Emily Gorcenski

i know we talk about the energy consumption effects of data centers running AI inference workloads but i think we need to talk a lot more about the environmental degradation caused by my Dell XPS running firefox

I TRAVEL & BEYOND A 50,000-mile motorcycle journey: This 77-year-old heart attack survivor is trying to motorcycle around

Cutting off the last two words of this headline completely changes the tenor of this piece.

I believe in him! You can do it!

I have dealt with this several times as year for a decade now. I have 1K status. I am pretty sure I have given these companies enough money to have paid someone to fix this stupid bullshit

Emilyflorenc actually goes to the next step!

The next step is:

We detected a mismatch in your names. You entered: Emilyflorenc. Our systems show: Emilyflorence.

Do you wish to update your name and proceed? PS if you enter your name even slightly wrong ICE is allowed to paddlefuck you with an oar

Because my first leg is with Lufthansa, I have to check in with Lufthansa. The first step is to validate my passport.

So I enter my name as it appears: Emily Florence.

No dice. Try again

Ok, then: Emilyflorence.

Nope. Try again.

Sigh: Emilyflorenc.

My flight home is booked through United but the first leg is with Lufthansa.

My first and middle name are Emily Florence.

United has this as Emilyflorence.

But sometimes it’s truncated to Emilyflorenc

The year is 2026. Airline systems still cannot handle middle names.

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Bravo

Truthfully all payment information should be considered accessible regardless of jurisdiction. So it’s hard to see what could have been done differently by choosing a different provider. But still.

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it would fly over them

Qatar actually just sold back their Gepards to Germany recently only a few years after they took delivery. They sold them back at a 100% markup.

Sounds like a great deal right up to the point where a swarm of Iranian drones is headed at your face.

I'm actuall dumbfounded that the German government isn't having Rheinmetall just straight pipelining Gepards to anyone with a driver's license

But I also have to put some of this on the gulf states. they're out there spending money on skyscrapers and artificial islands. I'm sure they could find some money for like, low cost coastal drone defense batteries, instead of US taxpayer money financing $400M SAM sites.

A bullet costs $1.

Part of the problem is that US defense technology skews towards more technology to make more defense contractors rich. If you change the payoff function to defense in depth, you'd be seeing tons of "dumb" weapons used for drone defense.

US air defenses may not be able to intercept many of Iran’s one-way drones | CNN Politics Trump administration officials told lawmakers during a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill Tuesday that Iran’s Shahed attack drones represent a major challenge and US air defenses will not be able to...

I have watched many videos now of Ukrainian volunteers who have stapled together three soviet-era AK-47s and mounted them on basically a golf cart shooting down Geran-style drones.

If the US can't figure out how to efficiently intercept a drone I can make in my basement, that's a skill issue.

I would simply not cosign a letter with Epstein bestie Steve Bannon

You Are Not Immune to Propaganda Join me this weekend at the Rivanna Area Queer Center for a session on understanding news literacy in the age of algorithmic media. Watch this space for a list of resources and key findings after the session.

You Are Not Immune to Propaganda

Join me this weekend at the Rivanna Area Queer Center for a session on understanding news literacy in the age of algorithmic media. Watch this space for a list of resources and key findings after the session.

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Zuckerberg's Basilisk: The coercive threat of the singularity · EmilyGorcenski.com Futurists' visions of digital immortality and the Metaverse may not be as utopian as they seem. Do big tech’s current models betray a coercive future of d

Zuckerberg’s Basilisk

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