DHL suspends high value US deliveries over tariffs

The negative number means that far fewer ships are arriving in LA than at the same time last year.

Yes, and then, or rather now, incoming shipping collapses.

He did not point the finger at any particular paper. At least not where I saw the cartoon.

Yes. It goes from much higher than last year to much lower.

You seem to be misreading that.

You certainly have a point that doesn’t deserve to be downvoted like that.

Are you New Yorkian, by any chance?

How you figure? Trump will just fold?

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/murphycartoons.bsky.social/post/3lnlwmypsgk2d

Huh. Haven’t actually seen panic on Lemmy. I only see it on social media accounts of economists and logistics people.

Maybe. I have no 6-year-olds around to ask. I have noticed that people often have misconceptions that I can’t even fathom because I have grown up in a completely different tech environment. For me, it has not worked to make assumptions.

The average person probably only knows the functioning of the DNS and one or two email apps. And quartz, of course.

Whenever anything is “federated” the easiest comparison is email.

Yes, but how many people know how email works? More to the point, how many people, who aren’t looking for the answer on GitHub, know?

They made inquiries with law enforcement agencies and no one took responsibility. The rather optimistic guess in the article is that the cops were acting on their own, which makes the use of the jammer illegal.

a prefrontal cortex, the administrative center of the brain and generally host to human consciousness.

That’s an interesting take. The prefrontal cortex in humans is proportionately larger than in other mammals. Is it implied that animals are not conscious on account of this difference?

If so, what about people who never develop an identifiable prefrontal cortex? I guess, we could assume that a sufficient cortex is still there, though not identifiable. But what about people who suffer extensive damage to that part of the brain. Can one lose consciousness without, as it were, losing consciousness (ie becoming comatose in some way)?

a dedicated module for consciousness would bridge the gap

What functions would such a module need to perform? What tests would verify that the module works correctly and actually provides consciousness to the system?

In fairness, the word “conscious” has a range of meanings. For some, it is synonymous with certain religious ideas. They would be alarmed by the “heresy”. For others, it is synonymous to claiming that some entity is entitled to the same fundamental rights as a human being. Those would be quite alarmed by the social implications. Few people use the term in a strictly empiricist sense.

Good question. Over the years, I’ve read a number of arguments about consciousness, or more precisely against machine consciousness. One thing that’s striking is that the authors never apply the same logic to themselves or humans in general. It’s like they completely lack self-awareness. If I took the whole “p-zombie” idea seriously, I’d look for such p-zombies. And these philosophers would be my first candidates.

secret sauce

What would such a secret sauce look like? Like, what is it in humans, for example?

Yes, that’s the point. You’d think they could have, at least, looked into a dictionary at some point in the last 2 years. But nope, everyone else is wrong. A round of applause for the paragons of human intelligence.

That might be the nadir of his career.