The moon over some trees
Somewhere in there, an unresolved spaceship. Built by weapons maker Lockheed Martin and carrying people who genuinely want to bring hope to humanity. It is a complicated journey and an impressive feat of human ingenuity, a reminder of what we can do when we organize ourselves to do it. Godspeed!
Any doubts about the gulpepper institute for health and wellbeing flying under the radar are immediately quelled by our society have a thriving... *checks notes*... necrocosmetics industry...
Researchers should seriously consider the ethics and morality of which organisations and governments they accept funding from, even in contexts where it may mean less ambitious projects and outcomes.
But as far as I know, quantum computing will almost always be an additional layer built on top of classical computing, and its unlikely there will be large scale consumer applications even in the mid/long term.
In the near term, there are things that can't be done classically, like quantum chemistry calculations which in specific circumstances can be described by a Hamiltonian which maps one to one to a quantum system, so we can simulate very complicated dynamics with a smaller number of qubits.
It is actually a thing, in as much as there is 100% certainty that once we reach a certain scale, there are a number of very important things they can do that are impossible classically. The point at which we can do that is likely quite far off, but its a matter of when not if.
This paper is excellent and goes into exactly this in great detail.
Also with four corners tonight, its incredibly funny to get an all staff email from the chancellor being like "here's an update on how great we are at management and listening to feedback" with zero mention of the investigation lol
No one has been more explicit about turning this medieval fantasy into a theory of modern governance than Curtis Yarvin, who also writes under the name Mencius Moldbug. Yarvin is the kind of man whose presence makes you instinctively cover your drink. His ideology is often described as "edgy" or "provocative", " despite not saying much to differentiate him from the "devil's advocate guy" from every early 2000s Bulletin forum. A gormless dork of a man seemingly intent on trying to make "The Dark Enlightenment" happen 1, Curtis Yarvin has spent years arguing that democracy should be abolished and replaced with a CEO monarchy, where the state is run more like a company, and its populace become its customers. Political disagreement can then be reclassified merely as consumer dissatisfaction, where if you don't like how things are run, you can take your business elsewhere. A (dull) child's understanding of how things should be run, where authority flows downward, and loyalty must flow upward, to him, the King. The special boy.
In his "Patchwork" writings 2, Yarvin outlines a vision of fragmented sovereignty organised through private ownership. He proposes replacing existing states with "a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of sovereign and independent mini-countries," each governed by "its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents' opinions." "A Patchwork realm is governed by a Delegate," he writes, "who is the proxy of the proprietors" He cannot resist adding an antisemitic aside in the same breath: "(The Delegate is always Jewish.)" Even when he is sketching his new clean corporate monarchy, he goes out of his way to smuggle in a tired old trope. Treating him as a cultural curiosity or eccentric blogger is another form of organised forgetting.
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If you thought the most recent post went a little easy on Curtis Yarvin may I present this aperitif from my post on neo-feudalism/medieval nationalism to whet your whistle: hetconned.substack.com/p/special-li...
I wrote about the 'Chuck Norris Facts' meme and how it was popularised offline by US soldiers in Iraq, touching on themes themes around war, hero worship, and the want for the world to be full of morally clear good vs evil situations, like the ones in Chuck Norris movies
as I said in my latest, the white guys at dropsite news are politically not great. they got good investigations but their actual politica are ... questionable at best.
youtu.be/86Rk3eIPZi4
No idea why this is being reported as if its new, its from 2017. Best guess is that 2 sites repushed old articles to search indexers and someone got an alert about it, then regurgitated the old articles without even looking to notice that the publication date was listed as 2017...
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I know this is 750% not the point but I like this idea of Aussie servicepeople watching on as shocked naifs completely agog as the USA do a big war crime. I feel like this isn’t the likely scenario for me. The energy I’m imagining is more in the vein of standing around watching a mate play COD
Def seen other people make the comparison, even with stuff like the colour of the columns/station specifically matching Chicago as opposed to NY or something.
refrigeration otherwise bacteria can penetrate. So if not washed it means they're stable and sterile at room temperature, which is good for a lot of places where refrigeration infrastructure might be intermittent. All info from here, not an egg nerd just a curious Australian lmao
I think with salmonella, if the chickens infected it's as likely to be in the egg as it is on the outside, so its commonplace to vaccinate laying populations against it. Also there's a natural protective barrier on the outside of eggs thats destroyed by washing, meaning afterward they need constant
1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.
We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.
Over two decades, Labor and the Coalition have jointly built the legal architecture of a police state at the expense of democratic rights.
Our new series, 'The making of Australia's police state', tracks how.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-making...
Oh boy yeah I've only ever run into one before but definitely one of the grossest things I've seen someone do.
currents and apparent nonlocal effects that enable ftl stuff in 40k. I like that this conception also lends a concrete idea to the "deep warp". Where most applications stay very close to w=0 as that's almost predictable, if you go far from that point, deep into w_space, then things get very strange.
People or technologies that interact with the warp have some perception of this 4th dimension, and an ability to interact strongly enough to kick the local spacetime out of that local minimum. When w =/= 0, this novel force has complex interactions with our spacetime that result in the
Ohhh I've thought about this a lot! I conceive of the warp as a fourth spatial dimension, with some energetic minimum of an undiscovered field/interaction/force at w=0 which confines the normal 3 spatial dimensions to exist on an isosurface within that volume.
I'd suggest contacting a studio like canberraglassworks.com or www.studioglassworkshops.com and seeing if they would be interested in buying or accepting a donation, and if not they'd absolutely be able to tell you who would.
Damn now I'm thinking of more.
Adore this m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Kind of Blue is fav of Miles Davis'
This is def up there for all timer
nikbaertsch.bandcamp.com/album/spin
And maybe not all time but some other faves from the last few years that I've listened to a *lot*.
hypnoticbrass.bandcamp.com/album/bad-bo...
illconsidered.bandcamp.com/album/limina...
So nice to see someone else talk about this. I've only just finished my PhD but I'm already painfully aware and saying having to say no no a lot. Depressing how even pure research is absolutely rife with it in disciplines like quantum.
Finally had a chance to listen to this and love it! Definitely gonna be listening to more of his over the next few days.
I don't think I've ever even heard of doing that here in Australia, does it alter the acidity?
we’re told to value cohesion right up until someone asks to be paid, housed, or listened to.
as long as “social cohesion” is indistinguishable from “shut up and do what you’re told” the *only* moral response is to refuse.
