“where are... the coders complaining their code snippets are being used by AI code completion systems”?

I had a PETA activist in LA tell me to boycott BC salmon to put pressure on the federal authorities in Ontario to stop the seal hunt in Nova Scotia. She had buttons and branded lit to support the campaign. For anyone with basic knowledge of Canadian civics, there is nothing about that which makes any sense whatsoever.

You wrote that "McKinnon just removed any comment that didn't agree with her."

That was literally untrue.

As far as I've seen, longest comment you wrote on *this* thread (possibly the first with more than one sentence) was to protest a link in which you were caught out for lying. While I'm sure it feels good to…

Where does she find you people? That was awesome.

The "valley girl" grammar suggests she's satirizing bogus science factoids. Be thankful you are, a Star Wars pun she did not make. Hmm?

Where the asteroid meets the crater, so to speak.

So it's a warming environment that is producing more sea ice, and so far no one is completely sure why.

[not a climate scientist] The increase in surface temperatures leveled off in the late 1990s/early 2000s, but ocean temperatures below the surface have continued to rise. The oceans are absorbing more heat (measured temperatures rising as deep at 900 meters), so the common interpretation is that's moderating…

Did... Did you just...?

The United States produces 20% of global CO2 emission, making it the #2 producer of CO2 after China. It is the #2 country by CO2 emissions per capita, after Australia (just slightly worse than Saudi Arabia). The United States produces twice the CO2 per capita that China does, and ten times more CO2 per capita than…

Oh! Oh! And earthquakes! De-glaciation causing volcanoes and earthquakes, is that a thing?

Much of the writing I've seen about the military suggests that they wouldn't care about the hostages one way or another, and may even consider their safe return humiliating. The military is deeply corrupt and the whole command chain profits from the war via embezzlement, bribes, robbery, and kickbacks from arms…

"Catty"? That word doesn't mean what you think it means.

Yes, yes. We're going to seek out carbon trapped in the earth's crust over the last 400 million years and release it back into the atmosphere. This is exactly like all plants and animals which cycle carbon in and out of the atmosphere without burning Cretaceous hydrocarbons. It is hubris to imagine that changing…

My government presently spends unimaginable sums developing new and horrific ways to destroy people and things people make. Every penny of that money which is diverted to avoiding planetary destruction is a penny not contributing to planetary destruction. Asteroids? Climate change? Super volcanoes? All better uses of…

The #pdftribute links don't show a change in practice, but a declaration of existing practice. What I'm seeing is scholars posting links to where they have been already been self-hosting their paywalled content on institutional archives, on social networks like Mendeley.com and Academia.edu, and on personal websites.…