It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.

TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...

From Molière's 1673 play Le Perroquet stochastique ("The Randomizing Parrot"): "I am asked by the learned doctor the cause and reason why the machine predicts the next token. To which I reply: because there is in it a token-predicting virtue [property], whose nature is to correctly predict tokens."

this is an utterly bizarre thing for *any* company to put out, much less a defense company

i think the essential problem is analyzing causality when the proximate cause was obvious but the entire causal structure was so overdetermined that literlaly anything could have caused the same result. which is to say: it seems literally true that Israel caused the war, but anything else might have

OR, instead of these false dichotomies you could listen to the people who do biosciences and teach those who do the biosciences and have been spending years advocating for breaking down barriers to coding in these fields and are trying to grapple with this

www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...

gonna be thinking about this all day

This is some extremely interesting nonsense

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

It’s all well and good for tech leaders to endorse UBI. But it feels convenient to only focus on a distant political prospect. The GOP, right now, is doing reverse-UBI (work requirements on SNAP). It’d be nice to hear more objections to that.

I'm bummed that there aren't enough milirant vegans on here to add new axes to the price of beef discourse, or at least climate activists. Somebody should be showing up in everybody's replies telling them that eating beef makes them worse than an AI user.

taken out of context, this phase is a path to enlightenment

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I definitely have a personality disorder but it's mostly solved by simply remembering "how I feel isn't a reflection of reality" at all times

(my beef with him is that i am friends with an ex of his that he abused. i don't want this to become a callout post and will not be taking questions)

the thing is we actually have had a fair degree of success in meaningfully quantifying and studying the nature of all of those things using technology like EEGs etc, which is not true of "consciousness" which no one can seem to agree on what it means

my fav definition of consciousness is the state animals are in when they're not asleep, anesthetized, or vegetative, so it's kind of tautological to say computers aren't. in my opinion any good definition of consciousness requires the capacity to be unconscious

the person who spent hours in adobe making this and then translating it was a person who has truly lived

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

I think this kind of uncompromising, principled passion has a better chance of convincing haters than [the appearance of] accommodation or deference. "this tech gives you power, take it or it will be taken from you". and it has the bonus of not rewarding the whining behavior

the colors would be off i think

it stands for chat g petey actually

in the early chatgpt days my gf and I were watching a youtube video with autogenerated subtitles and the caption said "chanchi PT" instead of chat-gpt and ever since we have referred to it as "chanchi"

Christ a map like this for everything, an app for all commodities and their shipping routes, a thoroughgoing evaluation of supply chains

in an ideal world, all deaths would be by MAID (that is, should one desire that end)

The schlorp corporation just drop a bombshell on the florp business.

Not a glump. Not a blomp. They just proved that they blurps don't schlemp like we thought.

Think about it.

While everyone was thinking blurps glomped the flurp, they showed what glomped means.

I’m gonzo for AI and this is a good idea. Wikipedia belongs to a deeper pace layer. Critical infrastructure. Move slow, edit things.

still fully of the belief that the "bubble pop" will simply be openai collapsing and getting purchased by microsoft. this company absolutely can NOT find pmf and is only just now trying to pivot to business because they are terrified of anthropic lol

it's the self-similarity at multiple scales, plus helices are used in both DNA and proteins as strategies for compacting a lot into a small space

we are the versions of ourselves who survive