Powderhorn
Freelance journalist and dirty hippie burner.
I read news so you don’t have to (but you still should).
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Technology@beehaw.org•Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decadesEnglish
1·2 days agoTom’s should be able to crunch the numbers themselves. “Scientist says” should be reserved for things with a confidence interval.
We usually toss them something if we see any while driving home with food at this point.
That “while” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Still, this is where my brain went.

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Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fateEnglish
155·4 days agoStated briefly: Kurzgesagt isn’t what it once was.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Can a Noob Beat Factorio Without Any Help?English
1·5 days agoAt least you didn’t put hundreds of accumulators in a box while you were waiting?
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Technology@beehaw.org•At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer scienceEnglish
3·7 days agoI played Doctor totally wrong in the dorms, it seems.
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Technology@beehaw.org•At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer scienceEnglish
3·7 days agoThat dovetails nicely with the mental state of an undergrad. In my case, I did actually know everything back then.
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Entertainment@beehaw.org•‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Crosses $1 Billion in Six Days, Second-Fastest Movie to Hit MilestoneEnglish
5·7 days agoInflation makes it easy! I’d be curious what the stats look like in terms of raw butts in seats.
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Technology@beehaw.org•At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer scienceEnglish
1·7 days agoAt least they didn’t first hear about it in someone else’s sociology class?
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U.S. News@beehaw.org•Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concernsEnglish
2·9 days ago“Shit. That’s more single-family homes than I can own now.”
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Technology@beehaw.org•Is Myspace coming back? Owners confirm relaunch plansEnglish
3·9 days agoHe always looked so laid back.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Is Myspace coming back? Owners confirm relaunch plansEnglish
10·9 days agoI heard he was retired and living like a king in Patagonia.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Is Myspace coming back? Owners confirm relaunch plansEnglish
19·9 days agoIs 2006 coming back? I’d prefer that, but MySpace as it existed then wouldn’t land the same way now.
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Technology@beehaw.org•OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probeEnglish
14·11 days agoI have a hard time equating “the LLM did what we told it” with “hacking.” But hey, let’s throw “escaped containment” in just to make it Serious™.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on GeminiEnglish
4·13 days agoAlways my goal.
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Politics@beehaw.org•Senate unanimously agrees to oppose pardon for Ghislaine MaxwellEnglish
6·13 days agoThe fact that “agrees to” was even part of the process tells you pretty much the whole thing.
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U.S. News@beehaw.org•Deputies seize almost 40K fentanyl pills after traffic stop in CentennialEnglish
2·15 days agoPerhaps you can explain the connection between this AP story and the unrelated drug bust in Colorado as the link.
The TV bit is as flaccid as one expects from local news. Just standard “today’s reason to be afraid” fare … like, if you’re going to bring up the multiple moving violations that led to the drug dog, maybe list them.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the CompanyEnglish
3·17 days agoCats excel at this. I’m not sure I could pull it off at work.
Where I have to go …
Because a cat adopted me. Again.
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Food and Cooking@beehaw.org•Everybody Loves Cheese. Why Is Selling It So Hard These Days?English
2·20 days agoGold would disagree. That’s not a full forex explanation of everything, but about the time gold hit $5,000/troy ounce, selling my inheritance at $285/oz in the '90s for a ski vacation started to look short-sighted.
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Food and Cooking@beehaw.org•Everybody Loves Cheese. Why Is Selling It So Hard These Days?English
4·20 days agoThere’s also been a good job stateside of hiding the fact that the dollar has gotten weaker for decades. Some of the cost of an imported cheese can be tariffs, but when the dollar loses 50% of its value against the Swiss franc, Appenzeller is going to become more expensive.



















Wait … where the fuck is the shifter in that car?