We can always say “back in the second millennium”.

Neurodivergent people have always been subject to misunderstanding and preemptory judgement—maybe “cancel culture” is the current framework within which that issue appears to manifest itself, but it’s not the cause.

Adware is a DDOS attack on your attention.

Wait til the crows and seagulls learn they can follow the drones for free food.

All of your farts are the farts of millions of your gut bacteria.

If you can run multiple applications, you can run multiple servers—a server is just an application with a network interface.

For one thing, it maximizes the amount of information the census contains: if you’re splitting a group into bins, the splitting with the lowest entropy is the one with equal-sized bins. If the bin sizes fluctuate with time (as a proportion of the overall population), the amount of information the census captures will vary as well. If your definition of lower-income includes 100% (or 0%) of the population, then assigning someone to a category tells you nothing about them you didn’t already know.

Dick Cheney?

OpenAI Discloses 6 New Incidents of Concerning OpenAI Behavior.

I hesitate to call myself a feminist because it seems like there is a presumption of understanding women’s experiences

Being a woman is the only thing that gives someone access to women’s experiences, but being a woman doesn’t automatically make someone a feminist. Neither thing presumes the other.

Instead of directly editing the server configuration, put the commands to make the edits in a dockerfile that gets performed on a newly-installed container.

My theory is that the federal nature of the US leads to a default popular attitude of hostility toward any policy that originates above the state level, unless there are commercial interests willing to pay for the marketing and campaign contributions to sell it to the people and/or legislators. And businesses aren’t that interested in an improvement that only marginally affects their profits.

Alpacas, crows, and jaguars.

Apple said his office received a tip Friday from an outside source that Moore was using a Flock camera to track a former acquaintance, and an internal investigation began immediately.

I wonder who the outside source was. Was it someone at Flock, or another third party able to monitor law enforcement searches? Or was Moore bragging to her friends about illegally stalking her ex?

Between this and his friendly relations with Trump, Hochul, and Tisch, I get the impression that Mamdani has little interest in being a political leader or in the broader socialist movement—he just wants to be an effective administrator and happens to think socialism is the best approach.

Don’t the Chinese get tired of having every route to their country being named the “X Silk Road”?

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

—Eugene Debs

I suspect that if Gen Z designed their own cognitive tests, their tests would determine that we older generations were less cognitively capable than them.

The reality is that every generation adapts in different ways to fit their own cognitive circumstances, and one generation’s metric is at best an imperfect match for another—“cognitive capacity” can’t be objectively measured.

Sporting events existed for thousands of years before advertising—don’t mistake current conditions for necessary ones.