the affected countries. If any, this would become easier, because widespread online ID silents dissenting voices, while well-financed entities can navigate and / or circumvent such regulation (also see, for example, the effect of GDPR on the market structure of attention merchants in Europe).

Introducing Athenian democracy: Place your name on a paper slip. Place that slip in a big bag. If your name gets pulled, congrats: You are now a politician for an allotted time. Also works with marble slips for extra flair.

Thank you for the context. Highly appreciated! I had gathered the gradual decline in funding and surveillance from this publication but they didn’t really talk about the damages done by COVID or DOGE.

That’s a completely fair opinion, even though I would argue that Google pagerank is a genuinely revolutionary piece of code that has, taken on its own, made the internet a better place.

Can someone explain this part?

That means you still have access to essentials like WhatsApp, Google Maps, Spotify, Signal, and iMessage via a third-party solution that needs temporary access to a Mac.

Does that mean you can only use this phone as intended if you own a Mac because you somehow have to set up the apps outside the phone and that only works on Mac (not on Linux, Windows)? That sounds… Like a narrow market. What’s the target audience? California parents?

No, seriously. I think many would agree that the internet user experience peaked some time after Google entered the scene (yes, officer, right down this sub) but before YouTube left every serious competitor behind. There was a lot of “small web” content with no clear commercial intent (not blasting you with two affiliate links and one video ad per paragraph). Many of the big platforms were controlled by the techies who set them up and not yet by the venture capital who would eventually buy them out. Yet, venture capital already kept these firms afloat, so a lot of genuinely good services were genuinely free for the user and not paywalled or privacy-paywalled (just give us your email address and IP, bro, trust us bro, just one more captcha, bro, maybe one more 2FA using your phone number, bro, really, we might even let you visit our site then). Of course, someone had to pay up eventually: Enshittification ensued.

A second aspect: For the past decade at least, democratic-presenting governments have used all our web data fed into clandestine technology to win elections, either to stay in power or get into power and pull up the ladder behind them. I guess it’s like that old saying: A small time criminal robs a bank, a big time criminal owns a bank. Sure, we had all sorts of amateur criminals on the web in the predotcom and dotcom era and that might’ve cooled down a bit since. But now all the big players are adversarial, instead.

Edit: Typo in spoiler tag

True that. Even though that is also made more difficult by that same social environment often being fully googled and thus always busy with some slop.

TLDR: Both OpenAI & Anthropic about to go public and expected to exceed a 1 trillion USD valuation. Anthropic expected to pull ahead because of more sustainable business user base, while OpenAI mostly caters to free tier personal users. OpenAI more open to military use of its technology than Anthropic, the latter clinching with Pentagon over surveillance and autonomous weapons use.

Please don’t just post links without at least a short summary that let’s me gage whether that article is interesting for me.

This is the way

Demokitten

Then they should’ve included a short TLDR even harder

TLDR: Open package repositories without some approval and oversight system, like AUR, will have even more problems in the future due to advanced coding AI and malicious foreign hackers.

Edit: Please normalize TLDR’s on bot posts with just a link.

Edit 2: I have been rightfully informed that this is not a bot post. I still think links should not be posted without a tiny abstract, one might say: a TLDR.

I have also been informed that the text does not spell out “foreign”. This is correct. The text does say

Not all of the packaging issues are as bad as the initial wave of trying to steal credentials, some are just adding ridiculous messages in Russian.

This implies but does not establish the nationality of attackers. While Arch has contributors from all over the world, it is commonly cited as being a Canadian distribution (example, see below). https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=arch

Do you think, when Duerer and his contemporaries introduced perspective into painting, people natively understood and just saw it or did they first have to snap their eyes to it, like some optical illusion. Like, if you show someone a 2D projection of a cube for the first time, will they immediately be: “Yeah, that’s a cube” or will they have to train their eyes on it? Kinda like this Mary’s Room thing, in which they tested whether people born blind could distinguish a cube vs sphere visually after having their vision restored, by transferring qualities like “round” vs “edgy” between senses (they can’t). shower thoughts

This would make for a pretty cool SCP: A place or a person whom you can’t get super close to, because space around them behaves in a fractal manner.

New horror villain mask just dropped

The answer is no, but the other way round: If your regular poop stays inside long enough, it produces diarrhea again. Google paradoxical diarrhea. And don’t try it at home.

So it begins