Relevant quote from Anathem (2008) by Neal Stephenson:

“You say of course there are criminals, but if you look at a particular person, how do you know whether or not he is a criminal? Are criminals branded? Tattooed? Locked up? Who decides who is and isn’t a criminal? Does a woman with shaved eyebrows say ‘you are a criminal’ and ring a silver bell? Or is it rather a man in a wig who strikes a block of wood with a hammer? Do you thrust the accused through a doughnut-shaped magnet? Or use a forked stick that twitches when it is brought near evil? Does an Emperor hand down the decision from his throne written in vermilion ink and sealed with black wax, or is it rather that the accused must walk barefoot across a griddle? Perhaps there is ubiquitous moving picture [technology]—what you’d call [video cameras]—that know all, but their secrets may only be unlocked by a court of eunuchs each of whom has memorized part of a long number. Or perhaps a mob shows up and throws rocks at the suspect until he’s dead.”

Either Butlerian Jihad or Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

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“The F.D.A. will approve vaccines for high-risk persons and, at the same time, demand robust, gold-standard data on persons at low risk,” the officials wrote.

During a “town hall” live streamed on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Prasad said he thought the new approach to Covid vaccination was “a reasonable compromise,” leaving the shots available to many Americans “but also generating evidence.”

Before approving Covid vaccines for wider use, the F.D.A. “anticipates the need” for new clinical trials in which participants under 65 are randomly assigned to receive the new shots or a placebo, Dr. Prasad and Dr. Makary wrote in the journal.

In other words, Vinay Prasad (appointed by Trump to the FDA for claiming the political left was using the COVID-19 pandemic to end democracy) needs to see more evidence (people dying of COVID-19) before devoting resources towards vaccine development.

I suspect Prasad is a podcast charlatan using his oncologist credentials to advance his career by stoking conservative resentment against mask mandates in order to gain popularity and name brand recognition to sell his personal philosophy books.

Gotta stay sane somehow.

So, a data-hoarding pirate who is also a prolific fanfic writer?

College builds civilization by staging collaborations of people dedicated to integrating threads of past information with one another to generate and share new information. Relying on LLMs to perform said integrations lowers the quality of the generated information unless you also have the same LLMs presenting their research at conferences, performing peer review, and other collaborative aspects of academia.

There’s an oversupply of ununionized trucker labor, so they’ll likely just replace you until union strikes cause a labor shortage.

Missing the Mormon onesie.

Also, the idea that a woman doesn’t need a man to impregnate her.

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Blondie’s granddaughter?

Turpentine, acetone, and benzene…

In my opinion, an acceptable password length should be L in ln(alphabetSize^L)/ln(2) = (B bits of entropy). For a Bech32 character set (since it excludes ambiguous characters), alphabetSize = 32. A good password should have been 96 and 256 bits of entropy, with 128 bits being my personal preference. This means L = (B)*ln(2)/ln(alphabetSize) = 128*ln(2)/ln(32) = 25.6 = 26 characters.

That’s… pretty close to what OP said they were restricted to, so maybe the person who set the 24 character restriction used a similar methodology.

To me, this ADHD quirk would be considered a high capacity for curiosity if only:

• there existed a technology permitting people to speed up their minds so they could comfortably complete their rabbit hole thoughts without interrupting their daily chores or degrading their social abilities.
• the quantity of daily work required to live a comfortable life were low enough that people could comfortably explore rabbit holes to their conclusions in their free time.

If you subscribe to the definition of inflation that assumes renting instead of home ownership and homesteading in rural frontiers with challenging weather (deserts, swamps, tundra) rather than in gentrified places with pleasant weather (e.g. every existing metropolitan area).

The way I see it, unless people somehow shrink in size or a wormhole opens to another Earth-like planet, real estate prices are inversely correlated to population which continues to rise.

FYI, their Mastodon account is here.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Escape city -> Fight gang -> Fight tyrant -> Fight aliens -> Fight angels -> Fight God -> Fight entropy

Squealer did nothing wrong.

“I dumped the trash outside the environment.” “Into another environment?” “No, I dumped it beyond the environment. It’s not in the environment.”