I could see Linux attracting the “I am a superior intellect” types and then those people drifting rightward over the last ten years. If they didn’t start out far right.

The best way of conserving nature is to build a ginormous wall 110 miles long and 1,600 feet high that utterly destroys wildlife’s ability to traverse territory it has been traversing for eons. It is known.

“Why… why do they need a racing team? Why does the racing team need a lego set? Who is buying it for 27 dollars? (Well apparently the answer to that last question is nobody).”

Apparently NEOM is sponsoring some McLaren Formula E teams. (Formula E being electric). Google Pixel, Tumi luggage, and the UK Ministry of Defence are other sponsors, but NEOM seems to be the major sponsor.

I assume the market for these is not so much NEOM fans but rather McLaren fans.

As to why NEOM is sponsoring it, I think it’s a bit of Saudi boosterism or techwashing to help MBS move past the whole bone saw thing.

Apparently there’s another brand that describes its scents as “(rich durian & mellow cheese)”

I suspect a 194 dB fart would blow the person in half.

"“What’s mine is mine, right?” reads the headline of an advertising graphic designed by Tlon employee Romina Malta, whose aesthetic direction has shaped Urbit’s brand identity. "

Malta’s commission work is pretty much what my friend PK was doing in Chicago in the 90s. Not saying she’s copying, just that it’s not terribly fresh.

https://chicagographicdesign.club/articles/the-world-of-chicago-typographer-patric-king/

“The roadmap assures that they have retained a “world renowned architect (to be announced)” to design the city”

$5 says they claim to be using an AI-simulated Frank Gehry.

I can see it making sense, what with CPUs moving to integrated RAM, and probably CPU-integrated flash, to maximize speed. The business of RAM and flash drive upgrades will become a very large but shrinking retrocomputing niche probably served by small Chinese fabs.

“they call this “training” but i try to avoid anthropomorphising chatbots”

You can train animals, you can train a plant, you can train your hair. So it’s not really anthropomorphising.

oh no

He followed his friends Andrew Doyle and Martin Gourlay, formerly of GB News, over here. They were hired by US comic actor Rob Schneider’s production company and put in a word for Linehan. He moved in March and works for Schneider too. Having co-created Father Ted in the 1990s and created The IT Crowd in the 00s, Linehan is co-creating a sitcom called Tenure – “Our academics are like Father Ted academics: they’re very old and musty” – with Doyle, Gourlay and British comedian Jonathan Kogan. They’ve written eight episodes.

LessWrong (Taylor’s Version)

It is 1992 and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users

Does it have GPS so it can flash “WRONG HOUSE, FUCKWIT”

That survey was taken over a year ago. Attitudes may have shifted somewhat by this point.

https://bsky.app/profile/gbbranstetter.bsky.social/post/3lwobzemlz22j

And most of the contributors have other jobs.

Eponymous even. Guess they don’t know who named sneerclub.

Mister Sneerclub of the Newport Sneerclubs, of course.

You might need to update that to “racist wax hotdog” judging from his appearance lately.

My vision is to build realistic (non-nanotech) self-replicating robots to brute-force the problem of inadequate science funding

Guillotines ought to be sufficient.

PORN site encrypts random nonce

Really unfortunate word in this context. (Not your fault of course.)

“And then after the apocalypse the techbro families died out because their children had heads too big to be born without a surgeon.”