If you look closely, it’s hard to find a “border” in the picture that isn’t crossed.

Putting aside the problems in the current system, let’s not call Thiel’s system a justice system until we can see some results and verify they are just, 'k?

That’s basically the start of the Shadowrun dystopia. There were a lot of other things that “went wrong”, but when the government removed the liability from private security that has been protecting a hazardous materials transport from workers attacking it in the belief that it contained foodstuffs, it legitimized the “megacorp”: a corporation sufficiently powerful to impose their own legal system on their private real estate.

EDIT: In the previous histories the “Seretech Decision” was on 1999-10-26. Sources: 1 2 3 Looks like “6th edition” retconned the fictional history to start 2001-09-11 (Never Forget), so it’s unclear what and when the equivalent event is. Source: 4

no pivot

Upvoted because the headline is funny, but it’s not true or at least hyperbolic. The third paragraph in the article gives it away:

The device, which resembles the lid of one of Prego’s pasta jars, seems to be more of a one-off doodad than an indicator that Prego is making a serious foray into being a tech company.

I strongly recommend finishing “She-Ra and the Princess of Power” and/or “Amphibia”.

I’m a sucker for a Strong, Female Protagonist, and really anything by Lee Ostertag (partner of ND Stevenson) or Brennan Lee Mulligan.

(EDIT: Updated name; didn’t know about the name change when I first posted. Added parenthetical connecting second paragraph to the first.)

If running a development team is like herding cats, of course an self-organized free software team is a “clowder”. Autonomy respecting catboys are also welcome.

Mirror enforcers are a lot more serious than that. Just ask Lake (nee: piluT) from the “Infinity Train”.

TIL, thanks!

IIRC, some jackdows (both male and female) seem to just like “pretty” rocks and will maintain a cache to visit irregularly.

Source: Trust me, bro.

Imma reuse my joke from last time this was posted:

The Green Revolution deserve AA capability, too!

Sounds like mama might be an Omega Roo-kin. (j/k)

He’s not trying hard enough. You can touch tongues, too. No entwining, but maybe in the P-reversed universe, that’s just taboo.

classic story of the US spending millions on developing pens that write in space while the Soviet Union just issued pencils

You used “story”, so I’ll assume you know this is mostly untrue, but for any of the lucky 10k that hasn’t heard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and_Soviet_space_programs

Stupid long horses. /ref

If gravity could ever overcome expansion, then there would be some period where expansion was happening, but the rate of expansion was decreasing, eventually followed by expansion stopping, then contraction happening and the rate of contraction increasing. There would not be any period in which the rate of expansion was increasing.

(When you throw a ball up, after you release it, there’s a period of time when the ball is moving up, but it’s speed is decreasing, then it reaches the apex, and it start falling down and it’s speed increases until you catch it. There is no period where it upward speed increases.)

Current observations show not just that expansion continues, but that the rate of expansion is increasing.

(Not only has the big bang thrown the ball, but the ball’s upward speed is increasing.)

It’s not Tuesday, but we got TACO!

The TL;DR is that training AI on copyrighted works falls under the Fair Use exemptions in copyright law

This judgement was reversed by the next federal judge that reviewed AI, in the Meta case.

It is far from legally settled whether training is fair use or not.

Source: https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-copilot-for-entertainment-purposes-only

If expansion were caused by “explosive forces from the big Bang”, it’s rate would be decreasing, not increasing.

Since current observations are inconsistent with that, we have to have a different (or at least additional) cause for expansion.

As the universe expands, distances grow, but mass does not. This causes the overall force of gravity to decrease. This means gravity is “losing” and will never catch up. (Gravity is weakening and expansion is growing). But, if it the rate of expansion were decreasing, that would mean gravity was “winning”, and might continue “winning” until it could reverse expansion.