It may be better than an arbitrary cutoff, but I will die on the hill that it’s still the wrong way to look at a taxonomic system for non-fusors. Using system dynamics to classify parts of a system is all well and good when you’re, well, disecting systems, but this was about defining individual bodies.

Using extrinsic contexts rather than intrinsic ones is how you define dolphins as fish.

Spherical due to being in hydrostatic equilibrium is all we need. But that raised tooany questions about the accuracy of system models for system modellers.

It’s not “widely misunderstood”, it’s been widely hyped by the people actively selling it. The tech bros are pumping and dumping it, just like with every other tech panacea.

It’s not the public, it’s the snake oil salesmen.

Ah, the dichotomy of Linux users:

“wHy DoEsN’t EvErYbOdY uSe LiNuX???”

and

“gEt On My LeVeL nOoB”

Musk <-------------------------------- LYs -----------------------------------> Self-Driving car

Any questions?

The problem being that none of the alternative models have good explanations, either.

It’s not like astronomers like dark matter. Most kind of hate it. But every time people try to sell alternate models, they spend their time trying to find examples that raise corner cases for dark matter while ignoring the fact that their favourite models also don’t address the issue.

Which, you know, is acting in bad faith.

If Tired Light boosters lost energy at the rate they believe light does, they’d have run out of steam by now.

No, what they want is to be able to coax more money out of their sales numbers. Retention is correlated with future purchases, both of paid DLC (if the game has it) and of future studio titles.

And it’a an easy metric to point to when talking to a publisher and negotiating funding.

It’s got plenty of latent sexism, much of it carried in the bestiary, and inherited from the original monster manuals. The fact that you don’t see it just means it doesn’t exceed your own internalized sexism.

Which is fine. We’ve all internalized sexism, racism, and other prejudices. But you not being able to see it is not the same thing as it not existing, and declaring it absent because you don’t see it is probably not wise.

No, this isn’t the casual sexism of the 70s. This is deliberate, rabid, reactionary misogyny that he felt OK to publicly publish:

I thought perhaps these folks were right and considered adding women in the ‘Raping and Pillaging[’] section, in the ‘Whores and Tavern Wenches’ chapter, the special magical part dealing with ‘Hags and Crones’, and thought perhaps of adding an appendix on ‘Medieval Harems, Slave Girls, and Going Viking’.

That’s specific, and directed hatred. Dude was engaging in standard Incel bullshit.

It’s something that should be publicised not because OpenAI has promised privacy, but because a lot of people seem to assume it where it has not been offered, and they need to be reminded that they’re kind of out to lunch on the issue.

Like, people in companies keep using these things to write reports with privileged information. People need to be informed as gently but alsonas firmly as possible that they’re sending this stuff over the internet to an organization that considers everything it can see to be its own.

“Are 13 year olds too young to exploit monetarily?”

“Are 13 year olds too young to take on the glorious privilege of earning their own money?”

Hey look, it’s propaganda in action, right there on the CBC.

“I’ve told you before, Ensign, call it life support when on the bridge.”

Beakman looks like he’s been through some shit

“Just use this thing that you’ve already rejected for X, Y, and Z.”

“Have they fixed X, Y, and Z yet?”

" Fuck you for asking."

The point of federation is to publicly share what you want to publicly share, not to have unfettered access to whatever you want to consume.

They’ve not handled the transition from conservatives-on-bikes to protestors-in-suits very well.

“Futurologist” is a self-appointed honorific that people who fancy themselves “deep thinkers” while thinking of nothing more deeply than how deep they are. It’s like declaring oneself an “intellectual”.

How often does “a bunch of non-devs flock to a half-baked community FOSS project and suddenly gain a bunch of devs” actually play out?

The one reasonable possibility is that they might pick up a designer or two, but how many community FOSS projects seriously consider non-code or non-art contributions? Because based on the FOSS software I’ve used, it’s a vanishingly small number.

Coders over-value code, and under-value everything else.

We’ve spent a century+ pretending carbon pollution has no cost, and the entire history of capitalism – if not our species – pretending all other pollutions had no cost right up until that cost was undeniable.

So, not surprising that we’re treating CO2 the exact same way. Only this time around, the polluters realized they could get ahead of the issue and convince enough of the general population that carbon pollution is harmless to prevent it from becoming publicly undeniable.

The system working as they intend.