I doubt the falconer would have any issue with me—I’m helping to keep them employed.
I’m indifferent to squirrels... but my city has hired a falconer to scare the crows away with hawks, so now the crows symbolize the oppressed masses being persecuted by the state.
A crow-calling whistle and a small tin of peanuts.
I know the political environment has been getting increasingly polarized, but that’s taking it a bit too far.
The classical Romanization was more accurate in its time—the issue is that the common pronunciation of classical Latin changed after the classical era (for instance, the “c” became soft in many contexts, instead of always being pronounced as “k” as it was in classical Latin).
If you use the original classical pronunciation for Latin, you’ll also pronounce the classical romanized Greek names correctly—and if you spell them the classical way you’ll recognize them more easily in Latin sources. The modernized romanization is most useful if you’re only interested in Greece and not in the classical world as an integrated whole.
Utnapishtim.
“I didn’t think I would become an example of the face-eating-leopards meme.”
Yeah, that’s why we need at least... two of them.
Ukraine should offer the North Koreans political asylum if they defect.
Minor point: Harris is ahead in the poll aggregate; Trump is ahead in the forecast model.
Blood Meridian as an illustrated children’s book.
How does it compare to Biden’s early vote lead?
Why are they comparing it to the last election the Democrats lost, instead of the one they won?
I use “mold” for both, and regard “mould” as the British spelling for both.
But the etymologies are interesting—the verb comes from French modle, while the fungus comes from late Middle English mould. So if anything, your assumed distinction is etymologically reversed.
According to quantum field theory particles are just fluctuations in fields that permeate all of space, so sure.
(The “fabric of spacetime”, on the other hand, is more of a mental analogy than an actual thing.)
Not with a typewriter, though.
So the brain worms are transmissible?
What else could they do? There’s no way to make a comprehensive list of every Fediverse-supporting server in existence, let alone aggregate their data.
Someone needs to invent a waterproof suction-mounted device dedicated to recording actual shower thoughts.
Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice...
I’m not sure he understands the meaning of “independent”.
“Modern-day company town planned for Phoenix”
I don’t think it was the question, I think it was this:
Journalism should not be endorsing a candidate
Which sounds like it’s arguing against freedom of the press.
You know that there are two unrelated words, and you’ve seen two different spellings—it’s a natural assumption that the latter stems from the former.
Why so many people would pair them up the same (etymologically unsupported) way, I don’t know... maybe we’re used to correlating words relating to art with French, and assuming that words with “ou” come from French as well (and this case just happens to be an exception).
One issue specific to the Fediverse is that each instance and each community might have its own standard for what it considers “credible”—and part of another user’s credibility score might come from users on instances with which yours isn’t federated and doesn’t share information.
What’s the purpose—research? Tax evasion? Shits and giggles?
The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.
Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.
The thought of a nuclear reactor running on Windows is terrifying.
Trump was manipulated into attacking Adelson by another donor, Ike Perlmutter, who "had hoped in vain that Mrs. Adelson would contribute to a rival super PAC that he backs."
It’s like narcissistic parents trying to undermine each other by manipulating their child.
Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”
St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”
Plot twist: the ad is the real Tom Hanks, and the version calling it fake is an AI created by a rival dental plan.
Are they sure that’s the direction of causation? Because eating undercooked bear is the sort of behavior I’d expect from people who were already infected with brain worms.
The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters
Naturalized non-citizens like... Elon Musk?
Google will no longer allow public access to its caches. I doubt they’ve stopped keeping caches for their own use.
In an interview with the Journal, Neuralink's first patient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, opened up about the roller-coaster experience. "I was on such a high and then to be brought down that low. It was very, very hard," Arbaugh said. "I cried." He initially asked if Neuralink would perform another surgery to fix or replace the implant, but the company declined, telling him it wanted to wait for more information.
Neuralink isn’t just treating humans like guinea pigs, they’re treating them like disposable guinea pigs.
Interpreting “a previously-unrecognized weakness in X was just found” as “X just got weaker” is dangerously bad tech writing.
Historically, all regular voting was done in-person on election day and mail-in ballots were a special exception (e.g., for people with disabilities). It’s only in the last few election cycles that voting by mail became the norm, and most people still use the pre-existing terminology.
100% of the top 10 meat and dairy companies.
That should be in the title—otherwise it implies that every family dairy in the country has its own team of lobbyists.
Can I also strengthen my coffee by adding a little concrete mix?
He should try declaring the vote illegitimate and inciting a mob to take over the House—that’s a good trick!
It’s less a reflection on the tech, and more a reflection on the culture that generated the content that trained the tech.
Wang told The Globe that she was worried about the consequences in a more serious situation, like if a company used AI to select the most "professional" candidate for the job and it picked white-looking people.
This is a real potential issue, not just “clickbait”.
That’s what I’m secretly training the crows for.