Nome

Unfortunately, this is utter self-serving nonsense. It does not take a fucking $100 million lab to bionegineer a dangerous virus, you asinine idiot mook. The smallpox genome is on the goddamn internet, you utter lying moron1.

What this really is: an attempt to prevent regulation of AI models that might be able to do dangerous things. That’s it. That’s all. Don’t look beyond that because there is not anything beyond that.

  1. With that and some time, I could make smallpox in my own lab for ~$200,000.

World View

That’s the Windows on the World restaurant that was on the 107th floor of the North Tower of the WTC in NYC. Judging by the hair and lapels, that photo was taken between 1976-1978 (the restaurant itself opened in April 1976).

At that time, this would’ve been an extremely high end restaurant. In today’s money it would’ve cost at least $165 and more realistically around $200 per person to dine there. So of course these people were dressed up; this was something special to them. This would not have been their typical attire.

That said, I do tend to agree. I think we do owe it to others to not look like dumpster slime in public. This is one of the main reasons I always despised the Fat Acceptance movement. I firmly and fully believe that there is a duty to others to not go around looking like Jabba the damn Hut. And a duty to one’s self.

Nato jets shoot down drone violating Lithuaniaโ€™s airspace.

For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit.

Driscollโ€™s Gave China Its Blueberriesโ€”Then China Swiped the Secret to Growing Them.

The incoming โ€˜superโ€™ El Niรฑo will create chaos around the world โ€“ and we are far from ready for it.

4,400-Year-Old Tomb of an Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors Still on the Walls.

The biggest dinosaurs couldn't sit on their eggs. Scientists say they did this instead.

Devilโ€™s Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55,000-pound stones 11 miles for Britainโ€™s tallest stone row.

Most people prefer traditional architecture.

EPA to Power Plants: Flood the Air With As Much Coal and Oil Smog As You Like.

โ€œOffensively cheapโ€: Solar power is looking up.

The case against JPEG XL.

How Inmates With Contraband Phones Are Scamming Families Across America.

Itโ€™s interesting that World War II still regiments our politics to the degree that it does while, say, a much more recent event like COVID feels like itโ€™s in the rearview mirror.

Air Force officer recalls โ€˜free-fallingโ€™ after jet was shot down over Iran.

Women used to complain that workplaces were, โ€œboys clubs.โ€. I think that is largely correct; men and women are not in fact exactly identical.

It's officially the end of an era for Adobe.

Americaโ€™s democratic decline is becoming Europeโ€™s problem, new report says.

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had โ€˜ghost gun,โ€™ authorities say.

Pentagon watchdog says Iran war has led to munitions shortfall.

The Real Story of the Fake โ€˜Islamophobiaโ€™ Attacks After 9/11.

The Global Music Vault on Svalbard is apparently history.

A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run. Nom.

The four-colour theorem was only the start.

Long-Term Treasury Yields Spike, 1- to 7-Year Yields Explode, Mortgage Rates Hit 7.12%, Bond Market Gets Spooked.

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

Your car is selling your data. The amount of data about you that many cars collect โ€” and sell to third parties โ€” is staggering.

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200 billion market-cap wipeout.

'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet.

The End of Friday Nights with Friends.

How Iranโ€™s Hard-Liners Prevailed and Sabotaged U.S. Peace Deal.

Google Search is rewriting organic result links to google.com/goto?url=… instead of exposing the destination URL directly in the HTML. Wow that is full-on evil.

One major reason Iโ€™m not an AI doomer is that I have a much lower estimate of the direct power of intelligence.

Inflation Not Going Back into the Bottle: CPI, Core CPI, and Core Services CPI Bounce Back.

AI, Robotics and the Coming Economic, Military, and Political Revolutions.

What We Never Learned From 9/11.

Atlantic goes without a hurricane through Sept. 12, breaking 60-year record.

Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2,000 ยฐC.

Billionaire Brewers owner ordered to spend $2 million returning sand he โ€˜stoleโ€™ from California beach to protect his Malibu mansion.

Wage theft is the heavyweight champion of American larceny.

Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow.

Antisem

Why do idiot leftists seem to have infinite concern for Gaza nonsense but not give a single crap about all the horrors perpetrated in Africa?

I guess black people getting mutilated and killed mostly by other black people just does not matter to them.

Could it be…antisemitism? (Yes.)