Melllvar, charonn0@startrek.website

I prefer Babylon 9: The Next Iteration.

Realistically, that would get annoying pretty fast and I’d soon learn to hate any song I chose. So I’d pick 4′33″, which is four minutes and 33 seconds of silence.

But otherwise I’d pick “One Bad Tank”, from the video game Left4Dead2. It’s the song that plays when the boss enemy enters a particular map.

For some reason fungal mycelial networks and tardigrades were all the rage in pop sci and internet memes circa 2015. The writers just hopped on the bandwagon when they were deciding how their non-warp propulsion plot point would work.

My thought process while reading this:

1. tsk too bad the institute couldn’t take the joke
2. Good on Goodall for being a good sport about it
3. See? It all worked out in the end for everyone
4. Goddammit

Man it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

Nougat and flame.

It’s pretty much as clean going into the pipe as it is coming out. Water pipes are kept pressurized so that any cracks or breaks push water out instead of letting contaminants in.

My mom’s early 90’s minivan. I think it was a Voyager.

Me over here in my Spaceballs shirt.

I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.

I always imagined his robes were iridescent, like a soap bubble or mother of pearl.

“Privacy” in the modern sense is less about protecting you from personal embarrassment or financial loss, and more about protecting society from the dangers of mass data collection.

Historical examples of mass datasets that were misused:

• The Nazis used demographic records (birth, death, marriage records, etc.) to identify Jews and other undesirables in conquered countries.
• Japanese Americans were identified for internment in part through illegal use of census information.
• The Rwanda genocide was facilitated by tribal information being printed on drivers licenses.

In none of these examples were the data collected for the evil purposes it was eventually used for. In some cases, the evil purposes were completely forbidden by the rules governing the data, but they were used anyway.

Information is a form of knowledge. Knowledge is power. And power in the wrong hands is dangerous.

When in doubt, shut up.

Surprised the article didn’t point out that the “Tim” axis is also pointing in the wrong direction.

The economic bubble being created between the AI and hardware companies is going to pop and take out huge swathes of the broader economy, a la mortgages in 2008.

The headline makes it seem like the lawyer’s statement caused the dismissals. But they were just reflecting on how many dismissals they’ve had.

Relevant Robot Chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5BkEhJ5fI

Not all species reproduce sexually. Not all sexual reproduction involves pairs.

I got a contact sugar high just from clicking that link.

That motherboard has a CMOS reset jumper next to the CMOS battery–two metal pins sticking up labelled “JBAT1”. Connecting the pins with a jumper cover tells the system to clear the CMOS memory on boot. In normal operation the pins should not be connected.