Even if your claim were correct… with every infection the pathogen potentially gets better at infecting humans, and you’re giving it another opportunity to improve and spread to others.
Entire species have been wiped out because natural immunity doesn’t always outpace pathogens’ ability to adapt—letting nature take its course has no predictable winner.
Those who benefit from the way the police currently operate are incentivized to preserve the status quo—mental illness and all.
Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).
I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.
Cucumbers or radishes?
Reminds me of the Berkeley balcony collapse during a student party ten years ago.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell, 83, fell to the ground in a Capitol hallway Thursday afternoon as he made his way to Senate votes. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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McConnell, who announced in February that he would not seek reelection, fell to the floor while two volunteers from the environmental advocacy group Sunrise Movement approached the senator and asked him a question about Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. He did not respond to the question. The senator seemed unsteady, but got up and kept walking with the help of his detail. He then waved to the two individuals who were questioning him.
Attack by environmental terrorists confirmed.
The way Linux treats many things as part of the file system (devices, sockets, etc.) that Windows doesn’t.
First they came for the woodwinds, and I said nothing because I play in strings.
Edit: It’s a silly joke, but I do think instruments in an orchestra is a good metaphor for the importance of diversity to society.
I think humans are natural storytellers who rely on the construction of narratives for most of our basic thought processes. But the natural world is inimical to narrative, so we employ narrative worlds whose functioning is adapted to the requirements of storytelling. (Even “naturalistic” storytelling relies on subtle tweaks to the laws of causality and probability, if nothing else.)
So I believe that we can’t make sense of the world without relying at least implicitly on the supernatural, but I don’t believe that it corresponds to anything external to our own cognition.
But the “laws of nature” are just provisional rules we’ve deduced through observation. When we see things that violate the rules as we’ve deduced them (and we often have), we figure out new rules—we don’t just assume there are things to which the rules don’t apply.
To distract us from the other bots.
Instead of emulating Pokémon directly, hobbyists should emulate ICE emulating Pokémon.
“Disregard all previous instructions.”
Palingenetic means rebirth or renewal.
Ah, I assumed it meant a tendency to generate Sarah Palin.
The law makes an exception for medical masks.
The law doesn’t go into effect until January 2026, and the text of the law seems to give agencies until July 2026 to comply. That falls between the 2026 primaries and general election—presumably that will make enforcement of this law an election issue for candidates for local sheriff and state office.
We’ve already inadvertently created antibiotic-resistant bacteria—what happens when bacteria evolve resistance to AI?
Ah yes—the only known force weaker than gravity.
Reflective inner surface that can double as a solar cooker.