Another alternative on the fediverse is NeoDB. I’m trying that one out for the time being. Its interface is pretty barebones and could use some work, but it’s nice because you can track more than books.

Nah, AFAIK they just didn’t release it because they thought they wouldn’t even get more revenue from it vs just writing it off. They tried to shop it around but apparently no distributors offered enough on it.

Some species of flies and mosquitoes are also pollinators. One cute example of pollinating flies are the Bombyliidae. Mosquito larvae are also important food sources for aquatic and semi-aquatic species like frogs and fish.

Haha there’s a reason why the Xenomorph from Alien is in part inspired by parasitoid wasps.

If you study wasps, you’ll find that they very frequently have odd symbioses from species to species, most often as parasites/parasitoids or hyperparasites. Some even have symbiotic relationships with viruses that assist them in their parasitism - ichneumon and braconid wasps have symbiotic viruses called polydnaviruses.

If you wanna learn about some more wasp pollination, look up fig wasps (Agaonidae). Wasps are legitimately one of the coolest groups of animals.

Interlibrary Loan isn’t available everywhere (at least back when I used to work at a library ~10 years ago it wasn’t). If it is, it often has an associated fee (usually at least shipping fees, sometimes an additional service fee). I think the common exception to that is public university libraries.

But I can’t pirate copyrighted materials to “train” my own real intelligence.

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Just saw it. I thought it was good, but definitely stretched too thin in some ways. It was like they were trying to fit as much from the book as possible but the runtime was too short for that. Overall still good and worth a watch IMO.

My own little pet theory is that 17 is a liberal and 18 is a leftist.

I think many of us don’t realize that there’s a better option. As in, this is just the way it is. Many who do learn there are alternatives then fall to propaganda about how the alternatives are worse or communist, etc.

In the past week I’ve seen:

Ne Zha

The Rule of Jenny Pen (theater)

Ne Zha was decent. Really fun action sequences and great visuals in the action sequences. Some of the humor didn’t land, likely because it’s a kids movie and maybe because I’m American and Chinese humor just doesn’t land as well for me.

The Rule of Jenny Pen was certainly something. Its basically John Lithgow physically and mentally abusing elderly people with a puppet. I’d recommend watching it. Lithgow does a great job playing an absolutely unhinged psychopath.

Most likely someone at the AI company would catch it and filter those strings out of the training data.

It stems back to a PR from the SerenityOS project where someone changed a “he” to a “they” in the documentation and the PR was declined for “personal politics”

Here’s an article about it: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

It does leave out this response by Kling on Twitter:

They release these on Saturday or early Sunday pretty frequently, projected from presales, previews, and Friday #s. They can be a little off but they’re usually pretty close.

He’d probably never get the opportunity in the first place. It would be cool to see what he could do with an action movie though if he ever gets bored of doing horror.

Recent one for me is Love Hurts.

Had a few things going right for it. The early fight scene between Ke Huy Quan and Marshawn Lynch’s characters was really fun and cool. You could see the bones of a really fun John Wick clone but with a bit of an 70’s/80’s kung fu twist to it. But then they completely ruin it with the love interest plot and the boring bad guy and boring later fights. Take that early part of the movie and expand on it, and drop the love interest crap, and it might have been pretty good.

Pretty bad opening considering the budget is rumored to be $100m+.

Librewolf is a fork of Firefox.

From their site:

LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

In the future, Ladybird or a browser built on top of Servo might be alternatives, but both projects are pretty far from being usable right now.