By now I should just take this up with Rowling but she won't answer my calls.
"International Boxing Association raised new questions while struggling to answer others Monday at a shambolic news conference about the opaque eligibility tests"

IBA is bullshit. They did no test.

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-boxing-imane-khelif-iba-a26248f5285889dae13743f535ef9ed3

Musk sees AGI everywhere because he's ignorant, or he's pulling a con. I didn't think it's both but I'll hear arguments. Haven't seen anything from openAI that suggests they have AGI.
Meanwhile really don't mind if Altman and Musk sue each other into the ground.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/openai-wouldnt-exist-without-me-elon-musk-says-reviving-lawsuit/

Huh. Paris was the host city for the 1900 Olympic Games—the first to allow (22) women to compete (out of 1000). This time around there's gender parity at 5250, yeah only looking at m/f because the IOC rules are still like that.
#olympics

Step 1: Pickle minced celery and collard stalks, chop chipotle pepper, mash oak-smoked garlic
Step 2: Chop chicken, make chipotle/garlic aoli, stir together
Step 3: Profit!
#recipes

"Khelif" dammit autocarrot

Watched some women's boxing and if Khalif is looking male then so is most of the field. She is not the strongest hitter of them. She's technically very good with a quick ranging jab that precedes combinations, absolutely orthodox. Defensive, kinda boring footwork. Very polite to opponent, obviously a class act. Will medal. Quotes here worth reading if any interest:
#olympics
Olympic boxer Imane Khelif calls for end to bullying after backlash over gender misconceptions
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-imane-khelif-boxing-gender-7b171980b05bcef2117a7615f212eba9

The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
#AI #longtermerism

--Authorized by John Connor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

I never go out and buy a coffee but right now I want to and am reasonably sure cafes will be closed. Thanks a lot brain.
You're welcome.
I was being sarcastic and you know it.
Whatever, there's the kettle.

Whoa, Google Maps/Earth aerial imagery and street vector georeferences in China aren't aligned, not even close. Cartography fail.

Dual 5" floppies on a laptop, rawwwr
Programming the.... Robot?
Reading the oscilloscope manual
Bezel-less color TV

Usual and normal evening for the 80s Cleaver family, thanks to Heathkit.

It always said it was a pancake and now it's a waffle. Which is it.

Doing this. Committed

I might not have the electron spin this morning to make waffles but probably pancakes, and then toss them in the waffle iron.
#teamPancakeWaffle #alsoCoffee

offered this collie watermelon 20 times and got offended looks. He slipped up and tried it and now he's a total addict, would eat his weight in it. Could let him, see what happens.

"...tapes being released by House Republicans have produced a surprise - video evidence of Donald Trump’s fake GOP elector scheme in action.

The video evidence that I found - after many hours of going through the Capitol security tapes - was evidently not uncovered by the House Jan. 6 investigation."
#politics #jan6 #weasels

https://jamiedupree.substack.com/p/video-surprise-capitol-security-tapes

Think I broke the FCC search engine very sorry

The breakthrough came during Oval Office talks between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Biden in April.

"Chancellor Scholz responded to the president saying, 'For you, I will do this,'" added the US official.
-- AFP

I didn't know whether this is the truth or the narrative, but it's interesting either way. Certainly undercuts tfg's "Only Me" crap.
#politics

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36749

Yeah there you are ya little rat. Got you.
First I've seen a security bit that small. Why?????

For reasons only known to himself, collie bit through the battery charger cord. Going to replace the cord and wtf #ryobi used security screws. For t-10 (tiny star head)s.
Weirder still, I have a driver for them but it won't reach into the bitty cavities.
Gonna drill them out. #rightToRepair #orElse
(Yes it would be far easier to splice the cord but grrrrrr now I'm mad.)

That's "as a result of improvements in the design of the race and ethnicity questions, processing and coding", not some massive influx, or "invasion".
These data are all published, visualized, and extensively explained on the US census website.
E.g.;
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/improved-race-ethnicity-measures-reveal-united-states-population-much-more-multiracial.html

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