the other day I heard someone make the point that Amazon is just a more successful Palinteer

You’d be mad too if nobody bothered to ask you what it was like on the set of Working Girl.

hold on, is this thing in counterstrike?

Gizmodo didn’t always look like the penny arcade website, did they?

As tempting as that sounds, I can no longer touch-type on practically any other desktop. Give me a Dvorak phone, and I wont be able to thumb type either…

Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds

Assume all horror movies are Producers style you-make-more-on-a-flop-than-a-hit tax scams.

I’m kinda curious to see how The Public Domain: The Game turns out, though it looks like it’s gonna be more about the idea of privately owned ideas in general.

Yes, militaries do tend to attract nationalistic psychos. The US Marines have done the same thing to many civilians. The have whole in-group rituals about it.

For every new drug discovered by machine learning, there are dozens more that the machine spat out as statistically likely but just aren’t physically possible. You’re mistaking the tool for the mind(s) that wields it.

fuckin’ just tell me im living in Interesting Times why doncha

shredded cheese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfHrXsGJ8mo

You have faith in the financial system?

Ok, I’ve always wondered what’s up with WTC7, but I could never be bothered to wade through the noise. What was up with that?

It’s almost like basing your whole program on black box genetic algorithms and statistics yields unintended results

And this is why I do the captchas wrong.

It’s not strength, but rotation. Shoot a photon at the cube at a certain spot, you get data out of it. Hit the same spot in the cube with light that is polarized perpendicular to the first, and you get different data out of it.

Er… that’s what it sounds like, anyway…

those are the places that most need it though

See, now this is the tech I would understand pouring billions into. Give every nation on earth a durable copy of the last 100 years of medicine, physics, biology. That’s what a reasonable ruling class ought to do.

glowing?