I’ve been saying this for years.

I was surprised to read that the magnetic poles have drifted enough that some airports have had to renumber their runways (the numbers being the compass directions in degrees).

Came here to say exactly this.

The first time I drove through the then-new DD interchange in my neck of the woods - at the intersection between McCaslin Blvd. and US36 in Louisville Colorado - I had seen the interchange design on a diagram, thought I knew what to expect, and I still had a ?!?!WHAT’S HAPPENING?!?! moment when I found myself driving…

It’s deja vu all over again!

Ah, yes, I remember now: GALAXY QUEST was the Star Trek film that beat THE MATRIX for the World Science Fiction Society Achievement Award (“Hugo”) for best dramatic presentation that year. And - as much as I loved THE MATRIX - it needs to be said: deservedly.

YABBA DABBA DOO!

Before CRTs were cheap enough to be easily available, I remember using an ASR33 teletype (L O U D), and later, a TI terminal that used a dot matrix printer for all its output, plus a built-in acoustic coupler and modem for the phone.

I also remember seeing a colleague on the night shift pull a floor panel up and extract a cold six pack. Those were the days.

I loved the stories of computer operators troubleshooting channel errors on their mainframe, lifting up the floor with the big suction-cupped floor lifter (remember how you used to practice pitching the lifter down at the floor panel at just the right angle so it stuck all by itself?) to check the cables, only to find…

I haven’t kept up with this. Have they already resolved the “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" issue brought up decades ago by Larry Niven?

I’ve got at last count ten Raspberry Pis of various vintages running 24x7 around the Palatial Overclock Estate. I’m working on adding an 11th as an OpenStreetMaps tile server. *yawn* If MS wants to know when I update any of these systems, have at it. (I’ve also got something like 35 repos on GitHub. And we all…

This was a rockin’ cover that did justice to the late great Dolores O’Riordan.

Agreed; her “Backyard Sessions” (by “Miley Cyrus and the Social Distancers”) were great.

Agree: would totally buy.

I’m a 64 year old male, and had the same reaction. I hope you appreciate I wouldn’t admit this to just anyone. I’ve become a Miley Cyrus fan. It’s about the last thing I ever expected to happen. Now I wish she’d cover “Feeling Good”, the song that Nina Simone made *more* famous (it was originally from the musical “The…

But we have devices like that on naval vessels (for the same reason) today. They are autonomous, but in no way intelligent. But you have a point; the PDCs are clearly autonomous weapons. I stand corrected.

The protomolecule is so far beyond human technology, exhibiting a lot of spooky action at a distance and what not, I’m not even sure we can call it A... or even I. It’s something else entirely.

On a related note, this is perhaps my only minor quibble with the otherwise excellent television show THE EXPANSE (and the books as well): no AIs evident in this future, and no autonomous weapons.

Sadly, I’m guessing we’re going to have to have autonomous lethal weapon development programs for the sole purpose of figuring out how to defend against them. But I’m not kidding myself that the temptation to deploy them in the field won’t be too great. And then it’ll all turn to crap.