The Spanish Flu got called that because Spain was the only ones not censoring news of it, due to them not being involved in WW1. That’s probably how it’s going to happen this time. The next global pandemic will start in the US but the world will hear about it only from the first country it spreads to.

<< the taste of the laser dot’s blood that one time in a dream when I caught it >>

Just wait until all the venture capital OpenAi raised on a valuation that assumes they will singlehandedly achieve the singularity in 2027, replace all human workers by 2028, and convert 75% of the Earth’s crust to paperclips by 2030 runs out, they can’t operate at a loss anymore, and have to raises prices to a point where they’re actually making a profit.

Guess he was really leaning into the whole “impersonating a police officer” thing.

In a word, Enshittification. The original Cory Doctorow article explaining it

It’s not censorship. It’s just what happens to any platform run by a publicly traded company whose customers are the advertisers and whose users are the product.

Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) (Kinyarwanda: Radiyo yigenga y’imisozi igihumbi), nicknamed “Radio Genocide” or “Hutu Power Radio”, was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993, to July 31, 1994. It played a significant role in inciting the Rwandan genocide that took place from April to July 1994, and has been described by some scholars as having been a de facto arm of the Hutu regime in Rwanda.[1]

(From Wikipedia)

Are you the IPCC?

I feel exactly as much sympathy for anyone using the Meta AI app as I do for anyone whose new Cybertruck fell apart.

If you’re going to protest, be sure to let Google know about it!

I’ll answer your question with two more questions:

What’s the opposite of a rat king? What’s the opposite of an ant mill?

Also I have to question your whole premise of the relationship between religion and cult. Where a cult is the bad kind of something and a religion is the neutral, default kind.

A religion is just the final form of a successful cult that got big enough and old enough that it no longer needs to take the drastic “cult-like” measures to restrict its members and separate them from society- because it has thoroughly infiltrated and colonizied that society to such an extent that being born into that society is enough.

It looks like there are two chambers and the smoke goes from the bowl into the top one first, then down into the beans, and it’s just not clear by the picture how it gets from the bottom chamber to the mouthpiece.

That’s how I read it too at first- and as bad as ‘erotic role play’ with a LLM chatbot sounds, the other one is so much horribly worse.

Decarbonized oil is just very inefficiently produced hydrogen.

I would also like to say, fuck Glenn Greenwald.

And here is a better source on why fuck Palantir: Behind The Bastards

The dumb thing here is going to the trouble of drawing vanishing lines but not using a ruler to get them straight, so they may as well have just freehanded the cube in the first place.

Also, platypuses are smaller than you probably thought they were. ( if comparing to beavers and river otters )

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