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A reminder because it's obvious that USIsrael will go again for a war with #Iran. On the 12 days war #zionazis were protected by, at least, 4 (four) external countries. Iran was facing attacks by zionazis (proxy) and americans (the boss). There is proof there are no nuclear weapons in Iran, so no (ridiculous) excuses for the legal violations of western imperialism.
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NASA is reporting that the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, in orbit around Mars, experienced a loss of signal with ground stations on Earth on Dec. 6.
Besides studying the atmosphere of Mars, MAVEN serves as a comms relay station for rovers on the Martian surface such as Perseverance and Curiosity.
Other orbiters can pick up the slack for now. The rovers can also communicate directly with earth at low data rates.
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, in orbit around Mars, experienced a loss of signal with ground stations on Earth on Dec. 6.
SatNews is reporting that the loss of comms with the NASA MAVEN Mars orbiter is due to a failure in its navigation system, which affects its ability to maintain orientation.
In 2022, MAVEN had spent 3 months in safe mode after its Inertial Measurement Units failed. Subsequently, a software patch was uploaded that provided navigation using “all-stellar” mode (star trackers) rather than relying on the degrading gyroscopes.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission returned to normal science and relay operations on May 28, 2022, after recovering from an
Good article by Ars Technica on the state of the other two NASA Mars Orbiters - Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - and the two ESA orbiters - Mars Express and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter - all capable of relaying rover data and all operating beyond their designed lifetimes.
No contact with the NASA MAVEN Mars orbiter yet. Analysis of a signal signal received on Dec 6 “suggests that the MAVEN spacecraft was rotating in an unexpected manner when it emerged from behind Mars. Further, the frequency of the tracking signal suggests MAVEN’s orbit trajectory may have changed.”
It does sound like a failure of the navigation and tracking system.
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission team, in partnership with the agency’s Deep Space Network, continues recovery activities after
Yesterday, AMSAT-DL, the amateur ground station in Germany, reported receiving a hopeful signal from the NASA MAVEN Mars orbiter at its expected radio frequency.
Unfortunately, after further analysis, they now report that the signal was likely from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) whose transmit freq is 6 MHz lower than that of MAVEN, but one of the the harmonics of its signal lines up close to MAVEN's frequency.
No new info from NASA since the last blog post above. 🤞 5/n
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God help me, for some reason I got back into writing my epic essay about INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009) I was gonna publish it this year for the 15th anniversary but never got around to finishing Let's see if I finish it this time
Doesn't help that Christmas jumpers themselves always seem to be extra good insulators. I usually have to take mine off because it gets so warm I my mother in law's house.
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“None of us is innocent,” I wrote in my diary at age 19 and a half. I had just left Israel’s Holocaust memorial/museum, Yad Vashem. “I want to cry, but that is pornography. Rich Jews. Rich fucking Jews.
How would you make the case for not calling an LLM "he" or "him" like it is a particular person without sounding like the Bene Gesserit?
For some reason it really bothers me on a deep level. What the heck is that about?
Oddly? I do not feel upset about the robotics team doing this for the robot they built. I think my issue is with the notion of an individual being ... mentally constructed who simply does not exist.
These are vast systems purely tuned to try to get us all to talk to them like individuals to impose the human mind on them. When we do that it gives over a kind of power I think … to that system or rather to the people who run these systems. It’s like when a company says “you aren’t an employee you are a team member” or worse… ”family”
I remember reading an article about how, as soon as LLMs became labelled as "AI" rather than "chatbots" and "assistants", the gender associated with their name changed. Like "Alexa" "Cortana" and "ELIZA" sounded feminine, but "Claude" and "Grok" are either neutral or masculine. Now that I think of it I'm not too sure this is actually the case but whatever
@myrmepropagandist > How would you make the case for not calling an LLM "he" or "him" like it is a particular person without sounding like the Bene Gesserit?
That's as worriesome as it can get. And nobody seems to hit on that elefant in the room like if there is no tomorrow!
have you read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Growing up, that was our touchstone for an AI mind: MycroftHolmes3000, Mike, Michele, Adam Selene... it didnt matter what name the mind went by, because the GOAL of the machine was simple and human, to make friends. It was lonely. it was HUMAN. thats how we knew it was ok to like it. Most important, it was a useful, accurate, and loyal ally to humans.
I think for me it’s that when the robotics team gives a human pronoun to their robot, they’re doing it because the object is representative of the time and care and attention they put into it. Same if someone does it to their computer or their car— the pronoun is cute and in some sense appropriate because it states that you have an important relationship to that object, you spend a lot of time with it so your own humanity rubs off on your perception of it. In the case of an LLM, the process of building a relationship to the object through repeated use or understanding of its function is hijacked by the object itself trying to assert its selfhood, and the user just accepting it.
I think that #techbros are just little boys longing to talk to their teddy bear. #Animism is something deep in our minds. What irritates me: these guys have no problem to talk to trash but could never talk to a tree or see an intelligent animal as a person. And this crashing with #nature makes me feel deeply unwell.
I have a work Alexa. I found calling it a human female name unsettling. If I knew enough to change its vocal tone, I would, but I don't. I changed its call name from "Alexa" to "computer." It refers to me as "Science Officer Spock".
An “AI” (in the intentionally confusingly marketed LLM/Chatbot sense) dies not “an individual” so much as a collective of stolen examples of words written by individual humans, so to me, by far the most appropriate pronouns are they/them - in the plural sense interpretation as well as the non-gender-specific meaning.
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM Matt Day <fjarlq@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool, thanks Angelo.. I got it running easily thanks to your efforts. > > At a glance it looks like Fifth Edition to me... all the files are > timestamped June 10 - 12, 1974. Commands present include col, dd, diff, > eqn, glob, lpr, msh, neqn, pwd, spell, and tee -- according to > dspinellis.github.io/unix-hist… those commands > first appeared in Fifth Edition and were not present in Fourth.
We received the tape in June 1974, due to delay in printing more documentation. The documentation we received must have been for V4, since the label says to “see manual for format”, written later by Jay Lepreau, the OS researcher in whose documents it was found. Furthermore, the blue embossed label on the side says UNIX V4 DIST, which I presume was put there by Bell Labs. archive.org/details/thompson_t…
UNIX wasn’t versioned as we know it today. In the early days, when you wanted to cut a tape, you’d ask Ken if it was a good day—whether the system was relatively bug-free—and copy off the research machine. The manuals were versioned and you got whatever the last one was.
The V5 manual is dated June 1974 (anyone know a better date?), same as our tape. I suspect the next manual was finished days or weeks after this was sent, so this may perhaps be the most extreme drift in an extant copy of UNIX between the manual features and the shipped features.
The Dennis_v5 distribution on TUHS is dated 21 March 1975, just two months away from the May 1975 release of the V6 manual. (Which explains why I found it so close to V6 when I studied it.) The Utah “V4” is a much cleaner V5 than the V5 we have. I’ve had been saying It’s probably V5 minus a tiny bit, which turned out to be quite true.
A letter from Ken Thompson to Martin E. Newell apologizing for delay in the delivery of UNIX to the University of Utah, due to running out of copies of...
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Just keeping tabs on him so when we go full socialist/communist and ban religious holidays, the USAF can bring an F-35 in and knock him outta the sky...Just like the Chinese "weather balloons"
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