25 April 2025

A new physics theory suggests that gravity is not a fundamental force. It's actually "entropic gravity" and the article doesn't really give a clear explanation for what else it could be. The article itself claims that this theory would also explain dark matter and dark energy. The authors state

...gravity reveals itself to be the result of entropic effects in connection with electromagnetically induced transactions. Gravitation is therefore a consequence of coming-into-being (at the empirical level),

It seems, from the way the authors talk, that this is still a theory that's being developed. That's OK – I give it a sugoi.

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Khanh Pham should pay attention to this story. Remember that:
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, blocked news from its apps in Canada in 2023 after a new law required the social media giant to pay Canadian news publishers a tax for publishing their content. The ban applies to all news outlets irrespective of origin, including The New York Times.
OK, so in place of all the "mainstream news", Canadians filled the void with news from other sources, reading material of which Canadian leaders don't seem to approve. The NYT calls it "hyperpartisan" and "veering into misinformation". Maybe some of it is, but I suspect that Canadians are now able to see the unfiltered truth, and opinions from people that don't put up with lefty bullcrap.

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Someone thinks that Chrome is the problem and that selling it is not the solution. Chrome is a browser that just served as a vehicle for Google to monitor people's web surfing habits, and perhaps modulate what they see. It was also a way of collecting data, such a location data. The real problem was the infrastructure Google build to work with what people were typing into their browsers. A buyer for Chrome may not have those tools available. I haven't read that Google was selling their advertising bidding process with the browser, for example.

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Florida wants to build in a backdoor to all encryption. If minors use them. It's all for the children, you know. I'm never a fan of backdoors to encryption. However, I don't think social media is supposed to be a place for unbreakable encryption. People on social media already demonstrate they aren't that concerned about people knowing things about you. I don't think this is as much of a big deal as the EFF would make it out to be

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Here's Multnomah County leadership, taking away services that people paid for with tax money, to take care of homeless and illegals. And they will raise taxes even more. And give you even less for that money. Are people not paying attention?

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Perplexity's CEO wants their new Comet browser to track you and collect information about you, all to sell you "hyperpersonialized" ads. No thanks. We already have Google and Meta to do this. We don't need someone else.

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Intel has a problem. Few want their expensive AI chip. They'd rather have the last generation cheaper Raptor Lake chip.  I think that if they want AI chips, they'll get it from nVIDIA.

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Looks like 4Chan isn't coming back. 4Chan has been the place where all the misfit autists hung out. Where will they go?
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