It may be better than an arbitrary cutoff, but I will die on the hill that it’s still the wrong way to look at a taxonomic system for non-fusors. Using system dynamics to classify parts of a system is all well and good when you’re, well, disecting systems, but this was about defining individual bodies.

Using extrinsic contexts rather than intrinsic ones is how you define dolphins as fish.

Spherical due to being in hydrostatic equilibrium is all we need. But that raised tooany questions about the accuracy of system models for system modellers.

It’s not “widely misunderstood”, it’s been widely hyped by the people actively selling it. The tech bros are pumping and dumping it, just like with every other tech panacea.

It’s not the public, it’s the snake oil salesmen.

Ah, the dichotomy of Linux users:

“wHy DoEsN’t EvErYbOdY uSe LiNuX???”

and

“gEt On My LeVeL nOoB”

Musk <-------------------------------- LYs -----------------------------------> Self-Driving car

Any questions?

The problem being that none of the alternative models have good explanations, either.

It’s not like astronomers like dark matter. Most kind of hate it. But every time people try to sell alternate models, they spend their time trying to find examples that raise corner cases for dark matter while ignoring the fact that their favourite models also don’t address the issue.

Which, you know, is acting in bad faith.

If Tired Light boosters lost energy at the rate they believe light does, they’d have run out of steam by now.

No, what they want is to be able to coax more money out of their sales numbers. Retention is correlated with future purchases, both of paid DLC (if the game has it) and of future studio titles.

And it’a an easy metric to point to when talking to a publisher and negotiating funding.

It’s got plenty of latent sexism, much of it carried in the bestiary, and inherited from the original monster manuals. The fact that you don’t see it just means it doesn’t exceed your own internalized sexism.

Which is fine. We’ve all internalized sexism, racism, and other prejudices. But you not being able to see it is not the same thing as it not existing, and declaring it absent because you don’t see it is probably not wise.

No, this isn’t the casual sexism of the 70s. This is deliberate, rabid, reactionary misogyny that he felt OK to publicly publish:

I thought perhaps these folks were right and considered adding women in the ‘Raping and Pillaging[’] section, in the ‘Whores and Tavern Wenches’ chapter, the special magical part dealing with ‘Hags and Crones’, and thought perhaps of adding an appendix on ‘Medieval Harems, Slave Girls, and Going Viking’.

That’s specific, and directed hatred. Dude was engaging in standard Incel bullshit.

It’s something that should be publicised not because OpenAI has promised privacy, but because a lot of people seem to assume it where it has not been offered, and they need to be reminded that they’re kind of out to lunch on the issue.

Like, people in companies keep using these things to write reports with privileged information. People need to be informed as gently but alsonas firmly as possible that they’re sending this stuff over the internet to an organization that considers everything it can see to be its own.

“Are 13 year olds too young to exploit monetarily?”

“Are 13 year olds too young to take on the glorious privilege of earning their own money?”

Hey look, it’s propaganda in action, right there on the CBC.

Yes, that’s how leverage works. I think they know that when they themselves are negotiating from a place of power.

Ronald does tend to mix in his “flamebait” bit with actual pointed content, which isn’t always welcome, but there’s something to be said for actually spotlighting the kinds of things people say to content creators.

Sunlight and disinfectant and all that.

Oh fun. Who is Elon going to just haphazardly drop the ISS on top of?

“I’ve told you before, Ensign, call it life support when on the bridge.”

Depends on what kind of input logging your employer is doing. Some of them are monitoring keystrokes and mouse activity, not just whether your system is locked or asleep.

I’ve been saying this for a while now, but AI articles read like bad high school essays. “State your thesis. Write a paragraph that echos your thesis. Say something that may or may not be related to your thesis. Finish by repeating your thesis.”

BC doesn’t exist, as far as the Cons are concerned. Western Canada is Alberta (and sometimes Saskatchewan), and Eastern Canada is Ontario.

Hey, if we don’t have any cargo to transport, maybe it’s just… not a factor worth discussing for the vast majority of us?

Same. My car’s turning 18 this year. It’ still in good shape. I should be able to get a few more years out of it. After that? Who knows?