Yeah, it’s a shame.

I want okay. I want a country that doesn’t backslide into fascism. I would be overjoyed by okay.

I would like to see Trump in a debate with someone young who knows the issues and has a specialty in antifascist takedowns. Not a respectable Democrat character, I mean someone who can get up there and call him a rapist, a criminal, and an unpatriotic traitor and back it up with intelligent citing of the facts. You know, a Greta Thunberg type character. I want to see the Greta Vs Donald CNN debate.

It’s too late to ask for that now. You gotta say that at the primaries.

Sex is a combination of genetic, hormonal, anatomical, skeletal, dermal, muscular, trichoic, and arguably neurological factors. Most of those things are to some degree malleable, and in any case their grouping under the construct “sex” is social. Sex IS a social construct. It was not written on the bones of the universe in permanent marker that there would be males and females. Sex is a correlation that humans noticed, connected, and gave a name to.

Perhaps you are instead thinking of genotype. Which yes, is largely immutable barring retroviruses and new technologies, but trans people have conclusively proven that genotype is not the same as phenotype.

By the way, biohackers have already started using CRISPR on themselves for fun.

No, it’s the same meaning. AI is a constructed agent that solves problems using intelligence.

I’m making a rhetorical point that LLMs aren’t the only kind of AI, and neither is AI what you see in movies.

The sooner you buy an electric car, the sooner it’ll pay for itself in petrol savings

Then build more trains and bike paths!

@BigMacHole@lemm.ee is making fun of Trump for being an unpatriotic traitor.

Actually, lots of indie games use AI to control enemies and NPCs. Like Hades and Ori. I agree that LLMs are crap though.

Ah, common mistake. The law is only for poor people, you see. Don’t you feel silly now?

So what’s it called when the government is a handful of private individuals, as opposed to representing the public?

Photovoltaic solar panels turn light directly into electricity. This thing bounces light to a place where it can be turned into heat. The heat boils water, and the steam turns a turbine. The spinning motion is converted into electricity.

Steam power is a lot older than photovoltaic cells. Nearly every other form of power generation is basically just spinning a turbine. Nuclear, coal, and geothermal heat up steam. Hydro and wind get nature to spin the turbine. With steam power, all your problems with efficiency are mechanical. How do you reduce friction in the bearings? How do you get more power out of the steam? Whereas developing more efficient PV cells requires a deep understanding of subatomic physics. On the other hand, it’s difficult to think your way out of physical limits on steam power, like where does the waste heat go? The future of PV probably still has surprises left for us.

Republicans are killing babies!

Rick and Morty fired Justin Roiland and got two new voice actors to play Rick and Morty. Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden. They’re great, they voiced season 7 and it’s the best season of Rick and Morty yet.

I didn’t read it. The Register has a drier tone than I felt like reading today. I mean seriously, putting the word tabletop in quotes? I am NOT the target audience for that writing style.

Actually they say that Comet Dibiasky is twice the size of the dinosaur killer, but they also say it’s 6-1 9 kilometres wide. 10 kilometres is the size of Chicxulub. Scientifically it was very inaccurate. But politically it’s flawless.

Don’t look up

I’m a psychopath and I don’t use Twitter. I have PTSD. Also you shouldn’t call mentally ill people psychopaths, it’s considered offensive. You should say mentally ill person in the same language you’re speaking, in this case English. And maybe stop saying mentally ill people are rich. We’re not rich.