nostr:npub18yl523aft0stkww4vr3dqxxafwjve6x3vrvsfa4hla698zp8gdqqy0pegw Am half-hoping someone boosts a JCB and uses it to demolish the developers' own home while they're taking a vacation to get away from all the bad press.
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 nostr:npub1kwzvvj9384ukvgz86n3ztusn38hgzvajslmtg9jlz3wnz60cx6nsnyx29m It's also $2.99 in Apple Books. I don't know how this coordination works, but often when someone's announced that their book is on sale on Amazon it appears on Apple for the same price.
nostr:npub1h55q4u52v7ysfvxdtxngya9chpgtx0ru3hxq0w7hwnknxqqtkhzqz9jfjp nostr:npub1kwzvvj9384ukvgz86n3ztusn38hgzvajslmtg9jlz3wnz60cx6nsnyx29m Almost for sure (I expect it's discounted on Google Books too).
#WritingWonders august 20: Does your villain ever cry or show sadness?
(Ghost Engine) Nope: remorse, regret, and sadness are for losers! At least, that's the Abbot's stance. What about his minions, you ask? Well, they're all cognitive zombies so who cares?
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7
We didn't uninvent the shoulder carried anti-aircraft missile launcher. We did choose not to allow them to be sold in ASDA.
Oddly because medicine and research are regulated, by centuries old tradition, I have a bit more hope in this field than AI. (Although less hope than I should.)
nostr:npub1jrtnhvk2w08ee2taskml5hzr4yenw9jnnnkxufffmmgqnn27cnvqmqy25n He's conflating "science" with "commercial technology applications" (which are NOT the same thing, any more than astronomy and Building Big Rockets are the same thing).
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 I agree with the main point, but I find plasma dynamics research cool in its own right.
If it wasn't needed for thermonuclear weapon design, it might not have been funded at all.
nostr:npub1y3qqz406ww46wqwu74gxw5dzv9673ptyykt4ph2rphsvunck78yqx8wmll That's a valid viewpoint. I'm just really annoyed by the press's uncritical regurgitation of LLNL talking points that peacewash a nuclear weapons reseach program as a contribution to civil nuclear power R&D.
nostr:npub1933pz3fwzss2xlnre4hvmgl3fjr6cjpznyvuv3yrjahuzs6nvwhq0qjggw I'm not doing any indoor fringe events whatsoever during COVID (which isn't over), avoiding crowded restaurants, not going near the Royal Mile or Princes Street, and masking up on buses or in busy shops/other venues. But mostly just hunkering down at home.
15 year old me (circa 1979) had NO IDEA where this was going to end up when he first invented the Githyanki for a D&D campaign then submitted them to Don Turnbull for the Fiend Factory column in White Dwarf (which begat the Fiend Folio, and the rest is history) ...
NB: Tulip bubbles are ten a penny this century. I will be more impressed when they come up with a Tulpa bubble.
Parenthetically: I run a blog, and I regularly get emails from grifters who want me to publish their "content" for ... reasons?
Anyway, until late last year it was all cryptocurrency, all the time. Then the cryptogrifters went dark. Can't think why.
Well, I just had my first "please publish our essays about why ChatGPT is great and you should invest in AI" spams. Which, predictably, seem to be wri…n by ChatGPT ...
Tulip bubble time, folks.
nostr:npub1tcwn9tl3ya4g3qh6he4dle4037a6hvzxfvkvnxkws39sm7w2659qmpkkca Oh dear. That book was always a bit of a right-wing wankfest, and many aspects of it have NOT improved with time (eg. the portrayal of autism, Mussolini, etc ...)
nostr:npub1rv4738d6q3nxf24v4gmg4u7lh3udmarsttfzp7q0xttdlqk5ls3s65ft5j How do you mid-click (or click at all, for that matter) in Safari on iOS? Asking for about a billion friends.
nostr:npub1j0clhkdkxu2wuqn55sgh4u83lyzn84lsncggaw5wkrltr0y0vctq4wcxw5 nostr:npub1jc0sh3wdfut8hmnmqy8l4smqhnq0y32mn5536mdn9wtsac5geynslnsldg Which leads to the interesting question of exactly WHAT microbial pathogens sauropods carried? (Bearing in mind that sauropods probably bore as much relation to, say, late Cretaceous raptors as a mastodon bears to a platypus: we say "dinosaurs" but they spanned a period of nearly 200M years ...)
nostr:npub1j0clhkdkxu2wuqn55sgh4u83lyzn84lsncggaw5wkrltr0y0vctq4wcxw5 nostr:npub1jc0sh3wdfut8hmnmqy8l4smqhnq0y32mn5536mdn9wtsac5geynslnsldg C. botulinum is an obligate anaerobe, so you're not going to get botulism from a Scotch egg unless you use meat from a damaged/infected tin can. (Other nasty opportunistic pathogens, sure. But not botulism.)
nostr:npub1ecdg62ymecuslw3w38dksjvap7g84hv534zh2dqcultyg9n67hrq7ypq6n Ah, so you missed her space opera series? And also "The Left hand of Darkness", "The Dispossessed", etc …
nostr:npub1k24sy39zjs7pccfcafcfghn0tcl96wht85tf7ygv3tv2cqa7kezqum26zw Yes, but their own species' religious-and-sexual weirdness is ... let's just say, they're REALLY weird, okay?
nostr:npub1mfqs8tt9twtdlfkukq7xuzeurm38tdsj02sz5pkcc0apacqpg88slxqfr7 nostr:npub1g0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msp3tvm4 Sail it up the Thames, moor it off Westminster, and turn it into a barracks for MPs with second homes they rent out while claiming parliamentary expenses for renting near the HoC.
nostr:npub1mr5rgwpsdzgyhzh6aytke3zrjy7fxnljdllqnv5vyh6agdj2x2sqvfq879 I live in Scotland. The all time highest temperature ever recorded in this country was 34.8 ℃ on 19/7/22, beating the previous record of 32.9℃, which had stood since 2003.
Here in Edinburgh, the hottest day ever hit 31.6℃ on 25/7/19, beating a previous high of 30℃ set in 1975.
We feel heat differently …
nostr:npub18v84hurwd535g5hle4e5xtw768zvrulsh8at3a54w6wj8fqpnvcq788klv Back in 1990 I walked out of a job interview, in the middle of a recession, when one of the managers interviewing me explained (about their future dev plans) "… but we upgrade to COBOL next year!"
nostr:npub1u80axgatavnjlxg2w8rz60tvxm2s58w8kgv33jlnfc786r6vu6asjut6ad If you expect them to burn their careers to the ground for someone else—anyone else—you're an optimist. 99% of people just won't *ever* do that. (I'm not saying they shouldn't: I'm saying they won't, and nobody you can find to replace them will do that either.)
nostr:npub1u80axgatavnjlxg2w8rz60tvxm2s58w8kgv33jlnfc786r6vu6asjut6ad The question is, what can we REALISTICALLY ask people to do in the face of hegemonic oppression, with some hope of achieving useful results, rather than demanding the impossible and being angry when nothing happens.