I love big-ass windmills, solar power installations glinting in the noon bright, Starlink satellites streaming across the sky.
It all means we are Getting. Shit. Done.
Month: December 2024
A Tiger Free Zone
Best performance from an actor in horror in 2024?
Other people mention her in thread, but my vote is Nell Tiger Free in The First Omen. It is an otherwise mediocre movie that is worth watching because of Nell’s performance. She really just kills it.
As hurricane season ends, researchers take stock of unexpected pattern.
Ryugu asteroid sample rapidly colonized by terrestrial life despite strict contamination control.
Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks.
Vaccines Will Have to Prove Themselves Again. The Hard Way. Yep. When 100,000+ kids start dying of preventable diseases a year, people will stat vaccinating again.
China Tensions Prompt U.S. Navy Race to Reload Missiles at Sea.
China Is Studying Russia’s Sanctions Evasion to Prepare for Taiwan Conflict.
A Peaceful Destruction
There really are a whole lot of people that would have the Ukrainian people just calmly submit to genocide as it’s more peaceful.
I will never understand that mentality.
Failure State
Ozempic did in fact demonstrate pretty conclusively that obesity was a failure of will — and not caused by chemicals, abundant foodstuffs or lack of walkability.
And that is something good to know.
Xic
The only people more wrapped up in toxic masculinity than men are women.
Infective Invective
As AI infiltrates the world, the AI infection even alters those items AI has not touched directly. TV shows and music already shows signs of this corruption; vapid, stale insipid play-doh writing paves everything from background to horizon with gray concretions of intellectual blindsight. The direct effects are dwarfed by the shrapnel spalling out all around from the blast. McLuhan had no way to predict the effects of the subordination of the intellect to machine disequilibrium and paramnestic confabulations.
Thus, a darkness descends upon our minds as once again the machines exist not to serve us, but rather we become the tools of a will without Will and into dreaming descend, condemned by lack of vision to see only the permitted apparitions, to only explore the possibility space of the finitely computable.
OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time.
The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown.
The Dating Cultural Norm That’s Making Everyone Unhappy. American women have standards that nearly no men can meet, and mental illness from social media.
Yes, It ‘Looks Like a Duck,’ but Carriers Like the New Mail Truck.
A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History.
How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre.
Why microservices might be finished as monoliths return with a vengeance. For 99.8% of companies, a microservice architecture is actively harmful.