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by 1attice 1mo ago
This is true, and, relatedly, is the feeling I have about all of climate change. By the numbers, it won't be close. Of course, this little preview is itself anthropogenic. This horrific disaster is the thinnest tendril of the monster w
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by 1attice 1mo ago
That's a good question with a neat answer: assortive mating can amplify a randomly occurring gene by sexual selection. Read on for the details. Suppose that there was a gene that made you more likely to be good at white collar thinkwor
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Beware of patterns that scale and accelerate. A universal financial blocklist that can be added to or retracted algorithmically is a great, inexpensive way of murdering people you don't like. There is no legal limit to the number of (i
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by 1attice 2mo ago
The horrible thing is I wrote that all by hand
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by 1attice 2mo ago
..downvoted. OK. Perhaps I didn't say enough: - I love the use of Source Sans as the base. One of the few purely good things Adobe has done in the past decade were the Source fonts - The use of Whitney as a target font is also interest
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by 1attice 2mo ago
A handsome font and a worthwhile contribution. Satisfying. Nebula notches yet another mark.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Capture advances
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Interesting that you chose to flag instead of discuss reasonably. Says a lot about your character. Your colours are shown.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
You are ignorant of the context. Read about the last-minute changes to the US position: they contained several requests that, for internal reasons, Canada can't grant without weakening our federation. Specifically, abandoning French la
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by 1attice 2mo ago
It gave me a sensation, rare in 2026, of uncomplicated joy. I would gladly install either of these operating systems
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Ah yes, JalapeñOS. Time, I suppose, to upgrade to HabanerOS.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Speaking only for myself: you can't be tortured by thoughts you're not having, and I, sadly, am having thoughts.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
I love Schneier and his legacy of activism, and I read _Applied Cryptography_ on my own in high school, with great relish. Yet this article specifically is a tone deaf piece by someone who still subconsciously believes we are in the late ni
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Another excellent Zitron article. The actual numbers he presents are well sourced and, sadly, correct. Even if AI is the future of computing, we will have a 9.x economic earthquake headed our way. Read his articles carefully. Don't b
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by 1attice 2mo ago
This would require foresight, budget, and attention. MS currently has none of these.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Tech is no longer exciting to me because I no longer feel a connection between tech improvement and world (or personal life) improvement. I used to read sci fi for the wonder, but now I read it with dread, for Chekov's Gun is a Torment
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by 1attice 2mo ago
As a longtime climate activist, I'm at the point where, reading this, I feel nothing anymore. The coming shock is not going to be fixed with geoengineering, simply because GE takes more time than we have left. This is because it will t
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by 1attice 2mo ago
https://archive.is/3RGTz
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by 1attice 2mo ago
> It seems like a nice way for an author to be able to express much more meaning in the exact same number of characters. Quite the opposite: It damages beyond repair the ability to pick out proper names at speed. English has a horrid hab
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by 1attice 2mo ago
No one is calling out the bit where the guy goes full Mulder: > A few days ago the US Department of War released the fifth tranche of records related to objects that appeared to have a faster mode of transportation. Anyone taking UFOs se
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by 1attice 2mo ago
You get that the one we had was really really bad for a lot of people, right? A friend of mine buried five members of her immediate family. I feel like we are all somehow memoryhole-ing this massive trauma that nothing in this batshit era m
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by 1attice 2mo ago
That's a brilliant invention! I will kickstart a home DNA printer I will name it Torment Nexus I will be rich
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by 1attice 2mo ago
AI is a generational attack on working people everywhere by the capitalized class. It has earned our animosity, especially if the attack looks like it will actually go through. And, ironically, I don't think the capitalized even unde
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Maybe, maybe not. Rationality is not settled, and us philosophers argue about it all the time. :) What you want to say is that group survival is less and less likely the more we prevaricate, and acknowledging the severity of the situation m
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Oh, it can be too late. Positive feedback loops and so forth.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Perhaps the asymmetry has something to do with the fact that the conservatives are sharing memes about immigrants eating cats, and similar quality takes, during a profoundly fascist moment in American history, but what do I know? I'm j
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Oh my gods, this is such a fantastic line. I wish I could upvote this bit several more times
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Well, sometimes it is. This happened: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-military-mo... Trust me. We might not have yet signed the paperwork, but the divorce proceeds apace.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Interesting forecast, but it unrealistically assumes America still has soft power. The US international soft power wings have been clipped by an administration that has shown the world that since everything is permitted to the USA, its vari
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by 1attice 2mo ago
> There's no way Claude/AI recreated another persons app exactly Entropy doesn't need to be set to zero for legally significant duplication

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