I definitely would’ve believed it even back then. There’s an entire setting where an Arcology (think “smart building” cranked up to 11) is taken over by the AI agent…
Oh crap. That’s the next thing that’s going to end up defictionalized.
Exactly one year ago today:
I was also thinking about this right after replying. It would have an effect on those who were stuck deep in conservative areas. It definitely helped me around that era to have contact with communities outside the ultra conservative region I lived in back in 00-06.
And of course Afghanistan… which I’m also certain ended up the way it did because of Iraq 2.0 as well.
I’m not entirely sure it would’ve helped. Popular opinion in the run up of Iraq 2.0 was that it would be like Iraq 1.0 or Afghanistan where it would be a quick and swift war with little to no casualties. I’m certain the current pushback against war comes from the mess that was Iraq 2
"Laura Burns name was removed from the credits. The single mother who made the expose of Andrew and Epstein possible was not on any of the BAFTA award submissions either. To call her erasure unfair is to put it mildly."
This is hilarious not just because Columbus never even reached the land of what is now considered the USA, but because it’s the first time I see a ‘merkin admitting that America is a continent.
Well, it’s the HSI branch. They’re probably as tired of this as everyone else.
His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.
There quite literally needs to be memorials to the fallen in Minneapolis. This is a resistance worth memorializing in the most literal of ways.
ICE shot out a young trans man's eyes for the crime of caring about his neighbors.
Well, you know the rules, and so do I
It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your atomic clocks are?
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
It’s a joke/reference to a certain miniseries from the 80s.
I actually saw the first V meme related to Agent Orange waaay back in 2017.
Even earlier; Border Patrol and whatever the forerunner of ICE was (can’t remember) already had brownshirt like powers granted to them. A friend wrote about this back in the mid 90s.
“.. US job market has barely grown in the past 3 months.” 🇺🇸
- B of A
Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly. A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
💩 in Latin?
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.
Humorous description the five stages of grief through a series of margarine containers. Each container aligns with a stage. Each stage's label humorously reflects the emotional progression. 1. Denial: A yellow tub labeled "I can't believe it's not Butter!" with vibrant blue and red lettering. 2. Anger: A square yellow container marked "What, not butter!" in bold black text. 3. Bargaining: A cylindrical yellow tub labeled "Could it be Butter?" with an image of corn and broccoli. 4. Depression: A rectangular container with green letters saying "Unbelieveable this is not butter" in both English and Chinese. 5. Acceptance: A yellow tub plainly labeled "Margarine," with additional text indicating it is "Unsalted" and "Kosher for Passover."
And now for something completely different...
My sister had a similar experience at Kindergarten, but with a different spicy song in Spanish. Gloria Trevi’s “A La Madre”. The whole song is word play with “madre” meaning mother or nun but also used for cursing. My sister was going to a nun run school. You can guess how that went through!
The prophecy has been fulfilled!
Flights diverting out of UAE airspace
Based on flight paths and air traffic control audio UAE airspace is currently closed. www.flightradar24.com/multiview/3a...
Surprisingly enough, they still offer that service! I think it’s an online thing instead of the good old booklet thing, but they do offer it!
I’m amused that “did drivers pay people to calculate an optimal route” is actually true. AAA’s TripTik service!
in the all-too-rare category of good news about changing media patterns.
