Ghod even Debates tend to Evolve towards Crab.

We Are Cursed. 🦀

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* Yes yes I know "Cetacean" is not "Crustacean", but humor me will ya!? 🙃☠️

Talk about the philosophy of the philosophy of religion...

(Lol..? Eheh...) :"))

Oh yeah that's right! It's Earth Day today! 🌏

Also, of course, one can't not think of that timeless classic: "Memento Mori" ☠️🌹

. @chriswaterguy.bsky.social I just wanna mention on Bluesky that I very much vibe with this tweet of yours from yesterday:

> "Death defies our irrational but persistent belief in the inevitability of living."
>
> Aye

Kremlin propagandist Solovyov, lawmaker face backlash over insults to women as thousands demand apologies — Meduza Russian blogger Viktoria Bonya has launched a flash mob targeting propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov, and pro-Kremlin blogger Artemy Lebedev, accusing all three…

A Russian lifestyle influencer’s video to Putin about everyday hardship has morphed into a nationwide backlash against top Kremlin propagandists over their abuse of women on national TV, with thousands demanding apologies, possibly even legal action. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

“The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a reverse-lookup for speculative fiction. Describe a situation you are facing, and find the SF stories that already worked through the implications.” [urubos.github.io]

Why the Science Says Rory Stewart Is Wrong - Barry's Economics YouTube video by Barry's Economics

...also Rory is (very convincingly argued, imo, to me) arguably wrong about the economy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5sK...

Have I been wrong on the economy the whole time? YouTube video by Garys Economics

@vladvexler.bsky.social today I learned that Rory Stewart does not have a PhD... not that PhDs "really matters", but I also learned that Rory recently "dismissed" the credibility of Gary Stevenson to talk about economics, when Gary *actually has* an economics MPhil…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSs1...

And nevermind that *on that day* and *in the same race* robots were still falling over & onto themselves and crashing and breaking apart. What manner of fear of robot-apocalypse are you all even yapping about?
bsky.app/profile/cpax...

Reminds me of works from Four Eyes Furniture and Blacktail Studios on YouTube...

Yay … ha ha ha … yay!

On vacation while everyone else has the Sunday scaries

A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge YouTube video by IEEE Spectrum

Yes we do not need running robots nor flying machines and we must stop all efforts at pushing robotics forward also all sewing machines are evil [/annoyed sarcasm] youtu.be/g0TaYhjpOfo?...

A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge YouTube video by IEEE Spectrum

youtu.be/g0TaYhjpOfo?...

A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge YouTube video by IEEE Spectrum

From just 10 years ago: youtu.be/g0TaYhjpOfo

A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge YouTube video by IEEE Spectrum

From just 10 years ago:
youtu.be/g0TaYhjpOfo?...

A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge YouTube video by IEEE Spectrum

youtu.be/g0TaYhjpOfo?...

Remember just shy of a decade ago bipedal robots keep fumbling just trying to walk. This is a development and if you don't see it as a development you're either a keg-dumping mouthbreather or just a self-righteous asshole. Swim in that.

Bipedal running, mind you. Remember just a bit over a decade ago bipedal robots falling all over themselves over & over etc.

The WeLL aSKChuALLiEs crowd are all ha ha but cars and bikes and shit already but yeah curmudgeons can go devour feculence, as Mr Millchick so eloquently puts it years ago.

Fun! ..: bsky.app/profile/masn...

Five people killed after gunman opens fire in Ukrainian capital of Kyiv Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that at least 10 people were hospitalised with wounds and trauma after the shooting.

Five people were killed in Kyiv today after a gunman opened fire and took hostages at a supermarket in the Ukrainian capital before being killed during an arrest attempt, officials said jrnl.ie/7017031

The Company Creating FUEL From Sunshine YouTube video by Two Bit da Vinci

Synthetic kerosene jet-fuel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_Q...

NEW: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) outlined specific conditions on April 17 for vessels to transit the strait that amount to Iran retaining control over maritime traffic through the strait.

Read More: isw.pub/IranUpdate04...

Other Key Takeaways:

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

[No, voting won't solve everything. Neither immediately nor long term. But it's a fucking start.]

[Look at Hungary's +78% voter turn-out.]

Also Please Vote.

I love AI. [/nihilistic sarcasm]

I was talking to a developmental economist once, and asked how he'd feel if AI superceded him completely. And he said he'd be overjoyed because his job is figuring out how to help impoverished economies. For him, the work IS the goal.

I really, really, *really* wish the Indonesian ministry of communications & information (Kemkominfo) would work better & wiser in their attempts to manage the Indonesian internet.

#Indonesia #InternetRegulation #AgeGating #Overreach