Getting clocked by my home security drone hovering outside my bedroom when I inevitably wake up at 2 am to pee sounds like fun.

Yeah but a labradoodle doesn’t secretly map the interior of your home for insidious parastatal surveillance purposes.

Schumer would be the Senate Majority Leader, not House Speaker.

Thomas Midgely Jr. should be a top time travel assassination target. In addition to leaded gasoline, he invented CFC’s.

While the harmful effects of CFCs were not understood until decades after Midgley’s death, tetraethyl lead was known to be acutely toxic by those involved in the development of leaded gasoline. This included Midgley, who publicly insisted that there was nonetheless no health hazard posed by the use of leaded gasoline in internal combustion engines.

Hard to know exactly how much death and disability you can hold him responsible for, but he’s one of the single most destructive human beings in history.

:wet-blanket:

I did some poking around and it doesn’t seem like the book has been relevant since the 70’s. I found a review that summarized the central thesis as:

Emerson presents a theoretical defense of our system of freedom of expression and a critique of past attempts to specify the proper limits on free expression. Most importantly, Emerson proposes a theory according to which" expressions" are distinguished from" actions" and" full protection" is to be afforded to all" expressions."

Not sure what about this idea merited 700+ pages, but lawyers are pretty good at spilling ink.

Humans exposed to as little as 0.01 mg/m3 or less in air exude a foul garlic-like odor known as “tellurium breath”. This is caused by the body converting tellurium from any oxidation state to dimethyl telluride, (CH3)2Te, a volatile compound with a pungent garlic-like smell. Volunteers given 15 mg of tellurium still had this characteristic smell on their breath eight months later. In laboratories, this odor makes it possible to discern which scientists are responsible for tellurium chemistry, and even which books they have handled in the past.

Chemists are a unique bunch.

You could start a company whose only product was free school lunches and it would be more profitable than Anthropic (they lose more in a quarter than the school lunch program costs for a year), and somehow I think you’d get laughed out of the room for expecting a $60 B market cap.

The overall environmental effects of AI are pretty small compared to the amount of spending being poured into it. If we had a trillion dollar gold rush into any other industry, the environmental impacts would be far more devastating.

The direct impacts of the data centers might be comparatively small in aggregate, but consider all the impacts of all the chip manufacturing capacity and the eventual effects of all those GPUs (etc) becoming e-waste.

There’s also the a absurdity of patent leather and the fact that the fit looks like it’s fresh off the rack. Leather looks cool when it shapes itself to the wearer; I can hear this picture squeaking from here.

AC shocker: fork stuck in light socket.

Are chins really that fascinating?

I talked to a fossil fuel free investment advisor and the single largest holding in the fund he was recommending was Microsoft lol

so it will bounce back

At some point it won’t because the line always going up is impossible and we’ve got the two horsemen of declining birth rates and climate change out galloping around.

Am I about to be kinda miffed that I had to buy a mini pc because a full size one with similar specs was going to cost me twice as much?

Dang, even Ed Zitron was forecasting another year of hype-fueled market nonsense.

Speak for yourself. My heart could not comprehend love until they strapped bazongas on the sadistic teenage race warrior.

Time to pull this one out already?

she was fucking bragging about it on her fucking tumblr

In between endorsements of scientific racism, too.

Yep, that’s the one.