Right, not necessarily a Republican/Democrat issue.  There’s also the U.S. capitalist culture issue.

How A.I image generation actually works is it’s trained on labelled images to learn the shapes and colors of things. You show it a billion images of dogs labelled as “dog” and it eventually understands that a “dog” is something furry, with four legs, a tail and floppy ears.

So many comic book names are ludicrous, engineered to make a 12-year-old think, “Oh, cool!”

Funniest episode of any TV SF series, in my opinion.

First, “science” didn’t say what the headlines claims it did.

Yes. Accurate psychological observations. I appreciate people dumping on this character, who deserves it. I was just feeling a bit of sympathy for people caught in the crossfire. So we’re on the same page.

Just like most car purchases are not entirely rational.

Frankly, I can’t think of anyone more deserving of losing all of their hair by age 36.

I think hellscape and liminal space predate the World Wide Web, possibly the Internet as well, and they don’t seem to have changed meaning. Are they Internet-adjacent because they see more use on the Internet than elsewhere?

Speaking of diplomas, here’s a funny thing: I graduated with a Ph.D. from a public university about 25 years ago. I stuck the diploma booklet in a bookshelf. A few years ago I took it out, glanced over it, and realized that it didn’t list a department or a major (which I think my undergrad degree did). It just says…

I can see why people are upset. A teenager conveyed a racial slur to almost a dozen people, through an unwitting intermediary. That teenager deserves a stern talking-to, so that he understands how seriously people take this kind of offensive behavior.

Given the fact that special operations units are most well known for their clandestine and lethal activities (read: assassinations and raids), the deployment of an AI-powered airborne robot affixed with face recording tech means America’s goon squads now have a powerful new tool to carry out their dark deeds.

Also Mississippi: Eudora Welty, Richard Wright...  Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King...  I think some southern states hit way above their weight when it comes to the arts.

I’ve appreciated adjustable seats with memory whenever I’ve picked up my car from the shop. One button press (though I have to look for the button) and it’s in the right position again.

I wonder if the rules forbid mechanical aids in folding? Because if you could compress a sheet of paper into a dense enough ball, it would be like throwing a baseball. Totally uninformative and useless as a paper airplane, though.

straight cis men (arguably the most unimpressive of our species)

We don’t need two anthems. It’s a damn football game. We don’t need any anthems.

I think this is on target. A while ago, on some other social media site, I was arguing with a racist who claimed that something like two-thirds of shootings in New York City had a Black shooter, with White shooters accounting for just 2% of shootings. Checking a NYPD report, I was shocked to find out this is roughly…

Same here. I need to wait at least a couple of hours after eating before I run, which means when I used to run in the mornings, it was always before breakfast.

Wow!